Among the many 
financially profitable 
industries of agricul- 
Puget Sound 
America’s tural life developed 
Favored Spot there we found none so 
for conspicuously promi- 
‘s nent in its appealin 
Filbert Culture features as he nee 
ing of Filbert nuts. In 
fact it is difficult to 
find in those countries the small home without the 
beautiful Filbert tree and its generous yield. 
Filbert nuts enter largely into the diet of those 
people who dwell in that portion of the Old World 
(Southern Europe) which under modern explora- 
tion furnishes so much evidence of ancient history 
and undoubtedly the cultivation and use of the 
Filbert and other nuts has been handed down to 
the present generation from prehistoric times when 
human kind were compelled to subsist on what 
Nature provided, not having arrived at a condition 
when man’s ingenuity had developed food condi- 
tions such as we enjoy in this day. Indeed, the 
industry of Filbert growing has assumed tremen- 
dous proportions there, and the exportation of 
Filberts to all parts of the world amounts to mil- 
lions of dollars annually. 
With the outbreak of the European war, how- 
ever, the exportation of Filberts to the United 
States and to the Latin-American countries was 
