YOUR HOME GARDEN 
Brings Health and Strength 

From Delicious Home-Grown Fruit You Get A Wealth of 
Health- Giving Nutritious Food Throughout the Year 
“The Sugar Shortage served to emphasize 
the importance of fruit in the diet of the 
American people. From a nutrition stand- 
point, it is better to get a large part of our 
sweets from fresh and dried fruits and 
vegetables. 
Meeting a larger part of the sugar needs 
of our bodies through consumption of fruits 
----This vitamin helps the 
eyes, wards off colds and other infections as° 
well as promotes growth. When Vitamin 
‘““A’’ is left out of the diet, eye trouble, such 
as night blindness and infection of the eyes, 
has resulted. 
----With Vitamin “B” from 
fruits a healthy nerve system is maintained. 
Lack of Vitamin ‘“B” causes neuritis. 
----Vital to the maintenance 
of sound bones and teeth. This vitamin has 
long been a cure for scurvy, but is still more 
important in overcoming body poisons. 
----This is the ap 
petite vitamin. It promotes diges- , 
tion and growth which makes 
for healthier people: 
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and vegetables may mean better health, for 
such foods are rich in the protective minerals 
and vitamins. 
Because fruit supplies minerals and vita- 
mins and sweetness in abundance, it is the 
pleasant-to-take answer to less digestible 
ordinary sugar.’’ Excerpt from American 
Fruit Grower Magazine Editorial. 
----Hssential minerals are avail- 
able in fruits including Calcium, Phosphorous, 
and Iron. These are all important- elements 
of the body for complete health. They play 
a vital part in bone building and making 
red blood as well as keeping a balanced con- 
dition in stomach and other internal tissues. 
Leading medical authorities are recom- 
mending apples in various forms as a defi- 
nite cure for intestinal diseases of infants. 
----The pectin in fruits promotes 
proper intestinal activity. It combines with 
water to form non-irritating bulk, helps to 
cure intestinal troubles by serving as a potent 
_ healing agent on internal membranes. 
----Scientific re- 
search has proved that 
fruits serve as a mild 
gentle laxative in- 
ducing regularity. 
Fruit helps keep 
intestinal tract 
normal and 
trouble free. 

Home orchard 
fruits have an 
ample supply of 
dextrose sugar in 
pre-digested 
form, thus being 
available instant- 
ly for energy but 
non-fattening. Fruit 
is an important fac- 
tor in reducing diets. 
---Fruits 
serve as nature's tooth- 
brush, giving gum mas- 
sage and bone exercise. 
Dr. H. T. Knighton 
of the University of 
Louisville reported at 
American Dental As- 
sociation that in recent 
tests three minutes of 
tooth brushing plus 
mouth rinsing with 
antiseptics killed 64.3% 
of mouth bacteria. 
Chewing apples killed 
96.7% of bacteria. 
“In the apple, nature has prepared for us the most compact package of health-giving 

food that we possess’—Dr. Ira Manville, National Authority, Oregon School of Medicine. 
Copyright 1947, Stark Bros. Nurseries and Orchards Co [2] 
