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abandon coffee. The improvement in health in ten days will be sufficiently marked, in most cases, to induce an adoption of Postum alone.

If the reader has any sort of illness, try leaving off tea and coffee, and note the result.

All cereals, oatmeal, rolled wheat, etc., are likely to become webby, and under certain conditions, wormy, In warm weather,

Making Wooden Shipping Boxes.

In this room all the wooden cases are nailed together (the sides and bottom). The conveyor in the centre shows the Postum cases traveling to the packing room on floor above. The conveyor to the left carries the Grape-Nuts cases in the opposite direction, to the Grape-Nuts packing room in the adjoining building. About Six Million feet of lumber are used per annum in Grape-Nuts and Postum shipping cases.

if allowed to stand too long. Postum Cereal Food Coffee is never affected in the slightest, even in the hottest weather, if kept in favorable conditions of atmosphere, or apart from other packages of cereals that have become infected. Packages have been left open upwards of two years and remain perfectly sweet and in fine condition. Any package found spoiled, on opening gives evidence that it has been near other packages of some sort that are infected, and should be at once returned to the grocer for a fresh one.
Do not serve Postum into cups until the guests are ready to drink it. Coffee of

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