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The agricultural, horticultural and manufacturing interests of the country are receiving the advancing impulse, and while the stockyards and packing houses find it necessary to advance prices to the great injury of their respective trades, the growth of cereals, fruit and vegetables is so extending as to rapidly advance the land values of the South and West, which still further embarrasses the stock raisers. Manufactories of health foods are springing up in various parts of the country, of which that of Quaker Oats, by Ferdinand Schumacher, a vegetarian, was the pioneer. Battle Creek, Michigan, with its great Sanitarium, has become a great centre of the health food industry, which, however, is extending throughout the country. Advertisements of health foods now occupy spaces formerly monopolized by quack medicines, a most healthful sign of the times.

Almost all cities of prominence in the country have Hygea Restaurants or Physical Culture Cafés, and Vegetarian Hotels and Boarding Houses are in demand and will follow as a necessity as the odor of flesh and fish is becoming intolerable to the advancing refinement of intelligent and progressive people who know how sweet and joyful are the homes that are free from it.