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 In China there is no baby fed by cow's milk. When the mother lacks milk and the home is not rich enough to hire a milk nurse, walnut milk is substituted. The way of making walnut milk is rather crude here; they simply grind or knock the kernel into paste, then mix with boiled water.

Dr. J. H. Kellogg, of Battle Creek, militant nutivorous vegetarian and in his amazing person a substantial vindication of his theory, backs up the Chinese milk-substitute theory (practice) and further points out that while many vegetable proteins are hard to digest, those from nuts are very easy to digest. He further avers that nut fats (the other chief food elements of nuts) are "far more digestible than animal fats of any sort."

On pp. 83-92, 1920 Proceedings of the Northern Nut Growers' Association, Dr. Kellogg claims that animal feeding experiments show that twenty ounces of milk will furnish complete protein enough to supplement a vegetable diet otherwise deficient in complete protein, or that the same amount of protein

Ounces of Pints of Milk Named Nuts Containing as Calories in Needed to

Much Protein Amt, of Milk Calories in Replace as One Pound Shownin One Poundof 2002, of Named Nut Column One Named Nuts of Milk

ACOIN: o3:68e03 4 2.4 780 2620 8.3 Almond........ 6.4 2080 3030 3.2 Beechnut....... 6.6 2145 3075 3.0 Butternut....... 8.5 2762 3165 2.4 Chestnut....... 3.2 1040 1876 6.4 Chinquapin..... 3-3 1072 1800 6.4 Filbert or

Hazelnut..... 5.0 1625 3290 4.0 Hickory nut..... 4.6 1495 3345 4.8 Pecans ssiecivaiaws 3.6 1170 3455 5-6 Peanut ocssws 5c 9.2 2090 2600 2.2 Pinonis's's 6 ssc08i% 4-4 1430 3205 4.8 English walnut.. 5.4 1555 3300 3.7

Black walnut.... 8.5 2762 3105 2.