Ix Department of Home Economics 



Number of copies distributed: 



Total rural teachers (one number) 15,117 



8,699 teachers who returned lists of pupils (one additional 



number) 8 , 699 



City and village teachers (one ntimber) 12 , 124 



Training class pupils (two numbers) i , 442 



Training school and normal school pupils (two numbers). . 2,812 



Pupils in rural schools (one number) 155 ,889 



Permanent list (three numbers) 3,318 



Junior Home Project workers (one number) 5 ,000 



Total 204 , 401 



There are enrolled at present approximately 24,000 Junior Home 

 Project workers, distributed throughout the various home projects as 

 follows: com, 560; potato, 17 16; home garden, 15,159; canning, 562; food, 

 1 1 04 ; poultry, 768; pork, 1 2 1 3 ; calf, 48 7 ; cow testing, 2 9 ; sewing or garment 

 making, 1069; bean, 496; sheep, 178; rabbit, 7. 



Investigation. — The Department has cooperated with the local school 

 authorities in Livingston County, and with the State Department of 

 Education, in a rural school survey for that county. Professor Kruse 

 has been in charge of this work for the Department. 



HOME ECONOMICS 



Martha Van Rensselaer, Flora Rose, Professors of Home Economics 



The work of the Department of Home Economics during the past 

 year has been greatly increased owing to the added activities imposed 

 on it by war conditions. In addition to the regular teaching and depart- 

 mental work, each member of the staff has assumed responsibility for 

 some service connected with the state or the national program for food 

 conservation. The extension work has necessarily been strongly 

 emphasized, this being the readiest way of carrying a knowledge of food 

 conservation from the College to remote parts of the State. In order 

 to insure a more complete vmison between federal and state programs, 

 Miss Van Rensselaer went to Washington on March i, 19 18, on a six- 

 months leave of absence, to act as Director of the Home Conservation 

 Division of the United States Food Administration. 



Teaching. — No increase has been made in the nimiber of courses in 

 foods and nutrition, but emphasis has been laid on the wise selection, 

 substitution, and utilization of foods with a view of conserving food, 

 money, time, and health. The problem of the cost of living has been 

 restudied on the basis of new conditions. Laboratory practice has been 



