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use x'revj endeavor to prevent the spread of these diseases. Those 

 ivho sell milk should use special precaution for thej may otherwise 

 scatter disease far and wide, and although there may be no com- 

 pulsion in the matter, we should follow the Golden Rule and save 

 others unnecessary trouble. 



Such are some of the methods that are necessary if the farmer 

 or the isolated rural dweller would live in a sanitary home. But 

 some one asks: ''Does it pay? Is it worth while to go to all this 

 trouble?" Suppose you yourself get typhoid fever because you have 

 been drinking from a polluted well. Suppose your own wife gets 

 tuberculosis because she has been drinking milk from a sick cow. 

 Suppose your own child gets diphtheria because somebody else is 

 careless. If all of these happen, or if any one of them happen, I 

 think you will agree with me that it does pay, and vastly pays, 

 to have hygiene on the farm. 



A Member: The gentleman speaks of the danger of pollution of 

 wells. Up in our country we pride ourselves on our excellent 

 springs. Two wrecks ago a physician was called to attend a family 

 that was taken sick. He diagnosed the case, but could not find what 

 the trouble was, but he finally said, "Examine your spring." It was 

 done last Saturday. It was not done quite soon enough, as a few 

 days ago we buried his wife, a very excellent lady. We found three 

 snakes in the well. 



The CHAIRMAN: We are now ready to hear the next topic on 

 the program, '"What Constitutes a Country Home," by Mr. R. S. 

 Seeds, of Birmingham, Pa. 



Mr. Seeds presented his pajjer as follows: 



WHAT CONSTITUTES A COUNTRY HOME. 



BY . S. Seeds, Bimmigham, Pit. 



There is no name so sweet or place so dear as home. I have 350 

 acres of land, but there is one-half acre more dear to me than all 

 the world; on that half acre stands my home. I have traveled from 

 Boston to Dakota, stopped at some of the best hotels in the land, 

 but the "Seed's House" beats them all. If any one should ask me 

 what was the height of my ambition, I would not know what to say, 

 unless it was to live for my home. 



