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form of sugar, and therefore a child by eating a 

 moderate quantity of it can obtain heat and 

 power with the least work to its digestion. 



There is probably no better breakfast for a 

 child than a cup of milk, and good home-made 

 bread baked from second flour, upon which is 

 spread a liberal layer of honey. 



Honey is also most useful in keeping the 

 stomach of a child strong and in good order. 



It is said that there are tons of adulterated 

 honey sold in this country that produce sickness 

 and a general distaste for honey itself. Hence 

 the importance of keeping one's own bees, or of 

 getting honey where we know that it is pure. 



Bees and Fruit. 



By very careful experiments it has been 

 proved that a far larger yield of fruit has been 

 obtained where the bees have been at work 

 amongst the fruit-blossoms, and that clover has 

 produced a greater quantity of seeds where the 

 bees have been at work. 



At an experimental station at Oregon, in 

 Canada, a number of peach trees were forced 

 under glass in November. One tree was pro- 

 tected, so that the bees could not get at the 

 blossoms. From that tree, when the stones 

 began to form, all the fruit fell off. On the 

 other trees, where the bees had worked freely, 



