Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1873-07-26
FIELD AND GARDEN
Edited by NJ. X. BATEHAM.


EATING FRUIT AND VEGETABLES--HEALTH
All writers on physiology and hygeine
tell us that fruits and vegetables should |
constitute a good share of our daily
food, especially in summer time, but
they don't sufficiently set forth the i'm
portance of a regular, constant and
plentiful supply, especially of fruits, for
children and yohng persons, as means
not only of promoting health and growth
but especially of preventing those sud I
den and dangerous diseases arising from I
arrangement of the stomach and bow
els. so commonly occasioned by irregn-
lar or iover-eating of this Kind of food,
or, indeed, of any kind of food to which
the digestive system of the individual is
not accustomed.
It's well-known physiological law |
that the human stomach, like the hand |
or brain is a creature of habit. 1t is
easily trained tothe- use- and ready ap-
preparation of certain kinds of food or
methods of feeding, which at first, or
used but occasionally, might be accepted
with reluctance if not utterly rejected,
or the occasion of sickness and harm.
Thus some kinds of food which are
naturally wholesome and nutritious, are
often fonnd hurtful to those who are
not accustomed to their use, and on the
other hand articles that are commonly
considered unwh0iesOme or hurtfnl
may be eaten with impunity or beneht
by those no have been accustomed TO
their nse. This will explain the COM
mon saying, "W'hat is one mans meat
is another's poison"
So especially in the use OF summer
fruits and vegetables-the right way is
to acclIstom children, from early life, to
the free and constant use of these arti-
cles as food, not merely as condiments,
or occasional luxuries, for if only used
in this infrequent and irregular way.
there is liability to mischief, especially
with fruits, and their use by children
who are then tempted also to indulge in
them too freely when opportunity oc-
-etIrs.
FRUIT GROWERS, JUBILEE.
This is not by any means the year Of
Jubilee with fruit growers i'll Ohio and
the west; but our eastern friends are
determined that the coming meeting of
the American Pomological Society at
Boston, Sept. 10th AMI 1lth, shall be the
greatest and grandest congregation of
g.
sembled on this continent, and the finest
display OF fruits and other horticultural
products. :
Large premiums are Offered by the
Massachusetts Horticultural Society and
by wealthy individuals about Boston,
for the finest collection and specimens
of fruits from states or individuals.
Then for the intellectual or instructive
part Of the feast the following attractive
bill OF fare is presented,-brt we fear
that most Ohio fruit growers will need
the addition af free railroad ticket to
enable them to attend, on account of the
fearful prevalence of hight in their
pocket books this Season.
te pCioOiS oAO
TO prepare essays for this meeting:
Hon. W. C. Flagg, Illinois, on Dis
eases of Apple Trees, and their Cause.
VIM. Saunders, Esq, d. c., on Theo-
ry and Practice of Pruning.
Thomas Meehan, Esq, Pa, on Fungi
on Fruit, and Fruit Diseases, as Cause,
Result, or ConcomitanLs of one another.
P. C. Berckman, Esq, Georgia, on
Cause, Remedy, or Preventive of Pear
Blight.
In addition to the above, the following
named gentlemen have been invited and
are expected to prepare short, condensed
practical essays, or papers, as follows;
Prof. Louis Agassiz, Harvard Uni
verslty, Massachusetts,, on the Geologi-
cal Age of Fruit-Bearing Plants.
DR.. John Strentizel, California, OH
the Cultivation OF the Fig in the United
States.
DIR. E. s. Huh, Illinois, OH Root Prun
ming, and how TO grow the finest fruit.
Mark Miller, Esq, Iowa, on Fruit
Growing, and Varieties, in Iowa and
other Western States.
Geo. w. Campbell, Esq, Ohio, on
Grapes, Culture, Varieties, etc.
c. NJ. Hovey, Esq, Mass, on Pear
Culture.
P. Barry, Esq, New York, on how to
grow and keep Pear trees in vigor and
shape.
Robert Manning, ESQ, Mass. Is there
a permanent decline in the Apple Tree
and its Crop in New England?
p. II. Quinn, Esq, New Jersey, on
the Exhaustion of Fruit Trees, and the
remedy therefore. t..t
Josiah Hopes, Esq, Pa, OH the In-
finence of the Stock OH the Graft, or OF
the Graft on the Stock.
A. S. Fuller, Esq, New Jersey, Oh
Culture and Varieties of Small Fruits.
Wm. Parry, ESQ, New Jersey, on the
Cultivation and Varieties of the Apricot
and Plum.
w. C. Barry, Esq, New York, OH the
Keeping and Ripening of the Apple
Pear and Grape.
T.. r. Elliot, Ohio, on the Cherry.
GOOD PEARS WANTED.
Seeing the remark abont the peal
crop in our last weeks paper Mr.. N. D
Patterson, the fruit dealers at Buffalo
wrote to us to learn if any one in thi
section of Ohso could send to him goOt
summer and fall pears in quantity. viii
the failure of the peach crop and scarci
~ of grapes and summer apples, he wa
at a-!oss to find fruit enough to suppl,
the very active demand; and goot
pears would be sure to bring high price
In fact good pears bring high price
all the time, in the city markets, as com
pared with other fruits and the cost o.
risk of raising them, and the wonder i
that more orchards of pears are no
planted. But it is a still greater won
der that so few pear trees are planted b,
farmers and others for family use.
can only lie accounted for by tile fac
that few people as yet know enough o
the value and use of good pears to an