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milk is by tlie time it reaches the barn. The farm hand comes to 

 the barn with clotlies on in which for weeks he has done all kinds of 

 work. They are already well-loaded. He feeds the horses, then 

 curries them; throws down hay for the cows and feeds them; gets 

 the milk pail, comes into the cow stable, kicks up the straw around 

 the cows, slaps or kicks the cow if she does not put back her foot 

 as soon as spoken to, thereby knocking off some of the manure which 

 plasters her sides. The cow also helps along by switching her tail, 

 which is filled with filth. Then he sits down beside the cow. If he 

 attempts to knock the dust off her udder, it is after the pail has 

 been placed beneath. The fore milk he puts on his hands to make 

 them slip easily, and when he has gotten well started there are 

 two streams from each teat. They differ in color, but what of that? 

 Is that picture greatly overdrawn? Do you not know farms near 

 yours where that could be duplicated? Is it any wonder much of 

 the milk that comes on the market deposits a sediment after stand- 

 ing a few hours? No strainer will take out the bacteria after they 

 are once in the milk. There are some bacteria supposed to be so 

 small that they will pass through a porcelain filter, and the micro- 

 scope has not yet been made strong enough to see them. Does any 

 one suppose they could be removed by a strainer? 



The bacteria which thus gets into the milk may not produce 

 any specific disease, but they prevent the milk from keeping. They 

 spoil the flavor of the butter; they may produce butter-milk, blue- 

 R^'lk, red milk, ropy milk or some other quality, if the proper germ 

 is present. 



In short, in the house and in the barn, there are numerous bac- 

 teria w'hich only nc^ed a favorable medium in which to grow. They 

 may directly or indirectly produce the most undesirable results. 

 Keeping things scrupulously clean, well aired, and flooded with sun- 

 shine, will alone make sanitary farm surroundings. 



THE FARMER OF THE FUTURE IN THE CHILD OF TODAY. 



By Mrs. Sauah B. Fuitz-Zeiglkk, Vvntamion, Fa. 



The subject I want to talk to you on is one that has given me 

 much concern, and I thought much of my co-workers and the great 

 work that is before us if we give it the thought and effort it should 

 have to make it a success, for true it is that '*The Farmer of tlw 

 Future is the Child of Today," yet how little thought and attention 

 we have given the subject in our institutes. You hear the instruc- 

 tors talking to the farmers and their wives about the betterment 

 of farm conditions, the restoration of soils, the improvement of 

 barns and poultry houses, the importance of improved breeds of 

 stock, the ventilation of stables, etc., but how seldom we hear of the 

 betterment of home conditions, and the care of the child life, and 

 child nature, that are developing or trying to develop in that farm 

 home. 



