ROOT VEGETABLES 



The vinegar may be omitted and served at the 

 table if preferred. 



CARROTS 



Are one of the economic vegetables, being not only 

 exceedingly wholesome and toothsome, but, like the 

 sweet corn, possess the advantage of being edible 

 in root and top, the green tops being much relished 

 by cows and horses, and the peelings and any sur- 

 plus roots forming a most valuable addition to the 

 winter ration of horse and cow. The juice of the yel- 

 low carrot, when expressed by grating the raw root 

 and pressing the juice through a cloth, makes an 

 excellent and harmless colour for butter, giving it 

 the much-prized golden tint of early grass butter 

 in the spring. 



A good story is told of a mother who took an 

 anemic daughter to a famous physician noted for 

 his bluffness and brevity. A brief inspection, a 

 briefer " claret," and a wave of the hand dis- 

 missed patient and subject. A month or six weeks 

 later the mother returned accompanied by a bloom- 

 ing daughter, and at the physician's nod of ap- 

 proval, the mother, becoming loquacious, explained 



that she " gave them to her three times a day cooked 



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