Pboceedings of the Farmers' Club. 139 



cooked and uxc»oked food. 



Prof. Vanderweyde. — Once a law was passed in Holland that 

 criminals condemned to death should have no salt in their food; after 

 a time their flesh was filled with worms. Beside salt, cooking is useful 

 to destroy worms and their eggs and germs, particularly in meat, and 

 also in vegetables. The tape worm orginates where pork is used. 

 Jews seldom have the tape worm. This worm expels numerous 

 eggs, which are so small that after passing from the body they float 

 in the air. Other diseases evidently originate from swine's flesh. 

 This is a subject recently investigated, and more undoubtedly will 

 be learned as scientific men pursue their researches. 



The professor spoke of horses, sheep and other animals being 

 infected with peculiar worms and parasites which originate in their 

 bodies. So numerous and so easily propagated are some kinds that 

 so soon as water stands a little time and gets warm, they begin to 

 breed in it. Hence the most healthful water is to be found in deep 

 cold wells. Now, although multitudes of eggs of worms and germs 

 of other parasites are laid and found in food, still they cannot live 

 in the stomachs of healthy persons, but are destroyed. It is only 

 when the vital powers are impaired that they get a footmg and 

 become enemies to human life. From all these facts we readily 

 conclude that nothing is more important than that food should be 

 thoroughly cooked, though we shoultl avoid the extreme of destroy- 

 ing the juices and flavor by too much heat. 



DRIED SQUASH AND PUi^'KIN, 



Mr. Morris, Monmouth county, N. J., showed fine specimens of 

 these articles, and thought the business profitable, as the fruit so 

 prepared sells at fifty cents a pound. He gave a remedy for the 

 striped bug, which is buckwheat bran. 



THE DUCHESSE d'ANGOULEJIE TEAK AS A STANDARD OR DWARF. 



Dr. Wm. B. Peck spoke of standard pears as being more promising 

 than dwarf varieties, and gave an instance of an orchard three years 

 old which bore last year, and some trees this year promise to bear 

 half a bushel each. But the planting and cultm-e were the very best. 

 He inquired whether the Duch^sse really did well as a standard. 

 In the orchard he spoke of, it promised more than other varieties. 



Dr. Trimble, of Newark, State Entomologist of New Jersey. — This 

 has been a disputed point. But Mr. Brill, of Newark, has perfect 

 specimens of Duchesse trees, which for many years, as standards, 

 have borne large crops of fine fruit. 



