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Reading-Course for Far.mers' Wives. 



10. 



II. 



12. 



Louise AI. Alcott — Little Men. 13 

 Little Women. 



Stevenson — Kidnapped. 

 — Treasure Island. 



Shaler — Story of our Conti- 

 nent. 



14. 



15- 



Stuart Edward White — The 

 Blazed Trail. In Silent 

 Places. 



Ernest Thompson-Seton — Life 

 of Animals. 



Blanchen — Birds and Nature. 



List of books on general subjecls from z^'hieh to elioose: 



History of the United States, Alemoirs and Letters of Robert 



John Fiske. ^ Louise Stevenson. 



Life of William Morris. Essays- — Hamilton Mabie. 



Abraham Lincoln, Ida Tarbell. 



Fiction. 



Lorna Doone — Blackmore. 

 The Virginian — Owen Wister. 

 Les Miserables — Victor Hugo. 

 Ben Hur — Lew Wallace. 

 Man Without a Country — 



Edward Everett Hale. 

 Jane Eyre — Charlotte Bronte. 

 Little Shepherd of Kingdom 



Come — Fox. 

 The Right of Way— Parker. 

 The Reign of Law — Allen. 

 Ramona — Helen Hunt Jack- 



The Otherwise Man — Van 

 Dyke. 



Hugh. Wynne — Mitchell. 



The Weldings — LaFayette. 

 IMcLaws. 



Huckleberry Finn — ]\Iark Twain. 



Main Traveled Roads — Gar- 

 land. 



Being a Boy — W^arner. 



Choose also works from Scott, 

 Dickens, Thackeray and 

 Elliott. 



son. 

 Poet7'y. 



The complete works of any standard poets may be selected as Tenny- 

 son, Shelly, Scott, Moore, Longfellow, WHiittier, Bryant, Lowell, Riley's 

 poems, also Stevenson's and Eugene Field's poems of childhood are of 



great mterest. 



FARMERS' WEEK AT CORNELL. 



On February 17-22, 1908, "Farmers' Week" is to be held at the 

 New York State College of Agriculture. 



The Poultry Institute and Show is held February 18, 19 and 20. The 

 Experimenter's League meets in Farmers' Week. 



All the work of the College is open to visitors with lectures and 

 demonstration for the benefit of visitors. Special programs will be held 

 for women. It is desired that women will come on this occasion and re- 

 ceive the benefits to be derived for the farm home. 



The Department of Home Economics will furnish lectures and demon- 

 strations to visiting farm women. 



