Fakmers Food. There is much diffi
culty experienced in obtaining the kind
of food in farminz communities wnicn
every one knows would be most whole
some, and at the same time most desir
able as a relish, and to support the
heavy taxation upon the systems of all
laboring men. Variety is not all that is
necessary. Salt meats are easily pro
vided the year round; not so fresh
meats. The general practice is to gorge
upon fresh meats during the first half
of the winter, and starve upon salt
meats the ret of the year, with rare
exceptions. This does not apply near
villages, where farmers are well-to-do,
and hare fresh meats from the batcher's
cart once or twice a week ; nor neces
sarily where farms are larpe enough to
employ a number of men. The large
farms could have fat sheep and a calf
now and then during the hummer, with
out difficulty. hat to the small farmers,
of which our population is largely com
posed, it is too expensive to go to the
butcher ; and a sheep cannot be kept
until eaten in warm weather. In some
localities the practice prevails of ex
changing one killing a sheep or calf
one week, and another the next, and so
on. This, or for an owner of sheep to
kill often, and sell to bis neighbors at a
slight advance from cost, is very conve
nient to all. lut this is not practicable
in all localities, and some suggestion to
remedy the difficulty would be appre
ciated. As to fresh vegetables, their
absence from any farmer's table is rather
a neglect than a necessity. Any fanner
can Winter rutabagas, beets, carrots,
parsnips, onions, green peas, and apples
without expense, and the housekeeper
can put up a few cans of tomatoes,
cherries, currants, ic, Ac, with but
little labor, if she be properly seconded
by the "lord of the manor." Early
vegetables are as simple to possess as
can be wished. Spinach or kale for
greens may le sown in September, and
covered slightly during winter, and be
ready in April or May. Onions can be
sown the same way. Lettuce and cab
bage plants can be sown in September
and set in a cold frame in November
and produce heads in Jnne. Kailisb.es
can be sown in March, and early peas
and potatoes planted.
