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which the blood needs, and the inva- 

 lid with poor hi I will get iron in 



the apple which is far more easily ab- 

 sorbed by the blood than in any pre- 

 paration of iron compounded by the 

 chemist. 



" 'Lime is found in the apple in the 

 same form as found in our bones, and 

 in the apple the lime is so beautifully 

 combined with phosphoricaeid, that 

 when an apple is eaten the bones of 

 the body are nourished by these lime 

 salts, and by these additions of lime 

 the child is able to build up the young 

 growing bone. Ricketty children have 

 bones deficient in lime. I have never 

 seen Ricketts or soft bones in a Tas- 

 manian orchard. 



" 'Magnesia — yes, nature has placed 

 in the apple quite a nice little dose of 

 magnesia and it helps to keep off rheu- 

 matism by purifying the blood and as- 

 sisting the bowels. 



" 'Phosphorus — Professor Sehaffer 

 told us recently, in the great scientific 

 lecture of the year, that life could not 

 exist without phosphorus, and in the 

 apple this great nerve tonic exists in 

 most soluble form as phosphoric acid. 

 Sulphur as sulphur acid also is a great 

 blood purifier and has an especial ef- 

 fect on the skin and skin diseases. 



" 'There is just one more thing 

 which science has not explained and 

 that is the wonderful life process by 

 which all these tasteless (some even 

 misty) elements were blended together 

 into a beautiful fruit and a perfect 

 food. 



" 'The sailor who lives a long time 

 on salt meat and biscuit alone will rot 

 with scurvy, and if he takes the 

 sugars, acids, etc., contained in an ap- 

 ple every day separately he will still 

 die, but if he takes an apply a day 

 his blood will keep perfectly right.' " 



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The editor of Better Fruit takes 

 some satisfaction in calling attention 

 to the fact that one of the main refer- 

 ences in Mrs. Dunlap's most excellent 

 address was to the "209 Ways of Pre- 

 paring the Apple," which was first 

 published in Better Fruit in October, 

 1912, five years ago, and was the first 

 move made for increasing consump- 

 tion of apples by using them for cook- 

 ing and for dessert. This book of re- 

 ceipts, "209 Ways of Serving Apples 

 as Dessert," has been re-published in 

 different forms — by the International 

 Apple Shippers' Association, which is- 



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