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ground up the apples and mixed the two together. Nothing could answer 

 better, and his butter was pronounced to be as good that winter as in the 

 summer. The speaker then narrated some of his experiences as a poor law 

 guardian for twenty years, during which he had had many a battle on the 

 question. In some cases where sick paupers had been prescribed alcoholic 

 drinks without any beneficial effect, he recommended mutton instead, and the 

 men were soon able to resume their work. 



Mr. Louis Vallis, of Remington, said he was thankful he had been a 

 teetotaller for four years. During certain seasons of the year, farm work was 

 very hard and the days were long. He had heard some people say — " It is all 

 very well for town people to be teetotallers, but let them come into the fields 

 and pitch hay all day when the sun is hot." Well, he could pitch hay all day 

 without strong drink, and feel well and hearty after it. He believed he could 

 do as much work, take the year through, as any farmer. He generally carried 

 with him into the field a bottle of water or coffee, and he could feel quite 

 refreshed by it. In the winter time he never wanted to drink between meals. 



Mr. Watkin, bailiff at Dilton Farm, Westbury, said he could reap, plough, 

 sow, or mow without strong drink, and he had done so for nearly thirteen 

 years. He could safely say he was better without the drink than with it. He 

 had pitched nearly eighty or ninety sacks of wheat a day without a drop of 

 alcohol, and as his men knew he was a teetotaller they determined to test him 

 to the utmost. His men sometimes told him if they could live as well as he 

 they could work as well ; but he told them tliey might live as well if they 

 expended their money in beef instead of beer. He had sown sixty-four acres 

 of land per week, often carrying about lOlbs. of dirt on his boots. He could 

 do anything in the way of farm work without alcohol, and thoroughly enjoyed 

 life. He generally drank cocoa as a beverage, and he was certain that a quart 

 of cocoa would do a man much more good than a quart of beer. 



Mr. Hampton, of Potterne, near Devizes, said thirty four years ago 

 last month he became a teetotaller. The farm he first occupied was a dairy 

 farm, and he milked over seventy cows. His men asked him what he should 

 do in the haymaking time. He told them he should not give them any beer, but 

 the money instead, and be believed they made more hay than any other farmer 

 in the village. All the farmers in the neighbourhood were opposed to him at 

 that time, and their men annoyed his men. Two or three young men were 

 very abusive to him, but he offered to forfeit £10 to their £1 if he and his six 

 men did not do more work in a given time on teetotal principles than either of 

 them and six other men would do on alcoholic drinks. They would not accept 

 his offer, and he was not annoyed afterwards. For twenty-nine years he nad 

 not heard an oath or any discontent on his farm. The greater part of his men 

 became thorough teetotalers. The second year one of his men had a fat pig to 

 kill, and he said he used to have to sell it to pay his rent, but now he was going 

 to keep it for his own dinners. He afterwards had a sheep and corn farm 

 of between 700 and 8U0 acres. One of his sons, who had never drank a drop 

 of alcoholic liquor in his life, weighed eleven score. He had just taken on the 

 management of his farm. Another son, also a life teetotaller, had taken a farm 

 of 100 acres. There were not two stronger young men in Wiltshire. 



Mr, W. Dew, of Beckington, gave an account of his adopting teetotalism 

 twenty-seven years ago. He used to say that all teetotallers ought to be 

 drowned, and people told him he would soon be buried if he did not give up 

 drinking. He suffered from indigestion and an overflow of blood to the 

 head. A person recommended him to become a teetotaller, and he promised to 

 give It a fair trial. He went to the doctor and told him so, and the medical 

 man told him he would not want to see him again for two years. He had 

 never had occasion to go to him since. The chairman gave him a work 

 entitled •' Anti-Bacchus " to read, and he was thankful for the light he obtained 

 from it. He had uphill work amongst his men for some time, and some of 

 them left him. He gave them money instead of beer, and they soon came to 

 their senses He had sown eleven acres per day and twenty sacks of corn. 

 There was no farm work that could not be done without strong drink. He 

 believed the drinking customs were the cause of the present depression in trade, 



