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institutes, special meetings, farm trains, reading clubs, and the like; 

 (c) correspondence with members of the Reading-Course; (d) field work 

 in rural centers with groups of women, organized as clubs, conducting 

 club studies in home economics in various communities of the State ; 

 (e) a course of lectures during Farmers' Week, on subjects relating to 

 home economics, for an organization called the Homemakers' Con- 

 ference ; (f) a three-months Winter-Course in Home Economics, con- 

 sisting of laboratory practice and daily lectures ; (g) exhibits at the State 

 Fair and at the Congress of Hygiene and Demography; (h) bread and 

 clothing contests among the farmers' wives' clubs. 



Number of meetings attended 163 



Number of addresses given 237 



Number of demonstrations given 25 



Number of letters written 1,987 



Cornell Reading-Course for the Farm Home 



The following lessons were published in the Cornell Reading-Course 

 for the Farm Home : 



I. The care and feeding of children. — Part I. Flora Rose. 



3. The care and feeding of children. — Part H. Flora Rose. 



5. Household decoration. Helen Binkerd Young. 



7. Household furnishing. Helen Binkerd Young. 



9. Reading in the farm home. Martha Van Rensselaer and Caroline 



Webster. 



II. The laundry. Flora Rose. 



13. Cornell study clubs. Martha Van Rensselaer and others. 



15. Principles of jelly-making. N. E. Goldthwaite. 



17. The preservation of food in the home. — Part I. Flora Rose. 



19. The preservation of food in the home. — Part H. Flora Rose. 



21. The preservation of food in the home. — Part HI. Flora Rose and 



others. 



23. Rules for cleaning. Mary Urie Watson. 



Below is given a summary statement, showing the number of readers 

 and of study clubs : 



Number of readers October i, 1911 I7»7I3 



Number of readers at time of revision of mailing list, April, 1912 22,014 



Renewals, April i to October i, 1912 6,730 



New readers during year 7,957 



Number of members of Cornell study clubs i)354 



