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duce less than three pounds of food in the form of 

 flesh. We must feed the steer thirty-three pounds 

 of corn in order to get back one pound in the form 

 of steak. Milk and eggs furnish much the same 

 protein as that furnished by meat, but milk and eggs 

 are rapidly increasing in price. Every pound of 

 food in the form of milk requires feeding a cow 

 five pounds of food. For every pound of food in 

 the form of eggs we must supply nearly twenty 

 pounds of food. At the present time the prices of 

 nuts are also high, but that is because the demand 

 has not been met by the supply. Looking to the 

 future we may state that the possibilities of raising 

 food more cheaply by way of nuts are greater than 

 the possibilities of raising food more cheaply by way 

 of milk and eggs. In this connection it is interesting 

 to note that one pound of walnut meats equals in 

 food value five pounds of eggs, nine and a half 

 pounds of milk, or four pounds of beef loin. Each 

 acre of walnut trees in good bearing will produce 

 every year food approximating twenty-five hundred 

 pounds of beef, thirty-five hundred quarts of milk 

 or one and a half tons of mutton. 



The increase in the popularity of the nut foods 

 will incidentally add a health factor not to be de- 

 spised. Almost all of us like hot roast duck stuffed 

 with sausage and chestnuts and with plenty of bacon 

 gravy. We enjoy a delicious thick porterhouse 

 steak, quickly browned on the outside with its fat 

 temptingly burned a bit and red juice trickling out 

 when the steak is cut. Because these things are so 



