Time-tested advice
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From The
American Agriculturist, 1878
It is said that a soldier hired himself to a farmer to dig his
early potatoes; after a hearty breakfast, on a hot August morning,
the new help seated himself in the shade of the barn, saying to
the farmer, "Now, if you want your potatoes dug, bring them
along." - We can not all dig our potatoes in the shade, but there
is much exposure to our intense mid-summer heat, that may be, and
should be avoided, not only as a matter of comfort, but of health.
Sunstrokes are more frequently heard of in cities, as there every
casualty of the kind goes at once into the papers, while the same
percentage of sunstrokes, in a population scattered over a county
or two, would scarcely be heard of. We often see a kind-hearted
farmer arrange a shade for his horse, while he forgets himself. Of
course, most of the active work must be done under full exposure
of the sun, or at least with only the protection afforded by the
broad brim of a straw hat. He must be deficient in ingenuity, who
can not "conjure up" some screen which shall break the force of
the sun, upon the head, at least.
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