Citrus Fruits in the Home 
Caroline Moorhead, Florida Citrus Exchange, Tampa 
Since the subject before us is so broad, 
covering years of research and experi¬ 
mental work on the part of many scien¬ 
tists, I shall only attempt to add a few 
thoughts as reminders of the many prac¬ 
tical uses of citrus fruits as food, bever¬ 
ages and confections, as well as their al¬ 
ready acknowledged value in medical 
science. 
In the capacity of my services, it has 
been my privilege to carry the story of 
Florida fruit into the domestic science de¬ 
partments of many of our best schools, 
colleges, women’s clubs and various or¬ 
ganizations, and in some of the most 
noted cooking schools of the New Eng¬ 
land and Northern states. 
It has been most gratifying in each in¬ 
stance to note the interest and enthusiasm 
shown in regard to a further knowledge 
of the uses of Florida fruit. 
The housewife of today, if she be a suc¬ 
cessful manager in the art of home-mak¬ 
ing, must not only be a student in domestic 
science and its relation to the family diet, 
but she must be a practitioner, as well. 
The real home-maker, especially if she 
be a mother, realizes that she not only cre¬ 
ates the home, but through her efforts in 
selection, preparation and careful plan¬ 
ning of well-balanced meals of nutritive 
value, she is directing the body-building 
for better citizenship. 
A wise mother will place at the very 
top of her order sheet those fruits and 
vegetables which are so important in the 
daily diet. She will also train her children 
from early infancy to acquire a taste for 
citrus fruits, because of their health-giv¬ 
ing qualities. 
Dr. Roger H. Dennet, of New York, 
says bottle babies who have not received 
orange juice cannot compare very favor¬ 
ably in color, volume of flesh, body devel¬ 
opment, strength, and often in avoirdu¬ 
pois, with those babies who have received 
orange juice at six weeks or two months 
of age. 
Strained orange juice is especially val¬ 
uable to the child under one year of age, 
whose diet consists of pasteurized milk, 
says Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, of Washing¬ 
ton, D. C. 
The following figures from the Bureau 
of Vital Statistics, State Board of Health, 
under head of Infant Mortality Due to 
Disease Caused by Error in Feeding in 
United States, is as follows: 
In 1911 death rate of infants up to five 
years of age, was 77.5 per thousand; in 
1919, death rate was reduced to 44.2, 
showing gradual but decided decrease due 
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