Some idea of the extent to which swine were grazed in the feudal times, may be formed by observing the number of pigs still fed in Epping Forest, the Forest of Dean, and the New Forest, in Hampshire, where, for several months of the year, the beech-nuts and acorns yield them so plentiful a diet.

This nutritious diet, which it has in great abundance, is, according to Foster, the reason of its flesh being so delicious, so full of juice, and so rich in fat, which is not less delicate to the taste than the finest butter.

AS THE CALF PROGRESSES TOWARDS HIS TENTH WEEK, his diet requires to be increased in quantity and quality; for these objects, his milk can be thickened with flour or meal, and small pieces of softened oil-cake are to be slipped into his mouth after sucking, that they may dissolve there, till he grows familiar with, and to like the taste, when it may be softened and scraped down into his milk-and-water.

The mode of feeding them is very simple; milk is the chief article of their diet, and of this the calves require a sufficient supply from first to last.

Ducks reared exclusively on vegetable diet will have a whiter and more delicate flesh than those allowed to feed on animal offal; while the flesh of birds fattened on the latter food, will be firmer than that of those which have only partaken of food of a vegetable nature.

Others there are who insist that nothing beats oleaginous diet, and cram their birds with ground oats and suet.

But, whatever the course of diet favoured, on one point they seem agreed; and that is, that, while fattening, the fowls should be kept in the dark.

In addition to their regular diet of good corn, make them a cake of ground oats or beans, brown sugar, milk, and mutton suet.

A sudden alteration in diet will cause it, as will a superabundance of green food.

Restrict the bird's diet, for a few days, to dry food,crushed beans or oats, stale bread-crumbs, &c. FOWL SCOLLOPS (Cold Meat Cookery).

Again, the plainest diet seems the fittest to be preceded by the grace.

Or if their appetites must run riot, and they must pamper themselves with delicacies for which east and west are ransacked, I would have them postpone their benediction to a fitter season, when appetite is laid; when the still small voice can be heard, and the reason of the grace returnswith temperate diet and restricted dishes.

Eating earthworms was not part of my diet or training, but once I saw Mr Shirke toss one into his mouth after being challenged to do so by one of the boys.

Further investigations make it clear that they owe their fitness quite as much to diet, to alternating one form of brain-work with another or to the consolations of music.

Mr. ARTHUR PONSONBY, M.P., the Democratic Controller, is a confirmed fruitarian, and attributes his robust health to a diet of Morella cherries and Carlsbad plums, washed down with Stockholm tar-water.

The time of rising and retiring, the hours of sleep, the dress, the care of the diet, and many other details of personal health become an important part of the training.

If our diet contained no proteids, the tissues of the body would gradually waste away, and death from starvation would result.

Fish forms an important and a most nutritious article of diet, as it contains almost as much nourishment as butcher's meat.

This is a large and important group of foods, and embraces a remarkable number of different kinds of diet.

They take the place of meats with those who believe in a vegetable diet.

It has been condensed from Dr. W. O. Atwater's valuable monograph on "Foods and Diet."

Various green, fresh, and succulent vegetables form an essential part of our diet.

It is a well-known fact that the continued use of a diet from which fresh vegetables are excluded leads to a disease known as scurvy.

Their flavor and juiciness serve to stimulate a weak appetite and to give variety to an otherwise heavy diet.

It exists in all ordinary articles of diet, but in quantities not sufficient to meet the wants of the bodily tissues.