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for the reason that it is much more palatable, 

 and more satisfactory to the patient's stomach. 

 A fine combination for fast-growing thin 

 children is bread, butter, and honey. In 

 this country any mother may try this bill of 

 fare on her well-beloved children. She may 

 feel certain that no better menu for a child 

 can be suggested. Honey may be very effec- 

 tively used in summer drinks, and should 

 take the precedence of sugar in this respect, 

 more particularly where workmen are em- 

 ployed in hot and fatiguing work such as takes 

 place in glass and iron factories. 



Immense quantities of honey are used by 

 bakers, both in America and Europe. In this 

 country alone the National Biscuit Company 

 uses an amount which seems staggering to a 

 man unacquainted with the industry. This 

 concern recently purchased in one lot seventy 

 carloads of good honey, and is always in the 

 market for honey in big lots. There are no 

 means of knowing just how much honey 

 the baking industry uses in this country; but 



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