Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-04-10

ness Of these trees for waste places where little
else will grow, and they need less attention per-
haps than other trees of the nut-bearing group.
1t is probable however, that the extensive plant
ing of pine IL ees for food purposes will have to
wait until we have advanced to the point OF put
ting ether kinds of nut trees upon good ground
first. Pines will be employed for the more barren
hillsdes when the people of 300 years from now
complain of the high cost of living.
1t is not generally known that some offthe
smaller pine nuts, like those of the single-Efaved
pine or of the sugar pine are delicious when
cracked and eaten out st hand. The smallerl pine
nuts are pounded uNzl1~~.he Indians with little
water and the thick, rich, creamy emulsion like
hickory milk can be kept for long time without
! decomposition. In addition to the nuts OF the
sugar pine the Indians collect the sugar of dried
juice which exudes at points where cuts have been
made in the tree for the purpose.
In Europe and Asia pine nuts for the market are
cracked by machinery or by cheap hand labor, and
it is probable that may eventually hull some
of the smaller ones buckwheat is hulled
With few exceptions nuts contain little carbohy-
drate (starch sugar.. They are, however, rich
in fat and protein On account of their high fat
content they are probably the most highly con-
centrated of all natural foods pound of nuts
contains average of more than 5000 calOries,
double the amount supplied by grains, four times
much average meats and ten times as much
average fruits and vegetables.
The notion that nuts difficult of digestion
has really foundation, in fact The idea is
probably the natural outgrowth of the custom Of
eating nuts at the close of meal when
abundance of highly nutritious food has already
been eaten, and the equally injurious custom of
eating nuts between meals. Failure of thorough
masticaton must also be mentioned as possible
cause of indigestion. The fats of nuts are the
most digestible of all forms of fat.
Whole races of men, comprising many millions,
live without meats of any Sort and when fed a
sufficient amount of 9th err foods are wonderfully
vigorous, prolific, enduring and intelligent
The great economic Importance of the encour-
agement of nut culture in every civilized land is
which may be annually produced by an acre of
land planted to nut trees and the area de-
voted to the production of beef. On an average
two acres of land and two years are required to
produce steer weighing 600 pounds. The prod
uct of one acre for one year would be one-fourth
much. The same land planted to walnut trees
would produce average of at least 100 pounds
per tree per for the first twenty years.
Forty trees to the would aggregate 1000
pounds of nuts, 1000 pounds of walnut meats
The highest food value which could be ascribed
to the $50 pounds Of beef furnished by a steer
weighing 600 pounds, would be 10000 calories
The food value of the nut meats would be 100000
calories, twenty times much food from the
nut trees from the fattened steer and food of
the general character, protein and fat but
of superior quality The walnut is not the only
promising food tree. The hickory, the pecan the
butternut the ilbert and the pnon are all capable
of producing equal or greater results.