| 单词 | beechnut |
| 例句 | They gorged on so many beechnuts and acorns that they sometimes fell off their perches and burst apart when they hit the ground. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I cracked walnuts, hickory nuts, and beechnuts, then began a pair of deer-hide moccasins to be lined with rabbit fur for Bando’s present. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Acorns, beechnuts, and chestnuts; strawberries, huckleberries, and blackberries; wheat, oats, and maize—all went down the pigeons’ iridescently feathered gullets. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z For prehistoric humans the most productive forest was the deciduous leafy forest because of its abundance of edible nuts, such as walnuts, chestnuts, horse chestnuts, acorns, and beechnuts. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The beechnuts are abundant this year, and so are the hickory and butter nuts, but the acorn crop is poor. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z They had found the cache of acorns and beechnuts and had tossed them all over my bed and floor. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Passenger pigeons’ diet centered on mast, the collective name for acorns, beechnuts, hazelnuts, chestnuts, and the like; they also really liked maize. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Bando finds some shelled beechnuts and hazelnuts lying at the base of a hollow tree near the grave. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I went in my tree room for a snack of beechnuts when I heard a faint “halloooo” from far down the mountain. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z I once read a recipe for a soothing tea made of beechnuts. Me and My Food Dehydrator: A Dysfunctional Love Story 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z Vermont bear biologist Forrest Hammond says many bears went into their winter dens last fall in poorer than normal condition due to a shortage of acorns, beechnuts and apples. Vermont Fish and Wildlife urging bird feeder removal 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z In addition to acorns, black bears also eat berries and beechnuts, among others foods, according to the North American Bear Center. Black bear sightings in Virginia on the rise in light of acorn shortage 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z They eat everything from beechnuts and acorns to berries and seeds. Huge squirrel population chomps crops, driving farmers nuts 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z Maine bear biologist Jennifer Vashon said the number of complaints correlates with availability of natural foods such as berries, acorns and beechnuts. With bears on the rise, states hope to limit human conflicts 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z It's not a case of every tree for itself: the forest can behave as a single entity when it yields a great crop of acorns or beechnuts, or lies fallow for a year. Dendrology: The community of trees : Nature : Nature Research 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z A cube of dried scallops with beechnuts and kelp looks not unlike a Rice Krispies square. A Restaurant With a Waiting List of 60,000 The passenger pigeon was about three times larger than a mourning dove and its diet consisted primarily of beechnuts, acorns and American chestnuts. Passenger pigeons died out 100 years ago 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z This answer from genetics matches up well with ecological modelling of the abundance of passenger pigeon food — acorns, beechnuts and other forest mast — in North America over the last few thousand years. Boom-and-bust cycles doomed passenger pigeon 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z I have often arrived only in time to find its fruit, which resembles a beechnut in shape. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z I love beechnuts," she said, "but they make me long for my childhood again till I could almost cry out. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z The sapsucker, the hairy and the downy woodpeckers also like beechnuts; the flicker prefers acorns; but do they store them for winter use? Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z Properties and Uses.—The beechnut has been so long and favorably known that very little need be said here in regard to its properties and uses. The Nut Culturist A Treatise on Propogation, Planting, and Cultivation of Nut Bearing Trees and Shrubs Adapted to the Climate of the United States 2011-11-12T03:00:31.793Z This is the great family of the cup-bearers, whose fruit, the acorn, is borne in a scaly cup that never breaks into quarters, as does the husk that holds a chestnut, beechnut, or hickory nut. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z The checkerberries and beechnuts were just ripe, and 142 very good. A Northern Countryside 2011-04-27T02:00:22.523Z The ground around us was strewn with the four-lipped burrs of beechnuts, and the quaint little nut-pyramids were scattered among the ruddy fallen leaves. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z Heretofore this red-headed cousin has been reckoned a migratory member of the home-loving woodpecker clan, but only where he could not find plenty of beechnuts to keep him through the winter. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z As the beechnut contains considerable oil, many schemes have been set on foot, in European countries, for its extraction and use as a salad oil. The Nut Culturist A Treatise on Propogation, Planting, and Cultivation of Nut Bearing Trees and Shrubs Adapted to the Climate of the United States 2011-11-12T03:00:31.793Z The name of this grain was suggested by its resemblance in form to the beechnut, or "buck mast," sweet, nutritious food of so many dwellers in the forest. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z The second day, as we were all hard at work shelling the beechnuts, I heard a noise among the bushes,—a crackling noise that did not sound like any animal I knew. The Joyous Story of Toto 2011-02-16T03:00:35.520Z To go out for beechnuts before breakfast; to thread them for necklaces before supper;—to be the envy of the others at school next day! The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z It is well known that the red-head is very fond of beechnuts. The Woodpeckers 2011-01-26T03:00:25.210Z It is also stated that Henry Fielding, so well known by his delightful stories of English society, once speculated rather largely on the manufacture of beechnut oil. The Nut Culturist A Treatise on Propogation, Planting, and Cultivation of Nut Bearing Trees and Shrubs Adapted to the Climate of the United States 2011-11-12T03:00:31.793Z One could hardly say that they lived in the Forest, but every year when the acorns and beechnuts were ripe, they came for a visit. Among the Forest People 2011-01-17T03:00:55.113Z A beechnut fell plump on his nose, and he saw the sharp black eyes of a gray squirrel peering at him through the leaves. The Joyous Story of Toto 2011-02-16T03:00:35.520Z G. broke a front crown cracking a beechnut, there’s a black hole and he whistles when he talks. 2009-12-14T05:00:00Z I should like to know whether they store acorns as they do beechnuts. The Woodpeckers 2011-01-26T03:00:25.210Z But as the beechnut is the diamond among the larger and less precious gems of our forests, we should set a higher value upon it because small and rather difficult to obtain. The Nut Culturist A Treatise on Propogation, Planting, and Cultivation of Nut Bearing Trees and Shrubs Adapted to the Climate of the United States 2011-11-12T03:00:31.793Z As we have no beechnuts we have no bears, so I have not set my bear traps. Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper Autobiography, experiences and observations of Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock during his fifty years of hunting and trapping. I wouldn’t be a frog for all the beechnuts in the world. The Joyous Story of Toto 2011-02-16T03:00:35.520Z They all began crying "Oh!" and throwing beechnut husks. The Wonderful Visit They are fond of acorns, beechnuts, chestnuts, and other mast. Fur Farming A book of Information about Fur Bearing Animals, Enclosures, Habits, Care, etc. Miniature Trees.—Fine little trees can be grown from chestnuts, beechnuts, acorns, and hazel-nuts. What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes We have no beechnuts this season and most of the fur bearing animals have migrated south of here where there are chestnuts, acorns and hickory nuts. Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper Autobiography, experiences and observations of Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock during his fifty years of hunting and trapping. The hazelnut is next best, then perhaps the peanut and the beechnut. Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages Including a System of Vegetable Cookery But without the agency of the birds and the squirrels, how are the heavy nuts, such as the chestnut, beechnut, acorn, butternut, and the like, to be scattered? Ways of Nature She is less parsimonious with her winged seeds, such as of the maple and the elm, than with her heavy nuts—butternuts, hickory-nuts, acorns, beechnuts, and so on. Under the Maples Both had been thumped upon the bare head by the falling hickory nuts in windy weather; had hunted the black walnuts half hidden in the leaves; had scraped the ground for the elusive beechnuts. Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail They were of all sizes from a beechnut to a pecan. The Web of the Golden Spider One basket for beechnuts and one for hazelnuts, and I would give him a month to fill them.” Stuyvesant A Franconia Story Hickory-nuts and butternuts, too, perhaps hazelnuts and even beechnuts—all these American boys and girls of the real country know. Getting Acquainted with the Trees But the beechnut crop is good this fall. The Tale of Jolly Robin They spied a beechnut on the ground, or a bit of lichen, or a tender twig; and together they made a dive for it. Forest Neighbors Life Stories of Wild Animals The first beechnuts had dropped; a few dainty sweet acorns lay under the white oaks. A Young Man in a Hurry and Other Short Stories Peck says that the plants have an oily flavor resembling beechnuts. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. The pen was then covered with 197 brush except for a passage way leading to the door, and along this path beechnuts or other bait, were scattered, the trail of nuts extending into the enclosure. Far Past the Frontier And if it isn’t a good one I hope I’ll never eat another beechnut.” The Tale of Jolly Robin A little later the beechnuts came down from the sky, and he feasted more luxuriously than ever. Forest Neighbors Life Stories of Wild Animals Woodpeckers and blue jays place beechnuts and small acorns in the crevices of bark on standing trees. Seed Dispersal CORSAN: It will produce far more than the American beechnut and is more successful in every way. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950 It is also well known that nuts of several kinds were always plentiful: native chestnuts, walnuts, butternuts, hazelnuts, hickorynuts, and beechnuts. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Report Wooster, Ohio, September 3, 4, 5, 1946 For everybody knew that Jasper Jay was specially fond of beechnuts. The Tale of Jolly Robin The nuts furnished food for man in the form of oil or nutmeats and often hogs were fattened on hickory nuts, beechnuts and chestnuts. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953 With the frosts of autumn ripe acorns, beechnuts, bitternuts, butternuts, chestnuts, hickory nuts, hazelnuts, and walnuts are severed from the parent bush or tree and fall to the ground among the leaves. Seed Dispersal Have you tried the European beechnuts in your locality? Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950 Do you know where acorns grow, or beechnuts, or chestnuts? Bird Stories Not a butternut on a tree nor a beechnut! Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948 In this country we have the walnut, butternut, hazel nut and the hickory nut, the chestnut and the beechnut. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting New York City, September 3, 4 and 5, 1924 Ozem has not peeled beechnuts, but he has "called names," and has to hold out a hard-wood poker at arm's length. Little Grandmother And frequently, not just once in every 13 years, like our beechnut. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950 "I smell beechnuts!" he cried with a joyful squeal. The Tale of Grunty Pig Slumber-Town Tales Butternuts, black walnuts and beechnuts also offer a fertile field for experiment. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifth Annual Meeting Evansville, Indiana, August 20 and 21, 1914 I want also to suggest that Prof. Smith include among the nuts, the beechnut, because there's more meat in beechnuts for the amount of shell than any other nut we grow. Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Third Annual Meeting Lancaster, Pennsylvania, December 18 and 19, 1912 It would be a stingy man, indeed, who would begrudge the Woodpeckers their acorns and beechnuts. Ohio Arbor Day 1913: Arbor and Bird Day Manual Issued for the Benefit of the Schools of our State There are many stories of hogs being fattened on beechnuts in pioneer days. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting Guelph, Ontario, September 3, 4, 5, 1947 "Well, Mrs. Pig's son, I notice that you have helped yourself freely to beechnuts." The Tale of Grunty Pig Slumber-Town Tales We have lots of hickory nuts, butternuts, hazelnuts and beechnuts growing wild here and Champlain says in his narrative that there were lots of fine chestnuts growing here 300 years ago. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifth Annual Meeting Evansville, Indiana, August 20 and 21, 1914 Pecans, beechnuts and sweet chestnuts almost passed out of the picture last winter. Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943 While the leaves are still green on the trees, the Redheads discover the beechnuts and go to work. Ohio Arbor Day 1913: Arbor and Bird Day Manual Issued for the Benefit of the Schools of our State Then he wandered on in search of beechnuts, his appetite only made keener by this peppery salad. Followers of the Trail "Don't you know that these beechnuts belong to me and Jasper Jay and Johnnie Green?" The Tale of Grunty Pig Slumber-Town Tales Then he took to nosing a beechnut from under my foot, as if I were no more interesting than Alexander was to Diogenes. Wood Folk at School I was thinking, Priscilla—why not stuff the turkeys with beechnuts? Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims Beechnuts are such a large part of the fall and winter food of the Redheads in some localities, that, like the gray squirrels, the birds are common in good beechnut winters and absent in others. Ohio Arbor Day 1913: Arbor and Bird Day Manual Issued for the Benefit of the Schools of our State The leaves drifted to the ground where they spread a rustling carpet, hiding the sweet three-cornered beechnuts upon which squirrels and raccoons waxed fat and contented. Followers of the Trail Instead, he began nosing about for another beechnut bur. The Tale of Grunty Pig Slumber-Town Tales It was not a bear shaking down the ripe beechnuts—not heavy enough for that, yet too heavy for the feet of any prowler of the woods to make on his stealthy hunting. Wood Folk at School Why, not to have discovered ere this how I dote upon beechnuts. Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims Inside lay a lot of little creatures with backs like beechnuts. Little Busybodies The Life of Crickets, Ants, Bees, Beetles, and Other Busybodies He went on with his search for beechnuts. The Tale of Turkey Proudfoot Slumber-Town Tales "Don't you dare to take any of our beechnuts!" The Tale of Grunty Pig Slumber-Town Tales When I begin to eat beechnuts I never want to stop. The Tale of Jasper Jay Tuck-Me-In Tales He was poking under the dead leaves for beechnuts, when he noticed the herd passing at a distance. Black Bruin The Biography of a Bear Though she didn't make the slightest sound, all at once Frisky Squirrel's nose twitched again, as he muttered to himself, "There's a very queer smell about these beechnut shucks!" The Tale of Miss Kitty Cat Slumber-Town Tales There are no beechnuts, this year, the wild-pea crop is a failure, the farmer has no fields of grain near my woods, and I have not seen a groundnut for six seasons!” Exciting Adventures of Mister Robert Robin And you may be sure he gets his share of101 these beechnuts. The Tale of Grunty Pig Slumber-Town Tales "I want to eat just a few more beechnuts; and then I'll come with you." The Tale of Jasper Jay Tuck-Me-In Tales There was one California black walnut and only 4 beechnuts, very small indeed. Northern Nut Growers Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-First Annual Meeting Cedar Rapids, Iowa, September 17, 18, and 19, 1930 He was sitting on the edge of the stone doorstep with a bit of beechnut clutched in his paws. The Tale of Miss Kitty Cat Slumber-Town Tales No food is better for turkeys and hogs than are beechnuts. Northern Nut Growers Association, Report Of The Proceedings At The Tenth Annual Meeting. Battle Creek, Michigan, December 9 and 10, 1919 And even Frisky Squirrel was no spryer at carrying beechnuts—or any other goody—to his secret cupboard than little white-footed Dickie Deer Mouse. The Tale of Dickie Deer Mouse "I think I've eaten enough so I can manage to stay away from the beechnuts a short time," he said with a sigh. The Tale of Jasper Jay Tuck-Me-In Tales These are chiefly black walnuts, hickory nuts, and butternuts, although it is probable that several hundred tons of beechnuts which annually go ungathered should be included. Northern Nut Growers Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-First Annual Meeting Cedar Rapids, Iowa, September 17, 18, and 19, 1930 Oh, yes, they are hard and three cornered, like animated beechnuts, as somebody has said. The Insect Folk In Europe a valuable oil used as a drug and for salads is expressed from beechnuts. Northern Nut Growers Association, Report Of The Proceedings At The Tenth Annual Meeting. Battle Creek, Michigan, December 9 and 10, 1919 Jasper Jay and his noisy118 cronies had taken good care that there shouldn't be a beechnut left. The Tale of Dickie Deer Mouse His mind was too busy thinking of beechnuts to pay much attention to anything else. The Tale of Jasper Jay Tuck-Me-In Tales The relatively few beeches that have come in to the contests suggests that methods used heretofore should be somewhat modified in beechnut search. Northern Nut Growers Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-First Annual Meeting Cedar Rapids, Iowa, September 17, 18, and 19, 1930 And he never stopped until he had finished the very last beechnut. The Tale of Frisky Squirrel A bushel of beechnuts that can be used in this way replace at least a bushel of corn. Northern Nut Growers Association, Report Of The Proceedings At The Tenth Annual Meeting. Battle Creek, Michigan, December 9 and 10, 1919 Beechnut One of the sweetest and most delicately flavored of our native nuts is the little, triangular beechnut. On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls And before it was dark they flew away together and went straight to the beechp. 114nut grove, where they ate a huge meal of beechnuts, without having a single dispute about anything. The Tale of Jasper Jay Tuck-Me-In Tales The beechnuts received were but 4 in number and were pretty good although too small to be of horticultural value. Northern Nut Growers Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-First Annual Meeting Cedar Rapids, Iowa, September 17, 18, and 19, 1930 He had stuffed himself so full of beechnuts that he was too big to get out of the hole. The Tale of Frisky Squirrel The difference in cost of production should make beechnuts worth several times as much as corn. Northern Nut Growers Association, Report Of The Proceedings At The Tenth Annual Meeting. Battle Creek, Michigan, December 9 and 10, 1919 In the New England and Canada woods beechnuts were their best and most abundant food, farther north, cranberries and huckleberries. The Story of My Boyhood and Youth And there—as he had hoped to—he found Reddy Woodpecker, busily eating beechnuts. The Tale of Jasper Jay Tuck-Me-In Tales Under the headings black walnuts, hickories, chestnuts, butternuts and beechnuts will be found an abstract of the awards of prizes awarded each. Northern Nut Growers Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-First Annual Meeting Cedar Rapids, Iowa, September 17, 18, and 19, 1930 And there he found a fine lot of beechnuts, which Mrs. Squirrel had brought home and stored, in order to have something to eat during the winter. The Tale of Frisky Squirrel Separate ones will evidently be required for beechnuts, and chestnuts. Northern Nut Growers Association, Report Of The Proceedings At The Tenth Annual Meeting. Battle Creek, Michigan, December 9 and 10, 1919 The beechnut and the hickory nut are rich and much prized swine food. Northern Nut Growers Association, report of the proceedings at the sixth annual meeting Rochester, New York, September 1 and 2, 1915 And he watched anxiously while Reddy Woodpecker broke open more beechnuts with his strong bill and greedily ate the sweet meats. The Tale of Jasper Jay Tuck-Me-In Tales If we had a beechnut the size of a chestnut we should have a most valuable addition to our nuts. Northern Nut Growers Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-First Annual Meeting Cedar Rapids, Iowa, September 17, 18, and 19, 1930 And at night he dreamed of hunting for beechnuts, and chestnuts, and hickorynuts, on which he would feast to his heart’s content—in his dreams. The Tale of Frisky Squirrel However, I know of no nursery in which beechnuts are propagated in this way. Growing Nuts in the North A Personal Story of the Author's Experience of 33 Years with Nut Culture in Minnesota and Wisconsin To the sources previously mentioned may be added pumpkin seeds, poppy seeds, raspberry seeds, tobacco seeds, cockleburs, hazelnuts, walnuts, beechnuts and acorns. Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries Jasper Jay was not the only bird that liked beechnuts. The Tale of Jasper Jay Tuck-Me-In Tales The points awarded for size have therefore been on the basis that eventually we would get a beechnut the size of a chestnut, although we are very far from that now. Northern Nut Growers Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-First Annual Meeting Cedar Rapids, Iowa, September 17, 18, and 19, 1930 It is a very curious circumstance that, before storing away for the winter, they carefully skin every beechnut. Twenty-Seven Years in Canada West The Experience of an Early Settler (Volume I) Since then, I have purchased beechnut seeds several times from various seedsmen, but none of these seeds has ever sprouted. Growing Nuts in the North A Personal Story of the Author's Experience of 33 Years with Nut Culture in Minnesota and Wisconsin Exactly one-half his food supply consists of vegetable matter, chiefly wild berries, acorns, beechnuts, and the seeds of wild shrubs and weeds. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation And when he saw that the beechnut crop was going to be a big one he decided that he would stay in Pleasant Valley all winter. The Tale of Jasper Jay Tuck-Me-In Tales Forty points are allowed for size and it is figured that eventually we will get a beechnut 4 grams in weight which is the weight of a medium size chestnut. Northern Nut Growers Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-First Annual Meeting Cedar Rapids, Iowa, September 17, 18, and 19, 1930 Another handful of the beechnuts went to the ravenous horde, and still another. Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2 I think this is because beechnuts, like chestnuts, must be handled with great care to retain their viability. Growing Nuts in the North A Personal Story of the Author's Experience of 33 Years with Nut Culture in Minnesota and Wisconsin She had already burned her fingers and dropped a slice of beechnut bacon on her sweet little morning gown. The Man from Brodney's Johnnie Green could not crack a butternut with his father's hammer more quickly than Jasper could reach the inside of a sweet beechnut. The Tale of Jasper Jay Tuck-Me-In Tales In European countries beechnuts are highly valued as a source of salad oil. Northern Nut Growers Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-First Annual Meeting Cedar Rapids, Iowa, September 17, 18, and 19, 1930 Another time she offered big balls of popped corn stuck together with maple sugar, and liberally sprinkled with beechnut kernels. A Girl of the Limberlost Those nuts may have been any of the various kinds distributed throughout the United States, such as the butternut, black walnut, beechnut, chestnut, hickory, hazel or pecan. Growing Nuts in the North A Personal Story of the Author's Experience of 33 Years with Nut Culture in Minnesota and Wisconsin Its seeds, which are three-cornered in shape, bear a close resemblance to beechnuts, and because of this peculiar similarity, this cereal was originally called beech wheat. Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 1: Essentials of Cookery; Cereals; Bread; Hot Breads I promise—" said Reddy Woodpecker—"but I wish I had brought along a few beechnuts in my pocket. The Tale of Jasper Jay Tuck-Me-In Tales Although the association has now been in existence 20 years there has so far been little progress, we might almost say no progress, made in getting an improved beechnut. Northern Nut Growers Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-First Annual Meeting Cedar Rapids, Iowa, September 17, 18, and 19, 1930 So he smiled and asked: "What is the price of your beechnuts?" The Tale of Sandy Chipmunk Beechnut The beechnut, Fagus ferruginea, belonging to the oak family, is one of the giants of the forest, growing to great size and age. Growing Nuts in the North A Personal Story of the Author's Experience of 33 Years with Nut Culture in Minnesota and Wisconsin They very civilly set before him some acorns and beechnuts; but he proved a hungry visitor, and ate as much as would have fed the whole family for a week. In the Forest Or, pictures of life and scenery in the woods of Canada Lean hogs began to fill and fatten with their banqueting on beechnuts and acorns. The Call of the Cumberlands A nut contest brings hundreds and thousands of walnuts and hickories but only very few beechnuts. Northern Nut Growers Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-First Annual Meeting Cedar Rapids, Iowa, September 17, 18, and 19, 1930 Then he gave Sandy a small handful of beechnuts. The Tale of Sandy Chipmunk There is also the fact that the beechnut is the slowest growing of all the common nut trees, requiring from twenty to thirty years to come into bearing as a seedling. Growing Nuts in the North A Personal Story of the Author's Experience of 33 Years with Nut Culture in Minnesota and Wisconsin The woods literally swarmed with them, and when beechnuts and acorns were scarce they were compelled to poach upon the farmer's crops. My Boyhood But there must be an end to everything, and so the Tree Girl brought out a bowl of beechnuts, and they forgot the stories, and ate as much as they wanted. The Little House in the Fairy Wood Considerable is noted later on the likelihood of getting larger beechnuts and a way is suggested to get them. Northern Nut Growers Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-First Annual Meeting Cedar Rapids, Iowa, September 17, 18, and 19, 1930 Sandy was longer eating those, for the shells were harder and thicker than the beechnut shells. The Tale of Sandy Chipmunk My attempts to grow beechnut trees in Wisconsin have met with little success. Growing Nuts in the North A Personal Story of the Author's Experience of 33 Years with Nut Culture in Minnesota and Wisconsin He's gone to shake the beechnuts down From a height—'twould make you shiver, And stain his hands a gipsy brown, With the walnuts by the river. Canada and Other Poems I have seen thousands of them go through a beech wood, like a blue wave, picking up the sprouting beechnuts. Our Friend John Burroughs Size is the most important characteristic in the beechnut, for all are thin shelled and practically all are well flavored. Northern Nut Growers Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-First Annual Meeting Cedar Rapids, Iowa, September 17, 18, and 19, 1930 "But just think of all the beechnuts you have," Mr. Crow reminded him. The Tale of Sandy Chipmunk Chestnuts, beechnuts and acorns require more care when they are to be stored, for their viability is very sensitive to dryness. Growing Nuts in the North A Personal Story of the Author's Experience of 33 Years with Nut Culture in Minnesota and Wisconsin They are forced to live upon bread made of bran and sawdust, to eat acorns and beechnuts; they are gaunt with hunger; they see their children dying before their eyes. Won By the Sword : a tale of the Thirty Years' War Eyes and hair were brown as a beechnut, and a scattering of golden-brown freckles emphasised the warm tints of a skin as soft as velvet. The Lamp of Fate Have mailed Mr. Snyder abstract of report on nut contest and paper on beechnuts. Northern Nut Growers Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-First Annual Meeting Cedar Rapids, Iowa, September 17, 18, and 19, 1930 "I like acorns and beechnuts and certain kinds of seeds." The Burgess Bird Book for Children Walnuts, chestnuts, hazelnuts, and beechnuts lay in separate compartments, getting brown, and dry, and sweet, ready for winter revels. Little Men You see, I live largely on seeds, though I am also fond of berries and small nuts, especially beechnuts. The Burgess Animal Book for Children In the fall of the year, when the beechnuts began to drop, the men used to drive them into the woods, where they would live and grow fat on the nuts. The Chignecto Isthmus and its first settlers "I don't suppose you ever ate a chestnut or a fat hickory nut or a sweet beechnut," said she softly. The Burgess Animal Book for Children When I find a fat beechnut I take it to a little crack in a tree that will just hold it; then with this stout bill of mine I crack the shell. The Burgess Bird Book for Children There will be splendid crops of beechnuts and grapes this fall. The Burgess Animal Book for Children He had found my tracks where I had been gathering beechnuts, and he was following them with his nose just the way Bowser the Hound follows Reddy Fox. The Burgess Animal Book for Children In the fall I get fat on beechnuts and acorns. The Burgess Animal Book for Children |
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