"Use More Apples for Health, Appetite and Sound Economy"

Dec. 1934--The old adage "An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away" may not be literally true, but apples do help to keep you physically fit and healthy and are economical. New York State produces some of the finest apples in the world and that statement is made without reservation. All of the better known brands of apples: Baldwin, Macintosh, Rhode Island Greening, Delicious, Snow, Faneuse, Northern Spy and others—are produced in this state and rank high in the apple markets of the nation.

The apple has long stood as a symbol of things deemed desirable by man as denoted by the old expression "the apple of my eye." Today the apple stands as one of the principal foods. Apples start all secretions into rigorous action and flood the system with a new life.

The apple is a friend to health and a foe to disease. It kindles the brilliance of the eye and paints roses on the cheeks. It is a food, a tonic, a condiment and a cosmetic all in one. It is nature's own medicine, healthful, appetizing, plentiful and cheap. We cannot eat too many. Even after a hearty meal there is still room for an apple, as the Romans well knew, for they reserved this fruit for the last course of their banquets.

The chief value of the apple as food lies in the presence of the acids and salts which are most important to the body and which are scarce in most foods. These acids and salts furnish the alkaline elements which help to keep the blood in the proper condition, and together with the cellulose or fiber of the apple, have a mild laxative effect which is very beneficial.

The apple has numerous qualities which appeal to the thrifty housewife. It is comparatively cheap, does not spoil quickly, has a very long season, and has a great variety of uses.

The Record Post

Aurora Ramsay works in the Brewster Research Library at the Adirondack History Center Museum in Elizabethtown.

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