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uncultivated lands of this country not now occupied as farms were 

 occupied by nut trees in good bearing, the annual crop of nut protein 

 and fat would be amply sufficient, in connection with the corn, wheat 

 and other crops harvested by our 6,000,000 farmers from our big 

 billion acre farm to easily support a population of 1,000,000 persons. 

 If the nut is given a chance, it will not only save the human race 

 from perishing from starvation, but will give it a good boost upward 

 in the direction of race betterment. 



The Eat More Meat campaign which the packers are now con- 

 ducting and for the support of which they at their recent conven- 

 tion in Kansas City, voted to raise a fund of $500,000, is being 

 carried on by the grossest chicanery and misrepresentation. Pseudo- 

 scientific men are being put before the public as great authorities in 

 human nutrition and these men are sending out plausible but most 

 misleading eulogies of meat as a foodstuff possessing essential quali- 

 ties for the lack of which the American people are sufifering. The 

 only possible reason for these frantic appeals to the American people 

 to consume more meat is the depletion of the packers' profits by the 

 steady decrease in meat consumption which has been going on for 

 a number of years and which begins to threaten the future develop- 

 ment of their industry. The public will be damaged rather than 

 benefited by an increase of meat consumption. A nation-wide cam- 

 paign in behalf of the almond, the hazel-nut, the walnut, the pecan 

 and other of our native nuts would unquestionably improve the 

 health and vigor of the American people, provided the nut growers 

 will supply the demand which would be created. 



August 12th, 1922. 

 Dear Dr. Deming : 



I have received your letters. I am sorry to answer you very 

 late, because on March 28th my wife died. I have been again heart 

 broken and delay everything for these few months. 



I have not yet met Mr. Read, I went to the U. S. Consulate to 

 find him, but no definite answer received yet. 



The place Chuking is rather inconvenient to reach from Shang- 

 hai. I am gong to buy land near Shanghai i. e. one hour trip from 

 business center. When I succeed that, I will remove all trees out. 



I am sending you separate paper that you want for the conven- 

 tion. 



The seeds that I sent you last year is Castanopsis sp. grows 

 near Hangchow, 100 feet high and ever green. 



Yours very sincerely 



P. W. WANG. 



