CORNELL 



IReabtno^Course for ^farmers' XlXHivee 



Published by the New York State College of Agriculture at 

 Cornell University, from November to March, and Entered at 

 Ithaca as Second-Class Matter under Act of Congress of July 

 l6, 1894. L. H. BaileY: Director. 



Martha Van Rensselaer, Supervisor. 



NEW SERIES II. 

 FOODS 



ITHACA, N. Y., JANUARY, 1910. 



No. 8. 

 CARE AND FEEDING OF 

 CHILDREN. 



THE CARE AND FEEDING OF CHILDREN 



PART I 



Flora Rose 



This is called the " century of the child," for at last the world is awake 

 to the fact that right care of little children must be regarded as a serious 

 responsibility. At a time when agriculture and industry are advancing 

 so rapidly, this question is receiving sincere attention : Is the welfare of 



The morning bath 



the human body of less importance to the prosperity of the home or the 

 community than the welfare of crops or animals or inanimate machines? 

 In many farm homes, the farmer has a wider and more scientific knowl- 

 edge of the needs of the young calves and chickens, of the newly sprout- 



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