132 My Little Farm 



the meals, and I should make it even less if 

 I could. 



I mix the dry meals for a month at once, and to 

 every pound I put half a teaspoonful of fine salt, 

 well blended. 



Ill health consequent with the introduction of 

 solids is nearly always from the stomach, and 

 initial symptoms become evident through the eye, 

 which, in health, is clear, lively, wide open, and 

 with the white of it well in view ; but when the 

 aspect droops, the look growing dull and the eye- 

 lids narrowing over the white, then look out. 

 Neglect it now for a day, and the diminished blood 

 supply, due to digestive derangement and its 

 deficient nutrition, begins to recede from the 

 peripheries, the mouth and feet growing colder 

 as the circulation declines. A little more neglect, 

 and you may as well dig a new grave in the orchard, 

 though the sufferer might easily have been saved 

 without injury two days ago, at the cost of ten 

 minutes and a penny. For the ten minutes and 

 the penny, a little thoughtful observation might 

 give you 4, which is not a bad return on the 

 investment. 



I had been trying to think out a digestive tonic 

 for cases of the kind, something on the principle 

 which induces men and women gladly to give .10 

 for half a crown's worth in Harley Street. The 

 mixture, I thought, ought to include an alkali 

 against acidity ; a dual stimulant, cardiac and 

 stomatic ; and an ingredient aimed at the nervous 

 system to rouse it into prompt co-operation with 



