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SANITARIUM WORK 



once more established the truth that no land is 

 barren ; a little earth, a quantity of fertilizer, con- 

 siderable intelligence, a study of agricultural 

 journals, good seeds and timely care, will secure 

 a crop anywhere. 



Philadelphia has recently carried the experi- 

 ment of farming into hitherto untried fields; it 

 has set some of its insane charges to work at cul- 

 tivating the land, and the results have been most 

 satisfactory. Many of the workers were hope- 

 lessly insane, but the benefit derived from health- 

 ful, outdoor work was most marked even in the 

 worst cases, while many who suffered from 

 milder forms of dementia were completely cured. 

 The value of the products on the Byberry farm 

 was fully $10,000, and larger returns are ex- 

 pected next year. The workers themselves were 

 delighted with the change and took much pride 

 in their work. Healthful exercise in fresh air 

 led to a natural fatigue so that the insane workers 

 readily fell asleep at night, and " Nature's kind 

 restorer" helped to heal their troubled minds. 

 This experiment will doubtless be repeated by 

 other cities where the problem of properly caring 



