The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-09-21
Farm Products Used at Home.

Those having a home upon the farm
hardly realize the Independence of
their position, being, as they are, at
the fountain-head, with entire right to
select and eat from the best. All the
apples in the orchard will sell readily
when offered in the market; yet, when
members of the househo'd want apples
to eat, perhaps there are not more than
three or four trees they will be content
to pick from. Who ever gets an entire
iy luscious peach, I'm ess he goes to a
particular row and selects sun-ripened
peaches of a particular hue? The best
apples and peaches on the farm are
what they appear to be, for they can
not be adu terated, as is milk, that most
who 'esome and most generally appli-
cable article to all ages and conditions.
The milk on the farm excels that fur
nished in the city as much as the select
apple and peach excel the fruit from
the poorest fruit-bearing trees in the
orchard
Yet, under the influence of one OF
those preiudices. for which there is no
means of accounting, it is generally be-
lieved that milk creates biuOusness. No
error could be greater than this. The
infant, living exclusively upon milk, is
more exempt from &C limitations of
bile than persons of any other class or
age. We refer to the prejudice as be-
ing unexplained; yet, while this is true,
we will give an explanation which will,
perhaps, come nearer being correct
than any other. Some persons, besides
eating full meal of meats, vegetables
and pastry. will drink a pint or a pint
and half of rich milk, viewing this
only as drink, while it in
fact contains all the elements of
nutrition required for either young
or old. After such an extra tax
being put upon the stomach, it is no
wonder that a drowsy feeling follows,
perhaps supplements with headache,
and a slightly coated tongue; nor is ii
surprising that this condition follows
the free use OF rich milk in connection
with a hearty meal, because the indi-
vidual using it in the manner named
gets an oversupply of nutriment, gives
the stomach an undue tax, and from
this cause may become bilious, as he
would from taking any nutritious food
to excess. Milk is supposed to be
abundant on all farm5-Or at any ra te
it should be-and is entirely suited for
free use at each meal. For those who
make their principal meal at noon, milk,
with the various combinations usually
provide with it, forms very suitable
article for use at night.
Farmers do not generally realize the
advantages of being at the source of
supply, having access to articles used
upon the table while in their best state,
instead of after they have been shipped
long distances and held till the fresh
ness, which is a material element in
many things used upon the farm, is
gone. It may be true of some large
farmers, engaged in a special line of
production, that it will not pay them to
bother with the garden, with bees,
poultry, and other of the lesser things
that s. help out in the living arrange
ments upon the premises; this may be
in one sense true, but it is also found to
be true that where these lesser things
are not grown upon the premises, then,
no matter how thoughtful and DESTROYS
the female hea of the house may be to
have variety upon her table, she will,
as rule, fail in this, and the living will
settle down upon a routine of bread,
meat and coffee-not by any means the
most enjoyable or wholesome living
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