FRUIT EATERS NEED NO DOCTORS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2219, 13 February 1886, Page 2

FRUIT EATERS NEED NO DOCTORS.

We were struck recently by the remarks of a doctor friend of oure, who said no one thing will do bo much to make people independent of .the medical profession as the daily free use of fruit, He had noticed that those farmers in whose families fruit wasregularly and largely consumed seldom needed his services. We thought what a pitythatevery farmer inthe land could not be convinced of these truths. Ic is a deplorable fact that farmers families do not enjoy that robust health that country air, and out door life with plenty of exercise should give. It iB also a fact that many live on farms whose rich acres are aching to produce abundant crops of tho varied fruits, but vory few have plenty, and many never have any fruit, except it may be an occasional apple. Tho standard food in a majority of farmers' houses consists largely of bread, butter and meat (mostly pork) fried in grease; and where pastry and cake is used it has lard in large proportion in its compoaiti jn; and this food is eaten at least twice, and in many families three times a day, year in and year out. Is it any wonder that they are unhealthy, and that their prevailing diseases are such as indicate an over consumption of greasy food 1 If fruits wore expensive or difficult to raise, thero would be some excuse; but there is no part of tho country without plenty of varieties adapted to its soil and climate, and just such as are fitted by nature to both nourish and cleanse the body, and no moro skill is required to grow them than to grow corn or. wheat.

Why is it that so few farmers mako any attempt to provide an adequate supply of what would add much to their pleasure, and save many times its cost in doctor's bills, to say nothing of tho suffering and loss to their dear ones 1 We entreat you decide just now not to lot another spring pass vithout planting a fruit yard, Surely it is better to grow fruit than to be continually dosing with medicine— Rural New Yorker.