ON NUT GROWING 



and they constitute a really significant item in the 

 dietary of the poorer classes. Large quantities of 

 the nuts are also dried and ground to a flour, which 

 keeps for some time without deteriorating, and 

 from which sweet and nutritious cakes are made. 

 It is said that in Korea the chestnut takes a place 

 in the dietary not unlike that which the potato 

 occupies with us, being used raw, boiled, roasted, 

 or cooked with meat. 



PRODUCTION AND VALUE OF NUTS 



Until the chestnut blight came in very recent 

 years, threatening the entire growth of chestnut 

 trees in the Northeastern United States, there 

 seemed a good prospect that the cultivation of this 

 nut would become an important industry in the 

 near future. 



Details as to the blight and the probable out- 

 come will be considered in another connection. 

 Meantime, there is no present indication that the 

 other nuts indigenous to the northern parts of the 

 United States are likely to be extensively culti- 

 vated until they have profited by the experiments 

 of the plant developer. The thick shells of hickory 

 nuts and butternuts, and of the native walnuts, 

 interfere with their commercial value. We shall 

 consider in another connection the possibility of 

 remedying these defects, but for the moment the 

 nuts that are grown on a commercial scale are 



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