100 



AMERICAN FORESTRY 



A GREAT ENGINE OF PRODUCTION 



A Pennsylvania English walnut tree, which not only admirably shades the building and the road, but 

 furnishes a large annual crop, and at the same time is very valuable timber. 



dollar yields 12] 2 pounds of 

 meats whose fuel, or food, value 

 is 37,500 calories. The same 

 number of calories in beefsteak 

 at twenty-five cents a pound 

 would cost over nine dollars. 

 The buyer must crack the nuts 

 and take out the meats himself, 

 or have the children do it. 



Butternuts are equally cheap 

 and nourishing, hut the propor- 

 tion of meat to shell is less. The 

 flavor, however, is more agree- 

 able to most people. 



Chestnuts, the large imported 

 kind, when bought in quantity, 

 are a fairly cheap source of 

 starch. Init not as cheaj) as wheat 

 flour. 



A bushel of hickory nuts at 

 three dollars yields as many 

 calories as sixteen dollars' worth 

 of round steak. 



Is not the nut being neglected 

 as a source of cheap food? 



Nuts are sanitary when not 

 deprived of their protective 

 covering. They take the jilace 

 of meat without its ])ossil)ilities 

 of disease or poisoning. But 

 make this e.xception, that nut 



meats passed through unknown 

 hands have lost Nature's sani- 

 tary insurance. 



TREE CROPS IX THE WORLD 



This country is still but a 

 healthy growing boy going to 

 school to learn how to manage 

 himself when he is grown up; 

 and, naturally, in nut growing, 

 as in many other things, his 

 teacher is the grown-up old 

 world. Over there they learned, 

 centuries ago, the \alue of the 

 tree as a food crop producer, 

 and trees furnish the chief food 

 and support of many people. In 

 Mediterranean countries the land 

 is one-third or one-half covered 

 with trees growing crops for 

 man and his beasts — figs, olives, 

 acorns, carobs, chestnuts, al- 

 monds, walnuts. A man there 

 can go to sleep for si.x months, 

 have typhoid fever or take a 

 sabbatical year off without los- 

 ing much on his crops. 



In parts of Italy they make 



A CUT-LEAF ENGLISH WALNUT 



This tree is not only an ornament, but is a worker, too. A fifty-pound bushel of walnuts, costing $1.00, 

 is equal in calories to beefsteak costing $9.0U. 



