3o8 Reading-Course por Farmers' Wives. 



exercises will call into use muscles unused to work. 

 They may be gradually strengthened, however, to serve 

 in the work of the house, and to save strain upon the 

 spine. 

 D. For Readers of the Fourth Year. 



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

 cussion in the March Bulletin. 



III. Concluding Program. 



In place of the Current Topics, discuss the benefits derived from 

 the year's study, and think of suggestions to make either personally 

 or through the secretary for another year. 



Light Refreshments. 



A WINTER-COURSE FOR FARM WOMEN. 



The College of Agriculture at Cornell University is establishing a 

 Winter-Course of eleven weeks in Home Economics for the benefit of 

 farmers' wives and daughters. The Reading-Courses of this College have 

 aimed to take the College to the farmer and his family ; there is also a 

 long course of agriculture extending over four years ; there are also special 

 courses ; but it is now intended to add one more facility for the benefit 

 of farm women in the shape of this Winter-Course in Home Economics. 

 The ColFege of Agriculture already gives four Winter-Courses, viz.. in 

 General Agriculture ; Dairying ; Poultry ; Horticulture. This course for 

 women will make the fifth. The course opens January 2nd and closes 

 March 20th, 1906. It is free of tuition to all residents of the State. The 

 only expenses are the personal outlays of living and traveling. For the 

 present winter this course is to comprise a series of lectures by the lead- 

 ing women in the field of householding, domestic science, and economics 

 as applied to the home. About twenty women have been secured to give 

 these lectures and demonstrations. It will probably be the most distin- 

 guished gathering of its kind that has yet been held in this country, and 

 it is an opportunity that residents of the state cannot afford to miss. 

 Among those who will take part are Mrs. Ellen H. Richards, Institute 



