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HOME TRAINING.
A Ectter Crop of Boys and Giric, by
Wm. A. McKeever.
Who Knows What Course to Pursue?
Worse blundering than that last
referred to is still going on with
respect of the problems of home train
ing Many good boys are doubtless
being driven from the farm through
ov* t work and hi 'u of a congenial
env ironment* Many good girls like
wise come to the age of full ma
turity bent in form and 1.lighted in
m l and soul through the effects of
cramping toil and the lack of that
finer social and spiritual develop
ment. which can come only from
those tilings which daily bring the
tight of affection and the inspiration
of hope into the consciousness.
On tlie other hand, we find roam
ing daily and nightly upon the
streets of our towns and villages man
over-ripe, blase, 16-year-old boys,
who through lack of any well-planned
exercise or the experiencee of per
sistent work are without the moral
stamina necessary to enable them to
answer the many imperative calls for
well-disposed young artists and arti
sans. Girls, too, there are—running
mates of these hoys—girls approach
ing the age of grown-up womanhood,
whose minds are nourished chiefly on
the airy dreams of coming-out parties,
pink teas, and the ultra-fashions in
clothes.
The foregoing undesirable condi
tions assume a serious aspect when
wo consider that these same youths
and maidens, themselves more or
less ignorantly reared, are daily
plighting their trotli and being united
' in marriage without any knowledge of
the meanings and responsibilities of
parenthood other than what they
have by chance picked up through the
gossip of their associates,
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Underlying all this complex work
of child rearing is a well-developed
science, psychology, which ought to
be required in an elementary form in
all secondary school courses, hater,
every prospective parent should be
required to take a thorough course
of training in the psychology of child
development. Such a training will,
in my opinnion, do more to save the
boys and girls, and the whole coun
try than any other discipline that
can be offered. If the various wo
men's clubs would devote one-half the
time they give to the study of Shakes
peRre and Browning to the pursuit of
a well-planned course in child psycho
logy the results in behalf of the
growing generation would be well
nigh sensational.
On the other extreme public opin
ion is also wrong in assuming that all
tlie class of delinquents and depend
ents whom enforced training and
proffered charity may reach, arc also
fit specimens for having a part in
the reproduction of the race.
After we have thoroughly tested
out our present stock of racial inher
itance through an improved environ
ment, and have discovered what
courses are sound and desirable and
what ones are weak and undesirable,
it will be our clear duty to begin dir
ectly the work of breeding for a
better human race.
An Outline Course of Instruction.
We want a better race of men and
women, and in order to bring such
a thing about we must produce a bet
ter crop of boys and girls. However,
as yet the scientists have worked out
no complete set of laws or rules gov
erning the matter of improving the
human race through better breeding.
It is encouraging to know that
there is much research work being
undertaken just now that will in time
prove exceedingly helpful. So. while
we are waiting for the scientists to
bring forward their sounder principles
there are a few rules of psychology
and pedagogy that can be safely ad
hered to in giving eugenic instruction
of an elementary nature to the
young.
Therefore, in order to give the
many thousands of willing parents
and teachers a more definite scheme
of carrying out the good Intentions
they already possess, the methods of
procedure below are suggested. Let
all who are Interested in bringing
about an improvement of the race
through the education of public sen
timent join hands in this cause and
thus protect the unquestioned rights
of the generations yet unborn.
Throughout all the outline of meth
ods given below there is a clear
recognition of the presence of the
unfit. Let it be fully understood that
such unfit persons are to be ac
corded all the care aud protection
and tender solicitude that human
sympathy can offer. It need be, in
order partly to make up for their
irrecoverable loss, let them be re
garded as deserving of unusual pub
lic favor. But take every reasonable
precaution to deny them the one
privilege of becoming progenitors of
the race.
Eugenic Instruction Preparatory For
Marriage.
. 1. Inculcate in the young early the
sentiment that .the marriage of per
sons infected with any form of tuber
culosis is extremely inadvisable, such
,i marriage being almost certain to
lend to consequences that will multi
ply the sorrows of the two persons
nrst concerned and transmit disease
and premature death to many of their
posterity. While the latest conclu
sions of science indicate that this
'white plague” is not directly inher
ited, the offspring of tuberculous
parents seem to show a heightened
suseeptability to the disease. More
over, even if the factor of inheri
tance be not ‘connsidered, there is
still left to the child of the parent so
diseased tlie* fatal possibilities of tnfe
tlon.
t'. Discourage in like manner the
thought of marriage of a pferson
born with any physical abnormality.
While some such marks may be mere
ltfe-thne acquisitions, many of them
are outward expressions of deep seat
ed congenital defects. Such defects
constitute a more or less serious men
ace to success in life, and therefore
a degree of unfitness for marriage.
,‘J. Call for the same careful con
sideration in reference to epileptics,
describing to children and youths just
what this disease is like, sighting as
an illustration the numbers who now
fill up the epileptic wards of asylums.
Inculcate the most kindly and sympa
thetic regard for any one who may be
a victim of this disease, but at the
same time make it plainthat those af
flicted with it, especially in its in
curable forms, are not fit to have a
part in the continuance of the race.
■4. There are many among us who
have inherited an uncertain degree
of tlie taint of insanity or imbecility,
or at least who are members of fam
ilies that have been transmitting thecal
diseases for many generations. Young
men and women can be made aware
of such facts as these sothat they
will very naturally shrink, when ma
turity is reached, from life companion*
ships with such persons. The rec
ords of many cases show no instances
of a mentally normal child born of
parents both weak minded. On the
other hand, there have been many
imbecile children born of parents
only one of which was so affected.
The children of the insane are not
necessarliy doomed to such a fate,
but there is now a widely accepted
theory that they inherit certain brain
structures that tend to give way un
derconditions inducing insanity more
readily than in case of normal per
sons.
3. While it has not been proved
that inebriety is directly transmis
sible, two adverse conclusions con
cerning drunkards have been definite
ly reached.
Once a young man becomes addict
ed to the habit of drinking intoxicants
he will contend very strongly to'
keep it up or go back to the habit
even after a period of abstenanee
Teachers and parents of young girls
should have at hand a long list of in
stances of young women who have
married young men addicted to the
drinking habit, misguided by the fond
belief that the latter had permanent
ly discontinued the practice. The
records of the majority of such cases
will prove beyond a doubt that the
undertaking was fraught with terri
ble consequence of sorrow and suf
fering.
Although it is not apparent that
the appetite for drink is directly in
herited, there is a vast amount of
evidence to show that thechildren of
the inebriate have some tendencies
io a weakened body, low vitality, and
probably an unusual Inner craving for
something that will stimulate. A
thoughtful teacher or parent can
easily find concrete examples upon
which to base instruction that will
help to eliminate the inebriate as a
factor in the race.
<>. In a delicate way and perhaps
by private instruction, growing boys
and girls can be forewarned against
the awful consequences of syphilis
and the other more common venereal
diseases. It can be explained to
them how these diseases are brought
about, how transmitted and what are
the most serious consequences they
entail upon innocent posterity. Such
instruction is at present almost wholl
neglected, and yet how awful the re
sults of such racial poisons.
Medical authority seems to con
sider it a fair presumption that men
and women who have entered into
carnal relations with the sexually dis
eased may be expected to contamin
ate others in like matter, and even
at remote times after such relations.
The foregoing facts, warrant us in
concluding that young persons who
have “sown their wild oats in the
slough of sexual dissipation” have
thereby forfeited their right to enter
into the marriage relation.
(Continued Next Week.)
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By h/tMa+n
Burn all the rubbish.
Keep a pure bred rani.
Any climate suits alfalfa.
Clover is a more efficient sub-soiler
than the best sub-soil plow.
Some say that cows need salt when
the butter is hard to churn.
A good wick to the incubator lamp
is one of the important tilings.
Dampness in the poultry house,
yards or runs Is often a source of
trouble.
The tiling that counts in the poul
try business is doing the right thing
at the right time.
Don't let the weeds get a foot high
and then pull them, disturbing the
surrounding flowers, even if none are
pulled out.
Fight green lloo with tobacco-tea
and lhe rose-slug with lime-water. Or
try dusting air-slaked lime on the in
fested rose-bushes.
Few horsemen pay euough attention
to the teeth of the old horses, and
then wonder why they look out of
condition.
On land at all subject to foot-rot
many sheep will fall lame—more es
pecially the close-wooied breeds on
grass.
It is very seldom that a group of
sheep may be fattened on dry food
without some of them dying or suffer
ing with constipation.
There may be such a thing as bad
luck In the dairy business, but It is a
peculiar coincidence that It always
follows bad management.
On receiving new rose bushes from
the dealer or from other sources,
transfer them immediately to the soil
without exposing the roots to the sun
or drying wind.
When a colt or other animal on the
farm Is cut with barbed wire or by
other means, the wound usually can
be successfully treated without the
services of a veterinarian.
Probably the best vegetable grown
In the garden Is asparagus. It Is a
perennial plant and lasts for many
years without renewing. It is the ear
liest and most delicious vegetable.
Select a good, strong colony to
build the queen cells, remove all
combs containing unsealed larva, also
remove the queen, and let them re
main queenless a few hours.
The common foxtail millet is the
best for dairy cows. This threshed
and mixed with an equal part of clo
ver hay makes one of the best rough
nesses. Unthreshed millet should
never be fed alone to any kind of
stock.
Vine crops should not be disturbed
after the vines commence to run, as
the leaves act as a mulch of the plants
spread almost as far as the vines and
grow quite near the surface of the
soil. Any weeds not destroyed by
former cultivations should be pulled
by hand.
Salad plants, tomatoes, muskmolons,
green corn, beans and the like have
of late years been added, one after
another, to the greenhouse crops, and
the enlarged menu resulting there
from has gratified the epicure and has
been a source of revenue to the pro
ducers.
I.eave all the good ewe lambs for
breeding, but give extra feed to
lambs Intended for summer market.
They may be growing now, but they
will put on better flesh for higher
prices with a daily feed of ground
grain. It Is a good way to cash In
surplus grain.
If you have a separator you will not
be bothered with a lot of sour milk
standing around during the warm
months. Pigs will drink sour milk,
but the sweet milk will do them more
good. Get a cream separator and
save more of the cream, besides de
riving more benefit from the skim
milk.
If the mare Is fed on timothy hay
and corn alone she cannot furnish the
proper elements for the development
of the foal. Wheat bran, shorts, oil
meal and clover hay should be a great
part of the daily ration. Give the mare
| dally exercise and it will not hurt
to work her up to foaling time, pro
viding she is not strained or over
worked.
lie sure to milk the cow clean.
Thorough ventilation i.; necessary.
Air and cool Incubator eggs daily.
Already the demand for dairy cowa
Is much in excess of 'he supply.
The brooder and brooder coop must
be amply ventilated at all times.
Make the milker wash bis hands
with soap before he begins to milk.
Corn is assuredly the most fattening
farm grain that may be fed to sheep
T.ack of a const , it supply of clean,
pure, fresh water before the fowls
means defeat in the end.
Any food that will keep hetfs In
prime condition and with vigorous np
petite.-, will cause them to lay.
l*o not think that the separator is a
dillicult piece of machinery to- handle
and that it is hard to take care of.
To every ten pounds of butter In the
churn mix one pound of dairy salt
and two pounds of water.
Two essentials must be observed to
keep milk sweet and clean for two or
throe days so that it can be shipped a
distance or held at home for use.
Many varieties of trees will In a
few years grow large enough for fuel
and for small timber, such as poles,
which can be used in many ways.
Select dairy cows that have every
indication of being milk producers,
hut determine this positively by the
use of the Uabcock test and the scale.
It is estimated that there arc 95,000,
000 head of horses in the world. The
United States and European Russia
liave tlie greatest number.
Pumpkins should never be planted
in the garden The vines take up more
room than they are worth. The corn
field for the pumpkins.
Pea vines, which were formerly
thrown away by the canners, are now
being used for stock food. They are
preserved in silos, or stacked in the
open air.
Cowpeas belong to the family of
plants known as the legumes, which
have the power of taking nitrogen
from the air by means of the bacteria
which live on their roots.
You can afford to buy feeds for pigs
and lambs at the prices these animals
will bring this summer, and the pas
ture will soon help out the feed ques
tion.
A nation-wide battle agafnst the
common house fly has been started
and it Is expected to be waged vigor
ously during the present year, direct
ed by government scientists.
To force rhubarb the best success
Is obtained by placing it under green
house benches or in a rather dark
cellar; but little light and heat Is re
quired to force good rhubarb.
Millet is a warm-weather plant and
consequently it may bo sown any
time up until the middle of July with
reasonable assurance that it will pro
duce a satisfactory hay crop.
To prevent rats and other animals
from killing and carrying off young
chicks use a tight board coop provided
with a small run and all securely In
closed with one-tnch poultry netting.
Including the top of the run.
Milk ami butter are higher priced
today In the large cities than ever
before. There Is no danger of an
overstocked market for many years
to come. This Is especially true if
the dairymen produce premium milk
and butter.
Several different things may cause
the suppression of milk In one or more
sections of tho udder. Generally the
cause may be traced lo an injury of
some kind received when the heifer
was running in the pasture, or It may
be traced to an inherited weakness.
When gathering flowers always use
a sharp knife or scissors to cut them
smooth and clean. Karly in the morn
ing Is the best time, and the blooms
not quite developed will last longest.
"Souse"’ the stems deeply In water for
an hour or so before making bou
quets.
A very considerable extension of
live stock farming would materially
increase the cash output from farms
and at the same time save millions to
the future farm wealth by keeping on
the farm a large percentage of the
fertility that is now sold ofT in the
form of com, oats and hay.
Raising calves on skim milk is the
best method, all things considered;
and they will grow and develop on
this food ns well as when allowed to
run with the cow. The secret of suc
cess and good health with the animals
is to feed often and in small amounts.
Overfeeding and irregular feeding will
cause the scours and calves will grow
indifferently.
Most of these waste places on the
farm are the richest kind of land. If
the brush and briars were grubbed
out and the spaces put Into cultivation
they would grow the biggest crops on
the farm. The soil in such places is
full of organic matter and other rich
fertilizers, which have accumulated
for years in the form of dead Insects
and decaying twigs, leaves and roots.
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