The liking for it should be encouraged as decidedly as the liking for butter.

It is less heating, more soothing to the tissues, and from childhood to old age its liberal use prevents many forms of disease, as well as equalizes digestion in general.
LEGUMINOUS SEEDS are of more importance, embracing as they do the whole tribe of beans, pease, and lentils.

Twice as much nitrogen is found in beans as in wheat; and they rank so near to animal food, that by the addition of a little fat they practically can take its place.

Bacon and beans have thus been associated for centuries, and New England owes to Assyria the model for the present Boston bean-pot.

In the best table-bean, either Lima or the butter-bean, will be found in a hundred parts, thirty of nitrogen, fifty-six of starch, one and a half of cellulose, two of fatty matter, three and a half of saline, and eight and a half of water.
The proportion of nitrogen is less in pease, but about the same in lentils.