274 1HE FARMER AT HOME. 



great benefit to patients laboring under various diseases. One of those 

 in which we find it advisable to direct a milk diet most frequently, rs 

 consumption, as nourishment enough is supplied by it to the body 

 without any tendency to increase the inflammatory diathesis, which 

 we so much dread in this disease. When consumption is further 

 advanced, the milk of the ass has been considered not only as nutri- 

 tive but medicinal ; and, in conjunction with other observances, 

 should be directed, when there is the means of procuring it in suffi- 

 cient quantity. 



With respect to milk, considered as the food designed by nature 

 for the early periods of infancy ; in general, the milk of most parents 

 agrees well with their offspring, but in some cases, it proves too pur- 

 gative, or too flatulent, and the child is not properly nourished. In 

 some cases, it may be necessary for the woman to desist from suckling 

 her child, or to make a complete alteration in her diet, manner of 

 living, and place of abode ; by which the milk may perhaps become 

 more congenial to the stomach of the child. Human milk is of easy 

 digestion, light, and very nutritious, requiring little labor from the 

 stomach, and easily convertible into chyle. It contains a larger pro- 

 portion than any other milks, of the fat or buttery part ; and having 

 less of the curdy or cheesy part, it is more digestible. 



MILL. A combination of machinery to effect purposes which 

 require great force. The force employed is sometimes water, some- 

 times wind, and at others steam, or horses. The principle is always 

 the same ; a main shaft enters the works, to which wheels with cogs 

 are affixed, and the power being the contrary of the velocity, small 

 wheels give great power, and large wheels less power ; other wheels 

 are then connected with these in various directions, and the resulting 

 force applied to any desirable object. When corn is to be ground, 

 large stones, cut in grooves, are made to work one against the other in 

 such manner as to break or pulverize the grain. There are also bark 

 mills, paper mills, and oil mills, which operate by the force of percus- 

 sion ; also, silk, cotton, and flax mills, which perform sundry 

 operations ; and saw mills, which revolve circular saws with great 

 energy and precision. 



MINER'S BEE-HOUSE. The cut connected with this article, 

 is from an original design, and is not so much for general use as for 

 an ornament to flower gardens or lawns of a gentleman keeping bees. 

 The idea of Mr. Miner, to connect with the bee-culture an object of 

 architectural taste and rural beauty, deserves a public acknowledgment, 

 and is worthy the consideration of apiarian amateurs. We scarcely 

 know a branch in rural economy, invested with more absorbing in- 

 terest than the physiology of the honey-bee ; and as much as we have 

 been delighted for year?-, to study its habits, the volume from which 

 this cut is copied, has inspired us with additional desire for increased 

 knowledge on the subject. We know not a more interesting book to 



