He feeds on the bounties of God. The earth yields to 

 him its fruit in its freshness. Good food is essential to 

 health. Give nie the natural products, not the result of 

 the laboratory; well grown, well ripened grain and fruit, 

 clover honey, and clover butter, instead of flavored glu- 

 cose and oleomargarine; golden syrup from the sugar 

 maple and the cane, instead of the gift of the chemist ; 

 water from heaven, distilled from the clouds, percolating 

 through the earth and babbling in the living stream. 



HEALTHFUL EXERCISE. 



I am not forgetful of the hard labor and frequent ex- 

 posure of farm life, when I say that the farmer has the 

 best possible exercise. This body of ours must be used 

 if we would have it healtlrv. The spring that is in per- 

 fect rest becomes stagnant ; the air that never moves is 

 filled with germs of disease — so God makes the living 

 spring, which never rests, and sends the winds which 

 ventilate the world, and keep the waters of the ocean as 

 a reservoir of health, which otherwise were a pool of 

 death. The muscle of your arm must be used, or it will 

 lose its power ; everything must act. It must be evident 

 that the farmer's life gives exercise to the whole body. 

 The simplest tool of husbandry serves a double purpose, 

 reaching the present aim, and developing also the hand 

 of him that uses it. More honorable by far in the history 

 of man, are the implements of honest labor, than all the 

 balls and bats and things the athlete uses in his life of 

 sporting vanity. The aim of life is very low if it does 

 not take in some purpose to accomplish some useful 

 thing. The grandest motto of life is, " I live to serve." 

 The simple development of strength of body or mind is 

 of little consequence, if that strength does not render 



