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VIRTUES OF MILK. 
VIRTUES OF MILK. 
It is a most perfect diet. Nothing like it— 
it contains curd, which is necessary for the 
development and formation of muscle—butter 
for the production of an adequate supply of 
fat; sugar to feed the respiration, and thereby 
add warmth to the body; the phosphates of 
lime and magnesia, the peroxide of iron, the 
chlorides of potassium and soda, with the free 
soda, required to give solidity and strength to 
the bone, together with the saline particles so 
essentially necessary for other parts of the body. 
It contains lactic acid, or the acid of milk, which 
chemists inform us is the acid of the gastric 
juice, so requisite for the proper dissolving of 
our food in the stomach. It is therefore obvi¬ 
ous that milk should be chemically correct in 
all its constituents, and that its beneficial effects 
on the constitution should not be neutralised by 
adulteration. “ It is,” Dr. Prout properly states, 
“the true type of all food.” How necessary, 
therefore, is it that it should be pure; otherwise 
this wonderful and wise provision of providence 
would be a curse rather than a blessing.— Bugg’s 
Observations on Milk. 
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A JAUNT IN OHIO.—No. 3. 
A Day in Urbana .—Having received, while in 
Cincinnati, a kind invitation from Col. John H. 
James, an eminent lawyer and agriculturist, re¬ 
siding at Urbana, to spend a day with him on 
my return home, and having a little leisure, I 
embraced the opportunity. Stopping a couple 
of hours at Springfield, (already mentioned,) on 
my way up, I rode out with Mr. William Cooper, 
to see his beautiful farm, a mile west of the 
town, on the right border of Buck Creek, pleas¬ 
antly overlooking the village and adjacent coun¬ 
try.. Mr. Cooper was formerly a merchant in 
Pennsylvania, and removed to Springfield about 
five years ago, and purchased the place where 
he now resides, consisting of between two and 
three hundred acres of as fine land as one would 
wish to look at or live on. He has improved it 
much, although at small expense; built an ex¬ 
cellent family homestead, outhouses, and barns, 
surrounded them with fruit and ornamental 
trees, and farms it in a superior manner. As we 
rode up to his house, we passed a corn field, 
which was “ worn out,” as his neighbors all told 
him when he bought the place; but, from which, 
with a moderate dressing of barnyard manure, 
he had just harvested 70 bushels of corn to the 
acre; and the field was then dotted yellow with 
an enormous crop of pumpkins, for feeding to 
his cattle, On a “ bottom ” of the creek, lies a 
pasture of about 60 acres, in natural blue grass, 
in which he had a herd of some 50 neat cattle, 
which had grazed there all summer, and had 
•abundance of food. So fertile are many of these 
Ohio bottoms in pasture, that some of them will 
graze its ox to the acre for an entire summer. 
No wonder that these western lands are termed 
“the Paradise of neat cattle.” Certainly no 
place in the universe can be more congenial to 
their growth and fattening. 
Mr. Cooper bought this farm for $28 per acre. 
It is now worth $50. Neglected and worn out, 
when he purchased, and improved by little else 
than good cultivation, it would sell readily for the 
latter price—the result of skill and capital ap¬ 
plied in a common-sense way. A profit of about 
50 per cent, on the investment is here realised, 
besides a return equal to the annual interest 
upon the improvements on the estate. Mr. 
Cooper takes and reads the American Agricul¬ 
turist, as he told me, and I did not wonder at his 
success as a farmer. 
Again taking the cars, an hour and a half 
carried me to Urbana, and a few steps from the 
station, to the hospitable residence of Col. James, 
on one side of the town, and in one of its most 
beautiful and retired portions, attached to which 
is a wide lawn and garden, with several acres 
of ground in the rear, giving it a most rural-ap¬ 
pearance. As this house and grounds are a 
model of what every gentleman of easy for¬ 
tune who resides in a country town or village 
may possess, I name it as an example for their 
imitation in convenience, comfort, and appear¬ 
ance. A handsome plateau of elevated grounds; 
a deep lawn, sprinked with forest and orna¬ 
mental trees and shrubbery; a broad vegetable, 
fruit and flower garden; in the midst of these 
an ample two-story, well-built house, with a 
rear kitchen, woodhouse, and other convenient 
appendages attached, all on a level, set well up 
from the ground, and you have the whole story 
—of household requirements I mean—that any 
country gentleman need wish, and all within the 
compass of $5,000. Such is the retreat at which 
I was welcomed for the day. 
A sitting of a couple of hours in agreeable 
conversation with an accomplished and charm¬ 
ing family, in a spacious and well-filled library ; 
a luxuriant and wide view from the house top, 
of town, field, and forest, spreading over a soil 
of inexhaustable fertility ; and a stroll in the 
garden, talking pomology and cultivation, while 
in the examination of tree and plant, and 
fruit, and flower, brought us to the dinner 
hour. At the table, a light hock and a spark¬ 
ling champagne, pure and delicious, both the 
