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the same price per pound, to white flour, because more 

 healthy and more nutritious. One hundred pounds of Gra 

 ham flour is worth full as much in a family as one hundred 

 and thirty-three pounds of superfine white flour. Corn- 

 meal usually costs less than half the price of flour. It is 

 worth twice as much. It is not so economical in summer, 

 because it takes so much fire to cook it. The first great 

 error in preparing cornmeal is in grinding it too much, and 

 next in not cooking it enough. Cornmeal mush should 

 boil two hours ; it is better if boiled four, and not fit to eat 

 if boiled less than one hour. Buckwheat flour should never 

 be purchased by a family who are obliged to economize 

 food. It is dear at any price, because it must be floated in 

 dear butter to be eaten, and then it is not healthy. Oatmeal 

 makes as good cakes as buckwheat, and far more nutritious. 

 But it is more nutritious and is particularly healthy for chil 

 dren, in the form of porridge.&quot; 



Thousands of the poor, in all ages, have studied 

 the great problem of how to get rich. How to get 

 a farm, as the stepping-stone to wealth, is shown in 

 a new light in the following article from the New 

 York Tribune for August, 1859 : 



&quot; Carlyle has said somewhere that the only state of future 

 torment much regarded or feared now-a-days, is Poverty. 

 How to make money how to acquire rapidly abundant 

 wealth is the general and anxious inquiry. Somebody 

 has lately published a book purporting to lay bare the 

 whole art and mystery of making money including the 

 difficult feat of making the first $1,000 for the paltry 

 sum of one dollar. Fired with emulation, we propose to 

 contribute our mite toward the development of auriferous 

 science. 



