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warm as to its stabling- quarters, for a two-fold reason, viz: Less 

 grain will be needed to keep up normal body heat, and diseases 

 incident to cold prevented. 



Let us look at the placing of outbuildings. Convenient outbuild- 

 ings are essential to follow out the rules of hygiene. No outbuilding 

 should be placed where its drainage will interfere with the water 

 supply of the home, as contamination of the water supply is dan- 

 gerous to health. Drinking water, to be pure, must be colorless, 

 tasteless and odorless. 



The farm, in general, must be cleaned up, as noxious weeds, briars, 

 and thistles are detrimental to growing crops, their proper har- 

 vesting, and their sale, and in all make farmers weary, care-worn, 

 anxious, and finally sick, because their next neighbor is not a 

 "Peter Tumbledown" like themselves, but a free, careful, indus- 

 trious, through-going, modern farmer, with the glow of health upon 

 his cheeks, and a cheerful smile that lights up his wife's counten- 

 ance, and the rollicking girls and boys, because they live and 

 practice — Be Clean. 



WOMAN'S SHARE ON THE FARM. 



By MRS. FLORENCE GATES BOTER. Springboro, Pa. 



What is woman's share on the farm? 



The first to be considered under this title is her share of the work 

 that always is to be done on the farm. Every farmer's wife has 

 many duties of which the women in cities or towns have not the 

 least thought. Every one has her own individual work to do and 

 no one knows all well as she does, what that work is. Now because 

 it falls in the share of one to feed the hogs, poultry and calves, 

 help with the milking and the many chores that have to be done on 

 the farm, it is no sign that such must necessarily be the share of 

 every farmer's wife. I believe some women do their share and 

 then are generous enough to use their time and strength in helping 

 their husbands and all because they will let her do so. For my part 

 I can not think of anything so mean as a man who will let his wife 

 do a share of liis work. I once knew a woman with three small 

 children, who had to split her own wood or go without, and many a 

 time when the husband was in the town spending his money for 

 drink, lias she been compelled to take her children to bed to keep 

 from suffering with the cold. I really think such a woman has a 

 double portion for her share of the work on the farm. 



And should a woman share the profits of the farm? She most cer- 

 tainly should, for the simple reason that she helps to earn them. 

 Although the old saying that "a woman can throw out with a spoon 

 as fast as a man can throw in with a shovel," may be true in a few 

 cases. In the majority of homes you will find that it is the wife 

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