INSURING GOOD DIGESTION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1140, 30 August 1913, Page 4

INSURING GOOD DIGESTION.

IMPORTANCE OF PREVENTING FOOD FERMENTATION IN STOMACH.

Good digestion usually means good health. So long as the stomach does its work properly disease can find no lodgment in the human system; the liver, kidneys and intestines will perform the work perfectly and remain in perfect health ; but interfere with the proper digestion of food and an unending train of troubles is set in motion. About the only thing that will upset the stomach and interfere with the digestion is an excess of acid, usually caused by food fermentation. Food fermentation is due to chemical action in the food itself. This fermentation causes the formation 01 gas, or wind, as well as acid, resulting in the unnatural distention of the stomach and tlic burning by the acid of the delicate lining ol the stomach. Medicines and lonics cannot relieve this condition ■they usually make it worse. The fermenlalion ami acid are to blame, and these must be overcome and prevented by taking after meals half a teaspoonfill of bistiralcd magnesia in a little hot or cold water Physicians recommend hisurafed magnesia especially because it stops or prevents fermenlalion of food and neutralises the acid instantly, making it bland and harmless, without irritating or upsetting the stomach in anv way. Gel a little hisiirated magnesia from your chemist and try it the next lime your food ferments and upsets your stomach. Note how quickly the acid is neutralised, and how soon you forgot that you have such a thing as a stomach,

proportion of it is rather short in length. It is - satisfactory to know, however, that a number of the district millers I have interviewed expressed their intention of aiming at a better standard next season. At the Auckland port, where so much unsatisfactory hemp has come forward for shipment this season, some improvement is noticeable. A shipment of 175 tons of decent good-fair hemp was shipped from Auckland for Canada last month. The milling work of this province is of a rather in-and-out character, some mills doing good work and others very poor work- The inferior quality being milled is due entirely to poor work in the mill itself, as the bulk of the leaf being produced in Auckland is of a distinctly good quality—long, good, clean fibre producing leaf. The payable prices being received and the decidedly good returns secured by those millers who are turning out a good marketable article has convinced many millers that it pays to do the work well, and I was assured by quite a number of them during a recent visit to the north that they intended to aim for goodfair quality next season. With this object in view they purpose installing the latest labour-saving devices. That- the industry has taken a new lease of life in the north is proved by the fact that several of the mills in that part of the Dominion are now thoroughly well equipped, and have the means at hand to turn out the very highest quality of fibre. worthless tow. In Auckland, as in the majority of the other hemp milling districts in the Dominion, the tow produced is most unsatisfactory, millers failing altogether to appreciate the necessity of marketing this in a decently clean condition. They seem to be under the impression that rubbish and dirt constitute tow, and that these have a marketable value. In the Manawatu the tow in some cases is almost worthless, owing to the badly diseased condition of the leaf from which it comes. It is to be feared that tow will rapidly go out of favour with the manufacturers abroad if improvement be not effected in the quality of the article exported. STRIPPER-SLIPS. No stripper-slips are coming forward. The decline in market value and the higher freight ruling are, no doubt, the contributing causes. —Mr W. H. Ferris, in the Journal of the Department of Agriculture.

JULY GRADING RETURNS

HEMP. The total number of bales of hemp graded was 9,487, as com--pared with 4,621 for the corresponding month of last year, an increase of 4,866 bales. For the twelve months ending 31st July, 1913, the number’of bales graded was 150,527, as compared with 91,972 for the previous twelve months, the increase being 58,555.

The number of bales in each grade at the different ports was ;

Eleven bales at Auckland, seven at Foxton, six at Wellington, and thirteen at Dunediu were rejected, and at Aucxland 11 bales were' condemned. TOW. During the month 3,261 bales of tow were dealt with, as compared with 1,549 for the corresponding month of last year, an increase of 1,712 bales, For the twelve months ending 31st July, 1913, the number of bales graded was 52,265, as compared with 25,377 for the previous twelve months, the increase being 26,888 bales.

stripper seips. Passed for export: Foxton, 35 ; Picton, 19; Lyttelton, 14 —total, 68. Condemned : Wellington, 21.

Port. Fins. Good Fair. Fair. Com. Auckland — 33 0 L332 213 Napier 20 61 34 — Foxton — 337 2,244 38 Wellington — 900 2,066 66 Blenheim 46 137 — — Picton 6l 140 222 17 Lyttelton 30 — — — Dunedin — 106 575 32 Bluff — 137 271 24

Port. First Grade. Sec’nd Grade. Third Grade. r O a 0 U Total. Auckland — 3 11 4S4 77 872 Napier 4 3i 3 — 38 Foxton — 453 230 29 712 Wellington 85 370 340 8 803 Blenheim 26 36 — — 62 Picton 7i 135 52 — 258 Lyttelton 32 53 — — 85 Dunedin — 10 39 87 136 Bluff — 11 126 158 295