The Farm

The Farmer had a very good brief article recently on"over-feeding" calves, and, together with other leading agricultural papers, devotes considerable space and ink to the proper diet of ani mals, exclusive of its readers. Why is t fchat we are so chary of addressing our fellow men and women as to theit nibits of living- how they may main axa. bealth, attain longevity, and bestow vigorous ollspriug upon the comnunity - when we are so anxious about ,he inferior creation ? It was always a somewhat anxious period with farmers and breeders,when ;heir cows or mares were about to calve or foal, and some extra previous care was given them, but not much thought even then to the necessary exercise, reduced stimulating diet and roomy quarters, which now that the bovine species especially bas risen in moneiary valué, are considered indispensable. To lose a thousaad-dollar cow f rom milk fever which could have been prerented by a spare diet and place Cor her to move about in, is a blot on the escutcheon of any breeder, and those of us who handle "Jerseys" have to be extremely careful before and after parturition, for if there is any neglect it generally befalls the best animal, and regrets will not restore to life what we have so highly prized. To rear a valuable calf or cow is attended also with much judgmentand anxietv, and few farmers have so tle wit as to stuff t .e young creature, cal f or óow, with grain or too stimulating food, but it is allowed to grow up on milk and the natural grasses until reajy to bear the buiden oí work ; and even then it is not allowed to gorge itself with grain, nor even to have but a modicum compared to this bulky food which is its main sustenance. What t'risky, unmanageable, devilish bulls and horses we should have, if they were brought up on grain mainly, but their natural disposition is only controlled by proper diet, exercise, work and training. But all these rules and precautions are disregarded in the management of our own appetites and control of those of our household. To read the recipes furnished to the newspaper by notable housewives, it would seem as if they thought farmers and their families had cüst-iron stomachs, with gi.zards like fowls or ostriches, and tliat anything was digestable, f rom eternal pie to perpetual pork, and from small tacks to remains of hoopskirts! Are farmers different on th3ir constitulion from other christians ? Have they not, even as the Jews, "hands, argans, dimensions,senses, affections, passions," atd why should they be made to dishonor and disügure these by eating f or their daily faod what would be considered abomination by reasonable people in other callings? If anyone desires to learn the resulta oí gluttony continued thvough two or more generatione, let him read the history of Bon Carlos, the son of Philip the second, whose father was Charles V., a most inordinate gluttou. l'hilip inherited his father's appetite with a weaker stomach, and satiated himself with "sweet meats and pastry," and consequently had a devilish temper which led him to slaughter hecatombs of better christians than hiraself, devout as he pretended to be. üis son, Don Carlos, improved upon his father in the wildness of his passiuns, threatening thelatter'slife, andamong other eccentricities compelling his t)oot-umk er to ea(, a pair af boots cut up and fricasseed because they did not fit, and at last his owm father had to have him "put out of the way," as a monster unsuited even to the temperature of Spain iu that age! Isn't the same tlina happening every day, differlng only in degree, not only in onr cities and town, but in the outlying "rural districts? Would the murders, rapes, robberies and other results of il 1- regulated passions be so frequent i more attention was directed to th diet of ehiliireu, ií they were brougli up more on graias and vegetables, am not soexclusively on meat, pastry, cake eofflee, and other stimulants which no only breed evil themselves.but provok an appetite for spirit drinking, whicl directly leads to ïnost of the ills society is cursed with? "The ghildliood show the mac, &s morí! ing shows the day, said Milton, and if the child is brough up on "pizen thiugs" hls blood will b affected, his paasions roused, and, as h grows, these evils will grow with Mm until they are uncontrollable, nd h becomes a victiinof cjrcuinstaiiees. I it were possibié to have sutaptuary edicts, which rigidly prescribcd gooi and w holesome lood for all peopl from childhood up, and inhibited slronj drinks, inclading too much eoftee ant tea, there would b,e little eed of othe laws, and the records of crime would be almost blank, Most people have, or had, for the world has uaoved some of late years in true knowledge, an idea tliat a mea diet three times a day, is necessary for werking persons ; but thia is a mere fallacy, and in fact, more than half the occupanta of the globe exist aHogether without meat ; aud one meal a day o it, and that sjiariugly, is surtlcient for any civilized being. Évery school boy knows that the great Cyrus, Kine of Persia, was brought up like other youths of his age and country, on bread, water, and greens, and that the farmer soldier, Cincinnatus, made his living off four acres, subsisting entirely on vegetables. We know how the Russians and Turks inarch and fast on black brsad and cheese.how little meat the English and farm laborera thrive upon, how rare a luxury it is with all the Éa8tern nations, and we are just beginning to realijse that in this improvident country the health of ourselve3 and families is constantly injured by the great indulgence in meat, especially pork and its fat, pastry, sweetmeats, strong coffee and tea. Tanner and the other starvationists have done good by showing how little sustenance is required to sustain life, and the various "water cures" and hygenic health resorts where thouaands are yearly cured of chronic diseüses by rest and low diet, are teaching great numbeis of sensible people how to live wisely, what to chew and what to eschew. "I do think it a shame that these Mormons are allowed to defy all creation in this way," said Hannah Smiley laat evening. "The scampsl IL I was the government I'd extirpate 'em so I would, and thatin a hurry. The idea of one man having just as man wives as he'a a mind to ! It's ridiculous, and it's wicked." Very trae." replied Ichabod, as he knocked the as knocked the ashes from his clay pipe into the lireplace. "But if they were all as good wives as you, Hannah, no man could have too many of 'em." Somehow or other Ilannah vras unable to determine whether this was a compliment or an avowal of Mr. Smiley's conversión to the Church of the Latter-Day Saints. - New Haven Registw ltecent experiments show that the tensile strength of glass is between 2,000 and 0,000 pounds per square inch, and the crushing strenglh between 6,000 and 10,000 pounds per square inch, Mr. Traulionie linda that flooring glass one inch square and one foot between .he end supports breaks iinder a load of 170 poundw.