300 THE APPLE CULTURIST. 



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and suffering would be prevented every year, if apples 

 were employed to a greater extent on our tables, instead 

 of such immense quantities of heavy animal food. Good 

 beef, mutton, oysters, and roasted fowls make excellent liv- 

 ing ; yet, in many instances, a dish of fried apple will oper- 

 ate like magic in giving a healthful tone to the whole sys- 

 tem of a high-living dyspeptic. By an arrangement of 

 Providence as beautiful as it is benign, the fruits of the 

 earth are ripening during the whole summer. From the 

 delightful strawberry, on the opening of spring, to the lus- 

 cious peach of the fall, there is a constant succession of su- 

 perb aliments ; made luxurious by that Power whose lov- 

 ing kindness is in all his works, in order to stimulate us to 

 their highest cultivation, connecting with their use also the 

 most health-giving influences. Liebig says, they prevent 

 debility, strengthen digestion, correct the putrefactive ten- 

 dencies of nitrogenous food, avert scurvy, and strengthen 

 the power of productive labor. If eaten frequently at 

 breakfast, with coarse bread and butter, without meat or 

 flesh, apples have an admirable effect on the system, often 

 removing constipation, correcting acidities, and cooling off 

 febrile conditions more effectually than the most approved 

 medicines. 



Apples for Domestic Animals. It will be perceived by 

 the analysis on page 304 that sweet apples are of great value 

 in feeding almost any kind of stock. Swine will fatten rap- 

 idly on them. Cows, if not over-fed with them at the start, 

 and care is taken to cut or mash the apples, so that the ani- 

 mals can not get choked, will increase in milk and improve 

 in condition. Apples are an excellent succulent food for 

 horses in winter. Any varieties of sweet apples that bear 

 abundantly will answer the purpose. Unfortunately, but 

 little attention has been given to varieties for feeding do- 

 mestic animals exclusively. Hardiness, thriftiness, and 





