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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