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and that rich food in abrndance said by Dr. Kellogg, head of the 

 Battle Creek's big Sanitarium, to be the best, most wholesome and 

 choicest food that humans can eat. Are not such results worth while ? 

 Right here, though, comes along the fellow, generally a pessimist, 

 who says it is such a tremendous job in its immensity and detail that 

 it cannot be done. I claim it is simple and comiparatively easy. It was 

 my good fortmie. as president of the Northern Nut Growers Associa- 

 tion to receive a few years ago from the Ladies Mount Vernon Asso- 

 ciation of Virginia, forty bushels (about 1(),0()() nuts) of large 

 selected unshucked black walnuts from several fine trees planted by 

 George Washington, or during his time, at his imposing home (now 

 America's shrine) on the banks of the Potomac. After distributing 

 about 9,000 of these nuts to schools and for other public planting in 

 places where they are growing, one thousand were planted, nursery 

 style in rows in a Saginaw park, and the latter alone produced almost 

 a thousand trees for further distrlibution, the majority of them 

 shoulder high today. What was done in this case with black walnuts 

 can certainly be accomplished with other valuable species also, through- 

 out the country by good official or civic team work and without great 

 expense either, thus in time bringing returns in enjoymient and whole- 

 some food for our future citizenship, the value of which cannot be 

 estimated today in dollars and cents. Road plantings, for our territory, 

 generally, should be confiried almost exclusively to the best nut bearers, 

 viz: the blaick walnut, the butternut, the hickory, the beech, the chest- 

 nut, and the sweet acorn varieties of the oak, using also the sugar 

 maple with its valuable sugar sap and the basswood and locust for 

 their honey producing qualities, and also any fruit trees that can 

 be cared for in a practical way. 



Occasionally and where soil requires it, plant for our bird friends 

 the hackberries, mulberries, June berries and wild black cherries, all 

 useful ais well as beautiful. In very light or extremely low land, 

 plant the pines and cedars or other evergreens ; the products of all 

 plantings to be distributed in a just and equitable manner to the 

 adjacent land owner and to the public. The trees I have named 

 planted in rows, colonies, or irregularly, will produce as fine a land- 

 scape effect as any that grow, and if an average of 10 ft. apart is 

 maintained lengthway and crossway of the roads, it will require an 

 immense number, yes, many millions of plants, scions or seed to com- 

 plete the growth in its entirety, but when matured, its value will be 



