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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
[Decracser 29, 1860. 
energy and espa to engage, in athletic 
sports ; | there are apelatina for the of so many 
they with a really muscular | pa the finding of so pe Wheat or 
development age of yet These nee will be the more 
Let us review their pioen state. Ifmarried the | cle carl brought home y the following 
Hany lives with his family in a cottage of retain from p Tabl ie at t: he et of agricuitn ral 
ly e an s if there | labour for 1860, published at page 392 
4 ? 
be a third the family exigencies compel the letti ae ESN: 
of ae fe n unmarried = may have a A a wa alent eB yO A 
eep a pig, a e nbn secure SE Fa ES Hae ba 
two pea ag of fat bacon for tha’ Soot s Fhios | aie eben 3 F 2 ag 
he is orome happy ; for in the old Christmas 3 8 5 Bae Fi ee age Q 
greeting BE g <8 she E 
“I wish ye a merry Christmas, : = s seas t g 
And a h: appr new wears $ Z é 
A pocket full of m 
And a cellar full of fear: MEER H ER 
A good fat pig to serve ye all the TRA o i es aR 
5 3 E FOSSE W 
we have the peasant’s notion of thes Slana of sp 8 & See z z zg Bes 
sets a And having just examined the merits PS CE eo um | Pa, 
of Potatoes, let us just inquire into those of the S S p Ss : 
pi , which is the poor man’s most tant meat Rie = eee A 
o be considered good it t be fat, and then i RERUN RRR oe ote 88 fo 
order to have him serve all the year the flesh must SSS SER Sas SSS ES 
be salted, by w he nourishment afforded by FEE Be] 2 
itis by no means improved. pom #5 j 
ig i T st may be m: a ee cues eles HO 
followin table, in which we en fnluded that of H wb SE ue whe So FE 
of Bies meats for the sake of compariso: eer a nb oS = ue £ a> 
> to = S 
Assumed Average Composition of Entire Carcasses of Butchers PIGNE - ab 
— and. Gilbert.) :— eee 
£ E = £ a) 
ina “|Composmrion me — or we EXCLUDING g 2 & < z 5 g F iS PE Sig 
poaa for Verte ME ITER SBE Sabtiee, et to © y 2a 
the Butcher. anes Tas Nitrogenous | e e = ga 
Satietancs: Fat. Water. | 
| es re SR RS ia et 
jmoore SniMsowe ageer = 
Flesh Formers. Feat Givers, | Bos ae ony E oas TENE 
Calf .. 4.5 16.5 62.5 CEEE EEI E Pa Be 
Bullock 5.0 15. 50.0 la oes Boao Smee HBSS 
b.. 3:5 11.0 35.0 50.5 eS eSesq FREaks ers 
Boop 3.5 12.5 40.0 44.0 aH a Fg os 
.. 5 . Ld . oie > be a 
sean sa K. a 10.0 500 || 38's FERET Ja gt Be = 2 g E 
ae SAIF A es A we Ta Ss So 6 
To aly this in its relation to` 11b. of meat BEE S ge REg ga 8 = * 3 
m paren: another table in order to show this Bat È v ES] 2 E Ba a 
n: o 2 = Eg 3 > 
a a a ee | = 
= B © a ae 
| Beef. | Mutton. | Pork. Re AANE See SS Re cae E g 
oz. grs. | oz. grs. | The above tabla i is in eaficcent to Sent ow us that 
re | 8 70 1°9 56° 1°6 “5° | the _poorly-fed wate cts, Mat ae the bacon ent 
Bane ; 1 62 | 1 62'| © 885 |Pot a 
— e and Al-) es are | than oe ere, 
ga 3 0 385 | 0-315 pty ot ap gee: conclude that the hc 
fesh f mesh labour is less also, Pis that 
6176 | 8 0 as 
0245 w5 
eal has more fle: spre 
PN Sen of fat, Nite apilain 
fat of bacon is generally « caton, with veal. Pork, again, with its 
eon conga ds A i a fit medium for the flesh- -forming 
food o: 
Here t pies on comp ing differen 
Par reget ioe RERIN, we 
n that mals 
+ 
ima 
© 
always on ore pe the poorest but the mos 
-nourishing kind 
— having > far described. the most promi- 
nt characteristics of the labourer’s diet, let us 
paced to inquire into its results. It is quite 
„eertain ihai where food of an inferior quality i is 
labourer | 
per lb. on account of its great 
the principle upon which the | 0 
t meats, as we te 
oman who is asa ntly at work, ry spexsfore 
t | th 
edb ee 
man n whose s emak ïs m filled up’ ‘with a mass 
as to spare ; and when has oa ee ry so 
| thing to, ar for a saan dra 
an 
of the northern counties we shall find that 
what is food. The poor n wants to be taught 
that it is not merely filling Mhiinself with Bho ere 
per cent. of whic h 
tainin 
fat of Bs that mt 1th a ri 
he wants to learn that stim 
man Potat 
and above all 
ulants are not feeding, 
es and it (for if he haye 
a g it over 
ind of 
we to ef? e answer : 
the labourer has the — of a cow. 
as Pig, a and if 
= 
etter wages, and be worth t 
he clergy pet. Te content with havin 
e poo s Po 
stone. for 
B 
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B 
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of, 
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< 
J 
cretinism a 
“í ARTERIA L DRAINAGE” i is a rather left-handed 
expression fo arteries in anatomy are those 
ploodvessels distribu fing = crimson life- stream 
rom larger into smaller it 
r channels in every part of a ramen 
"fought tot to its ‘feeders, just as the iy sat weal 
r blood a s vessels for 
which a north-countryman can render for the 
money, hile his better system of living has 
peated his pind, ng My is an 
e | he reads, and writes, and thinks, and his sons are 
ae so ape in intellect that th 
$ i jart 
“ 
get quantity, d he is is made to put up with a re 
Wage than where his habits are in favour of a 
‘better kind of e em inne in the midlar Mi Lopun ties, 
where uch relied upon, wages 
n : 
meal, run for a few eop, keep 
oa but it would appest 
s are lowest, there a pore quan. jron 
and 
‘weeks. The standard of the army up to an was not bana th than 
5 feet 6 inches; but men of this. pa umbers cannot be 
4 surgeon of my ola re 
is até, and told me toes about 40 years 
giving as mu peh, apa 
ga w ell | get oe me $ sprin’ g of 
and s 
va greatest ate Mr finest of the gin palaces w 
ater the agricult up 
rss y ty of food and low wager, ‘dais 
Sng ae —for a no 
and we- best of luck wi 
hel Sexes) Feehan nae aa (e 
i sn it erous sen- 
be Sofas rik aa of mune upon his offs spring. 
intelligent man, | 
. | nise 
And in 
Y | the most of the. 
£ ny excess of 
thews and sinews, dwindle and degenerate, pom 
The ha 
ay adjust the ‘‘ re pan ” or 
d velocity of iet Aor of a or apai g 
s | drain, according tot act increasing scale | i 
si all Sansone bstmeen the fountain-heads 
he final e ae one 
old country, if we would make 
annual downfall dropping in 
i ig in 
aes of khi 
a surfac ing and 
i Boban waves stl to the ocean 
down threaten 
mere it would 
or drown us, 
lik mind fbe profitable, rN D rand mete cheap mill- 
ealthy too ; if not he degenerates both in bey | power without w: San of flour or 
and mind; his ical nature, his stature, his|of woven goods, eke of canals to the | 
el 
the 
uling way, scour out d Barbon ‘for the 
ng y, Sco eep s—those 
po toate air » just 
n large towns "the 
outlets of our Sib nal prod 
mouths po ich, the commerce of a sword i = 
a;—in ome if 
be 
ural labourers put with a low 
ae _ 
A ios ae will be thickest. Sadly, then 
, do 
e upon. line, and precept upon ieit, ye sto | 
thronging popula 
ids all Aie revivify „the wey nema af 
tie too pestilen and e 
ti pelooiaged in ‘oe fae returns, we mustof gyi A 
sity enter upon some course of central and genera 
it i 
za A into RES vata and | 
Eg 
gy is certainly o: Hibernian origin LS 
ish people s aT "a trunk” drainage, Out- 
