The smallest on the list given I would commend to the consideration of every New England farmer who may read these pages.

It is stated under the real fact.

The capacity of English laborers for drinking strong beer is a wonder to the civilised world.

They seem to cling to this habit as to a vital condition of their very life and being.

One would be tempted to think that malt liquor was a primary and bread a secondary necessity to them; it must cost them most of the two, at any rate.