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FOOD. 



with tinted wood engravings, which will help the judgment, though these 

 cannot inform the reader on every particular. Therefore, he must kindly 

 assist the writer, as few things are more difficult to describe than taste 

 or smell ; since these senses are always under the control of individual 

 -predilection. 



LAD SORTING HAT. 



Upland Hay should look clean. Every fiber should appear distinct. 

 The color should be bright and should convey an idea of newness. No 

 dust ought to be present ; neither should the sample, however much it 

 may have been disturbed, lose its prominent features. The constituents 

 will all point pretty much in one direction. Of course this order is not 

 so absolute as to appear like arrangement, but the confusion which gen- 

 erally marks the fibers of the after-meath is never present in a fair 

 sample of well-carried "Upland hay." The scent is commonly very 

 pleasant — not so strong as, but in other respects little difi"erent from, the 

 perfume of new-mown hay : to most people its odor is highly agreeable. 

 Weeds should not be abundant ; but the presence of foreign growths is 

 clearly indicated by their darker hue, by the browner tint, and the fuller 

 form. The stems should not have shed the seeds, though grasses vary 

 so much in the period of their ripening that it is vain to expect some 

 will not have broken this rule. When a portion is placed within th? 



