Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1861-05-23

ture of his early home will grow brighter in
memory.
But if we submit the garden to the test
of utility, we have the strongest induce
ments to cultivate it. It is school of in
dustry for both boys aud girls, forming
habits of systematic labor, and making work
attractive by the pleasures that accompany
it. Almost any child will dig in the soil
for the sake Of beautiful flowers and fine
fruits. These habits formed in our early
years. abide with US. They lay the foun
dations of character, and are worth more
than gold. The boy that learns to love
work under ten years Of age, has fortune
in that habit, useful for all after life.
The garden is not to be despised, as
means of family support and comfort, and
of profit as we'll.
A family of the average size may have
half its table expenses met by we'll culti-
waited garden. Here is asparagus, pie-plant
lettuce and other salads already in profusion
A little farther on in the season, the ground
grows red with strawberries, and all the
smaller fruits hang temptingly from the
boughs. Here are peas. beans, and green
corn, beets, onions, tomatoes, okra, egg
plant, and celery, squashes, melons, and
the larger fruits Of autumn. It was long
catalogue that embraced all the delicious
vegetables and fruits that a well-appointea
garden produces.
There is health as we'll as economy ia the
cultivation Of these articles, There can be
no doubt that, as nation, we live far too
largely upon meat. Were fruits and vege-
tables as common as they ought to be upon
the farm, this evil would be remedied. Chill
dren and almost all adults of unperverted
tastes prefer large proportion of this diet;
and it is owing mainly to the fact that gar
dens are neglected, that ltjunk and johny-
cakes, hog and hominy. reign supreme upon
so many tables, for the larger part of the
year.
Consecrate few square rods to the spade
and the garden rake. and let Flora and
Pomona henceforth be numbered among
your household gods -Agriculturist.
ASoLD1ER's .RAr1oNs "-Everything re-
lating to the subsistence and comfort Of
soldier is now of special interest to the men
and their friends. The following, which
We find in the Lancaster pa Express n
taken from the regulations of the United
States army:
A ration is "a portion Or fixed allowance
Of provisions. drink and forage. assigned 70
sistenee, and for the subsistence of horses.
Officers have several rations, according to
their rank or number of attendants. Sea-
men in the navy also have rations Of GER
tain articles" The following is the soldiers
ration as regulated by the War Department.:
THE ration is three ourths of a pound
of pork or bacon, or one and a-fourth pounds
of fresh or salt beef; eighteen ounces of
bread or flour, or twelve ounces of hard
bread. or one and a-fourth pounds of corn
meal, and at the rate, to one hundred ra-
tons, of eight quarts of peas or beans, or.
in lieu thereof ten pounds of rice, six pounds
coffee, twelve pounds sugar. four quarts
vinegar, one and a-half pounds tallow, or
one and a-fourth pounds adamantine, or one
pound sperm candles, four pounds of SOAP
and two quarts of salt"
When the officers of the medical depart
ment find anti-scorbutics necessary for the
health of the troops. the commanding officer
may order issues Of fresh vegetables. picked
onions. sourkrout, or molasscs, with an ex-
ira quantity Of rice and vinegar. potatoes
are usually issued at the rate of one pound
per ration. and onions at the rate of three
bushels in lieu of one of beans) Occasion
al issues (extra) of molasses are made-two
quarts to one hundred rations-and of dried
annles of from ono RI ono ond i, half huehol,
to one hundred rations.
In the regular army, as soldiers are OK
pected to preserve. distribute. and cook their
own subsistence, the hire of citizens for any
Of these duties is not allowed, except in ex-
trcme cases. Ovens may be built or paid
for by the subsistence department, but not
bake-houses.