Annual Fairs of County Societies. — Digestion. 239 
ANNUAL FAIRS OF COUNTY SOCIETIES FOR 1848. 
Otsego County. — Fair of the Otsego County Agricultural So- 
ciety to be held on the 28th and 29th of September, at Coopers- 
town. 
Seneca County. — Cattle show and fair of the Seneca County 
Agricultural Society to be held on the 5th and 6th of September 
next, at Seneca Falls. 
Wayne County. — The annual meeting of the Wayne County 
Agricultural Society, for the purpose of holding a fair, will take 
place on the 22d and 23d of September next, at Lyons. 
Benj. P. Johnson, Esq., Secretary of the New York State Ag- 
ricultural Society, has accepted an invitation to deliver addresses 
at the meeting of the two first named societies. 
Facts about Digestion. — Wheat is most nutritious of all sub- 
stances, except oil; containing ninety-five parts of nutriment to 
five of waste matter. Dry peas, nuts and barley are nearly as 
nutritious as wheat. Garden vegetables stand lowest on the list, 
inasmuch as they contain, when fresh, a large portion of water. 
The quantity of waste matter is more than eight-tenths of the 
whole. Veal is the most nutritious, then fowls, then beef, last, 
pork. The most nutritious fruits are plums, grapes, apricots, 
peaches, gooseberries, and melons. Of all the articles of food, 
boiled rice is digested in the shortest time — an hour. As it also 
contains eight-tenths of nutritious matter, is a valuable substance 
of diet. Tripe and pig's feet are digested almost as rapidly. Ap- 
ples, if sw'eet and ripe, are next in order. Venison is digested 
almost as soon as apples. Roasted potatoes are digested in half 
the time required by the same vegetable boiled, which occupy 
three hours and a half — more than beef or mutton. Bread oc- 
cupies three hours and a half — an hour more than is required by 
the same article raw. Turkey and goose are converted in two 
hours and a half — an hour and a half sooner than chicken. Roast- 
ed veal and pork, and salted beef, occupy five hours and a half — 
the longest of all articles of food. 
Steam Labor. — The amount of work now done by machinery, 
moved by steam, in England, has been supposed to be equivalent 
to that of between three and four hundred millions of men by 
direct labor. 
