1862. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



5B3 



could find no relief from any remedy applied, un- 

 til we saw an article, which recommended the ap- 

 plication of bruised horseradish to the face, for 

 toothache. As neuralgia and toothache are both 

 nervous diseases, we thought the remedy for the 

 one would be likely to cure the other, so we made 

 the application of horseradish, bruised and applied 

 to the side of the body where the disease was seat- 

 ed ; it gave almost instant relief to the severe at- 

 tack of neuralgia. Since then Ave have applied it 

 several times, and with the same gratifying results. 

 The remedy is simple, cheap, and may be within 

 the reach of every one. — Laurensville Herald. 



A NE^W BUTTER- WORKER. 



We recently saw an invention by Mr. Geo. W. 

 Putnam, to separate the butter-milk from butter, 

 which appeared to us to effect the object in the 

 most effective manner. It is simple in its con- 

 struction, not expensive, and very easily managed. 

 We saw some dozen pounds passed through, and 

 on examining it with the aid of a magnifier, could 

 not detect any buttermilk left, or any injury to 

 the grain. If tliis proves to be the general result 

 — as it is stated to be by the inventor — the inven- 

 tion will be one of_great value. It is said by those 

 best qualified to express an opinion, that only one- 

 tenth part- of all the butter brought into Boston 

 market can be included in the class of very good 

 butter, or what is called Jirst -rate butter. 



This great defect in an article so generally used, 

 .and one which has come to be considered one of 

 prime necessity, is principally owing to the butter- 

 milk left in it at the time of making. It is, in- 

 deed, as all butter-makers know, a somewhat dif- 

 ficult matter to remove it thoroughly ; it is hard 

 work, and too often required of women who are 

 overburdened with cares. Under such circum- 

 stances, the work is often imperfectly done, and 

 the result is, that a very large proportion of the 

 butter is unfit to eat. We think the use of this 

 machine will prove a remedy for this defect. 



We have not learned where it is to be sold, or 

 at what price. 



A Fine Seedling Pear. — We have received, 

 from our old friend and correspondent, Dr. S. A. 

 Siiurtleff, of Brookline, a seedling pear raised 

 by him, to which he has given the name of the 

 President Pear. The tree upon which it grew is 

 now twelve years old, and bore for the first time 

 this season, producing about a peck. The fruit is 

 quite large, of the turbinate, or top-shaped form, 

 stem slender, and half an inch long. The flesh 

 of this was fine, juicy and high-flavored, and we 

 think it will be a valuable acquisition to our pres- 

 ent list of good pears. We learn that the Doc- 

 tor has now some twenty seedlings that have 

 fruited, ten of which are good, and five or six of 

 the ten of a decidedly superior character. 



FOOD. 



QU.VLITIES AND CHANGES REQUISITE TO HEALTH 

 AND STRENGTH. 



Last week we gave a few extracts from a paper 

 with the above title, by Prof. L. C. LoOJils, in 

 the Patent Office Reports for 18G1. On looking 

 over the paper again, we are so impressed with 

 the justness and importance of the things stated, 

 that we are induced to begin with the writer and 

 present such portions of his able paper as we 

 think will be profitable to the readers of our col- 

 umns. He says : • 



In discussing this subject we shall consider — 



1. What the human system requires and what 

 nature supplies ; 



2. The changes required by the change of sea- 

 sons ; and 



3. Unripe and decaying food. 



The two prime physical necessities of man are 

 food and clothing. These vary chiefly according 

 to the circumstances of latitude, or what is equiv- 

 alent, temperature. 



Without entering upon the question whether 

 the earth was made to correspond in its changes, 

 temperature and productions to the nature and 

 wants of man, or man to the condition of the 

 earth, it is sufficient for us to know that not only 

 does such adaptation exist, but that the measure 

 of its perfection is the measure of our physical 

 perfection, and consequently, of our physical en- 

 joyment. 



To a large extent this harmony already exists 

 in the natural condition of the lower orders of 

 animals. Food and clothing are with them what 

 nature provides. This is ordinarily sufficient for 

 their life and comfort ; but when it fails they are 

 endowed with no intelligence or power to create 

 other supplies, or to arrest or avoid the death that 

 must of necessity follow. 



In the case of man, as he is designed to inha?> 

 it all portions of the earth, from the frigid to the 

 ultra torrid, he is designedly adapted partially to 

 all climates and fully to none, the completion of 

 this adaptation as may be required being left to 

 his own higher intelligence. To a limited extent 

 he is made the judge of what, in every vai'iety of 

 season and circumstances, will contribute to his 

 health and comfort. It is reason enough for an 

 animal to eat that it has an appetite and finds 

 what v.'ill appease it, and as an almost unvarying 

 law, such food is adapted to and was intended for 

 that animal. Its taste, being circumscribed to a 

 limited number of qualities, is exact and decisive. 

 With man this general law of nature is subject to 

 certain limitations, upon the correctness of our 

 determination of which depends much of our 

 physical comfort and enjoyment. That our taste 

 does not reject a substance does not constitute a 

 sufficient reason that it is proper food. 



In the animal economy there are three essential 

 sources of demand for new material : 



1. To restore the loss consequent upon the nat- 

 ural wear. 



2. For the production of strength. 



3. For maintaining vital warmth. 



But though these separate wants are indicated 

 indiscriminately by the sensation of hunger, yet 

 so distinct are they that those substances which 



