I20 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan., 



There is a principle in our animals that we understand and 

 practice as farmers, and now we need to apply it to humanity 

 a little more than we have been in the habit of doing in the past. 

 The lady has given us illustrations with regard to the use of the 

 back or the limbs for doing some kinds of work. J\Ir. Hoyt 

 here might tell us something about pulling trees. He knows 

 how to have men pull trees without breaking their backs and 

 tiring them very much, and we can pull docks with our knees 

 instead of our backs, and other weeds and bushes. We have 

 learned that, and now we are learning that a woman may spare 

 herself some of her labor by using her limbs instead of her 

 back. 



I am very much pleased with these illustrations of family 

 matters, and some of them come home personally to the house 

 that I occupy. The kitchen is a good way from the dining 

 hall, but that seems to be the nature of things and difficult to 

 remedy. The flour barrel is conveniently near the kitchen, and 

 we have water in the kitchen as well as at the barn. We are 

 all up in that line, but the matter of disposing of the refuse 

 from the kitchen is one that we haven't solved to a general 

 family satisfaction. It comes up in a variety of forms, and is 

 one worthy of a great deal more study and consideration than 

 it has yet received among our rural population. 



I am very much pleased with the sort of home character 

 of this address we have had this morning, and I am surprised 

 there are no more ladies here in the audience; there ought to 

 have been, but there are a goodly number here, and I hope that 

 we shall carry these instructions to our rural homes. 



Mr. Robertson. I would like to ask what the lady would 

 suggest in this matter. There are mothers who feel that their 

 children should take life easier than they themselves have done, 

 they are relieving the children of burdens and carrying them all 

 themselves. They want to relieve their sons and daughters of 

 W'Ork which they had to do, "for the reason that they went 

 through things not very pleasant and they want to have their 

 daughters have an easier time. 



