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AFTERNOON SESSION. 



2 p. M., Tuesday, December 17, 1901. 



Convention called to order at 2.10 p. m. 

 Vice-President Seeley in the Chair. 



The Vice-President. You will notice on your programs 

 that at two o'clock this afternoon there was to be an address 

 by Prof. C. A. Lindsley, secretary Connecticut State Board of 

 Health. Unfortunately Dr. Lindsley is unable to be here, but 

 he has sent his paper, and the Rev. Mr. DePeu will read it 

 for us. 



Rev. Mr. DePeu. I am very grateful, Mr. President and 

 gentlemen, for this opportunity to appear before and be of 

 service to this gathering. I will very gladly read this paper 

 at the request of your chairman. 



" Farm Sanitation," by Dr. C. A. Lindsley, secretary State 

 Board of Health. 



FARM SANITATION. 

 By Dr. C. A. Lindsley, 



Secretary State Board of Health. 



Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen : I feel that my 

 first duty is to express my appreciation of the honor of an 

 invitation to address a body of farmers and their wives, a 

 body which represents in large measure the intelligence of 

 the State, and upon whose thrift and enterprise, more than 

 upon any other single class, the best interest and prosperity 

 of the State depends. 



Health is not an article of commerce to be bought and 

 sold by weight or measure. It is in large degree a product. 

 It is something to be protected, cultivated, and thoroughly 

 guarded. No one should understand this fact in a more 

 practical way than the farmer. He knows, or ought to 

 know, that his live stock are vigorous and healthy under cer- 

 tain conditions, and under others are sickly and feeble. 



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