No. 6. DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE. 663 



The announcement made to Mary, the mother of Jesus, respecting 

 the birth of Christ is a strong restatement of the faith of the Aryas. 

 Our country might borrow ideas from those barbarians respecting 

 the rights of women. 



If this nation has not attained that standard of development it 

 should have, is not the farmer's wife to blame? Has she not neg- 

 lected her duties by failing to be educated and educating her chil- 

 dren as she should have done? Nothing distinguishes the real ad- 

 vancement of a nation so much as the position held by the women. 

 Where woman is held in reverence, wherever she is the equal of 

 man, bearing her full share of responsibilty of the home, equally 

 interested in the welfare of her country, there we shall find man- 

 kind in the highest state of development, the government the most 

 enlightened and liberal. The stream can not rise higher than the 

 fountain. The fountain of our country is the home. The home, that 

 grand step that was made from nomadic life to an intellectual and 

 spiritually operated one, by the aid of the light of God's truth the 

 beginning of civilization. It was of divine origin, an institution 

 established by Almighty God for the benefit and advancement of 

 mankind, and woman, especially (Lie farmer's wife, is the moulder 

 of the home. 



FARM HYGIENE. 



By DR. H. B. ANDERSON, Andersonburg, Pa. 



That department of medical science which treats of the preserva- 

 tion of health; a system of principles or rules designed for the 

 promotion of health, is farm hygiene. The subject as assigned to 

 me by our worthy committee, which mainly consists of a number 

 of farmers, retired and active, with the exception of one person, 

 and that one of my own chosen profession, who has spent years 

 in medical practice among the hygienic, as well as the unhygienic, 

 could have portrayed the picture of happiness resulting from prac- 

 ticing hygienic methods, and the miseries caused by not heeding the 

 rules of hygiene, more clearly than can I of less mature years. 

 Farm hygiene may be taken to include, everything connected with 

 the farm, and the farmer, as I shall view him or her to-day, shall 

 be the garden farmer as well as the man who tills acres. 



First, I shall consider location of buildings on farm. The house to 

 be placed so as to be convenient distance from the barn, so that 

 the good people who are to carry the burdens back and forth from 

 house to barn, and the reverse, and be wearied by distance; next 

 look carefully to means of access to house, do not build great high 

 porches, that must be ascended and descended by steps innumera- 

 ble as the rounds of Jacob's ladder reared heavenward, as nothing- 

 wears more on the housewife's health than having to tramp up 

 and down this life destroyer. Build your house so that your porch 

 may be one or two steps from the ground, and sufficiently long and 



