BRAIN FOOD.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 813, 10 May 1910, Page 5

BRAIN FOOD.

FROM THE BARLEY FIELDS.

That oxygen is an indispensibie element to life is common knowledge—it is tile little more, or less that counts. That is how tho value of food stuffs is largely computed. "Wheat, oats, w ,r | l » andj in particular, barley* are great absorbcnts of the oxygen in tho earth, ana recent' discoveries as to the manner in which used-up lauds can bo aerated with oxygen has been accounted of the greatest importance. The stimulating influence of grain, foods is directly attributable to thejr oxygen qualities, but scientific experiments nave'proved that barley has • virtues that are of infinite benefit to the human-system. The malting of barley emphasises these virtues, and the extract of malt is the essence (all that is'good) of the original grain, with all extraneous substances removed, and is accounted by the medical faculty a decided aid to digestion, a line stimulant, and a reviver of tho mental centres. Wilson's Malt Extract is a pure article, made from malted barley, grown in the Marlborough district, .which is the finest barley in the world. Formerly Now Zealand had to import all the extract of malt required, but Wilson's has altered all that. Now the pure local article has proved itself, and the public is seeing the advisability of asking for no other. As a young New Zealand company manufacturing a sound article, Wilson's deserves support at the hands of the public—and is getting it. Attention has been called to the display of Wilson's Extract that is at present being made in some of the chemists' windows in town, notably in the show windows of Mr. Robert Johnston; of 101 Cuba Street, and Mr. W. Salek, of Willis Street. Both windows have beon elaborated into/little set scenes—tho waving sea of barley in the golden background, sheaves m stool: in the middlo distance, and in the foreground a country road (strewn with tho goldren grain;, leading to the old windmill and barn— sources of Wilson's Malt Extract. These little scenes aro worked out artistically, and are well worthy of inspection. The firm do not restrict themselves to the manufacture of malt extract. Wilsons do a large and rapidly-oxpauding business with bakers with their "Nutraline" for digestive bread, Wilson's bread improver. They also innnufacturo. a valuable blend of malt extract and codliver oil. For tho whole of theso lines Messrs. D. W. Virtue and Co. are tho wholesale agents for Wellington.