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can tell your wife about them first hand, and encourage her to coine 

 next year; and when you get the report of the State Board of Agricult- 

 ure this year, will you please call your wife's attention to the report 

 of our meetings? I am sure she will find in it something of interest. 

 Some time when the department has better facilities and equip- 

 ment, and a better teaching force, we hope to do what the Agricultural 

 College is doing for the men — to have a short course for the women in 

 Home Economics. There are many women in the state who cannot 

 leave home for the full four years' course just as there are many men 

 who cannot do so. If you know of any women who might take advan- 

 tage of such a course, who might learn by study how to work to bet- 

 ter advantage, perhaps you will see to it that we have these facilities. 

 It is true that our regular course has suffered because of the short 

 University appropriations this year, and it has been necessary to limit 

 the number of students we could take in the freshman work, in order 

 to do justice to the graduating class. Before the registration days were 

 half over we were obliged to tell students applying for this work that 

 the rolls were full. Of course this is only a temporary condition. I 

 am sure that we shall soon have sufficient funds not only for our regu- 

 lar work but for a short course as well. In the meantime, we can have 

 the Home Makers' Conference here during Farmers' Week, and we are 

 very glad indeed to have the opportunity to be with you during this 

 time when we are to have a feast of so many good things. 



PLANNING AND FURNISHING THE FARM HOME. 



(Mrs. Ivy Harner Selvidge, Columbia, Mo.) 



Health, convenience and beauty are the three prime requisites of a 

 well planned, modern house. To secure them requires thought and un- 

 derstanding upon the part of owner, the architect and the contractor. 

 Of these three, health ranks first and certain conditions are absolutely 

 necessary for a healthful dwelling. First there must be a light, cheer- 

 ful and dry site; second, means of ventilating to carry off respiration 

 impurities; third, a system of immediate and complete removal of 

 sewage to keep the air free from contamination ; fourth, pure supply 

 and proper removal of water to insure cleanliness ; fifth, such a construc- 

 tion of the house as will insure perfect dryness from foundation to 

 roof. 



Fortunately the farmer has considerable land from which to make 

 a selection for a location for his house. Usually it is possible to find a 

 well drained site; if not it must be drained artificially, for dryness is 



