Soathern Nursery Company, Winchester, Tenn. 
PROGRESS OF THE AMERICAN NUT INDUSTRY. 
The latest United States census reports are for 1909. 
While the largest anuu.il produetiDn of nuts in this country, 
as shown by c-ensus figures for that year, has a value of but 
$4,500,000, our annual imports amounts to $15,000,000. Wje 
Import annually from Spain, France and Italy more than 
18,000,000 pounds of almonds, an average of more than 
California's production In any two years. We import an- 
nually from European and other countries 2,000,000 pounds 
of English walnuts, one and one-half times as many as Cali- 
fornia has produced in the year of largest crop. Cocoanuts 
and their meats to the value, of $2,000,000 were Imported 
Into this country in lOiO. Brazil nuts to the amount of 
3,500,000 bushels are brought In annually. Importations of 
peanuts amount to 29,000,000 pounds, and of filberts and 
hazel nuts 12,000,000 pounds a year. 
Average imports of almonds have increased from less 
than 9,000.000 pounds in 1901-1905 to more than 15,000,000 
pounds in 1905-1910, nearly seventy per cent. Imports of 
English walnuts have increased in the same time from 
19,000,000 to 29,000,000, more than fifty per cent. Filbert 
Imports have increased from 7,000,000 in 1900 to 11,000,000 
pounds in 1910. 
We do not yet produce one-fourth of the nuts we con- 
sume; and the demand is steadily increasing. 
