HOME ECONOMICS. 



Farm Home Extension. 



Farmers' Wives'' Reading-Course. — The work of the Farmers' Wives' 

 Reading-Course is first for the individual member and second for groups 

 of women comprising farmers' wives' clubs. September 30, 1908, shows 

 the following membership in the Farmers' Wives' Reading-Course : 



Series i , i,442 



Series 2 i ,632 



Series 3 2,059 



Series 4 1. . . . 6,878 



Series 5 . . 4,461 



Series 6 7,228 



Total 23,709 



The bulletins sent out in each series are five each year as follows : 



Series i. Farmhouse and Garden, (i) Saving Steps; (2) Decoration 

 in the Farm' Home; (3) Practical Housekeeping; (4) The Kitchen- 

 Garden; (5) The Flower-Garden. 



Series 11. The Farm Family. (6) The Rural School and the Farm 

 Home; (7) Boys and Girls on the Farm; (8) Reading in the Farm 

 Home; (9) Home Industries; (10) Household and Garden Pests. 



Series HI. Sanitation and Food. (11) Home Sanitation; (12) Germ 

 Life; (13) Human Nutrition; (14) Food for the Farm Family; (15) 

 Saving Strength. 



Series IV. The Farm Table. (17) Flour and Bread; (18) Dust as 

 related to Food; (19) The Selection of Food; (20) Canning and Pre- 



servmg. 



After the fourth year the bulletins have been on subjects already intro- 

 duced into the previous bulletins and are a further treatment of these 

 subjects. A four-page discussion paper accompanies each bulletin. This 



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