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tain less animal flesh, since the brain receives little or no support 

 from animal food. The brain contains no nitrogen, whereas 

 beefsteak is highly nitrogenized. But soldiers and laborers 

 should be fed with meat. Stages are never run upon hay, but 

 upon grain, upon oats, which are highly nitrogenized, and which 

 take the place of meat in supporting muscle. 



Prof. Nash. — It is true that the man who can digest the most 

 can do the most work ; but there is a point with every individual 

 beyond which eating diminishes his ability. Is not overeating 

 the cause of more leanness than undereatino;? 



Dr. Waterbury. — I believe it is in the city. If a horse fed 

 upon half a bushel of oats per day, lies idle in the stable, he is 

 ruined. His food must be diminished, and when he is again to 

 be put upon hard work his food and exercise must be gradually 

 raised. So with man. If he indulges in heavy diet without 

 corresponding exercise, the result will be a dyspeptic condition 

 of the system. 



Mr. Pardee was no believer in late dinners. He had seen too 

 many friends carried down to the grave by it. A light tea, at 

 six o'clock, or soon after that, should be the last food taken in 

 the day. 



Prof Nash said that it was a mistaken notion that time is 

 saved by eating quickly. On the contrarj^, our powers of action 

 are so much diminished that we lose time by it. A man who 

 takes half an hour for his meal, will not eat as much as the man 

 who takes onl}' eight or ten minutes. This may seem paradoxical, 

 but the reason is obvious. Hunger is caused by the gastric juice 

 preying upon the stomach, for the want of food to act upon. If 

 we eat rapidly we pass the point of repletion before the gastric 

 juice has time to act upon the food and to cease to act upon the 

 stomach. We continue therefore, to be hungry, and keep on eat- 

 ing, although we have taken enough. The man who eats rapidly 

 should not wait until he ceases to be hungry before stopping his 

 meal. 



INDIAN CORN FOR SOILING. 



Mr, Carpenter. — Corn may be planted up to the 1st of July for 

 soiling purposes. Corn may be sowed upon a piece of sward, if 

 not too weedy ; but drilling is the better plan. Many farmers 

 defer cutting too long. It may be commenced M'hen the corn is 

 a foot high. It will then make a good second growth. It seems 



