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kind of animal food, and contribute far more largely than is generally 

 supposed in furnishing appropriate nutrition for persons of all ages 

 from infancy to old age. 



4. Substitute for beef of old, worn-out animals, made ready for 

 human food when no longer profitable to their owners, mutton, 

 lamb, poultry — such as ducks, geese, turkeys, chickens, pigeons, fish, 

 oysters, and every kind of garden vegetable and fruit which a bounti- 

 ful Providence has placed before us. Avoid pork, especially such as 

 is raised near cities ; avoid livers from old animals and those of 

 calves, if bearing the least evidence of ulceration ; avoid sausages, 

 unless made by very conscientious manufacturers ; avoid minced 

 meats sold ready for cooking, and be particularly careful in purchas- 

 ing salted meats, as vast quantities are saved by salt till it can be 

 turned into money. It would be a melancholy history if we knew 

 how many thousands of brave soldiers and hardy seamen were annu- 

 ally destroyed by the vilest of all rations — tainted salt beef and pork. 



5. To live long in vigorous health, nothing would be lost, but much 

 gained, by being influenced by the foregoing suggestions. They are 

 not theoretical speculations, but results of careful observation with a 

 view to ascertaining the laws of life in this climate. Therefore those 

 who avoid abuses of the stomach have a reasonable prospect of unin- 

 terrupted health, an essential element of usefulness and happiness. 



Mr. D. B. Bruen — I have been a pork-eater all my life, and now 

 I am threescore and sixteen years old, and stout and healthy as ever. 

 . Chairman Ely — But you ate pig pork fattened by yourself, and 

 you knew what you were taking into your stomach. 



Mr. A. S. Fuller — I think Dr. Smith is right as a general proposi- 

 tion, especially when he prescribes for sedentary men. But let a man 

 go to the woods these cold mornings and lay up his two cords before 

 dusk, and he could digest even those sausages made in Dr. Smith's 

 old shop. I am a strong believer in fruits, and urge the farmers to 

 raise more and consume more ; but I can't take my own medicine. 

 I can't eat an apple without making me sick ; but if I worked hard 

 every clay at sawing or chopping, I could eat apples and sausages and 

 fat pork and salt junk. 



Dr. I. Jarvis — Fish is good food for farmers, and I wish our chair- 

 man had added the advice, that every one of them raise a supply in 

 the streams upon his premises. This is easily done. If there is no 

 stream, then make a pond. 



Professor Nash — I have known such a pond to be supplied by the 

 -drainage from uplands. This drainage is certain to pay in an agricul- 



