No. 7. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 257 



People often say they have heart disease because their food is 

 taken wrong, and remains in the stomach, and the stomach rolls 

 it around in the gastric juice but does not digest it. In the stomach 

 we have an acid, and in the mouth an alkalai which aid in the 

 digestion of our food. If we don't take more nitrogenous foods 

 than fat foods they will not assimilate them, and the result is in- 

 digestion. The stomach and the heart action in conjunction with 

 the liver, which supplies an excretion called the bile, to aid in the 

 process of digestion. When we eat hot breads and things of that 

 kind, they pass on down to the lower stomach, and here they fer- 

 ment and cause the trouble known as constipation. Thus, you see, 

 you are responsible for this condition yourself. You know that 

 unless there is a perfect assimilation of your food, the waste sub- 

 stances of your body will be returned to the blood, and a diseased 

 condition of the body will result. It is unnecessary to dwell on 

 the fact that it is necessary to take a large amount of water into 

 the system to flush it. Fresh air and sunshine should be taken 

 daily to keep healthy, as well as a strict attention paid to diet. 

 Avoid over-work, and when you find yourself feeling very tired, 

 take up some other occupation. Avoid coffee, and tea and cake. 

 Cocoa is a food, much the same as the bean. They are really one 

 and the same thing except for the process they undergo. But 

 nothing takes the place of pure water. Two-thirds of the human 

 body consists of water, and it is necessary to take a certain amount 

 of water every day in order to flush the system. Sip a glass or two 

 at a time; the more water, the less food you take, and the better it 

 is for the stomach. Be very careful that the water you drink is 

 perfectly pure. Plants cannot obtain nourishment unless the soil 

 is pure and water taken into the human stomach to nourish it 

 must be perfectly pure, also. 



I think I have given you enough for one evening. I shall, how- 

 ever, be very glad to answer any questions you may have, because 

 I think you are interested. 



THE MOST USEFUL SCHOOL IN THE COUNTRY. 



BT DR. D. J. Crosby, Washington, D. C. 



I intend to talk to you simply about two small country schools. 

 I speak of both of them as country schools, although one of them 

 is in reality in a little village, because both schools are attended 

 very largely by the sons and daughters of farmers, and neither 

 school is so extensive that it might not be easily reproduced by 

 any township in Pennsylvania, and yet I think that these schools 

 are in every way fulfilling their obligations to the community 

 surrounding them, more fully than almost any other school that I 

 know of in this country. Now, I believe that the most suitable 

 school for the community, wherever it may be situated, is that 

 school which makes use of the material growing and existing 

 around the school for the purpose of helping to educate the child. 

 17—7—1908. 



