Beef loin, lean 4.00 pounds Beef ribs, lean 6.50 " Beef neck, lean 9.50 " Veal 5.50 " Mutton leg, lean 4.20 " Ham, lean 3.00 " Fowls 4.00 " Chicken, broilers 10.00 " Red bass 25.00 " Trout 4.80 " Frogs' legs 15.00 " Oysters 13.50 " Lobsters 22.00 " Eggs 5.00 " Milk 9.50 " Evaporated cream 4.00 " But the great economic importance of the encouragement of nut culture in every civilized land is best shown by comparing the amount of food which may be annually produced by an acre of land planted to nut trees and the same area devoted to the production of beef. I am credibly informed that two acres of land and two years are required to produce a steer weighing 600 pounds. The product of one acre for one year would be one-fourth as much, or 150 pounds of steer. The same land planted to walnut trees would produce, if I am correctly informed, an average of at least 100 pounds per tree per annum for the first twenty years. Forty trees to the acre would aggregate 4,000 pounds of nuts, or 1,000 pounds of walnut meats. The highest food value which could be ascribed to the 150 pounds of beef would be 150,000 calories or food units. The food value of the nut meats would be 3,000,000 calories, or twenty times as much food from the nut trees as from the fattened steer, and food of the same general character, protein and fat, but of superior quality. One acre of walnut trees will produce every year food equal to: 14,000 lbs. red bass (a ship load). 3,000 " beef (five steers). 7,500 " chicken broilers. 15,000 " lobsters. 10,000 " oysters. 60,000 eggs (5,000 dozen). 4,000 qts. milk. A ton of mutton (13 sheep). 250,000 frogs. And when one acre will do so much, think of the product of a million acres. Ten times the product of all the fisheries of the country. Half as much as all the poultry of the country. One seventh as much as all the beef produced. More than twice the value of all the sheep. Half as much as all the pork. And many millions of acres may be thus utilized in nut culture. And the walnut is not the only promising food tree. The hickory, the pecan, the butternut, the filbert and the piñon are all capable of producing equal or greater results.