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able to buy vegetables irum the giocers that may look all right, but 

 it may be like the colored waiter's Christmas turkey he served to 

 his guest who said: "I want the same kind of turkey I had last Christ- 

 mas.'' The waiter said, it was the same as they kept it iu culd 

 storage; you dou't know what you buy, but you do know when you 

 take it out of your own garden. Then there is this difference, when 

 you know your food is pure and clean, you eat it with a relish. This 

 rule will hold good in all things raised on the farm, hence it is im- 

 portant to know what to raise for the table that we may preserve 

 the health of the family, as well as save money and give general 

 satisfaction and enjoyment. To do this we must learn to produce 

 in that garden all the vegetables that are possible to raise from 

 early spring to late fall, so there will be something from the gar- 

 den the whole year. You can have your onions, celery, beans, cabbage, 

 tomatoes, and many other things the whole year; your lettuce and 

 the like for two-thirds of the year. In addition to the products of 

 the gardeUj we have the fruit of the orchard; the apple, the pear, 

 the peach and the plum. How the family enjoys to get in the 

 orchard to pluck the fruit which is the best medicine that can be 

 taken. As for meat, the farmer has at hand the very best; the 

 fowl, mutton and beef. With this variety of food the good wife 

 or mother will prepare an innumerable amount of dishes that will 

 give general satisfaction. You will not tire like you do when there 

 is the same every meal. * 



Now as to how much to feed. There are many families fed so 

 much that they really become gluttons. Do not let the little child 

 eat until it can eat no more. I have seen families that would eat 

 twice as much as. another family of the same number and were not 

 near as healthy. There are families that eat themselves poor. The 

 parents should have the right to say when the boys and girls have 

 enough, as eating too much becomes a habit. Let different families 

 dine together and you will observe that one boy will eat just twice 

 as much as the other boy. 



Now as to the time of feeding the family. There should be three 

 meals at regular hours, morning, noon and evening, and the last 

 meal not too late in the evening, so there will be time enough to 

 exercise before going to bed; not like Bonasteel said they do in 

 Philadelphia. He said, '"They eat breakfast at nine, dinner at three 

 ;ind supper the next day." If meals are served at regular hours, it 

 becomes "second nature" as the saying is. Those of you who are 

 used to your meals at regular hours, can you not tell almost to the 

 minute when they ought to be ready? Doesn't nature tell you? 

 As soon as that hour is past, you are not hungry whether you eat 

 or not. 11 is economy to obey Nature's call in eating. 



[t is economy to raise as much as possible on the farm and buy 



