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of a tree is kept intact and the fungi kept out, there is no reason 
why a tree should decay. 
Our woodlots are becoming of greater and greater value as the 
supply of sawtimber becomes less. The time is not far distant 
when the timber contained in the wood lot will be a valuable asset 
to the owner. It should be the duty then of every owner of a 
woodlot to study the best conditions of tree growth, to determine 
the best trees to grow in the woodlot and to protect the trees from 
injury, in order that the timber may be in such a condition that it 
will yield valuable returns in the future. 
VEGETABLES. 
People cannot be healthy, cannot have good blood without using 
green vegetables. These are not so valuable for the nutrition 
they may contain as for the salts and acids in them which act as 
tonics and blood purifiers. People will fly to the chemist's shop 
and buy medicines said to contain iron and phosphorus or some 
secret elixir. This is mostly waste of money and many of these 
patent medicines are injurious and contain morphine and alcohol, 
at an enormous price. The family can best get their iron in that 
common and unappreciated vegetable kalaloo or spinach, and in 
young beans and peas used in the food commonly called "French 
beans." Then how few know that the shoots of young cocoes 
make excellent spinach, or that the leaves of young carrots make 
excellent flavoring for soup. Use peas and beans as the basis of 
soups, and put in them as many green vegetables as you can get. 
Tomatoes are easily grown and are better for the liver than medi- 
cines. They also contain iron, 
what elements they are rich in : 
Here is a list of foods showing 
Protein. 
Whole milk 
iSkimmed or separated 
milk 
Buttermilk 
Eggs 
Meat 
Fish 
Cheese 
Peas and beans 
Nuts 
Oatmeal and wheat 
Carbohydrate. 
All cereals ana cereal Milk 
foods Cream 
Starchy vegetables, as Butter 
Fat. 
potatoes 
Sweet fruits 
Peas and beans 
Some nuts 
Fat meats 
Meat fats 
Egg yolk 
Nuts 
Vegetable oils 
Foods rich in salts (mineral matter) : 
Potassium Phosphorus 
Iron 
Dried beans 
Dried peas 
Whole wheat 
iSpinach 
Raisins 
Prunes 
Green beans 
Fresh, meat 
Eggs 
Dried beans 
Dried peas 
Whole wheat 
Oat meal 
Egg yolk 
Beef 
Milk 
Dried beans 
Dried peas 
Potatoes 
Parsnips 
Cabbage 
Turnips 
Prunes 
Calcium 
Milk 
Dried peas 
Dried beans 
Celery 
Cabbage 
Parsnips 
— Journal of the Jamaica Agricultural Society 
