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BETTER FRUIT 



March 



Those neglected fruit trees — you will find them every- 

 where — perhaps you have them in your own yard or 

 out in the orchard, that for some reason or other you have 

 failed to take care of in years gone by and now class 

 them as non-producers, worthless except for shade. 



You are surely going to give them attention this spring as well as every other 

 tree, vine, shrub, bush or plant about the place, on which you depend for your 

 fruits, berries and vegetables. Start early with this work before gardening and 

 planting time. Trim up your trees and plants and put new life into them, so 

 they will amount to something and do their bit when the time comes. 



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already grave manifestations of the 

 basic origin of many diseases. The 

 latest is a widespread oedema in the 

 legs and feet and face, of which par- 

 ticulars are given in a late issue of 

 The Lancet. This will steadily get 

 worse and worse as another winter 

 comes on unless fresh fruit, and salads 

 and seed oils, can be introduced largely 

 into Germany. I have dealt at length 

 with Germany and her fate, to empha- 

 size the great importance of avoiding a 

 similar catastrophe for England. Eng- 

 lish stamina, courage, endurance and 

 heart for the war depend on complete 

 nerve nutrition. Now for this the 

 calorific values of wheat, or beans, or 

 beef, affords no criterion. The danger 

 is that laboratory scientists will meas- 

 ure the comparative importance of 

 cargoes by calorific values, and will on 

 this ground tend to debar juicy fruits 

 as being very light cargo compared 

 with legumes or cereals. Every effort 

 should be exercised to prevent this, or 

 else, when the mischief is done, there 

 will be a panic importation of anti- 

 scorbutic fruits. I note that a small 

 number of ships are still allowed to 

 run to the West Indies for bananas, and 

 this is excellent, but weight for weight 

 and bulk for bulk, the most important 



fruit to be imported during the winter 

 and early spring of 1918 is apples. 

 Were I food controller in Germany and 

 allowed the choice of free import of 

 one article of food from November to 

 April, I should select the apple. So, in 

 England, while for importation pur- 

 poses legumes and peanuts are the most 



concentrated form of proteid; rice and 

 wheat and maize, the most important of 

 the cereals; olive oil, sesame oil, pea- 

 nut oil and almond oil, the finest forms 

 of fat; apples, lemons, oranges (and 

 onions) are immeasurably the most im- 

 portant of fruits, which are nerve 

 foods, and without the presence of 

 whose salts physiological functions 

 fail. It will be a grave risk to Eng- 

 land's home stamina if her supply of 

 apples is cut off, because during win- 

 ter conditions in this climate they are 

 superior to either lemons or oranges, 

 and cannot be replaced by any other 

 fruit." 



That there is a vast message to hu- 

 manity in the above article is apparent 

 on its face. Slowly but surely we are 

 beginning to understand "physiological 

 chemistry," of which science "nutritive 

 salts thereapy" is a most interesting 

 and most vital branch. The old simile 

 of the human body being like a ma- 

 chine may again hold good roughly 

 here when it is said that no machine 

 can function without all its parts and 

 all its offices being served — and just so 

 the human body cannot live unless 

 those cells which compose it are all fed 

 with the "chemicals" they need for 

 their life. Without the mineral salts 

 which are in apples or other fruit there 

 will be nerve cells and other cells 

 which will not function. Pellagra, due 

 to continuous corn and syrup diet, 

 scurvy, a foul disease in its worst 

 form, and other such diseases are 

 caused by false diet, and there would 

 be no such ailments had the victims 

 apples to eat. In a word, when Dr. Old- 

 field warns the British military to look 

 out for its apples, he not only talks 

 deep science, but just common horse 

 sense. 



Loyalty in Little Things 

 The whole great problem of winning 

 the war rests primarily on one thing, 

 the loyalty and sacrifice of the Ameri- 

 can people in the matter of food. If we 

 are selfish or even careless, we are dis- 

 loyal; we are the enemy at home. Now 

 is the hour of our testing. — U. S. Food 

 Administration. 



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