FOREWORD 
UT culture has made great strides the vast few years. In¬ 
terest in the proceedings of the Northern Nut Growers 
Association at Battle Creek, Mich., December, 1919, was 
unusually good and predictions were freely made that we 
v)ere on the eve of a remarkable development in nut planting. 
At the Battle Creek Sanitarium, iwhere the Nut Groivers had 
their headquarters , we had the pleasure of eating a number of de¬ 
licious Nut Foody preparations. We were also conducted through the 
big Kellogg Pure Food Factory, a mile or so out of the city, where 
we saw these nut foods being manufactured. No meat or flesh foods 
are served at the Battle Creek Sanitarium, nuts and nut foods tak¬ 
ing the place of meat in the diet entirely. Dr. J. H. Kellogg , the 
founder of this famous institution, is the leading exponent of “The 
Nut Diet” in the U. S. Dr. Kellogg practices what he preaches and 
does not eat meat or flesh foods in any form and has not done so 
for forty years. 
I wish to thank my friends for past favors and solicit your 
future orders with the assurance that they will receive the same 
careful attention that they have in the past. 
J. F. JONES. 
Nuts and the Food Question 
Scientists and far sighted people who have been solicitious for our future 
welfare, have been warning of the dangers threatening us because of the de¬ 
creasing production of food stuffs, but it took the world war to bring home to 
us the fact that we were depending too much upon the production of annual 
plants for our daily bread, besides the work and expense of growing annual 
plants, the system of clean cultivation* necessary foi their success, causes 
leaching and excessive erosion of the soil, and as a result, the land utilized for 
the growing of annual farm crops loses its fertility in a few years and refuses 
to respond and bring forth old time, bountiful harvests. 
“Tree crops’' will be the slogan of the future and by far the most import¬ 
ant of these arc the nut bearing trees. The apple and the peach arc good to 
eat to be sure, but they have little actual food value in comparison to nuts as 
the analysis shows. Nuts arc the most concentrated natural food known. 
They arc ready to serve as the kernels come from the shell or they may be 
made up into various food forms combined with other materials, for which they 
are admirably adapted, since they are very rich and have a high protein and fat 
content and most foods arc deficient in these elements. 
The Demand for Nuts 
The production of nuts has not kept pace with consumption in this coun¬ 
try and the demand very greatly exceeds the supply. If the supply of com¬ 
mon wild nuts that go to make up the bulk of our supply at the present time 
were of line budded or grafted sorts, consumption of nuts would be twenty 
times as great as it is today, provided, of course the supply was available, and 
at a reasonable price. 
Value of nuts imported into the United Stales compiled by the Federal 
Department of Statistics: 
1906 
1907 
1908 
1909 
1910 
1911 
$ 7 , 228,607 
$ 9 , 215,891 
$ 9 , 562,742 
$ 8 , 549,997 
$ 12 , 775,196 
$ 14 , 265,572 
1912 
1912 
1914 
1915 
1916 
1917 
$ 15 , 626,485 
$ 12 , 508,207 
$ 19 , 815,712 
$ 16 , 865,244 
$ 20 , 594,424 
$ 22 , 667,681 
