THE TRAINING OF FARMERS 



Attitude of societies 



The regular rural societies and organi- 

 zations should now begin to discuss public- 

 health questions in the same spirit in which 

 they are accustomed to consider purely 

 agricultural questions. The wide-awake 

 physician should be interested in these sub- 

 jects, and the sanitary engineer and others 

 should have a modern and rational point 

 of view on the question of good health and 

 physical development. It is especially im- 

 portant that women's clubs take up this 

 kind of work energetically, and they have 

 done this in many places. 



The rural organizations carry a respon- 

 sibility in the training of farmers in other 

 than the technical agricultural relations. 



Farm laborer 



We must develop a new attitude, at least 

 in some parts of the country, toward the 

 laboring man. We must regard him not 

 only as a fellow man, but we need also to 

 see that he does not become a spreader of 

 disease and thereby a menace to the com- 

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