The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-01-12
~ ISAAC L. TOTEM.

All OF us know that 1t Ii not the cas-
lest thing in the world to break away
from habits of long duration; there
fore, we must be less severe In our
criticisms of the farmer il he does not
make haste to put into operation all
of these new tangled ideas.
+. We must remember that for many
years he has been doing his work in a
certain way, and that 1t has practical
ly become a habit with him. To break
away from those long continued meth
ods-to acknowledge that he has been
pretty much off the track in his pro-
ceedure-goes agains the grain.
1t sometimes seems to us that if the
farmer tried to do all that We advo-
cate he should do. he would have to
move with the rapidity of a gyroscope.
and then it is doubtful IL he would
have time to produce any crops.
! ed fixed for a considerable length of
/ time are broken off short: because. if
| they are not. il may mean a calamity.
And often we think that we do not
! have the time 10 do a certain thing,
but something arises that makes the
doing OF that particular thing impera-
tive. 1t ia then that we find the time
to do IL.
A man may be an inveterate smoker.
or a habitual user Of alcohol: but ii
his health suddenly breaks down. and
the doctor tells him that he must give
up the use OF the poisonous weed. or
the use of the deadly alcohol, which
ever the case may be, he will. as a
general rue. take the doctors advice.
because the dying stunt don't seem to
appeal to any of us very strongly.
Mary farmers run square up against
I; Isis. and then ! d5ss not seem to
| Az ISem long to aLAas~ their meth
Sos ri t,ose methoks AA- brought OH
re crie 8.
+, When sick, eas CONAN o the fa--
ms'.. family. aaNl the physician says
that It is due n the unsanitary condi.
! tons about the f..7n home, there is
usually an earnes: attempt to remedy
the condition, alt 10 suggestions along
the lines Of SAM: ny methods previous
to the sickness IN the family would
have been to no avail.
| or all the things in the papers that
are suggested for the farmer to do
we believe that those along the lines
Of sanitation should be given due con.
sideration. even though some Of the
farm operations must be sighted. No
matter what the habit has been along
this line, or whether the time is all
taken up looking after other things
about the place. 1t is important that
enough time be spared to make the
premises as sanitary as it is possible
to make them.
| Henry Wallace, a member of the
Country Life commission says:
THE farm should be the healthiesi
place in the land; but unfortunately
it is not. There is no lack of sunshine
and outside the home there is no lack
Of pure air. There need be no lack OF
pure wholesome food, and certainly
there is no lack of exercise. The main
cause of sickness and death and of in
efficiency of the survivors is the lacl
of sanitation in the country homes"
Too many Of US take it for granted
that the farm surroundings need no at
tention in a sanitary way. This feeling
has come about because we look upor
the farm as the most healthful place
in the world.
In the cities there are health Off
GERS who so about inspecting sanitar,
conditions. and there may come a time
in the not very distant future wheI
there will be health officers who trave
from farm to farm inspecting and di
recting the work of making the farm
home surroundings sanitary. But unit
that time comes it will be necessar!
for each farmer to be his own health
ofiicer and prosecute the campaign OF