The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., September 10, 1910, YOUNG FOLKS' SPECIAL., Page 636, Image 16

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TWO-MINUTE HEALTH TALKS.!
—_- _
WHAT KNOWLEDGE OF HYGIENE
WOULD ACCOMPLISH.
Tuberculosis will destroy at least
8,000,000 out of the present popula
tion of the United States. What is
the State government doing to dis
seminate knowledge in the homes
concerning how to protect society
from the frightful inroads of this
plague of all the ages?
The losses from typhoid fever are
enormous, yet the destruction of the
house fly, or at least preventing its
access to the home through the use
of screens and the protection of the
water supply are simple means by
which this plague may be brought
under control.
Screening the houses and covering
the ponds with oil will prevent the
malaria-producing mosquito extort
ing its toll of human suffering.
A little knowledge disseminated
concerning milk as a source of dis
ease will prevent innumerable deaths
in both urban and rural communities.
Unquestionably the dietary can be
improved and made to more nearly
furnish the supply of nourishment
which the body requires. Were the
elementary principles involved in the
chemical composition of the various
food materials more generally appre
ciated, the plague of indigestion
which afflicts the American people as
a race, would be greatly reduced and
eliminated altogether in thousands of
cases.
The American people are said to be
the most wasteful in the world. The
increased cost of living will presently
force a change in methods and ideals.
Why not teach our people, irrespec
tive of class or society, the funda
mental truths concerning the prepar
ation and utilization of food pro
ducts which scientific investigations
have revealed? To do this means
to save millions of dollars uselessly
wasted in the State every year.—A.
M. Soule.
Don’t Take Oil After Thymol.
Messrs. Editors: I have been re
ceiving your most valuable paper for
some time, and think you are doing a
great work for the South; a work
that is telling rapidly.
My object in writing this letter is
in regard to an article from Dr. W.
L. Lee, in the issue of August 27,
outlining treatment for hookworm.
Now the doctor has evidently made
a mistake in telling the good readers
to follow the thymol with oil, as
this would be most sure to cause the
systematic effect of the thymol and
prove disastrous to the patient in
nine cases out of ten.
I am sure if he has had enough
experience with hookworm to advise
the people, he intended to say Sulph.
magnesia in place of castor oil. You 1
would no doubt save some one’s life
by correcting this error.
W. L. SHIREY, M. D.
Foreman, Ark.
THE BEAUTY' OF SERVICE.
It is not often that I get away
from home—but I took a trip last
week that I want to tell our young
people about. One thing, I was par
ticularly struck with, was the faces
of the boys who belonged to the
corn clubs, and the alert, interested
manner in which they listened to the
speeches at the farmers’ institutes.
It doesn’t take a prophet to see that
those boys are going to amount to
something, and I look for every one
of them to be at the A. & M. Col
lege in a few years getting the edu
cation that especially fits them for
their life work. I doubt if one of
them smoked cigarettes. They didn’t
look like it anyway.
On the other hand, I w’as pained
at the absence of interest the young
girls showed. At one place there
was only one contestant each for
biscuit and lightbread. Now I do
not believe it was for lack of knowl
edge, but because they didn’t take a
pride in their work, like the boys
did.
I heard one of the institute men
lecture to our Sunday-school on the
beauty of service. He said he was
out on Institute work a month, and
the thing that impressed him moBt
on his trip was a young girl of 12,
who took the premium on bread,
and when dinner was announced she
ran up to an old gentleman and said,
“What can I get for you, Grand
papa?” and waited on him. Then she
noticed that a horse couldn’t get his
f Price $10 and llp\
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oats out of a bag, and she fixed that,
then she passed some dishes around,
then waited on her grandfather
again, doing something for some one
the whole dinner hour. Now it will
take no prohpet to see that she will
be the light of some home, and lucky
indeed will be the man who gets her.
ALAMANCE.
ONE BOY’S FARMING.
Messrs. Editors: I am a boy 16
years old, and I have been thinking
of writing to you and letting you
know what I have been doing this
summer. \ly father gave me three
acres of land this year to cultivate.
This being my first year I have not
done so well. I have only experi
mented, but I will know what to do
next year. My land was not very
rich at first, but 1 thought by fertil
izing I could make a good crop. I
planted one acre in watermelons and
cantaloupes. But I don’t think this
has been a very good season for
them. Most of my vines died before
half of the melons got ripe. But
after supplying the family with all
they could eat I sold $15 worth In
t li rnn uroal/o
I tried an acre in peanutB, but I
planted too early and didn’t get a
third of a stand. Hut the first of
July I planted this acre in soy beans
and I think I will make more out of
them than anything else. I think
they are the finest yet on the poor
est ground I have.
I next planted %-acre of corn and
highly fertilized it, but the variety I
planted all went to stalk, not much
ears.
The other ^-acre I planted late in
Mexican June corn, which is doing
nicely.
Owing to the big oat, cowpea, and
soy bean crop my father had, I did
not have time to work my crop as
much as it ought to have been. In
addition to the things mentioned I
also raised a small quantity of toma
toes, pop-corn, beans and sweet po
tatoes.
john t. McAlister.
Way, Miss.
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