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THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
South Australian Show Dates for 1906 
SEE EE a ae LAE 
ACDRESS. Namen. SecRETARY. Date. 
Caltowie Caltowie “os ou: : eer OCLemmELU: 
Jamestown Belalie ae «. RK, Rowe ore wi Side KN) 
Minlaton Central Yorke Peninsula T.G. Tickelmann ...Oct. 24 
Moonta Moonta, ax .—. ---Oct. 10 
Mount Gambier Mount Gambier -. B.L. Daniel ao Hh itpak 
Petersburg... Petersburg .., «. J. Willson on sed Che) aL 
Port Pirie... Port Pirie ... +.» W. C. Coppenger --s Noy. 6-7 
Tarlee mee Tarlee and Moonoora an 10 
Woodside... Woodside a6 +. G. Lanterbeck “op 12 
Yorktown Yorktown ..° ... F. Hughes oat: ---Oct. 10 
Burra ses Burra toe J. McLaren .., an © 27 
Bordertown ... Tatrara ox: - J.H. Anderson Poomce 26 
Clare soe Stanley aoe +» J. Bantley an W 3 
Enudunda an Eudunda om +. W.H. Marshall ses CLAD 
Kadina pee Yorke Pennsula J. W. Taylor atl 3} 
Mannum sos Mannum xx see J. Scott Nes aos 4 
Strathalbyn ... Strathalbyn ... ++ Tucker & Adams Oct, 5 
Streaky Bay ... Streaky Bay oo ao th 5 
Saddleworth ... Midland Soe nh beatae ce 
Two Wells ... TwoWells  .., soe is, ba 
EA 2 Eee BO’ ss Specialities, 
12 varieties Choicest Carnations, 
7/-: 6 for 4- 
12 varieties Best Zonaie Pelargoniums, 
6j/-: 6 for 3/- 3 
12 varieties Regal and Show Pelargoni- 
ums, 7/-: 6 for 4j- 
12 varieties Best Fuchsias 6/-: 6 
for 3/6- 
All the above WELL-GROWN 
J. Kingdom a: 4 
12 varieties 
Bouvardias, 
4,/- 
7/, 
6 for 
12 varieties Good Hardy Shrubs, 
6 for 4)- 
24 aio Hardy Ferns, 1C/-, 12 for 
5/- 
7/- 
Plants of the best varieties 
only delivered free anywhere in Australia, 
H. KEMP, Nurseryman, Unley Park, Adelaide, $ A. 
TELEPHONE 1282. 
Wine as a Germ-Destroyer. 
In the Editor’s Notes in the Western 
Australian ‘ Journal of Agriculture,” 
occurs the following paragraph :— 
‘*Dr. Dalton maintains that wines, 
more especially red wines, have a germi- 
. cidal action upon pathogenic micro- 
organisms. He instances an elderly 
patient, who said, ‘It is strange that 
when I was young all my friends partook 
of wine for dinner, and one seldon heard 
about indigestion, stomach complaints, or 
appendicrtis. Now, my friends are all 
water-drinkers, and they all suffer from 
these complaints. It is my opinion that 
wine is a germ-killer.’: 
Olive Oil. 
Medical authorities are all agreed as to 
the beneficial and remedial effects of olive 
oil, declaring it specially useful in any 
defects of the excretory ducts, or any low 
state of the system when in needof a 
tissue-building food. It has long been 
observed that those who use olive oil as a 
common article of food are generally 
healthieo and in better condition than 
those who do not. It is said to be des- 
tructive to certain forms of micro-organic 
life, and for the eradication of such from 
the system. It is frequently advised by 
' physicians for internal use. 
OcroBer 1, 1906 
Orchard Notes. 
The eorliest varieties of sumer fruits 
will be ready for market shortly; and as 
this is the beginning of the season, we 
call special attention of every fruitgrower 
to the importance of gathering and des- 
troying all fly-infested fruits now if he 
wants to save his crop, as the neglect to 
destroy the first crop of flies will result 
in the loss of succeeding crops of fruit, 
It is impossible to over-estimate the im™~ 
portance of destroying the early crops of 
fruit flies, as if left alone they breed so 
Tapidly that the fruit crop is soon des, 
troyed. 4 
The best way of destroying the first 
crops of flies is to gather and boil all in- 
fected fruit: such fruit when boiled. to 
be fed to pigs or other animals. Feeding 
the fruit withour boiling will result in 
the escape of a number of the maggots, 
and is therefore undesirable, 
Physoligical Studies of Vege- 
tarian Diet, 
W. Caspart. 
Extended studies are reported of vege- 
tarian and raw fruitarian diet. In con- 
nection with this subject sudies have been 
made of the metabolism of nitrogen, the 
digestibility of the dict, and the effect of 
the food on the respiratory quotient. Two 
of the subjects were professional athletes, 
one a vegetarian, the other not. The 
general conclusions drawn were in effect 
as follows: 
A strictly vegetable diet, even when 
made up of raw foods, is able to nourish 
the body iu youth and maintain it at the 
highest degree of physical streagth and 
mental and physical power, yet this sort 
of diet is considered unsatisfactory be- 
cause the nutrients, particularly protein, 
are not well assimilated because the food 
is lacking in flavour and is of large volume. 
The vegetarian diet when mado up of or- 
dinary vegetables, fruits, etc. has ap 
advantage in that it is not expensive, 
It did not appear that the vegetarian 
diet surpassed the ordinary diet on ac- 
count of the small amount of uric acid — 
formed. As is commonly claimed the 
amount of purin bodies formed was small 
as compared with the quantity obtalned — 
with an excessive meat diet and under 
certain pathological conditions, As re- 
gards the performance of muscular work 
the vegetarian diet certainly is not super- 
ior to the ordinary mixed diet. 
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