Show dyspepsia among farmers A physiological writer discourses in the following strain to the farmers of the western states it is a notorious fact that indigestion prevails more extensively among the farming population of the west than among any other class why is this they certainly take ann an reasonable amount of exercise and that too in the open air and in the broad sunil sunlight lit their houses are well ventilated and by breir their isolated situation are arc free from the many unhealthy influences of a pent up city we think if our farmers will pause for a moment and look this matter gravely in the face they will discern the cause of the prevalence of this mother of most maladies among among 0 them to be 1 the constant use of salt meat particularly salt pork it is well known that th this 13 abominable ewines flesh fried in its own filthy grease constitutes the staff of life in nearly every farmhouse farm house in the mississippi valley hog ilog and hominy are household gods and according to the hoosiers Hoo siera creed indispensable pen sable to mans existence I 1 2 the use of coffee the faithful western housewife serves it up strong and good morning noon and night reater reader neader just think of it the vilest of flesh washed into the stomach three times a day by a decoction of narcotic poi pol soni 3 rapid eating we should Te remember member that swallowing ones food is not the first process necessary to healthy digestion if we bad gizzards giz we might swallow our food flood whole as ducks tucks do but instead of gizzards giz we have teeth some af us and are commanded to use them thim in grinding food for the stomach but if we compel the stomach to do both its own work and that of the teeth it will soon give signs of debility and disease ili in the shape oe of acidity headaches sense of m weight eight over the whole nan nall irritable temper despondency de nc y etc 0 our r farmers seldom spend more than ten or fifteen minutes at a meal and then go immediately to tb the field and engage in t the he most laborious work at least one hour should be spent after each meal in repose of both body and mini mind this will allow the stomach stor to collect to itself so to speak a due quantity of blood hood out of which to elaborate the gastric juice jnice ice violent exercise calls the blood to other parts of the body and thus robs the stomach 1 IV ware ilare not aware that the dyspepsia has to any extent y peculiarly arly ariy exhibited its un unwelcome welcom e symptoms Q among mone a the fari farl farmers liers of the mountain vales 0 of f Utah t h soi far from this we are per th imore amore i abed laded ethamore th amore healthy active enterprising t ayik alfh intel lile ilie lit rit farmers than those who now S Q f u ily lly ail all the tho once sterile sterile soil of these valley cannot ie be found in any other country on t be 0 glob e 41 f eze ezo are quite confident in the truth of teabo we reluctantly acknowledge th ha a atthe 1 the appetite for coffee and other pois poisonous orious stimulants stu lants prevails with some bome to an deg degree ae ll whether tether dyspepsia or other is the consequence the generall nd anai anal alit t ot will viii b e the sa same bame re nervous de debuty Milty lack obi oCi concentration and arid as a legitimate C 4 result but limited success in the I 1 various arious lars involved i arming operations tea s injurious in its effects upon the hyster so but great frauds are practiced j in moe roe manufacture of this commodity some interest interesting im fact relative to this subject f from fron in the 1 will 1411 not be out of this on un q estion ably tho the those thoss a vil ill who ar arauco acau acquainted a me it wilh the qu quality allty of th stuff sold un derthia name namer in cou country places wll will wil I 1 be fully prepared i to expect something wrong in ih its modern n composition under the name nane of a cup of tea a beverage is now prepared which if it does not produce serious illness at least is destitute of every agreeable quality bitter or tasteless or musty or even acrid the poorer classes exchange 11 a wholesome refreshing r potation for what is neither the one or the other i 1 their chinese chines tea has no more virtue than the homemade herb tea formerly prepared from sloe leaves or ash leaves or vervain leaves or any similar trash and yet we have no reason to suppose that the adulteration takes place to any extent in this country unless it be with retried f fea tea ea leaves merchants sell what they import and tea dealers doubtless sell what they buy the fraud when there is any is committed in the celestial empire itself lie tea consisting of little balls of dust and rice water glazed to look like gunpowder tea was one example of the tricks that the chinese would continue to I 1 practice if they would pass in europe some years abo ago ago C a whole car carpo cargo 0 of tea was seized by the custom house officers and arid upon examination it was found not to contain a single single leaf of the tea plant it was reported to have ave come from cochin china and consisted of the dried leaves of some whose action if any was purgative and not tonic A fraud of this kind was however too clumsy to escape detection and does not seem to have been repeated at least in this country we have however reason to believe that leaves much like those of tea are now mixed by the chinese without attracting 0 attention since his residence at bangkok the tile capital of the kingdom of slam siam the british consul sir robert burgk has found in nearly every garden a shrub there called th the e tea plant which he believes is employed for tile the purpose of adulteration in china though not Eythe by the siamese if so it is not likely to be detected after the leaves are roasted an and curled up for in form and texture they are e much like those of the true tea shrub they are however distinguishable by the trained botanical eye now this shrub belongs to the genus called and is alliea allied to the plan plank t distributed by wallich under the name of and since is a member of the poisonous order we must not be surprised at any dis dig agreeable effects produced by tea in which its leaves shall shail have been mixed we recommend the buyers of low priced tea or the consumers of bad tea to look to this |