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into bread, or mixed with cheese or tomiatoes. But if you want to 

 develop the fl.n or, tlien roast it, pick it out from the shell and crush 

 is, using almost no other flavor with it. 



Have you ever realized how much we depend on the walnut in 

 cooking? Take the pecan, or perhaps almost all of the nuts; the 

 flavor is diniinislied by cooking. But the walnut is the one nut that 

 gains in flavor by being cooked. This means a great deal for the 

 popularity of the walnut. 



A friend of mine was captured by the Germans, and was sent 

 out each day into the forests to gather' acorns to be used in the 

 prisoners' food. The friend said that many a time he thought he 

 would rather die than to have to eat or gather any more acorns. 



Farmers' Bulletin No. 712, "The School Lunch," by Caroline Hunt, 

 has been especially valuable in the preparation of the school lunch 

 with nuts. There is a man who comes to North Carolina every winter, 

 who will tell you that he lives on ten types of nut oils and nut butter. 



The great mass of people out through the country are not yet ready 

 to comprehend this ; but once they are educated to the value of nuts, 

 the demand for them will be unlimited. 



As to the question of economy, the prices should not go up any 

 farther; they will not be used enough until they become cheaper. 

 With many boys and girls in a family, a dollar's worth of nuts, at $1 

 a pound, will not go far. If we could get nuts at more reasonable 

 prices it seems to me that women would consider them more than they 

 do for food. They want them not only for their parties, but in every- 

 day life. 



We should popularize nuts through newspapers. It pays to ad^ 

 vertise, and little notices in the paper are much more far-reaching 

 than any other way of telling the story of the nourishment to be 

 found in nuts. 



As to the value of nut trees in landscape work, a real estate 

 man told me that when he wanted a good price for a house he planted 

 fruit trees at the back of the house, and nut trees on the sides. He 

 would talk aliout those trees to the people who came to buy, and has 

 sold many houses in this way. 



Then take Arbor Day, and we have one in nearly every state in 

 the Union. If we could get the papers and the forest magazines to 

 talk about Arbor Day, and urge everybody to plant something, and 

 particularly to plant a nut tree, it would not be long before we got 



