Health on the Farm A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene   By: H. F. (Henry Fauntleroy) Harris (1867-1926)

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THE YOUNG FARMER'S PRACTICAL LIBRARY

EDITED BY ERNEST INGERSOLL

HEALTH ON THE FARM

BY

H. F. HARRIS

The Young Farmer's Practical Library

EDITED BY ERNEST INGERSOLL

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=From Kitchen to Garret.= By VIRGINIA TERHUNE VAN DE WATER.

=Neighborhood Entertainments.= By RENÉE B. STERN, of the Congressional Library.

=Home Water works.= By CARLETON J. LYNDE, Professor of Physics in Macdonald College, Quebec.

=Animal Competitors.= By ERNEST INGERSOLL.

=Health on the Farm.= By DR. H. F. HARRIS, Secretary, Georgia State Board of Health.

=Co operation Among Farmers.= By JOHN LEE COULTER.

=Roads, Paths and Bridges.= By L. W. PAGE, Chief of the Office of Public Roads, U. S. Department of Agriculture.

=Farm Management.= By C. W. PUGSLEY, Professor of Agronomy and Farm Management in the University of Nebraska.

=Electricity on the Farm.= By FREDERICK M. CONLEE.

=The Farm Mechanic.= By L. W. CHASE, Professor of Farm Mechanics in the University of Nebraska.

=The Satisfactions of Country Life.= By DR. JAMES W. ROBERTSON, Principal of Macdonald College, Quebec.

HEALTH ON THE FARM

A MANUAL OF RURAL SANITATION AND HYGIENE

BY H. F. HARRIS SECRETARY OF THE GEORGIA STATE BOARD OF HEALTH

=New York= STURGIS & WALTON COMPANY 1911 All rights reserved

Copyright 1911 By STURGIS & WALTON COMPANY

Set up and electrotyped. Published July, 1911

INTRODUCTION

BY THE GENERAL EDITOR

This is the day of the small book. There is much to be done. Time is short. Information is earnestly desired, but it is wanted in compact form, confined directly to the subject in view, authenticated by real knowledge, and, withal, gracefully delivered. It is to fulfill these conditions that the present series has been projected to lend real assistance to those who are looking about for new tools and fresh ideas.

It is addressed especially to the man and woman at a distance from the libraries, exhibitions, and daily notes of progress, which are the main advantage, to a studious mind, of living in or near a large city. The editor has had in view, especially, the farmer and villager who is striving to make the life of himself and his family broader and brighter, as well as to increase his bank account; and it is therefore in the humane, rather than in a commercial direction, that the Library has been planned.

The average American little needs advice on the conduct of his farm or business; or, if he thinks he does, a large supply of such help in farming and trading as books and periodicals can give, is available to him. But many a man who is well to do and knows how to continue to make money, is ignorant how to spend it in a way to bring to himself, and confer upon his wife and children, those conveniences, comforts and niceties which alone make money worth acquiring and life worth living. He hardly realizes that they are within his reach.

For suggestion and guidance in this direction there is a real call, to which this series is an answer. It proposes to tell its readers how they can make work easier, health more secure, and the home more enjoyable and tenacious of the whole family. No evil in American rural life is so great as the tendency of the young people to leave the farm and the village. The only way to overcome this evil is to make rural life less hard and sordid; more comfortable and attractive. It is to the solving of that problem that these books are addressed. Their central idea is to show how country life may be made richer in interest, broader in its activities and its outlook, and sweeter to the taste.