596 Missouri Agricultural Report. 



STANDARD MEASUREMENTS FOR BOYS. 



The facts are from Holt's "The Care and Feeding of Infants." "The weight of girls 

 is on the average about one pound less than boys. They are about the same height." — Holt. 



At Birth. — Weight, 7J pounds; height, 20i inches; chest, 13J inches; head, 14 inches; 

 teeth none. 



At One Year. — Weight, 21 pounds; height, 29 inches; chest, 18 inches; head, 18 inches 

 teeth, six. 



At Two Years. — Weight, 26^ pounds; height, 32 inches; chest, 19 inches; head, 19 

 inches; teeth, sixteen. 



At Three Years. — Weight, 31 pounds; height, 85 inches; chest, 20 inches; head, 19 i 

 inches; teeth, twenty. 



MEASUREMENTS OF BABY CONTEST WINNERS. 



Denver Champion. — Age, 34 months; weight, 34 pounds; height, 36 1 inches; head, 

 20 J inches; chest, 22 i inches; waist, 21 J inches; forearm, 6i inches; calf, 8 J inches. 



Denver Second. — Age, 24 months; weight, 30i pounds; height, 34i inches; head, 20 

 inches; chest, 20 J inches; waist, 21 inches; forearm, 6§ inches; calf, 8 J inches. 



Chicago Champion. — Age, 40 months; weight, 34 pounds; height, 36^ inches; head, 

 201 inches; chest, 22^ inches; waist, 23J inches; forearm, 7J inches; calf, 9 inches. 



RULES FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE HEALTH AND LIFE OF THE BABY. 



1. Follow a fixed and regular daily schedule for the babies' feeding, exercise and play, 

 rest and sleep, and body functions. 



2. The clothing must protect the neclf, arms and legs; it should be loose and com- 

 fortable; the underclothing of light soft woolens. 



3. Mother's milk should be the food of the baby. When bottle-fed, use pure, sweet 

 cow's millt modified under the physician's directions. 



4. Games, romps and other baby exercise favor growth and give discipline in self- 

 control. 



5. Do not allow a typhoid fly to touch the baby's sleeping lips, his food or his play- 

 things. Flies carry germs of diarrhea, typhoid fever, tuberculosis and other death-dealing 

 diseases. 



6. "Baby pacifiers" are instruments of death to the baby. 



7. Never use "soothing syrups," which generally contain poisonous sedatives and 

 habit-forming drugs. 



8. A child trained to regular habits and in good health never cries except when hungry, 

 tired or uncomfortable. 



The score cards when completely filled out were mailed to 

 the parents of the babies. The front of the card contains the 

 eugenical history of the child and a set of rules for preservation 

 of the health of the baby. 



This whole movement has been characterized by the ab- 

 sence of any comparison of children, of any commercialism, or 

 any of the spectacular or sensational element. It has been an 

 effort to enable parents to bring their children and have their 

 bodily development scored, that they might learn wherein they 

 lack perfection. No attempt was made to give medical advice, 

 though an attempt was made to give intelligent answers to 

 questions. Where a doctor's care was indicated the attention 

 of the parents was called to this fact. 



Sixty babies were entered, and they included all strata of 

 society, from the common laborer's baby whose roughened skin 

 and broken toe nails showed contact with a strenuous world, 

 up through the typical farmer's baby, minister's, banker's and 

 University professor's babies. These children were all under 



