ON THE 



PRESERVATION OF THE HEALTH OF PERSONS 

 EMPLOYED IN AGRICULTURE. 



ADVANTAGES WHICH PERSONS EMPLOYED IN AGRI- 

 CULTURE POSSESS IN POINT OF HEALTH. 



THE way of life of perfons engaged in agri- 

 cultural bufinefs, exempts them from many 

 of the diforders to which other occupations are 

 liable. Many of the employments by which great 

 numbers of people are fupported, are injurious to 

 health, by being either too fedentary, or too labo- 

 riops ; by which the powers of nature are either 

 fuffcrcd to languifh for want of exertion, or worn 

 out prematurely by over-fatigue. But the bufinefs 

 of hufbandry is not necefifarily connected with either 

 of thefe extremes. The labour is indeed conftant, 

 but not in general fo violent as either to exhauft the 

 ftrength by ovcr-ftraining, or to excixe any weak- 

 ening degree of difcharge by perfpiration. The 

 variety likewife of the neceflary bufinefs is a favour- 

 able circumftance for thofe who are employed in 



it, 



