CHAPTER XVIII 



THE CONSERVATION OF HEALTH AND HUMAN LIFE 

 ON THE FARM 



THE conservation of human life in the poverty 

 and vice districts of our congested cities is a 

 tremendous problem, touching the heart and purse 

 of our philanthropic spirit. It is, however, as im- 

 portant a problem in the workingmen and working 

 women districts of our cities. The incessant toil 

 and grind of our underpaid workers, struggling 

 against the ever rising tide of the high cost of liv- 

 ing, is cruelly breaking down the ambition, the 

 hope, the courage, and crushing the health and 

 lives out of millions of our people. 



But the farm has not been without this human 

 tragedy. It does not, however, exist to-day to so 

 great an extent as in past periods of our farm 

 history. In the cities it is hard to remedy the 

 condition of the underfed and the overworked; 

 in the country there has never been any excuse for 

 its existence. 



The author has seen the farmer with his broad 

 acres and large, young family, going the pace of 

 the grind that drives from the farm to the city, 

 the insane asylum, and that kills. 



Plenty of work amid healthful surroundings, 

 with enough of the right kind of food, properly 

 prepared, with plenty of the life-giving balm of 



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