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The craving of sweets by nearly all normal children is natural 

 and should be gratified in reasonable quantities. It is far 

 better for their health that they have honey, natures pure 

 wlholesome sweet, than sugar and candy. It is not simply a 

 sweet, it is a food. Fourteen ounces oif honey, about the nest 

 quantity purchased when a section of honey is bought, is equal 

 in food value to one and a half pounds of beef steak, eleven 

 and one- fifth ounces of cream cheese, seventeen ounces of wal- 

 nuts, two quarts of ordinary milk, twenty eggs or nearly two 

 pounds of boneless codfish. 



When compared with fruit, fourteen ounces of honey has a 

 nearly equal value of ten bananas or sixteen oranges of aver- 

 age size. Hon. W. B. Barney o-f the Iowa food and dairy 

 department, is responsible for these comparisons. 



Dr. C. C. Miller of Marenge, 111., says, " It would be greatly 

 for the health of the present generation, if honey could be at 

 least partially restored to its former place as a common article 

 of diet. The almost universal craving for sweets shows a real 

 need of the system in that direction but the excessive use of 

 sugar brings in its train a long list of ills. 



" Now in the wonderful laboratory of the bee, there is found 

 a sweet that needs no further digestion, having been prepared 

 fully by those wonderful dhemists, the bees, for prompt assim- 

 ilation without taxing the stomach or kidneys." 



Dr. Miller at eighty-seven years of age, healthy and vigorous 

 for his years, eats honey every day in place O'f sugar, and 

 believes that it has contributed in part to his health and length 

 of days. 



Pro'f. A. J. Cook, formerly State Horticultural Commis- 

 sioner for the state of California said, " Physicians may be cor- 

 rect in asserting that the large consumption of cane or beet 

 sugar by the average Twentietli Century Man is harmful to 

 the great eliminators, the kidneys, and is a menace to the health 

 and long life. 



" There can be no doubt that in eating honey our digestive 

 machinery is saved work that it would have to perform if we 

 ate cane sugar, and in case it is overtaxed and feeble, this may 

 be just the respite that will save it from a breakdown." 



