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FARMER SNUG AND FARMER SLACK-THE CONTRAST. 
Diet. —As articles of diet, we make no use of I 
pork, foreign teas or coffees, simply because we 
believe them unwholesome; but deny ourselves 
no further of the good things of the table, found 
among the best of livers in this country. There 
is this difference, however, between us and our 
neighboring good livers, that we make a freer 
use of milk and butter, pastries, fruits, all kinds 
of vegetable alimentary substances, and a more 
restricted use of meats, &c., than they do. Our 
meats are beef, mutton, poultry, and fish—eggs 
we have, especially at one season of the year, 
in abundance. At our meals we have consider¬ 
able variety in articles of diet, and these articles, 
except in a few instances, are continually 
changed, according to circumstances ; so that 
it would be impossible, or nearly so, to give a per¬ 
fect understanding of how we live in every mi- 
nutia. But, generally, for breakfast we have 
two kinds of meat, cold light bread and warm 
biscuit, commonly in form of light rolls, milk, 
butter and cheese, domestic tea and coffee, Irish 
potatoes and other vegetable sauces, pies or 
pastry, &c. For dinner, two kinds of meat, 
soups, cooked vegetables, cold light bread, warm 
corn bread, milk, butter and cheese, puddings, 
pies, &c. Supper, no meat, cold light bread, 
domestic tea and coffee, milk, butter and cheese, 
potatoes and vegetable sauces, pies, preserved 
fruits, &c. There is not, though allowable, a 
very free use made of any kind of animal food, 
further than milk, butter and eggs, by the society 
at large, and many of them find it more condu¬ 
cive to health to restrict themselves within 
narrower limits. 
Dyspepsia Cured. —For my own part, an absti¬ 
nence from all animal diet, except milk, for the 
last six or seven years, has cured me of dyspep¬ 
sia or indigestion, or perhaps more correctly, 
this course of living in connection with the 
water treatment, has cured me. We have never 
had a case of cholera or anything like it, in this 
place. 
Pasture for Coivs. —Nature has so ordered it, 
that a cow should have plenty of grass or 
other nutritious substances, so that with a few 
hours’ labor she can supply herself for the day, 
and have time to lie and rest and ruminate. 
These conditions are known to be essential to 
her health and well being. Where a cow is 
compelled, for a scanty subsistence, to labor 
hard in the hot sun all day, she becomes ex¬ 
hausted, and without relief dies, where other 
circumstances are favorable. 
Winter Feeding Stock. —Seven months in the 
year, on an average, we do not feed our milch 
cows at all, grass and red clover in pastures being 
sufficient, but the remaining five months we feed 
them. The principal food in winter, besides hay, 
is what we call chop. Oats in the sheaf un¬ 
threshed, are cut and mixed, after wetting, with 
meal, and the oats should be cut in the field 
before they get fully ripe and allowed to cure 
in the sun and be taken up without being wet. 
Pumpkins, turnips, and boiled potatoes, (Irish.) 
make good food for milch cows in winter. 
M. Burnett. 
FARMER SNUG- AND FARMER SLACK—THE 
CONTRAST. 
I have lately made some observations upon 
the difference between farmers, which, with 
your leave, I should like to lay before your 
readers. 
In the first place, let us examine the premises 
of a good farmer. His barns and out buildings 
are a perfect model of neatness. Not a board 
missing from its place on the barn, to let in the 
winter winds and snows; but all is warm and 
comfortable. His yards do not show the want 
of time to clear them, consequently, he does not 
lose one quarter of his manure—that most val¬ 
uable and necessary article in all improvements 
in agriculture. Not only is this amount saved* 
but the pleasure of getting around the yards and 
barns is greatly facilitated, and greatly to his ad¬ 
vantage. Examine his fences, you find no rails 
or boards missing—all is snug and in order. 
His cattle and sheep are in their places, not 
troubling his neighbors. Ask this man to take 
j an agricultural paper, and nine cases out of ten 
he will tell you he is taking one already, but 
would like to renew his subscription for another 
year. Ask him if he could not get along with¬ 
out it, and he will tell you perhaps he could, but 
he would not as long as he could obtain one for 
so trifling a sum. This is the scientific farmer. 
Now let us view the premises of the farmer 
Slack, and mark the difference. His barns speak 
out—they want now and then a board, (and 
oftener now than then,) to keep the contents 
from the snows and storms of winter. His yards 
show the effect of his easy habits—oo much 
that is valuable going to waste. His fences de¬ 
note the same want of care and attention. In 
some places only the traces of a fence are visi¬ 
ble, so that with the utmost ease, his own cattle 
can go from field to field, or his neighbor’s cattle 
partake of the herbage that his own so much 
require, judging from their appearance. Such 
is the farm of neighbor Slack—as he is termed. 
Ask him to take an agricultural paper and mark 
his answer—99 cases out of 100 him or his pro- 
