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during the wintei" and spring, if not nearlj* the entire year. No swine 

 pen should be nearer than 200 feet, on account of the odors from it being 

 readily absorbed by milk. 



For the general sanitation of the land there should be either natural 

 or artificial drainage. All dead animals or poultry should be buried or 

 burned and not left lying around on the farm. 



Since our knowledge of the nature of infectious diseases has been 

 more and more defined scientific methods for their prevention have been 

 applied. We have learned, too, that in addition to the germ there must 

 be a suitable soil for its proliferation, and that sanitation will not only 

 destroy tlie environments for its development without the body but also 

 place the system in the best possible condition to resist its toxic action. 

 Progress has crowned our past. We will not retrograde. Let us hand 

 in hand with heart and mind join in promoting the welfare of American 

 sanitation until it has reached the proudest pinnacle in the world of 

 science, until she has become the fountain head of knowledge for the 

 benefit of mankind. 



SAVING STRENGTH. 



MKS. JOSEPH T. MOORE, MONTICELLO, IND. 



[Read before the White County Summer Institute.] 



Although the life of the farmer's wife has many advantages, it also 

 has its disadvantages. Perhaps her greatest advantage is her great free- 

 dom. Instead of having to be content with a fraction of an acre for a 

 home and all its luxuries and accommodations, as her city sister is. she 

 has tlie freedom of from fortj^ to hundreds of acres. 



This seemingly great advantage is, unquestionably, her greatest dis- 

 advantage. If it is more convenient to unload the fuel ten or fifteen rods 

 from the house, or to save the expense of two wells or piping water to 

 the barn, to place one well half way between the house and barn, and to 

 have the chicken parlc and garden lilvewise as unsuitably located, it re- 

 quires her, in doing the necessary work of a day, to travel many unneces- 

 sary miles. It is not so much tlie amount of work she has to do. but the 

 inconvenient location of the things with Avliich she works. 



Much of this great disadvantage is the fault of the husband. But let 

 us look in the house, her home, and should be her throne — how is it 

 arranged? 



If you ever had occasion to examine a set of plans for a dwelling 

 house prepared by a professional architect, you surely were impressed 

 by the great amount of careful thought given to every little detail of the 

 building, just where every cupboard should be and where every window 



