BLENHEIM BARLEY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 201, 29 September 1909, Page 4

BLENHEIM BARLEY

AND AIALT EXTKACT. Ameng the variety of compounds, distasteful and otherwise, that the sick vnd afflicted are sometimes "ordered" to take, t lie extract of malt prescription gives less offence than a groat many, It h a pleasing restorer of emaciated tissues, a buildcr-up of enfeebled constitutions. Heretofore, wc in New Zealand have been content to purchase, at the behest of the doctor, this, that, or tV other person's particular brand of ma't extract from over the sea. It is a lon ? while since the first barley crop was reaped in New Zealand, but it is only about two years since that it occurr-d to anybody to go one better than the Home manufacturers, and make malt »«x----trnet in New Zealand from New Zealand barley. When "Wilson, of Dunedin, conceived the idea of making an extract ot malt for the physical good of his afflicted countrymen, he decided that with Wenheiui barley (a prize-winner at shows), and careful industry,-lie ought to be able to produce something qni.-» as good as anything in the malt extract line that came from Jlome —ami cheaper. So he sailed in. ae they say, and naw his malt extract is used at the Auckland and Dunedin hospitals, and the Cambridge and l'otorun Sanatoria. Al \ 0. Af. Thomson. F.L.S., F.G.S.. ALP., n his analysis of Wilson's New Zealaid product, says:—" . . . . Jt contain* 2.) per cent, of solid matter, which ipractically ali soluble in water, and .s free from admixture of foreign matena's. The starchy constituents of bread, and all other forms of starchy foods, are converted by the action of its diastase into the soluble sugars of maltose and glucose, which are both capable of rapid absorption into the blood. Donee. III" malt extract is not only nutritive in iteelf. but is also most valuable as p-n. jnoting the digestion and assimilati ->1 of starchy food. I consider this an excellent and pure material, and recommend it highly." This malt extract is obtainable in large and wall bolt'e from storekeepers and chemists throughout the province. Messrs L. D. Nathan and Co.. Ltd., arc the whole*a : .c agents,