NUTS : A SUBSTITUTE FOR MEAT 



BY A. MILDRED BRENNAN 



T"\t) YOUR BIT." This, I might say is the slogan 

 II of the day. Yet, how often we fail to obey the 

 command. It is not that we are lacking in 

 patriotism, or that we underestimate our duty. Th'j 

 fact is that we do not know just wherein our duty lies. 

 Whenever we fail to conserve food, fuel, light, energy, 

 strength or the productivity of the soil, we are doing our 

 bit to help Germany win its war against humanity. We 

 are today facing the crisis in the world's history. We 

 have gladly given our noblest manhood to be sacrificed, 

 if need be, on the altar of freedom. We have ungrudg- 

 ingly given of our wealth and will continue until we have 



We have our wheatless days and our meatless days; 

 these we have pledged ourselves to keep. We are all 

 familiar with the substitutes for wheat. We are, how- 

 ever, less familiar with substitutes for meat, but among 

 the best known of these are nuts. Our wheat and meat 

 are feeding the soldiers at the front and the men in the 

 training camps and hospitals all over the warring world. 

 But our meat supply is rapidly decreasing. The rate 

 of production is in inverse ratio to the rate of consump- 

 tion. To many people the fact that nuts contain more 

 food value than meat is a new idea ; but as a matter of 

 fact it is not new. We are all familiar with the wisdom 



FOUR ENGLISH WALNUT TREES ON LAWN NORTH OF CENTRAL MICHIGAN 



These thrifty trees are bearing splendid crops, and will continue to do so, bringing to their owners not only a largely increased income, but 

 an increase in property value out of all proportion to the original investment, as well as the satisfaction of knowing that they are adding to the 

 great national food supply a product of the kind that will help us win the war. 



given our all. But, we are told that this great war must 

 be waged and won with food ; that it will avail us little 

 to give our money and our sons if we cannot feed them 

 while they fight our battles. But this is not all, we have 

 sufficient food for present demands, but, "after the war," 

 then what ? The fertile fields of Europe will be devastat- 

 ed; many farmers who will have survived the years of 

 war will be so maimed that they will never more be able 

 to efficiently till the soil. It is clearly our duty to hu- 

 manity, not only to conserve food, energy and resources 

 now, but to prepare to feed the war torn countries of 

 Europe during the period of re-construction which must 

 inevitably follow in the wake of the great world war. 

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of Solomon as demonstrated in his methods of settling 

 the quarrel of the two women in regard to the posses- 

 sion of an infant, but how many of us would be surprised 

 to know that he also proved his wisdom and knowledge 

 in regard to agriculture and the conservation and proper 

 selection of food. In his diary he says: "I made my 

 gardens and orchards and planted in them all kinds of 

 fruits. I planted gardens of nuts." The late Pro- 

 fessor John Craig says that there King Solomon referred 

 to the Persian (English) walnut. 



We are a nut consuming, but not to any great extent, 

 a nut producing nation. Each year, before this great 

 war, we imported from foreign lands, nuts to the value 



