306 TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE. 



Weight in Price per pound. Cost. 



lbs. required. s. d. Cents. 8. d. 



Butter 0.693 16 56 10^ 



Hartl-boilecl egg 2.209 6-| 32 1 2| 



Carrots 9.685 l^ 1 1 2| 



Lump sugar 1.505 6 16 13 



Milk 8.021 5perqt. 10 1 S^ 



Arrowroot... 1.287 1 20a25 1 3^ 



Cod liver oil 0.553 3 6 100 1 11| 



Mackerel 3.124 8 16 2 1 



Lean beef 3.532 10 20 3 6^ 



Lean veal 4.300 10 25 4 3^ 



Lean ham, boiled . . . 3.001 16 25 4 6 



White of egg 8.745 6 .. 4 4^ 



Isinglass 1.377 16 50 22 o| 



Pale ale, 9 bottles, per bottle, 10 25 7 6^ 



It will be seen by the above table that in point of cost, food 

 which ranks highest in muscular force is least used in this country. 

 The reason for that is, that, except in the present high rates of flour, 

 oatmeal in New York has always ranked higher than wheat flour. 

 In point of quantity, fat beef ranks the highest of any food, and 

 cabbage the lowest. Milk, too, though food for babes, does not 

 appear to give great muscular force. Potatoes, which are con- 

 sumed in such large quantities by the poor, not only require a 

 large bulk, but are really not an economical food. But of all the 

 articles used to ffive streusth, ale ranks lowest in force and hijjh- 

 est in cost. 



Dr. Sylvester. — A word upon this food question : When I lived 

 in Georgia, the common price of broken rice was one cent a pound. 

 It was largely fed to slaves, but always proved insufficient to give 

 them muscular power. Rice as a food, is naturally constipating. 

 It is found that feeding horses with rice dust tends to produce 

 blindness. 



Shovel Plough. 



Mr. J. L. Butler exhibited a new implement invented b}^ Cyrus 

 IL Wooldridge, Venice, Madison county. 111., which is now on its 

 way to the Paris Exposition, It is the old shovel-plow improved 

 — that is, constructed upon scientific principles, with a bar under 

 the share running back to a standard, which will keep the plow 

 in the furrow and avoid the tendency to jump. It will undoubt- 

 edly prove an invaluable implement far corn and cotton culture 



