SEED-TIME AUD HARVEST. 
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Vegetable Briefs. 
BY SAM: LAWRENCE. 
* As the summer advances, consume more 
vegetables and less meat. 
The four essential kinds of food are flesh, | during summer. Vegetables are cheap and 
it is much better to buy them than to have 
else that shows the educated man to be 
above the savage or cannibal. If a little 
energy is put into a few spare moments, 
every family can have a luxuriant garden. 
When it is not or can not be had there is 
still no excuse for living on a meat diet 
grain, vegetables and fruits. These are all 
necessary to promote health and strength, 
yet their use must not be turned into abuse. 
Nature endowed man with instinct to tell 
him what to eat. At this season of the 
year the natural inclination is to choose 
to deal with sickness. 
CULTIVATION. 
This word means the improvement by 
tillage. It is the aid of man added to the 
natural provisions made by the Supreme 
light, cooling foods, and it would be in ac- Being for the promotion of the growth oi 
cord with prudence as well as health to plants. It is not a recent sentence on man 
supply them in abundance. to make him work. Adam and Eve were 
Vegetables have an important chemical given the Garden of Eden to tend and cui- 
effect on the system, which, in value, is tivate. Old as the methods of cultivating 
hard to overestimate, How few seem to the soil is, and well known as the impor- 
know this, or knowing it, fail to take ad- tant principles seem to be inculcated, ye& 
vantage of their knowledge. Such articles there are many failures. People will blame 
of food are often conspicuous only by their the weather and other inevitable circum- 
absence. stances, when in about nine cases out of 
Few farmers sufficiently appreciate veg-1 ten, the fault lies wholly upon themselves. 
The first great occasion of poor crops is 
too little work after the plants begin to 
grow. The soil needs stirring in the early 
spring, and its demands at the present time 
are equally urgent. It is a common cry 
If 
etables to cultivate them properly, 
farmers, and gardeners, too, would in 
crease this sort of diet during the heated 
term there would be less danger from the 
common summer fevers. The blood would 
be kept in a purer state and the sallow com-1 nearly every summer that there will be 
plexions now to be seen would soon dis- nothing raised on account of drouth, yet 
appear. the measures that will greatly lessen the 
Tomatoes are, perhaps, the most valuable effects of dryness are not taken advantage 
of all garden plants. They should be sup- of. The ground must be stirred, and stir- 
plied in abundance for every table. The red often. This is the principle key to suc- 
tomato is easily raised and yields well. A cess in the garden, and the same saying 
few plants of some good variety will sup- will hold good in the cornfield. I am not 
ply a family from the time of beginning to i n favor of deep cultivation, as oftentimes 
bear until frost sets in. The acid juice of it is injurious, but the times of working can 
the tomato peculiarly fits it to be a staple 1 110 t be too many, 
article of food during the summer months. 
Onions are the most nutricious of all veg¬ 
etables commonly grown. Like the toma¬ 
to it is easily cultivated and forms one of 
the best blood purifiers known, when eaten 
But few people lay in a sufficient 
raw. 
supply of onions. Most farmers plant only 
a few short rows, enough for but a few 
meals, when the crop should be large 
enough to last the whole year. 
An abundant use or the various kinds of 
vegetables is evidence of civilization. It is 
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