The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-06-22
Eating for working.

The Importance of this matter is far
\ too little appreciated or understood by
the great majority of farmers. Many
whC carefully consider what kinds and
/ quantities of food, of oats. corn, ground
and cut feed, hay or grass, will enable
4 them to get the most work out of their
| horses and oxen, the richest milk, OF
/ largest amount of it, from their COWS
also the best times of feeding-sadly
neglect to use similar thought and care
respecting themselves and their work
men. The foreigner working a New
Jersey farm, in explaining how he got
/ together money enough to buy it, said:
I'VE sells every ting that brings de
/ cash; what won't sell, we feeds to de
! bosses; what de bosses don't eat, we
feeds to de COWS; what de cows don't
eat, we feeds to de sleeps: what de
! sleeps don't eat, we feeds to de pigs;
/ and what dey don't eat, we eats our
! selves" This is an exaggerated state
ment, of course, but it illustrates prin-
| ciple too often acknowledging the
| good and eating the poor.
Strength comes only from suitable
nutritious food, well digested. A man,
whether employer or employed, win
| have far more working power if he eats
as much, and only as much as he can
digest well, of lean meat, properly
cooked, good bread, oatmeal, ordinary
and curd cheese, and the like, than if
| consuming salt fat pork, cooked almost
to a crisp, with potatoes, etc. A labor
er paid dollar or more a day, will do
double real work if five 10 ten cents ex-
ira be spent in supplying him with food
that will give him the fullest strength.
! Beans, if not charred or Drowned in
cooking, peas, green or ripe, good
bread, and cabbage thoroughly cooked,
supply the elements for muscular force.
The blood is the active helper in iii
costing food, by supplying the gastric
solvents. and it carries nOurishment to
the muscles and to the brain. While a
heavy meal is being worked up, the
blood is drawn away from the muscles
and brain to the stomach. When at
! hard work or exercise with mind or
body, the blood is drawn from the stom-
ach, and less nutriment is obtained from
the food. 1t is a good rule to work
slowly at first, after full meals, and in
crease the amount of exercise gradually,
as the blood can be spared from the
digestive organs. More will be accom-
pGshed by this course in working and
thinking. The French people, who
make a study of the subject, take a
very little food on rising, a roll and
coffee, and perhaps baked apple, aud
begin work at daylight Towards noon
they take another similar simple roast.
and do full days work by four O. clock
in the afternoon; then rest little, take
full hearty meal, and make business
Of digesting it. During the rest of the
evening and night, this MEALS digested,
diffused all through the system, and
quietly builds up and strengthens the
muscles, so that they are ready for
vigorous work the next day. Expert
enced horsemen understand that with
heavy feed of oats. ETC., at night, and a
light breakfast, a horse gets a reserved
stock of muscular strength laid in in adj
vance, and will travel faster and further
chan one having a hearty morning feed
% start on.-Anlertca1t AgrfculturiSt.