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is not too much to expect that comparable results will follow in other 

 lines of agricultural manufacture, particularly in the making of com- 

 mercial products and the utilization of waste in the great fruit indus- 

 tries. 



6. Domestic and Personal Questions. — The home as well as the 

 land must be reached. The home questions are of two categories : 

 the internal, comprising housekeeping and householding subjects; 

 the external, in which the home is considered as part of the com- 

 munity in its relation to school, church, organizations, and various 

 social questions. The farm home should be the ideal place in which 

 to train boys and girls. It should be comfortable, attractive and 

 sanitary. Human food should receive as much scientific attention as 

 food for the farm animals. Woman's work should be alleviated and 

 elevated. The work needs reorganization. Mechanical appliances 

 must be brought to its aid. The miscellaneous activities that center 

 about the home have been assembled into courses of study. These 

 courses have received various collective names, none of which is 

 good, because the subjects are miscellaneous and not capable of being 

 closely welded. Of these names, I like " Home Economics " best. 

 After giving much study to the general subject, I have come to the 

 conclusion that we must have a course in home economics in the 

 College of Agriculture (a beginning has already been made), but I 

 doubt whether we should have a department of home economics. 

 By this I mean to say that the different subjects comprising such a 

 course should be taught by the various specialists in the University, 

 the special home-making subjects now unprovided for to be handled 

 by one or more special teachers, at least one of whom should prefer- 

 ably be a woman and have charge of the assembling of the instruc- 

 tion. This woman should be a specialist and should teach only in her 

 specialty. All the work should be of positive collegiate or university 

 grade, strictly comparable in every way with other college work, 

 and be founded on good preparation in the fundamental sciences and 

 arts. 



7. Economic and Social Subjects. — The farm is a part of tHe com- 

 munity and commonwealth. The farmer is a part of society. These 

 economic and social relations must be studied from the farm point 

 of view. These subjects are practically untouched, although the 

 terms " rural economics '' and " rural sociology " are coming into the 

 curricula of colleges of agriculture. We are establishing such work 

 at Cornell, but it greatly needs extension. I am " professor of rural 

 economy :" my assistant does the teaching. A large body of thought 



