1867. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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muscle, and nerve, and will-power. Every 

 sensible man knows about what he can do, and 

 not break or weaken his powers ; settle that, 

 and then don't over-do. Many a man (and 

 more boys) just wrecks himself needlessly in 

 ten minutes, and is never the man again he 

 was before. ^Vhen you feel you are up to 

 your highest mark, stop; and stop before you 

 get there, save in rare emergencies. It's well 

 to feel that you have a reserve force, and 

 could "let out another link." 



Look out for the sun. He's a fiery fellow, 

 and sometimes when your system may lack 

 positiveness from overwork, he'll send a hot 

 shaft right through you. Don't be careless 

 or foolhardy, that's all. The "boys in blue" 

 all say that the best soldiers took no useless 

 risks, and were therefore fresh and right when 

 the sharp work was to be done. 



If you have a feeling come over you that the 

 heat is going through, take to the shade with- 

 out any foolish shame, for the hardiest some- 

 times falter, and far better one hour's care 

 than months or years of weakness from sun- 

 s'roke — coup de soleil, as the French say. 

 Keep a firm will, for that has great power over 

 the body ; and keep the system in a positive 

 condition, with an overplus of vital force to 

 meet and master heat, or cold, or work, by 

 rational care in your habits : but, when you 

 feel that the vital forces are too weak, or too 

 much taxed, yield for the moment and recu- 

 perate. 



Don't drink too much, no matter what it is, 

 but rather a little, often, slow, rinsing the 

 mouth well. Be careful about ice-water. 

 Some ginger and sugar or molasses is good in 

 your water. Home-brewed ale of the best 

 sort may help. As for spirits, it's too fiery, 

 in whatever shape, gets up too much fever, 

 too high pressure and makes the boiler burst. 

 We've worked in hay fields when sealing wax 

 would be soft as putty, and mowed away hay 

 under the barn roof where it was hotter than 

 any spot on this earth, and went through it 

 without the ardent. 



Beware of getting hot and tired and stand- 

 ing in a chill draft of air, especially if it comes 

 on your back. That heat and work has less- 

 ened your vitality, and put you in negative 

 condition, so that outer forces control you 

 easier, perspiration is checked and sad mis- 

 chief done before you think. Keep your face 

 to the wind when you stop to rest, for the re- 

 sistant vital forces emanate from the front 

 more than the rear, and he is a wise as well as 

 a brave man who faces exposure as well as 

 danger. 



Don't bolt a hearty meal in hot haste and 

 rush out to your work, but get a little rested, 

 then eat moderately, yet enough, and go to 

 work fresh. Dyspepsia and its kindred hor- 

 rors come often from eating full meals with the 

 system overtaxed and heated, and no vital 

 power left for digestion. Keep cool ; the more 



to be done the more need of self-possession* 

 that you may be master of the situation. 



Don't eat heaps of meat and drink gallons 

 of rank colFee and strong tea, with a blind no- 

 tion that you must have hearty food. Your 

 bread or beans, pound for pound, has more 

 nutriment than your beef, and the water don't 

 clog up the system like this black colfee, or 

 rack the nerves like strong tea. 



Meat has more stimulus than bread, and a 

 share of this is well, but not in excess. Eat 

 meat, vegetables, fruits, &c., and drink mod- 

 erately. Keep the system open and all evac- 

 uations easy and natural, and save fevers and 

 congestions. Take less meat in very hot 

 weather. Judge for yourselves, but keep aU 

 firm, and trim, and cool, and open, in the in- 

 ternal department, and you'll be fit for a good, 

 long pull. 



Bathe often, hut never when hot or tired. 

 At night a hand-bath all over, if not too tired, 

 and in the morning you are fresh, and it is al- 

 ways safe. It helps greatly through the heat- 

 ed season. 



All this, and much more in the same way 

 that you will all think of, can be done, and 

 avoided, sensibly, quietly, and without fidget- 

 ing, and rely on it, will help through all the 

 exposure, make work a welcome task, and 

 land most of you, strong in body and clear in 

 mind, on the cool edge of next winter's snow 

 banks. — Rural New Yorker. 



ECONOMIZATION OP "WASTE MANURE. 

 The following account of the modes which 

 have been adopted in Paris to promote the 

 health of the people, and to utilize night soil, 

 &c., for manurial purposes, is communicated to 

 the Chicago Farmer, by its intelligent corres- 

 pondent at the great Exposition. 



All the night soil and refuse matter of this 

 great city were formerly cast into the sewers 

 and forced into the river Seine, rendering 

 alike unhealthy the exhalations from the sur- 

 face of the streets, and the waters of the river 

 — an entire waste, and a source of disease. 

 Succeeding this, up to the year 1850, all this 

 refuse matter was kept from the sewers 

 and conveyed to Pare de Chaumont, where 

 it was converted into poudrette and made use 

 of as manure ; but this becoming too great a 

 nuisance, it » was done away with, and until 

 three years ago, all thrown into an immense 

 subterranean tunnel, ten kilometres in length, 

 and forced by means of steam pumps to the 

 forest of Bondy, about four miles distant from 

 any human habitation. At present the offen- 

 sive matter from about fifty thousand houses 

 out of the seventy thousand of Paris, is con- 

 veyed to this point. It is conveyed to the 

 tunnel by scavengers, in hogsheads ; about 

 seven thousand hogsheads per day are trans- 

 ported. Previously to being manufactui-ed 

 into poudrette, it is all raked over by hand, 



