TEETOTALISM PROFITABLE TO THE FARMER.

Auckland Chronicle and New Zealand Colonist, Volume 2, Issue 27, 8 February 1844, Page 2

TEETOTALISM PROFITABLE TO THE FARMER.

We copy from the Bristol Herald the following extract, and we hope it will be carefully considered by our agricultural readers; it is a most important article, and clearly shows how advantageous the practice of Teetotafism should be to the Farmer. “ Your committee suppose an individual to consume tbe very moderate quantity of one pint of beer, or two penny worth of spirits per day ; in the year it amounts, at 2d. per day, to £3 Os. JOd. ; with this amount ot money, at different times in

i« left to the farmer for the produce of the soil. When this sum is rxptnded for beer or gin, how kUnds the profils of the farmer ? To make 565 glasses of gin, or six gallons, or 366 pint* of two penny beer, about five bushels of barley is required ; ibis is purchased of the farmer fi r 16*. Bd.. and that is all be receives of the money the remaining £2 4*. 2d. goea to pay tbe Queen’* doty, lor labour, licenses and profit to the brew* or distiller, and reiailer. r Thus, under the teetotal system, tbe farmer receive* out of £'i Os. 10(1.

n favour of Agriculinre, by carrying out universal B obtiely.*’ We are not advocates for the use of malt liquors, much less tbe abuse of them; on the cout 1 ary, should be happy to believe that nine-tenths of the barley, now enii-loyed in the bieweries—public and private—were cot sumed as It 01, solid aliment* by man or animals. Bxcitement then would be exchanged for strength , and Due economy would thus be consulted, and go band in hand with improved morality. Cut malt liquors are consumed, and will be, till man becomes alive to his real interests.

ooure the year, the teetotaller uurcha sea:— 2f 1 ;>!». otMeat ............. . £o IS 1 112lb). of good Flour ...... 0 0 1:4 lbs of butler 12 • 4 sack* of Potatoes........, 9 0 6 atone of Barley Meal .... 6 9 £3 0 10 Take off this sum. Profit to the Butcher, £0 1 3 i , vk. Ve > 0 3 10 Ditto Baker, 0 2 7 j £2 17 0

Just 0 Under the drinking syslenj... . •. 8 • Leaving a ba’ance of**•••••« 0