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Vol.. VIII. 



thereof, fifteen German dollars. Twelve 

 hostlers; two ox-tenders ; one yard-servant; 

 three cow-tenders; three maid-servants; one 

 field-guard, who at the same time acts as a 

 police-man; two smiths; one miller; two 

 distillery servants. 



2nd. Of those receiving merely wages and 

 bread, but no meals; — one brewer; three as- 

 sistant brewers, engaged for the whole year; 

 four ditto, merely during the, brewing sea- 

 son ; four coopers, engaged for the whole 

 year ; two ditto, for the brewing season. 



3rd. Of those receiving merely wages, 

 •without either bread or meals; — one brick 

 and tile-kiln man ; two carpenters, for the 

 manor-house; four to six day-labourers in 

 the brewery in winter, and forty workmen 

 in the kilns, during summer; six threshers, 

 with their wives. 



TABLE OF DIET FOR THE HOUSE-SERVANTS. 



Monday morning. — Soup made of six 

 quarts of milk, two handfulls of flour, three 

 and a half pounds of bread, and of water. 



Noon. — Soup as in the morning, and peas 

 with fried bacon. 



Evening. — Soup as in the morning ; po- 

 tatoes witli smear-caze. 



Tuesday morning. — Soup as on monday. 



Noon. — Soup of carrots, or turnips, or 

 boiled potatoes, or white cabbage, and half 

 pound of meat per head. 



Evening. — Soup as in the morning; mehl- 

 muss, i. e. flour boiled with water, to the 

 consistency of pulp, with fried bacon. 



Wednesday morning. — Soup as on mon- 

 day. 



Noon. — Sonp as on monday; husked bar- 

 ley with. suet. 



Evening. — Soup as on monday; potatoes 

 and smear-caze. 



Thursday morning. — Soup as on monday 

 Noon. — Soup with broth, sourcrout, or 



cabbage, or potatoes, or lentils, or beans, and 



half pound of meat per head. 



Evening. — Soup as on monday; mehlmuss 



with fried bacon. 



Friday morning. — Soup as on monday. 



Noon. — Soup as on monday; dumplings 

 with suet and onions, horse-radish or other 

 boiled vegetables. 



Evening. — Soup as on monday, potatoes 

 and smear-caze. 



Saturday morning. — Soup as on monday. 



Noon. — Soup as on monday, mashed pota- 

 toes with fried bacon. 



Evening. — Soup as on monday, mehlmuss 

 with fried bacon. 



Sunday morning. — Soup made of twelve 

 quarts of milk, seven quarts of small beer, 

 two pounds of flour, and of water. 



Noon. — Soup with millet, or husked bar- 

 ley, or cabbage boiled with meat. 



Evening. — Suup as on monday, sausage 

 or bacon with salad, boiled fruits, &c., or 

 millet, with bacon. 



Feast-day; such as Christmas, WJiitsnn- 

 tide, cfc. ; morning — Cotfee with sugar-can- 

 dy ; brown sugar never used. 



Noon. — Soup with broth, vegetables and 

 meat ; roast meat with salad and fruits. 



Evening. — Soup; millet boiled in milk, 

 with butter poured over ; or roast meat, or 

 sausage-pudding, with salad or fruits. 



At Christmas, Easter, Whitsuntide, Har- 

 vest-home, or Church-wake, each one re- 

 ceives a cake of six quarts of wheat flour, and 

 at Shrove-tuesday, half a cake. Besides, each 

 one gets two quarts of small beer per week. 

 The smiths, the miller, distiller, cow-milker, 

 gardener, hop-vintner, and field-guard, re- 

 ceive each one quart of small beer per day, 

 and the miller and the smiths receive each 

 besides, a pint of brandy per week. 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 

 Cause of, and Cure for hard times. 



To THE Editor, — I am one of the many, 

 who have now and then been obliged to join 

 in the common cry oHiard times, and I may 

 acknowledge, when I have done it, I have 

 almost uniformly felt something rising in my 

 throat, that made me chew my words, and 

 confess to myself, though I did not like to 

 confess to others, tliat I was in fact, the au- 

 thor of my own difficulties. I think I have 

 not imfrequently been able to trace many of 

 the embarrassments of my neighbours to their 

 own movements, though I have not felt as if 

 I dared to tell them so. I have often thought 

 if I could write like you veterans of the 

 quill, I would send a piece to the printer, 

 setting forth how young folks often miss it 

 in beginning the world, and how old ones 

 are often led astray against their better judg- 

 ments, by the persuasion of their children, 

 who are apt to think it a fine thing to spend 

 money, which they know nothing about 

 making. The editor will allow it is a great 

 aftair for a man who would be honest, and 

 who wishes to be comfortable, and never to 

 have the fear of the sheriff before his eyes, 

 to be always careful to cut his coat accord- 

 ing to his cloth. Now the editor may say, 

 and a thousand others may say, that this is 

 none of my business. But excuse me, I am 

 only thinking aloud. A great many young 

 people make a grand error in first setting 



