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fluences on our nerves. Tea is the easiest carried and the easiest pre- 

 pared. Drunk in moderate strength it has no Itnown disadvantages. 

 Strong tea, however, in many produces nervousness, insomnia and de- 

 ranges the digestion. 



Coffee is a delicious beverage. It is not so well suited to camp life 

 as is tea. To have its full value, coffee should be roasted and ground 

 just before using. I have seen this done, while travelling, in tents in 

 Asia. This preparation of coffee requires more time and trouble than 

 that of tea. Tea is more agreeable also without milk than coffee is. 



The hygiene of men, animals and camps can never receive too much 

 attention. No knowledge of forestry you may ever have will be of 

 any use unless you have the physical power to use it. There is noth- 

 ing so disabling as sickness in an organized body. Powder and lead 

 are not a circumstance to disease as destroyers, even in an army. 

 Everywhere it is disease that disables most men engaged in war. 

 Disease with us will be mainly confined to errors of diet or to pol- 

 luted camps or waters. Our forests are free from dangerous malaria; 

 the water, with few exceptions, is perfect; the air pure; the extremes 

 of temperature never severe — in fact, we have all the natural conditions 

 ready at our hand for increasing the health and vigor of our men. 



A sound, healthy life requires sound, healthy morals. True moral 

 life is a life in harmony with the laws of nature. 



Marriage is one essential of a life in harmony with natural law. 



Every man in the forestry force should be married by thirty. 

 Preference in appointment should be given, other things being equal, 

 to the married. This is not only in consonance with the highest states- 

 manship to preserve the population in its reproductive power, but also 

 for the highest responsibility end vital strength of the forestry force. 

 The recently published report of Wm. Parr, M. D., F. R. S., and Su- 

 perintendent of the Statistical Department of the Registrar General 

 Office of England, shows that the death rate of bachelors is very nearly 

 double that of married men, at all ages. In Prance, it is eleven in the 

 thousand for bachelors and only six for married men, between the 

 ages of twenty to thirty. The same thing is true of women. A death 

 is deemed to be accompanied by five disabled with disease. We can 

 thus see how important marriage is as a vigor preserver. Between 

 thirty and forty, the death rate is 12.4 for the unmarried and 7.1 for 

 the married. Women who are mothers have a two years' better pros- 

 pect of life than those that are not mothers. 



