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. Certainly nuts have material advantage over a good many foods. 

 They keep indefinitely. They never putrefy. They are not infested 

 with harmful bacteria. You can never get tape-worm or any other 

 parasitic trouble, which occasionally follows the eating of infected 

 food. 



I am glad there are societies organized to propagate the nut. A 

 prominent concern of New York City is very active in promulgating 

 the value of the nut, and is encouraging the planting of nut trees. 



Somebody has estimated that there are three million miles of 

 country roads, and that if nut trees were planted alongside these 

 roads there would be enough protein food for the entire population. 



Nnts are rich in protein, lime, iron and vitamins. 



Many dishes may be made from the nut which have the appearance 

 and flavoring of meat, without the objectionable effects of flesh diet. 



Last year we imported twenty-five million pounds of almonds, 

 forty million pounds of Brazil nuts, eighteen million pounds of fil- 

 berts, and forty-four million pounds of walnuts, — about twenty mil- 

 lion dollars worth of these nuts were brought into the country. 



This shows that there is some appreciation certainly of an article 

 -of food which deserves to be even more commonly used than it is at 

 present. 



HARDINESS IN NUT TREES 

 Bji C. A. Reed, U. S. Department of Agriculture 



Nut trees of most species commonly thrive at both latitudes and 

 altitudes much greater than the limits of regular or even frequent crop 

 production. This fact is seldom fully appreciated by prospective plant- 

 ers, particularly in the North, who, not unnaturally, assume that the 

 presence of a group of vigorous appearing trees, or even of a single 

 tree, particularly in a fruitful year, is sufficient evidence of local 

 hardiness to justify commercial planting. However, practically all 

 of our native species of nut-bearing trees are indigenous well beyond 

 the range of regular crop production. This is made possible by oc- 

 casional seasons favorable to seed production which enable such spe- 

 cies to reproduce themselves. A crop once in a quarter century would 

 be sufficient for this purpose. 



Taking the pecan as an illustration of liow a species may be affect- 

 ed by latitude, it has been found that, as the limits of hardiness are 



