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and sweet. As a general rule, the bananas kept by all grocery stores are 

 sold before they are fit for food. It is pre-eminently detrimental to one's 

 health to eat such food, and they should be avoided. The best bananas 

 are covered with black spots, and these are the ones that should be eaten. 

 They are the ones that we usually find sold in the larger cities by street 

 pedlers. 



Suppose you examine a section of apple, banana, orange, peach, 

 berry, or any good ripe fruit under the microscope. You will certainly 

 want to do something to increase the appetite. No other food shows 

 up so well, and looks so wholesome. It is the food put up by Nature, 

 wrapped in a peel protector that insures wholesomeness, provided we 

 have allowed it to ripen. It should be eaten with every meal and dur- 

 ing the day in liberal quantities. There is nothing to take its place. 

 Many of us would have better health and a better disposition if we 

 would eat more ripe fruit each day. 



There are no germs or eggs of such dreadful things as tapeworms 

 lodged in pure ripe fruit. If we would eat the proper amount of ripe 

 fruit, the consumption would be more than doubled. In so doing, too, 

 we would increase the great fruit industry in this country to more than 

 double the present production. 



NUTS. 



The body requires a certain amount of fat. This can be furnished 

 either through the eating of the flesh of animals or through the eating 

 of nuts. You have noticed how difficult it is to eat fat alone — just pure 

 fat? Nature teaches us that this way of eating is wrong, hence it is 

 repulsive to us. Then when Nature stored fats in nuts she mixed it with 

 other constitutents to make fat pleasant to the taste. In like manner, 

 when the boy eats his butter, he wants it spread out on the bread so that 

 it will be palatable. 



Fruits and nuts should receive serious consideration as every-day 

 articles of food. Let us talk their importance to our neighbors and thus 

 help educate the masses as to their value as food and as health-producers. 



COOPERATION AMONG FRUIT GROWERS. 



Developing methods of production and distribution of agricultural 

 products along purely economic lines is of comparatively recent origin, 

 more attention having been given possibly to the side of production, says 

 Experiment Station Work. However important it may be to be able lo 

 grow crops in large (luantities or of particular qualities at a minimum 

 cost, it is equally important to be able to dispose of them in the most 

 economical way and to the best possible advantage, for frequently the 

 easiest and largest profits in any business are tliose made tlirough meth- 

 ods of handling, marketing, and distribution; and it is here that judg- 

 ment, based upon economic principles, must be exercised and careful 

 dealing resorted to if the highest returns are to be realized. 



