NORTHERN-GROWN NUT TREES 
The encouraging: thing regarding tlie increasing consumption of 
nuts is that it is a perfectly normal and natural one in every respect 
and has real merit and the best of economic causes for its basis. For 
years our df)Ctors, food experts, and men of science, have been extolling 
the superior merits of the nut as an article of daily foocl. Of recent 
years, this sentiment in favor of nuts has grown until it has assumed 
almost the i>ri)portions of a crusade. And the people are beginning to 
recognize that back of it all there is something more than mere fadism,— 
that there is a sound, scientific, and economic basis for it. 
Far Greater Food Value Than Meat 
it is asserted by those who have made a close study of the economic 
side f>f tlie mil-growing industry, tliat the (h\y is fast approaching when 
nuts will be in ctunmon use as an urdinary article of food, in reality a 
necessity, instead of being considered, as at present, in the nature of a 
luxury, along with candy and other such tid-bits. To those who are 
unacquaintecl with the facts of the situation, that day may seem far 
removed. 
But what will happen, do you think, when there is produced a 
(liiantity of nuts sufficient to form a dependalile supply, and when all 
the ]>cople, instead of a few. as at present, realize tlie truth about nuts 
and know that tliey far outrank iiractically every other article of common 
diet in actual food value. 
To most people the truth regarding the food value of nuts comes 
as a revelation, and indeed it is remarkable. 
Taking the figures prepared by Prof. John Craig, Horticulturist, New 
York State College of Agriculture, Ithaca, N. Y.: The average fuel value 
of nine different kinds of common food is found to be only 1169.44 
calories, as against an average fuel value of 2591.66 calories, for nine 
varieties of nuts, or nearly three times tliat of ordinary foods. 
In view of this remarkable showing, and considering their exceptional 
palatability, the wonder is that nuts have iU)t come into more common 
use. There are two very good reasons, however, wln^ they have not. 
h'irst, the scarcity of reall}' good nuts; and second, the lack of knowledge 
on the part of the public generally as to their great nutritive cpialities. 
Now. when the cost of necessities continues to advance at an alarm¬ 
ingly rapid rate, we are looking eagerly’ not only for new sources of 
sui)pl> but also for new articles of food that can ])c adapted to our 
needs. It is conservatively iiredicted, therefore, that once the production 
of nuts is undertaken on an adecpiate commercial scale, they will become 
an established part of our daily diet as staple as potatoes. 
.•\s an instance of tlie important economic position of nuts in other 
countries, and how highly they are regarded, there is in Crimea an 
h'nglish Walnut tree estimated to be a thousand years old. Tt is the 
cherished and jealously guarded property of four or five families who 
own it jointly and who subsists very largely on the revenue of its product, 
which consists of about one hundred thousand nuts each season. 
In the mountainous western portion of Europe, where, owing to the 
roughness of the ground, cereals can not be cultivated, the chestnut 
forms an in(iis])ensable adjunct to the dietary. To a great extent, it 
takes the place of wheat. The chestnuts are first dried, then roasted, 
steamed or boiled. They are also ground into a flour which makes 
excellent bread. 
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