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The Oak And The Orange

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Parent Issue
Day
9
Month
March
Year
1883
Copyright
Public Domain
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Froto an acovn weigbing a few gratos a truc wil 1 gïow for 100 years or more. not only throwing ñ" many pouiuls o leaves evory year, bul ítself weighi manyjtons. ' If ;ut orange twig ís pul in :i íarge box oí e.arth, and that earth is weighed whon tlie twig bocomes a tree, beftring luscioua fruit, there wiir bo ncarly t lu; samo amouHt óf earth. From oareftil experimente mude by ilifferant scwatifio men, it is au ascertaineil fact that a largo part of the growth of a tree is derived from the sim, from the air and from the water, and a very liltle from the earth; and notably all vegetatiou beeomes sxckh' ivnless it is freely exposed to sunshine. Wooii and ooal are But Dondensed sunshine, uiiich oontaina three important elemeato, oqually essential in both vegetation and animal life - magnosia, linie and iroh. It is the iron iu the blood which givos the durability neeess;irv to bodilv viiror while the macnesia is important to all tho tissuos. Ihus it is that the more jjersons are out of doors the moro hoalthy umi vigorous they re, and tlie longer they will live. Everjr Innnan beioS sliould have an hour or two of it, auu in the early ftwenoon in sumiller.

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Ann Arbor Democrat