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pleasantly surprising to you ; not of the transient kind which a glass of 

 liquor affords, but permanent ; for the tea gives present stimulus and a 

 little strength, and before it subsides, nutriment begins to be drawn from 

 the sugar and cream and bread, thus allowing the body gradually, and by 

 safe degrees, to regain its usual vigor. Then, in a couple of hours, you 

 may take a full meal, provided it does not bring it later than two hours 

 before sundown ; if later, then take nothing for that day in addition to the 

 cracker and tea, and the next day you will feel a freshness and vigor not 

 recently known. 



No reader will require to be advised a second time who will make a trial 

 as above, while it is a fact that no unusual observation, among intelligent 

 physicians, that eating heartily and under bodily exhaustion is not unfre- 

 quently the cause of alarming and painful illness, and sometimes sudden 

 death. These things being so, let every family make it a point to assem- 

 ble around the family board with kindly feelings, with a cheerful humor, 

 and a courteous spirit ; and let that member be sent from it in disgrace 

 who presumes to mar the ought-to-be blessed reunion by sullen silence, or 

 impatient look, or angry tone, or complaining tongue. Eat in thankful 

 gladness, or away with you to the kitchen, you graceless churl, you un- 

 grateful pestilent lout that you are. There was grand and good philosophy 

 in the old-time custom of having a buffoon or music at the dinner table. 



Wm. Lawton earnestly advocated the use of tea, as a nutritious and 

 invigorating substance, but he could not go for a reduction of the meat 

 ration ; nor would he give up now and then a glass of good old Madeira. 

 He goes in for good living and plenty of it. 



FALL FLOWERS. 



On motion of Mr. Pardee, the discussion of and exhibition of fall flow- 

 ers will be made a part of the question at the meeting next week. 



Solon Robinson gave notice that he should call up the fence question 

 upon every suitable occasion. He also wanted persons to come forward 

 with some facts about the food of cattle, -r-something to demonstrate not 

 only what is best, but how much is necessary, and what is the most eco- 

 nomical. 



Adjourned. H. MEIGS, Secretary. 



Nov. 21, 1859. 



Mr. William Lawton in the chair. 



The first hour of the meeting, as usual, was devoted to miscellaneous 

 business, during which the secretary read some extracts from foreign 

 journals, &c. 



CRANBERRIES. 



The secretary stated that Jesse C. Young showed him a receipt for $156, 

 the net result of one-third of an acre of the scrub-oak land of Long Island, 

 cultivated in cranberries, and called up Mr. Young to make some remarks 

 on the subject. 



The cranberries for which the American Institute granted their premium, 

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