730 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



exagj^eratiou, avoid fault-linding, and in everything strive to set a worthy 

 example. 



In tlie hinsiiago of another "that training which is first of all committed 

 to you lathers and mother.s, and whith cannot bo wholly delegated to 

 others so long as your cliildren are witliin tlie compass of j'our influence 

 is that which i-oniprehemls llicir iiliysicil. nicntnl and spiritual natures. 

 That education and discipline tliat neglects eithei' tiie Ijody, the mind or 

 the heart is seriously defective." 



"The ideal parents will be united upon guai'ding them from every- 

 thing tliat would tend to uiisetth' tlieir minds on the great question of 

 Christianity and the inspiration and authentit-ily of the liible." 



Guard them against evil associates, realizing the truth of the adage, 

 "If you always live with those who are lame you will yoiu'self learn to 

 limp." 



Teach them that "without reputation gold has no value, birth no 

 distinction, station no dignity, beauty no charm, age no reverence; without 

 it every treasure im])overishes, every grace deforms, every dignity de- 

 grades, and all the arts and the accomplishments of life stand, like the 

 beacon blaze upon a rock warning the world that its approach is danger- 

 ous, that its contact is death." 



Command the resjiect of your clnldren, and there will be no question 

 as to obedience. Study the i)roblenis tliat come up daily in your home, 

 rememl)ering j^our future liai)piness and the futm-e welfare of your cliil- 

 dren depend upon it. 



Luke Woodard says: "The hallowed intluences of home will live long 

 after the voice of the father and mother are hushed in death. Those in- 

 tluences, if they have been such as they ought to be, .will then be like 

 a golden chain let down from the skies to draw the hearts of the children 

 toward that home aliove to which a loved father and mother have gone 

 before. How soon will the brief time that thus separates the loved of 

 earth from the loved in heaven pass away." 



"Oh how SAA^'et it will lie in that beautiful land, 



So free from all sorrow and pain; 

 With songs on our lips and with harps in our hands, 

 To meet one another again." 



DISEASES OF SAVINE. 



As a matter of convenience and to a4d in understanding diseases, we 

 divide them into three classes — sporadic, contagious and infectious. This 

 classitication is purely arbitrary and is based upon the nature of the 

 cause. Sporadic diseases are those which have no one constant cause. 

 A variety of causes may produce the same disease. Colic, diarrhoea, 

 rheumatism, colds, etc., are types of sporadic diseases. Colic, for exam- 



