200 Missouri Agricultural Report. 



In the first class, which included babies from six months to 

 eighteen months of age, Carl Smarr was given first place. In the 

 second class, including those from eighteen months to thirty months 

 of age, Stanley Backus was given first place. In the third class, 

 that for babies of thirty months to forty-eight months of age, 

 Robert Pearman was given first place.* 



This health contest work has already attracted the attention of 

 county fair associations, and it is hoped that a number of baby 

 health contests may be held this year at county fairs as well as at 

 the State Fair. 



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



1. Follow a fixed and regular daily schedule for the baby's 

 feeding, exercise and play, rest and sleep, and body functions. 



2. The clothing must protect the neck, arms and legs; it 

 should be loose and comfortable; 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 milk 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 flies to touch the baby, his food, or his play- 

 things. They carry the germs of diarrhoea, typhoid fever, tuber- 

 culosis and other death-dealing diseases. 



6. Disease germs often enter the baby's mouth on his "paci- 

 fier." 



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. 



*A11 babies whose pictures are used in this article made creditable scores. 



THE GIRLS' TOMATO CANNING CLUB. 



(Miss Alice Kinney, Cliairman of Girls' Tomato Canning Club, New Franklin, Mo.) 



The home makers decided at their 1912 conference to make 

 some effort to interest our Missouri girls in growing and canning 

 tomatoes in order to -get in touch with some of the wide-awake girls 

 over the State, and hoping thus to obtain a proper basis upon which 

 to offer a scholarship for the short course in home economics, now 

 open to girls in the State University. 



