The Clinton News Record, 1942-08-27, Page 6PA . ti
THE ;CLINTON
NEWS -RECORD
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BRITISH PARATROOPS RAID GERMAN RADIOLOCATION STATION
IN OCCUPIED. FRANCE
On the night of February 27-28 part oftheirtask by infantry. The
,point units of the British Navy, Any attackers, and German prisoners tak-
and Air . Force, attacked and destroyed en during the raid, were brought back
en important German radiolocatiotr to Britain by the Royal Navy.
post at Bruneval, on the coast of Picture Shows: British paratroops in
France, twelve mites north of Havre 4anding craft tying up to a motor
Parachute troops of an air -borne di- launch during final combined training
vision were dropped by bombers of the operations with naval units before the
R,Ai,F. and supported) in the latter actual raid.
AR'<Eit1C.iN i iari'ria! F'r..ty :" I,'
American -built Brewster Buffalo
fighter aircraft have been arriving in
Burma Where they will share with
.Latish Bristol. Blenheim aircraft a
chain of new aerodromes which work-
ers from the Shan States have been
constructing midway, between the
coast andthe frontiers of China and
PalltaIA
Thailand. Rangoon and the Burma
Road are only 400 to 500 miles from
some of Japan's airfields in Indo
China.
r
A sentry of the Bunna Rifles on
ruai'd at a hangar .where American
"Buffaloes" are being assembled,
BRITISH PARACHUl•Iula • l x" RAID ON FRANCE
• Tea combined operation at t:ae nig'.tiiatter part of their-, task by infantry.
of February 27-28, joint British forceaThe British attackers and the Geragn
of the Royal Navy, the Arnyy and the prisoners taken during the raid were
,R,oyal Air Force attacked and destroy -:brought back to Britain, bythe Royal
ed an important: German radio -Iota -Navy o * J
tion post at Bruneval• on the coast ofio
P tore Shows: German prisoners he-
' •France.tweive miles North, of Have ing searched on oeee of the'returnitug
,Paraclt+ute••troolisof an di .vcsseIs. Prisoner i P saner an right is a mem-
visioiy' we4:e dropped by bonito' 'Of ler of the Luf a
tw i'fe; the other tin in_
the R.A.F. and were su poalea
1 - 'h vmatt.
THURS., AUG, 27, 1'342
Geochemical Prospecting Life -Giving Qualities
e For Underground Oil Of Chlorophyll Vag
Geophysical prospecting for oil Chlorsephyl]' is the name given.
(recording the underground travels the green coloring matter of mo
of artificial, explosion -made earth- species of the plant world. I
quakes) is relatively new in petro- chemical composition has bet
leum technology; geochemical• pros- known to the.saientific world for
petting is newer still. The geo- number of decades; but, its rno
chemists pick up samples .of the subtle, life-giving qualities, the. pa
surface soil at spaced intervals, e, g., it plays in building plant tissues, a
every tenth of a. mile; and analyze poorly understood. Today we. a
them for significant hydrocarbons. just a little closer to solving th
An American Chemical society pub- mystery of chlorophyll than :a. de
lication declared that geochemical ade ago. in, Germany, in Philade
prospecting shows promise of being phia and at Antioch college labor
a more certain test for underground tories have been established with th
oil than artificial earthquake analy- express purpose of `solving th
magic of this green_ substance, t
most common thing in the land
the summer.
A few important diseoveries.abo
chlorophyll already have been mad
in the laboratories. Foremost
that its,molecule bears a strikin
resemblance to hemoglobin, the pi
ment in " animal blood. It bring
the animal and - the plant world
little closer together, but there
one difference. Hemoglobin co
sists of carbon, oxygen, and nitr
gen built around an atom of iro
The resulting color is red. But r
place the iron atom with that of
magnesium and we get the gree
chlorophyll. Hence, for the firs
time, it has been found that in son
strange and mysterious fashion the
two are related.
Brigham Young's First
we Marriage Record Found
to That the celebrated and numer-
st ous marriages of famed Brigham
is Young, successor to"Joseph Smith,
n founder of Mormonism, had a hum -
re ble; beginning in Geauga county,
Ohio, can be proved by the 'files in
rt the office of Probate Judge' Charles
re B. Lenhart, which contain Young's
re first marriage license.
e It is now the .property of an or.
e- ganization known as the Reorgan-
l- ized Church' of Jesus Christ of Lat-
e" ter Day Saints.
e The license reads:
"Personally appeared -Brigham
he Young and made ap .Brigham
for a
srs.
A new method of exploring. for
metal -bearing ores, described at the
American Institute . of Mining and
Metallurgical Engineers, is based
on the discovery that plants grow-
ing
row
ing over a metallic ore body contain
more of the metal- in their tissue
than plants growing elsewhere. To
smoke out hidden ores, leaves and
bushes are burned to ash, and the
ash is examined under spectro-
scopes for high metallic content.
Metallographer Oscar Edward
Harder of ,Battelle Memorial insti-
tute (Columbus, Ohio), working
with Inland Steel company's re-
search staff, has developed a lead -
steel alloy (one part of lead to 500
parts of steel) which is just as
strong as leadless steel, but can be
machined 30 to 50 per faster
for mass -production parts. The soft,
tiny particles of lead in the alloy
serve to lubricate the point where
the tool cuts; the tool stays sharp
longer, the machine runs faster.
General Electric's laboratories in
Schenectady announced a new
world's magnetic record. A piece
of Alnico (aluminum, nickel, cobalt,
iron), in a brass and iron assembly fu
air -gapped for maximum efficiency, t
lifted 4,450 times its own weight.•
Protect Rare Sea Birds e
From Hunters' Guns. keptany
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in marriage license' for himself and
Mary Ann Angel of the township of
ut Kirtland and made solemn` oath that
e he, Brigham Young, is of age of 21
's years, and the said Mary Ann Angel
of the age` of 18 years; that they are
g- both single, and not nearer of kin
s than first cousins, that he knows of
a no legal impediment against their
is being joined in marriage. Sworn
to and subscribed that 10th day of
°- February, 1834, before me, Ralph
eCowles, deputy clerk." -
The . signature is obviously not
" "Brigham" and it not clear wheth-
i er it is Bricham or Bireham.
Hormones Successful in
High Proportion of Cases
The average individual feels, as
Ponce de Leon doubtless felt, con-
t siderable reluctance to enter that
t period in life when athletics, eat-
ing, and romance lack the zest they
e once had. It is natural and normal
n to feel that way. But the scientist
s must look beyond personal reac-
tions, to the social consequences of
the great increase in the army of
the old—the more so since science
is largely responsible for the survi-
an vat of so many people into old age.
Actual beginnings have been
r made, through applications of cer-
t tain types of hormones or gland ex-
tracts. Since high level of accom-
-
plishment, in both physical and men -
e nal work, is usually found in men
and women in early sexual matu-
rity, physicians turned first to the
sex hormones.
The treatment has been success-
ful in a high proportion of cases,
Middle-aged men and women have
regained, at least temporarily, pow-
ers of decision and execution that
had begun to slip away. In some
instafices, they even astonished
themselves (and their neighbors) by
becoming parents well after the
"normal" age for that sort of thing!
Bargain Hunter in Census
Take Bests Governmen
Mexico comes wha
must be the last, faint echo of th
census controversy of 1940. I
federal court a gentleman of La
Vegas who had been indicted for re -
sing to answer an enumerator'
questions was fined $100 and se
free.
It seems that the census m
asked him how much money he mad
per year. To this the citizen, afte
some thought, replied that he didn'
know, never track of It
Since 1933, the Quebec govern- and therefore any amount he est
meat has given protection to the mated was almost bound to b
gannets, rare sea birds which in- wrong.
habit Bonaventure island, just off Pressed to put something down, he
the tip of the Gaspe peninsula. inquired what the penalty was for
Once threatened with extinction by making a false return. Ten thousand
the guns of hunters, the island cliffs dollars and ten years in the jug, he
are now a sanctuary for countless was told. What, he asked, was .the
thousands of the birds, whose breed- rap for declining to answer? Told
ing season extends from early in that it was a mere 60 days in jail
June until the end of August. and five hundred dollars, he did n of
Gannets have wingspreads up to hesitate for a minute,
six 'feet and bright yellow beaks Just keeping his trap shut looked
with red edges, They plunge into like the soundest policy he could
the sea after their prey from a Pursue, and as things turned out,
height of 50 feet, seizing it below the it was even more of a bargain' than
water's surface. Although mem- he thought. Of course, his actual in
hers of the pelican family, gannets come is still a mystery.
have ` no oil ducts to protect their
wings from the water. After diving
for a fish, they must dry their wings. Prevents Tarnishing
During the herring runs in Gaspe For years after he left the U. S
waters, the cliffs are white with navy in 1919, Chemist William Pea
gannets. The young gannet is fed• cock of Philadelphia worked unsuc
with fermented fish—herring caught cessfully on a process to preven
by the mother and carried for an tarnishing of silverware. Fie be
entire day in her bill to allow fer came the only mirror consultant in
mentation to take place. , the U, S. 10 years ago, when Hires
Turner called' him into see wha
was wrong with its silvering solo.
tion. Amazed was William' Peacock
at pitcher -pouring. So he went to
work on a new process, managed
to support his Peacock laboratories
meanwhile by supplying advice,
standardized silvering solution, spe-
cial rubber gloves and other mirror-
Horses Require Bot Treatment.
Bots do a great deal of damage
to horses. They produce hundreds
of round pits in the stomach walls
• jof the horse, completely puncturing
- the 'inner walls of the stomach.
r For the past 10 or more years
t •veterinarians have been controlling
•bots in horses. One treatment care-
fully admstered at the proper
time of the year will kill and remove
t 98 per cent of the bots from a horse's
'•alimentary tract. If all bots were
killed, there would be no botflies to
perpetuate this race of pests. If
every horse owner had all his horse
stock treated for a period of three
years and no untreated ,horses
were brought in, the bots would be
eradicated. This is possible be-
cause bots travel only with the
horse, and botflies go only short dis-
tances except following horses. Now
is the time to have your veterinari-
an treat the horses.—Dr,,, J. W.
Lumb, extension veterinarian, Kan-
sas State college in IVlanhattan.
Freezing Hurts Winter Painting
Where paint is to be applied to
new homes during winter, Federal
Housing administration officials ad-
vise painters to make sure that the
materials to be painted are dry.
Where the painting is on the interior,
heat should be maintained to assure. n ------•o -- •. .. �w ,
continued drying. Two years ago he found the answer,
All millwork to be painted should a speedier solution (his trade
be primed before installation. In secret) to replace Epsom salts as
painting new plaster, the tempera- a reducing agent. With the new
ture should not be too high or other- solution he could silver a mirror in
wise blisters may develop. 57 seconds, instead of over half an
Exterior painting should not be hour. Better still, the solution could
done if the surfaces of the materials be blown on by an air gun. With
are damp or wet within, immediate. his process, mirror -makers could
ly after rainy during rain or snow, throw away their pitchers and work
or if rainy or freezing weather is on a high-speed assembly line,
threatening, Oil paints may be
"safely applied at temperatures
above 40 degrees F. Other kinds of Saving Lives
coatings with rapidly evaporating Chemistry and medical acienea
thinners should be applied at higher are saving lives of many persona
who have developed certain blood
infections which were considered
fatal only a few years ago.
Puerto Rico web Pert' A dangeroustype of blood poison-
The island of Puerto Rico, which ing is known as septicemia, in which
was ceded to the United States the blood stream becomes infected
after the Spanish-American war in as a result of an infection of the
1898, means "rich port," skin, of the throat, ears, or other
Puerto Rico is the only land under parts of the body. The infection
the American flag on which Colum- may be due to a variety of germs:
bus actually set foot (he discovered While septicemia may develop
it on his second voyage in 1493), from various kinds of germs, the
Although Puerto Rico is three germs most often responsible are
times as large as Rhode Island, Tex- the staphylococcus and hemolytic,
as is 77 times larger than Puerto or blood -destroying streptococcus.
Rico. Drs. W. E. 13errell and A. E.
San Juan, capital of this West In Brown of the Mayo clinic have made
dianisle, is one of the outstanding a study to determine the benefits
examples in the Western hemi- they got in the treatment of septi -
sphere of an old walled city. cemia from the use of the sulfamide
In the Cathedral of San Juan re- drugs, 'suet as _ sulfanilamide and
pose the remains of Ponce de Leon, sulfapyriddine, These are drugs
who founded the city in 1511 and was which have just recently been dis-
once governor of Puerto Rico. (As covered and which have been found
you know, he was the Spanish ad so effective in combatting staphylo-
venturer who died while seeking the "'oeeus and streptococcus infections,
Fountain of Youth,)
temperatures.
sound Sleep Is Beauty Aid
Sound sleep is one of the mos:
important fundamentals of real and
lasting beauty, but it is oftentimes
overlooked by women who would
like to . gain new beauty.
Although refreshing sleep can't
be perfumed and sold in pretty pink
jars, it will do more to erase tired
lines and put sparkle into weary
eyes than most bf the expensive
creams and lotions.. Beauty author-
ities agree that it also has a lot to
do.. with, the good posture that is ; a
"must" for the woman who would•
gain or keep' beauty iiatigue and,
the "droopy" posture that at
can overcome the strongest deter-
mination to correct a faulty posture.
Preventing Gray flair
Working with rats, Dr. Claus Unna
of the Merck Institute for Thera-
pectic Research at Rahway; N. J.,
discovered that by feeding doses of
pantothenic acid and freshly synthe-
sized vitamin to black rats from
their infancy he could prevent their
turning gray. He found that by the
same• method he could also restore
other rats who bad turned gray to
their natural dolor. -Dr: Alfred H.
Free of the Western Reserve school
of medicine performed .similar -ex-
perimefits, using brach minerals as
iron, copper and manganese in the
diet instead of; vitamin: extracts.
It seems possible that the antirgrpy
hair treatment 'might be exfended
to human beings.
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Malaria Movies
Under the microscope, blood from
a victim of malaria is as vivid as a
southern sunset. in mild malaria,
the red blood cells appear speckled
with pink. Di violent forms of the
disease, the corpuscles darken to
dusky copper, mottled with purple.
These changing hues show the prog-
ress of the fight between invading
makartal parasites and the body's
defending blood cells.
With a special quartz red light,
Dr. Melvin H. Knisely of the Uni-
versity of Chicago has taken colored
movies of the Battle of Malaria. At
the Louisville meeting of the South-
ern Medical association, Dr. Knisely
showed his movies—the first' ever
taken of disease in a living blood-
stream. For his stars Dr. Knisely
has chosen five malarial monkeys.
Be anesthetized them, exposed their
abdominal cavities. Through the
microscope's . eyepiece he photo-
graphed the changes in the tiny
blood vessels on, the abdominal
lining.
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Cigarette to Butt
Millions Of cigarettes are smoked
each day. They are lighted, smoked
and the butt discarded. Now, just
when' does a cigarette become a
butt? Do sex differences in smok-
ing habits manifest themselves in
the lengths of cigarette stubs? A
recent survey was conducted on this
and some interesting data resulted.
Men throw away cigarette butts
that average one and three -six-
teenths of an inch. A few of the
women's- stubs were found to be as
long' as two and a quarter, inches
while, others were as short as five-
eighths of an inch. The currently
popular longer sized cigarettes pro-
duced shorter than average butts for
both men and women.
Recapitulating results' in terms of
P g
cigarettes: per package produced a
startling revelation. A man throws
away eight out of every 20 cigarettes
he purchases. A woman throws away
10 out of every 20.
Paper -Like Material
`Alsifilm' is Ageless.
Newsprint made from Southern
pine, now ih production, may have
far-reaching results for the South.
Lower costs.are possible; the wood
which is used costs less, and power
costs are lower because of the avail,
ability of natural gas and petro-
leum; the biggest savings are ex-
pected to come from reduction in
freight charges, particularly in ship-
ping newsprint from Canada to New
England. But the operation is too
new yet for data on exact costs.
.Already, however, a radically new
development may stili further re
duce the cost of newsprint made in
the South. The U. S. Forest Prod-
ucts laboratory announces a new
and cheaper process of making pa-
per by using part gumwood and part
pine. Gum constitutes about one-
half of southern forests; what to do
with it has been a problem.
But the paper of the future. may.
contain no wood or vegetable ma-
terial at all. A paper -like material
known as "Alsifilm" has been devel-
oped in the laboratories of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technol-
ogy. Made: of Bentonite, a type of
clay composed of aluminum silicate
(hence the name "Alsifilm"), the
product would be of the greatest
value for printing records. It is age-
less; it will not discolor or become
brittle, is resistant to water and is
impervious to corrosive chemicals,
acids and oil.
Jericho's Fire Called
Biggest of Antiquity
The greatest known conflagration
in ancient history was the title given
to the fire which destroyed the Bib-
lical city of Jericho by Prof. John
Garstang, .archeologist and excava-
tor, when he spoke to Southern
Methodist university students and
faculty and members of the com-
munity course.
English, short -bearded Professor
Garstang, member of the faculty of
the University of Liverpool, told of
the aan�cient history of Jericho, trac-
ing ffom the early. Stone age to its
destruction by fire in 1400 B. C.
Professor Garstang, who directed
excavations of the site from 1928 to
1935, told of finding the earliest
known statuary in the world among
the ruins of the city, and of the city's
growth from prehistoric times
through the stone and bronze ages
to itsultimate and during the times
of the Pharaohs of Egypt.
The attempts of the ancient in-
habitants in making pottery were
found in abundance, he said, begin-
ning with a mere hole scooped out
of the floor of a dwelling and pro-
gressing through earthen jars and
goblets influenced by Babylonian
and Egyptian civilizations.
Eskimos Are Resourceful
A tale of Eskimocraft and guile
emanated from the Office of Indian
Affairs recently.
Not so long ago two trading post
proprietors in the Seward peninsula
area had difficulty in transmitting
latest fur prices to one another by
radio. As soon as they began com-
municating prices to one another,
the information was immediately
picked up by both tvhite and Eskimo
trappers.
To solve the problem, the two
men, who were partners, taught
their Eskimo wives the Morse code.
But the white trappers learned the
code, too. Eskimo wives finally pro-
vided the solution.
They applied the Morse code to
their native language.
That baffled even the shrewdest
of radio eavesdroppers. The listen-
ing Eskimos couldn't figure out code
and the listening whites couldn't de-
cipher the Eskimo language, which
put a stop immediately tothe leak
in the traders' system of -commu-
nication.
Collects 200 'Tiny Hats
One of Mrs. Daniel H. Grady's
(Portage, Wis.) hobbies is • collect-
ing hats, none of which could be
suitable for milady's headgear.
She saves everything from litho-
graphs and 'first edition auto-
graphed books to rickety, century-
old tnelodians, but one of her most
cherished possessions is a collection
of more than 200 miniature hats.
They are made of wood, many
kinds of glass, clay and china. A
century ago these hats served as
toothpick dispensers, flower bowls
and table decorations in some of
the country's smartest homes.
One of them is a man's hat, once
"Worth" $4,000. It is a "topper"
only three inches tall. On it is in-
scribed: "Made- of national green-
backs,reduced and macerated at
the United States Treasury. Esti-
mated value of bills, $4,000."
Trotsky's Brain
The doctors in Mexico City who
removed the brain of the late up -
lamented Leon Trotsky said it
weighed 31/2 pounds—one of ' :the
largest ever handled by Mexican
medical authorities,
The brain originates nothing. It is
only a mirror, a tool of the instincts,
the desires, the eniotions, 'Reason-
ing is only a justification in our
mindsof our instincts, our preju-
dices..
Victor Hugo said "the brain Is a
distillery of thought."
If a man, for instance, like Trot-
sky, Is borh with an instinctive de-
sire to kill, maim" and torture -others
he will soon find "reasons " or what
he calls "principles," for doing wh:8
his instincts ure
ghim to do -
Vitamin K Might Answer
Cancer Cure, Says Doctor
No one knows the cause of cancer'
or how to prevent it. But cancer's,
thousands of haril-working research
ers are making progress. In Philia.
delphia doctors and 'biochemists'.
were much impressed by a chain.
Of astute guesses put together by
Harvard's Louis Frederick Fieser,
one of the men who last year syn-
thesized
the bloodclotting, hemor-
rhage -stopping vitamin K.
It is known that certain hydro-
carbon compounds from coal tar,
notably the cholanthrenes, cause
cancers to grow in animals.' These
hydrocarbons are called "carcino-
genal'"("cancer-makers")•. Methyl -
•cholanthrene is the most potent car-
cinogen known. Six years ago two
British chemists found that methyl -
cholanthrene could be made by
'chemically breaking down bile acid-
Could it be possible, asked DA
Fieser, that human cancer could be
caused by hydrocarbon carcinogens
produced by the body itself? Hydro-
carbons, which contain only carbon
and hydrogen, are not normal body
chemicals. Rut they might be pro-
duced by abnormal metabolism of
body secretions, such as acids and
hormones.
At Harvard, Dr. Fieser and his
co-workers fed harmful carcinogens
to rabbits. Some rabbits neverthe-
less failed to develop cancers. Ex.
amining the urine of these lucky,
beasts, the researchers found, that
the carcinogens had been "detoxi-
fied." The chemical mechanism .of•
detoxification was similar in some
ways to the activation of prothrom-
bin, the blood's clotting agent, by;
vitamin K. In fact, the evidence sug-
gested that, when prothrombin ac-
tivity was high, resistance to car-
cinogens and therefore to cancer.
might—just possibly—be high too.
Therefore vitamin K, the prothrom-
bin stimulator, might—just possibly
—keep animals from getting hydro-
carbon cancers. Experiments to,,
test this theory, said Dr. Fieser.
modestly, are getting under way at
Harvard.
Atoms of Uranium Broken
Into Two Equal Parts
A great achievement has recently
been reported by the University of
California, where atoms of uranium
have been broken into two equal
parte. To the layman this doesn't
look more important than the crack-
ing of a hazelnut; but the scientist
sees in it a long step toward the
releasing of the energy of the atom
—energy so great that could it be
liberated in sufficient quantity, as in
the case of one gram of atom of
hydrogen transformed into helium,
it could exhibit energy which, ex.
pressed in terms of work, would be
equal to 200,000 kilowatt hours.
"Within a tumbler of water," says
Nobel Prize Winner Theodore W,
Richmond of Harvard, "would lie
sufficient energy to propel the Mau-
retania across the Atlantic and back
at full speed."
Professor Krasny-Ergen says it
would take a $10,000,000 laboratory
expenditure to produce one pound of
U-235 hi four days, and that 91
pounds would be the equivalent of•
5,000,000 pounds of anthracite coal,
or 3,000,000 pounds of gasoline.
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Hepplewhite
Hepplewhite -the great English
cabinet maker who created a reper-
toire of very beautiful furniture
styles, died in 1787, his business be-
ing carried on for years afterwards
by his widow, Alice Hepplewhite.
These designs are delicate and
sensitive, mahogany being the most
usual wood and the shield or heart
shaped back a characteristic detail,
Legs generally were slender and
straight and either tapered to a
spayed foot or reeded. His chairs
were carved with daintiness and
great restraint; his tables and other
small pieces had some fine inlai
designs; while his large pieces had
little ornamentation, their beaut
depending upon fine lines and pro-
portions, Hepplewhite's sideboards
usually have serpentine fronts and
concave panels..
Paper Containers
• "Paper containers cut the milk-
man's labor 60 per cent and reduce
the cost to the consumer to a cent
and a half a quart," recently tes-
tified an official of a large milk
company.
It is chiefly because of lower first
costs or savings in handling that the
fabricator of paper products is,ofte
able to supplant the tin -can and
wooden -box maker, the glass blow-
er and, to a limited extent, the tex-
tile mill employee. Because of the
other products, paper production in
1939 reached an all-time high of
nearly 13,500,000. tons—twice the
amount produced only 20 years ago.
It is estimated that 350,000 addi-
tional tons of paper a year would be
needed for that purpose . alone if
the paper milk bottle were to dis-
place glass.
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Sugar Aids Digestion
Sugars of all types, molasses,
honey and syrups are classified as
energy foods. In the form of white
sugar, we,heve one of the few foods
which has no other attributes except
the fuel' and sweet flavor which it
provides.
Brown sugar and molasses retain
some of the natural minerals. Mo-
lasses is an excellent source of iron
and also contributes both calcium
and phosphorus. Honey ago pro-
vides'minerals, although in smaller