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out roasting. Peanuts require steam roasting. Over-roasting ren- 

 ders the nut difficult of digestion. 



More than 50,000 tons of nut butters are produced in England 

 every year. Peanut oil, palm kernel oil and coconut oil are the 

 principal raw materials used. In face of vanishing meat supplies, 

 it is most comforting to know that meats of all sorts may be safely 

 replaced by nuts not only without loss, but with a decided gain. Nuts 

 have several advantages over flesh foods which are well worth 

 considering. 



1. Nuts are free from waste products, uric acid, urea, and 

 other tissue wastes which abound in meats. 



2. Nuts are aseptic, free from putrefactive bacteria, and d( 

 not readily undergo decay either in the body or outside of it. Meats, 

 on the other hand as found in the markets, are practically always in 

 an advanced stage of putrefaction. Ordinary fresh, dried or salted 

 meats contain from three million to ten times that number of bac- 

 teria per ounce, and such meats as Hamburger steak often contain 

 more than a billion putrefactive organisms to the ounce. Nuts are 

 clean and sterile. 



3. 'Nuts are free from trichinae, tapeworm, and other para- 

 sites, as well as other infections due to specific organisms. Nuts are 

 in good health when gathered and usually remain so until eaten. 



In view of these facts, it is most interesting to know that in 

 nuts, the most neglected of all well known food products, we find 

 the assurance of an ample and complete food supply for all future 

 time, even though necessity should compel the total abandonment of 

 our present forms of animal industry. 



Another of the great advantages of the nut is that with few ex- 

 ceptions, it may be eaten direct from the hand of nature without 

 culinary preparation of any sort. Indeed, the common custom of 

 offering nuts as dessert is an acknowledgment that in the nut the 

 refined chemistry of Nature's laboratory permits of no improvement 

 by the clumsy methods of the kitchen. 



Every highway should be lined with trees. Many nut trees 

 will grow on land unsuited to ordinary farm crops. The pinon 

 flourishes on the bleak and barren peaks of the Rockies. 



A few nut trees planted for each inhabitant would insure the 

 country against any possibility of food shortage. A row of nut trees 

 on each side of our 3,000,000 miles of country roads would provide 

 half enough fat and protein for a population of 100,000,000. 



If each one of the 6,000,000 farmers in the United States would 

 plant and maintain an orchard of ten acres of black walnuts, the 

 annual crop, with little or no attention, would yield not less than 

 3,000,000 tons of nut protein, the equivalent of more than 12,000,000 

 tons of meat, besides more than 6,000,000 tons of fat of the finest 

 quality, sufficient to supply every one of 100,000,000 people with an 



