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"800 Proved Pecan Recipes." The use of nuts to the benefit of the 

 public liealth and to the benefit of all engaged in nut growing, will not 

 be a practical reality unless we think and act in terms of the average 

 housewife. We must realize that the average housewife is becoming 

 n:ore and more food-wise. Every step that is taken to remove the 

 drudgery of the other phases of housekeeping increases her opportuni- 

 ties to really give some thought and some attention to the food for 

 her family, and the more thought she gives to the subject the more 

 value she will place upon nuts as food. She may aim to cut down the 

 physical effort of preparing meals but in general she is paying in- 

 creasing attention to the question of whether her meals are properly 

 balanced. No one factor has been more stressed than the relation 

 of proper diet to the family health. This is a natural development of 

 the increased interest in preventive medicine. The general public 

 knows to a degree which it never knew before that to cure a condition 

 or an ailment is much more difficult than to avoid that condition or 

 ailment. From the earliest grades in school information is being im- 

 parted to children, and has been imparted during recent years, which 

 is absolutely astounding when compared to the information which we 

 secured at the same age. Children of 9 to 1 1 years of age are taught 

 in a most interesting manner what tlie great food needs of the body 

 are, and among the youngest children this information is given added 

 interest and added retentive power by diagrams which stamp them- 

 selves indelibly on the child's mind. 



Who can measure the influence of this work in creating knowledge 

 of proper food standards of the present generation ? Who can cal- 

 culate to even the slightest degree what this is going to mean during 

 the next generation? All that we need to do to bring nuts into in- 

 creasing use year after year, is to state the facts, to state them 

 clearly and in definite form, so that one does not have to be a doctor 

 of medicine to get the meaning of the statement. All we have to do 

 is to recognize this increasing public knowledge of food values and 

 to re:ilize how it is growing, not only because of educational move- 

 ments in that direction but because of a large increase in information 

 along these lines found in publications of the most popular type, and 

 recognizing these factors, to offer suggestions for the use of nuts 

 in the diet which will make them available throughout the year and 

 for every meal of every day, just in proportion as food science shows 

 tliev are desirable. To do all this in a form which the average house- 



