ELEVEN) COME AND SEE MY CABBAGES 
and so can get on without brushing, while they 
will yield abundantly. The points of a prime pea 
are sweetness, thin skin, and prolific bearing. 
Beans, peas, and corn, all alike decline to con- 
fine their service to man to their green state. Some 
of the best ears of your sweet corn should be trussed 
up for parching in winter. After parching, grind 
the kernels in a coffee mill, and eat with milk and 
sugar. It is quite equal to most of the costly 
cereals, and it is a very inexpensive food. Split 
peas should constitute a very large element in fam- 
ily diet, being wholesome and nutritious. As for 
baked beans, why speak of them to sons of New 
Englanders? Yet I find that very few know that 
dried Lima beans are, for baking, far superior to 
the common beans. After soaking, you may easily 
rub off the skins, then boil down for soup, or bake. 
In this state they may be eaten by invalids, the 
skin of the bean alone being a hindrance to diges- 
tion. A well-ordered family should make a very 
generous use of corn meal, of boiled or baked beans, 
and of boiled or baked peas. All of them can be 
made into puddings and pies. 
If you have good, loose soil, in a limestone district, 
be sure to grow your own early potatoes, however 
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