Programs for Evenings. 597 



C. For Readers of the Third Year, Food for the Farmers' Family. 



Farmers' Wives' Bulletin Xo. 14. 



1. Consider first half of questions contained upon discus- 



sion paper. 



2. Let each woman tell in what she is most successful in 



the preparation of food. 



3. In what wa}s are we dependent upon the insect world 



for food ? 



D. For Readers of the Fourth Year. 



Readers of the Fourth Year will find an outline for club dis- 

 cussion in the February Bulletin. 



III. Concluding Program. 

 Current Topics. 



What can the farmers do to encourage legislation for educa- 

 tion in Agriculture and Home Economics in the State ? 



Light Refreshments. 



Second February Meeting. 



Nature. 



I. Introductory Exercises. 



" Of all the zi'onderfu! things in the zconderful universe of God 

 nothing seems to me more surprising than the planting of a seed 

 in the black earth and the result thereof. Take a poppy seed, for 

 instance: it lies in your palm, the merest atom of matter, hardly 

 visible, a speck, a pin's point in bulk, but zcithin it is imprisoned 

 a spirit of beauty ineifable, zuhich zcill break its bonds and emerge 

 from the dark ground and blossom in a splendor so dazzling as to 

 hafde all pozvers of description." 



Music. 



Quotation, by the President — 



" The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat 



in the summer." 



Reading. From the Great World's Farm, chap, vi, pp. 82 to 98. 



II. Main Program. 



A. For First Year Readers, The Kitchen Garden, Concluded. 



1. How and where are seed and plants best secured? 



2. How can you best obtain the co-operation and assistance 



of the head of the house and your children ? 



