APPENDIX. 



THRIFT IN FOOD TO START. 



WITH many young beginners, one difficulty of fruit growing 

 for market will be as to the first year's outlay ; and the 

 want of capital to work through the first year or two at the 

 start, often deters the young aspirant for natural living. 



For such as are anxious to know how to make the 

 utmost possible progress on small means, a few hints as to 

 the mode of living practised by millions of Eussian and 

 North German peasants may be useful. Having found 

 by experience that, like the horse, they can keep up their 

 strength on solid grain foods, they live mainly on (rye) 

 black bread, with a handful of cherries, plums, etc., or, in 

 winter, some dried prunes, or other fruit soaked overnight ; 

 or the Kussians may use with their bread, mildly pickled 

 cucumbers or beetroot in place of fruit, as a relish. 



In this country good wholemeal brown bread would serve 

 the purpose as a perfect or complete food, and wheat is a 

 far superior grain to rye. Where good brown bread is 

 unobtainable, if a mill costing about 15s. can be got, it 

 would supply two or three families with tjie means to 

 obtain the best of freshly-ground flour, and wheat, if bought 

 from the farmer direct, need not cost over Id. per pound, 

 or say, fd. per pound, if the farmer is handy and will 

 deliver two bushels at a time. Then, with a little soup of 

 well-cooked peas or lentils, blended with pearl barley, rice, 

 or meal, a few herbs, and a liberal use of garden vegetables, 



