PREFACE 



XI 



government departments as well as to the Department in 

 general. Such work, scientific, practical, and artistic, 

 cannot be overestimated, whether one is little or much 

 dependent upon it; for the results of these investigations 

 reach people who might never be reached in any other 

 way and yet influence those who have every other oppor- 

 tunity and scientific authority at hand, helping to sim- 

 plify everyday affairs; and we must — ^men and women — 

 live with eyes open to the practical power of the products 

 of the earth if we expect to live the sweetest, the simplest, 

 and so, the fullest lives. 



R. M. Fletcher Berry. 



Note: Bicarbonate of potash in proportion of "about 

 an eggspoonful to a pound of ripe fruit, rather more in the 

 case of unripe fruits" — (Burnett) is now given patients of 

 gouty and other types of cases with fruit — even with 

 lemons and tartest gooseberries — that they may have 

 fruit-diet, although until very recently it was supposed they 

 must be denied fruit. 



R. M. F. B. 



