Barbour County index., 1900-12-05

they did not reach England till the
middle of the sixteenth century. The
NUTS are dried in the sun, or by arti-
cial heat, great care being used in the
process. SO that they may keep well
and mot turn rancid. Ga Staten L.
dand, English walnuts -4e n wn for
picking and for caEup, beng picked
green for those purposes. Chopped
fine and mashed, the ripe kernels
make delicious sandwiches. One hun
dred pounds of them yield 1S pounds
OF oil, and it Us said that half the
yegeta bic oil used dn France is walnut
oil-three times the entire quanufty
OF olive Oil consumed in that country.
A large variety with little meah il
prized for its beautiful shells, which
are utilized for glove boxes.
HaZelnuts, otherwise called filberts,
are mott much used in this country,
but i'm England they are widely culti-
waited, the county of Kent alone pro-
ducing 100000 tons per annum. 1t is
Thought they would grow well in the
Puget Sound region aind Gt has been
proposed that large corporation cul-
vate there a valuable species recently
found wild in Washington, which,
though tree, is SO slender as to run
along the ground like vine, each pod
containing two nuts instead of the US
ual one. In parts of Europe Kernels
are ground to -four, which is used for
making bread, and a valuable OIL, Of
which they contain 65 per CENT, II
expressed from them. Along the Black
Sea shore of Asiaitic Turkey the cul-
RlIri IF ha a,rl
amt, the production i'm the neighbor-
hood of TriZond amounting to 10000
600 pounds per anmum.
Efforts are being made, through Gull
tiuation, to increase the size of vard-
Gus native American NUTS and ndta-
BILE success in this Lime has been OBJ
tained with the shagbark; and THE
chestnut A new kind of black wall
mutt has been found in Ohio, which
is a veritable freak, one-half of the
tfvate there a valuable species recently
kernel on that side, so that the pear
shaped mutt contains only a single
"meat." Ordinary black walnuts have
a PARTITION dividing them into two
compartments, 50 :f,at 81 is almost i'm
possible to get the Kernels out whole
la point which militates against the
usefulness of the mutt for market pur.
poses. The freak nut is being tried
in cultivation and 1T may prove valu-
able some day.
There is no reason why the Brazil
nut should npit be extensively grows
In the United States, where it's cultd-
vation has already been tried success
fully. The demand for it is shown
by 1.-THE fact THAT we imported about
$250,0OO worth of these nuts last year.
Already the pistachio, which is util,
lied considerably by confectioners, 10
produced widely, though not eNtens-
lively, in the southern states and in
California. The kernel Us greenish, and
has peculiar flavor. Ut is native Of
Syria, and has long been cultivated
DIN southern Europe, whence comes the
bulk of the product brought ito this
country
ButteImuts,w which are most plentiful
in the Ohio river basin, have not the
vogue they deserve. They are prolific
single trees often yielding fifteen or
twenty bushels. A good many of them
are picked half ripe and picked. Also
TO be recommended are the pine
nuts' which are a wild crop ON the
Pacific coast, as ell as Colorado :: I'd
New Mexico, most of them being har-
vested by the indians, who roast the
cones until they open and release the
kernels. Some varieties of these nuts
are well adapted for use with dessert
OF by cOnfectioners.
Peanruts can not be omitted from
discussion of the food value of nuts,
though in reality they are not nuts
at all, but a kind of pea. The gov
erments experts find that QUART Of
peanuts contains as much muscle
making stuff as a pound of rump
steak, though costing only one-third
the price. The peanut Us the cheapest
OF all foods relatively ITO the amoulA
Of nutriment lit contains, having 40
per cent. of fat and 29 per cent ofpro-
tedn The oil, which is one-haaf the
weight of the kernel, is sweet and
palata'ble, and 1T is widely used as q
substitute for olive oil. Lower grades
OF the oil are employed in the manu-
facture of soap and for lubricating
purposes. Ground and added to bread,
peanuts make delicious stuffing for
ducks, and shey are otherwise utilized
in the composition of croquettes, mer-
ingue, salad. soup (mnde like dried
pea soup), jumbIes, grtddle cakes,
mullins and waters. Peanut butter In
already a well known autticle, and q
poor grade of the kernels Is converted
into "burnt almonds and peanut pea
nut candy.