No. 6. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 6:i& 



that the cooking is good uiid they eat too much themselves for their 

 own good, like the boy who said he had the stomach-ache. I say 

 you ought to liave the authority to say when they have enough. Of 

 course when boys and girls come to the proper age that they know 

 right from wrong, it is all right, but the little ones don't know 

 when they have enough. How often have you seen mothers feed 

 babes until they could not take anymore. I hold that to be wrong. 



MR. HUTCHISON: I was raised in a large family and I am the 

 runt. That is my idea. After we are grown up, it seems to me it 

 is hard to do that with a child and 1 don't feel that I can do it be- 

 cause it is not in our make-up. 



The SECRETARY: It has been my privilege to stretch my legs 

 under the table of Brother Miller and, while he has ventured to 

 say it is the right thing for the father to say to the child when he 

 has enough, I want to tell you there is not any restraint placed on 

 his family. I have happened there just about meal time. It is no( 

 because of any special restraint in Mr. Miller's family that he has 

 given this paper. I want to say further, that I was in a large tow j 

 of our Commonwealth sometime ago, spending the evening wiUi 

 one of the principal physicians of the place. He had a professional 

 call but did not want to go. I was there and he was expecting 

 another and he had a friend whom he called on the 'phone and asked 

 whether he would make that professional visit for him. After- 

 wards he came and reported to the doctor and Ihe doctor asked 

 what he found to be the matter; lie replied, "A child was sick." 

 "What was the trouble?" ^'Well," he says, "the patient is a child 

 about six months old, the trouble is indigestion; there is a very 

 vigorous, healthy mother and the child is being nursed and I learned 

 that she allowed the child to nurse whenever and as much as it 

 desired; there is some inflammation of the stomach and bowels at- 

 tending this indij^^stion, which was brought about by the overfeed- 

 ing of this child."' That led to a discussion between the physicians, 

 and the doctor whom I was visiting said, he had had a number of 

 children afflicted that same way. I remember that many a time when 

 I was a boy and would come to the sugar-kettle my mother would 

 say to me, after I had eaten about as much as a boy could eat: "Now, 

 it is time to quit, you have had enough." I am very thankful that 

 that restraint was put on me and I am glad to say that I have never 

 been troub4^'d with dyspepsia. I have no knowledge of being in 

 bed a day sick since I was a babe, wh.ich is doubtless owing to being- 

 careful in my eating. 



MR. RODGERS: It seems strange to me that these men who 

 get up to talk about how much to eat and what to eat are all big- 

 fat men. Now if it was Clark and such men of that size they might 



