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PEACHES. 



Barnard's Yellow Rare-ripe, Large Early York, and 

 Mixon's Free, are all first-class varieties. It is a consoling 

 fact to people living above the peach "belt "that this 

 fruit is now so nicely preserved by the "evaporation" 

 process. It is much cheaper than the canned fruit, and 

 when gently stewed in a thin white-sugar syrup is very 

 delicious. 



CHAPTER X. 



THE BEST FOODS AND SOME BEST METHODS OP 

 PREPARING THEM. 



"The best human food," writes an eminent physician, 

 " I believe to be Wheat the king of grains ! It contains 

 all the flesh-forming, nerve-producing, bone-making, fat- 

 creating elements of nutrition. Bread is, indeed, the 

 Staff of Life, and wheat is the perfection of bread. I 

 know of no article of food which so perfectly sustains all 

 the powers of the human system as wheat properly cooked 

 and eaten in its integrity." 



By integrity the Doctor means in its complete and un- 

 adulterated wholeness. 



There is no division as to the desirableness of pure 

 wheat flour. No one wants to eat chalk, alum, or plaster 

 of Paris, and the farmer who has his wheat ground under 

 his own eyes, and his bread made at home, is happily 

 spared all " refinements " of this sort in his daily loaf. 



The open question is, whether the fine, white portion 

 of the wheat alone, or the whole grain ground together, 



