Show chestnuts a good food chestnut contains less water more starch more fat but liss mineral water than the potato the chestnut Is in tact more nutritious than the potato says the london I 1 ancee not because it con bains different constituents but be cause weight for weight it contains a greater proportion of them the de fi clency in fat is made up in the po tato by a pat of butter in the chest nut there is already an important pro portion of fat the chestnut however Is the most digestible of nuts because it does not contain an excess of fat most nuts contain between 50 and 60 per cent of fat both the chestnut and the potato provide a nutritive meal rich in heat and energy giving material and the starch in them Is peculiarly easy of digestion for rea sons already given the chestnut Is superior to the potato es pec lally if the latter be boiled as in the process some of the nutrient are lost in the cooking of ath the chestnut and the potato by baking the effect Is much jio same as 1 boiling the natural water of he nut and of the tuber Is partly expelled as steam swells or chow the starchy particles chestnuts lose but little of their nu constituents when boiled but they are lest baked or roasted aa dl also Is the potato it Is a pity that the chestnut Is not ite 1 in this country as it la in tr ranee where the peasantry lit a very sustaining and agreeable food th ro are enormous quantities of food in the shape of chestnuts wasted in thia country and yet it Is a particularly economical form of food for a given area of ground it is stated produces the maximum amount of food possible when it Is planted with chestnut trees and the man with the chestnuts on his red hot tea tray conveys a lesson which might bo taken more than it Is |