Litchfield enquirer., 1857-09-10

Reasoning from this, it seems that there is no reasop why potatoes should he such necessity of diet, except from their agreeable flavor. They a'e no more easily digested than peas or keans- less so than Indian corn in any of it's varieties. and for an article of entire subsistence, not as well adapted to general health several other va rie,ies of garden produce. The article of homi- nv, so commonly used at the South, and coming into more general use at tho North, is excel lent substitute for the po.atoe When properly boiled. it resembles it in flavor, and fried in Cakes and nire'y Drowned, answers all the purpose of the potatoe when fried or mashed. White corn makes the hest hominy. The kernel is merely cracked at the mill, perhaps once or twice. ard m this condition, requires but little more fuel to cook' than the potatoe thus overthrowing the objection of cost of fire-wood in preparation. Deans, also, are an excellent substitute. If children were as early fed with bean broth, or beans well prepared, as they are with potatoes, they would prob 'bly take to them through life, readily as they now do to potatoes Beans are easily and pro6tably cultivated so also peas, and several varieties of len.ils. Our grand parents knew but little regard ing the po,atoe; and surely they were as vIgor- ous race as the present. Why then should we be paying one dollar per bushel for an article that scarcely lasts over night in cellars, and the family grubbing through half fare for enough to serve for the childreus dinner ?
 The crop had best be ahandoned-the sooner the better. Men will then set to work to produce a substitute, and mothers to teach their children to live on something else
 In connection with this subject, the ehorusous price we are paying for meat may well be con sidsred. As nation, we eat altogether TOO much b eff and mutton. We are believed to eat on an average, an amount of animal food equal at least [, one whole meal once day-Great Britain. one !, two days All mankind, according to the usua training are fond of stimulahss, and whether sav age OF civilized, will indulge in them more or less Now, meat differs oaly in degree from spirits wine, cider, beer, coffee, &c., &c At the same time, more than half of the SO0,O00,00O of hu- man beings that people the earth, live entirely vegetables. These persons are vegetable eaters from necessity. They cannot afford to eat meat, The Chn,men subsst principally on rice and yet fhsy dIo hdton cdpaofe oI great fdtiSue and endurance. A Chinese traveller and missionary found, that the Chinese of the interior of the Em- pHe scarcely ever tas,ed meat-and that flesh eat ing ruins them for labor-that instead of being strong, healthy and active, they soon became la- zy, sef:indutgent and etfeminate. The Japanese of the interior are again entire vegetable eaters ; and yet, we have the testimony of al the geogra- phers and travellers who have been among them, that in their physical and intellectual develope, ments to say nothing of their moral peculiarisies they are the first men in all Asia Nor does the inhabitant of warm climates alone suLsist on vep etable diet. In the late Russian war;. the English troops, as they examined the ra,ions which the hardy Northern soldier carried in his knapsack was surprised to fnd that it consisted alone of small amount of sour, black bread, mike with a small portion of some fatty substance.
 Now the vegetable products of an acre of land. such as wheat, rye, corn, beans, peas, Be-, will sustain family in equal health, eight tsmss as long as the pork, or mutton which the same vegetables would make by fecdiog them to do-