Home Economics at New York State College of Agriculture 1469 



Art in the Home. — This course considers the development of more 

 artistic home surroundings: the building, site, garden; the furnishing and 

 decoration of the house; the selection of books and pictures. 



Persons registered in the Winter-Course in Home Economics have 

 opportunity to enter the courses in dairying, poultry husbandry, gardening, 

 and extension work. In these courses practical instruction may be obtained 

 with regard to milk and its products; the feeding, care, and marketing 

 of poultry; care and marketing of eggs; commercial fruit-growing; flori- 

 culture; and ornamental gardening. As opportunity is offered, short- 

 term technical courses of special interest to farm women will be added, 

 such as canning and preserving, laundry management, dressmaking, 

 millinery. It is hoped that as these short technical courses are developed 

 many farm girls may find through them opportunity to engage in profit- 

 able enterprises without the necessity of leaving the farm. In short, the 

 Department hopes to aid in standardizing activities in which women are 

 interested. 



Some of the women in the State have taken advantage of the scholar- 

 ship for the winter-course students provided by the New York State 

 Grange. There are twelve of these scholarships, each $50 in cash, to be 

 awarded to men and women who obtain the highest standard on com- 

 petitive examination. The awards are made in summer. Candidates 

 apply to the Master of the Pomona Grange in their home counties, or 

 to the deputy in counties that have no Pomona. 



home economics courses in 19 i 3 



Instruction in home economics in the New York State College of Agri- 

 culture is now organized as a four-years college course leading to the 

 degree of bachelor of science. Practically the same requirements for 

 entrance are exacted as for other full college courses given in Cornell 

 University. Instruction for the first two years includes the same under- 

 lying science courses as arc required in the general course in agriculture — 

 chemistry, physics, biology, botany, physiology, and bacteriology. The 

 course includes also drawing, English, and political science, and affords 

 opportunity for electing certain subjects from either the College of Agri- 

 culture or other colleges in accordance with the interests of the student. 

 In the last two years much of the student's time is spent in the study of 

 foods and nutrition, sanitation, household management, house furnishing 

 and house decorating, design, sewing, and millinery. Both the theoretical 

 and the practical are included in the course. 



The course of study. — The course of study followed by students in 

 home economics is related to various other branches. The description 

 here given, although meager, is a general outline of the four-years course: 



