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other experts, has been used in the preparation of bulletins on laun- 

 dry work, on the selection and care of clothing, on the cleaning and 

 care of the home, and on the care of floors and floor coverings, the 

 object in all cases being to show both how a saving of labor can be 

 effected and how a saving of money can be made possible by prolong- 

 ing the period in which a garment or an article of household equip- 

 ment can be kept in good, usable condition. 'The data have been of 

 much value also for discussion of household thrift, for publicity work 

 of the department, for summaries for extension workers, and similar 

 uses. Extensive use has also been made of such subject matter in the 

 widely circulated series of 20 United States Thrift Leaflets, which 

 were a joint product of the Department of Agriculture and the 

 Treasury Department, and in a Farmers' Bulletin dealing with thrift 

 in the home. 



The amount of work required in the preparation of the bulletins 

 and other publications originating in the office was large. Since 

 funds for printing professional papers were limited, a number of 

 reports of experimental work carried on in the laboratories of this 

 office were prepared for publication in professional and technical 

 journals. In this way it Avas possible to record the progress of re- 

 search in the digestibility of various foods, the results of various 

 types of experiments conducted in the calorimeter, and data col- 

 lected in the experimental kitchen covering a wide range of subjects. 



Besides reports of experimental work and similar material, two 

 new Farmers' Bulletins, one entitled The Selection and Care of 

 Clothing and the other Home Laundering, originating in this office, 

 were jH-inted during the year, and a number of the older Farm- 

 ers' Bulletins, dealing with the work of the office, were revised. 

 In cooperation with the Dairy Division of the Bureau of Animal 

 Industry a circular dealing briefly with the value of milk as food 

 was prepared. Over 40 short articles were contributed by the office 

 to the Special Information Service of the department and furnished 

 to the newspapers through the Office of Information. These were 

 designed to be of special interest to women in their homes and 

 include such general sul)jects as the care and repair of clothing, 

 household-management problems, household accounts, food selection, 

 preparation, and preservation, and the general nutrition of the 

 family. In addition, a number of brief articles have been prepared 

 for the Weekly News Letter. 



Various progress reports of work being carried on in the experi- 

 mental kitchen were mimeographed in small editions and distributed to 

 the field workers in home economics, it being a part of the cooperative 

 program that such information be furnished as soon as available to 

 the other branches of the States Relations Service. This policy of 

 cooperation is also carried out between the Office of Home Economics 

 and other bureaus, and reports of special investigations have been 

 furnished to the Bureau of Chemistry, the Bureau of Animal In- 

 dustry, the Bureau of Markets, the Department of Justice, and other 

 Government agencies, as welPas to a considerable number of teachers 

 and investigators in the home economics field and workers in kindred 

 lines of commercial activity. 



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