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Dogs are the greatest dread of the sheep owner. A man that has 

 a good farm, large orchard and other sources of income does not keep 

 many dogs, but if he has only a large family of children who must get 

 their fruit from the neighbors' orchard, he keeps several dogs who prowl 

 around at night and sooner or later learn to kill sheep. My greatest 

 success with fruit trees has come from a custom of burying half of a dog on 

 one side of a fruit tree and the other half on the other side. Thus 

 directly and indirectly, I find sheep are a great benefit to a horticulturist. 



Beyond this fact it is not necessary to go. The different breeds of 

 sheep, and the details of their management, are not what I wish to 

 impress, but that sheep bring in a steady income that is always con- 

 venient and, if fruit fails us, is a necessity. 



SEVEIsTTH SESSION.— Thursday Evening. 

 Music by Kreyer Orchestra. 



HEALTHFUL HOMES. 

 . By Mrs. J. R. Milner, Springfield, Mo. 

 THE FIVE FOOD PRINCIPLES— THEIR RELATION TO HEALTHFUL HOMES- 



Atkinson in his Science of ISTutrition says, ^'I find the most hopeless 

 poverty among American people to be the poverty of ideas. They 

 seem to be born with one, and, by living, to acquire just one more — the 

 first to make money, and the last to get rid of it. As a result of it their 

 lives are seldom rich unless their pocket-books are inordinately so. The 

 great charity of the day is to be that of teaching people with small 

 income how to spend it wisely, a charity which depends upon the efforts 

 of individual w^omen, who are studying this subject and applying the 

 fruits of their studv in individual homes." 



