Show I 1 PEA PLANTING VARIETY OF I 1 vegetables SOME weeks ago we published a comin communication muni uni cation catlon over the signature of a practical farmer in which the writer suggested that peas should be extensively planted this season this suggestion was ivas made in view of our land being troubled with grasshoppers the writer asserting that those insects had no taste for pea vines since the grasshoppers have hatched and commenced their ravages we have heard of their destroying a portion of a field of peas on big canlon cannon creek this instance has been quoted to us as an evidence that the practical farmers suggestion was unreliable there may be other I 1 instances estan ces where the grasshoppers have eaten ofT off peas boutwe but we have not heard of them we have noticed however in our own garden that they do not manifest the same liking for peas that theado they do for other vegetation the peas are untouched while other things planted alongside efthem of them are arc unsparingly eaten others with whom we nave have conversed say that this is the case also in their gardens grasshoppers exercise considerable discrimination in the selection of their food where there is a scarcity of vegetation ge tation they will doubtless eat cut any thing that thatis is growing but where there is a great variety they select those things which are most toothsome last fall they invariably selected the ripest peaches first and seemingly only ate the rest zest when they could get nothing better if the pea is a vegetable for which they have no liking it is possible it may in many instances escape their ravages peas are very excellent I 1 as an article of diet they furnish a large amount of nutriment for their bulk and if they were more widely cultivated tiva ted and more freely eaten not only i in the summer while they are green but after they have ripened they would furnish a healthful and palatable variety for our tables wo we call the attention ot of our farmers and those these who have gardens to this subject and if the experience of any will throw light upon it we would be pleased to publish their ideas for the benefit of others there should be an extra effort made this season to raise as great a variety of food as possible there is no danger of any article of food that will help to sustain man and beast being a drug drum in our market this thia year should our aa harvest arvest be extraordinary in fruitfulness our depleted bins will require it all to replenish them as they should be greater attention should be paid by our agriculturists to the cultivation of vegetables than has been in the past root boot crops especially are too much neglected on many farmers tables scarcely any other vegetable than the potatoe makes its appearance turnips par snips carrots beets cabbages cauliflowers rhubarb as asparagus aragus and celery ought to be cultivated cultivate much more extensively si vely than at present there are not half enough of these articles eaten for the health of the people of course if farmers do not raise a variety of vegetables for their own use the other classes who do not follow agriculture must go short in a country like ours in in which every variety of vegetable and fruit can be raised of a most excellent quality it is a shiftless way of living to be almost entirely confined to a bread and meat diet no wonder that so many people especially those of sedentary habits babits are troubled witha with a complaint which the aridity of the climate and the dryness and sameness of the food eaten here make so common our fine flour has killed off at a very rapid rate the indians who gave cave have used it aa as a diet the effect has been more sudden and marked upon them than upon the whites who have been accustomed to it from birth but eating so much fine flour as we do in this arid climate is injurious to the health of the people much more so we are convinced than the same bulk would be if eaten in a humid climate like that of great britain i or even the eastern and western states our children and our adults would wo ll be much healthier if vegetables and fruits were more freely eaten this is a subject of great importance and should receive attention |