412 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



I like to think of that old heathen fable of Hercules and 

 Antaeus as typifying a great physical and moral conservator 

 for the rising generation. Antteus, son of Terra, the mighty 

 wrestler, was invincil)le so long as he remained in contact 

 with his mother Earth, and in a contest with Hercules rose 

 with renewed vigor from every tall, but when lifted away 

 from the source of his strength was easily strangled in the 

 air. 



^ Our young people are in conflict with Herculean forces, 

 pitted against them in mortal combat. Severed from the 

 salutary influence of country homes, and subjected to the 

 artiflcial conditions of urban life, they too often fall an easy 

 prey ; but kept in touch with mother Earth, soothed by her 

 magnetic contact and nerved l)y her health-giving i)ower, 

 the gigantic forces of evil which would compass their ruin 

 are stayed, if not broken. 



