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of 191 1. The building was first used during Farmers' Week in February, 

 19 13. An effort had been made to complete it sufficiently for the entertain- 

 ment of Farmers' Week guests. In the new cafeteria, the kitchen of 

 which was still without sinks or steam tables, the Department of Home 

 Economics each day served a patient crowd that reached the one-thousand 

 mark at noon before the week was half over. 



This cafeteria, which is in the basement of the building, will seat four 

 to five hundred persons. Here students who wish to specialize in problems 

 of caring for large numbers will have practice in providing food in quantity. 

 While the cafeteria will provide a wholesome noonday lunch, it is intended 

 to furnish a practical laboratory in institutional management. On the 

 first floor are offices, classrooms, and a small living apartment. Each 

 year senior students will have opportunity to live in the apartment in 

 tuna under the guidance of an instructor. The problem of the small 

 household may thus be worked out in a practical way. On the second 

 floor is a small audience room to be used for class work and for meetings 

 relating to the work of women, particularly to that branch of the latter 

 having to do with household economics. Food laboratories, offices, and 

 a practice dining-room and kitchen are on this floor. On the third floor 

 are laboratories for a study cf clothing, sewing, and millinery. On the 

 fcurth floor is a large drafting room for work in house planning, furnish- 

 ing, and decorating, and in designing connected with sewing and millinery. 



extension work in home economics in 1913 



The work in extension is promoted by means of the reading-course, 

 direct correspondence, study clubs, lectures in the State, special con- 

 ferences, farm trains, extension schools, winter-courses, and home-makers' 

 conferences. 



The following figures are taken from the report for the year ending 

 October, 19 12 : 



Number of meetings attended, 163. 

 Number of addresses given, 237. 

 Number of demonstrations, 25. 

 Number of letters written, 1,987. 



Number of persons enrolled in The Cornell Reading-Course for the 

 Farm Home in April, 19 13, 20,000. 

 Number of Cornell study clubs, 66. 



Cornell study clubs. — The plan of organization and suitable programs 

 are given in " Cornell Study Clubs," Lesson No. 13 of the Cornell Reading- 

 Course for the Farm Home. Interest in the clubs has grown and at present 

 there are sixty-six organizations. Housewives use the lessons of the 

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