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of those girls who reach iis without having had such training else- 

 where, and, under our present educational systems, they are many. 

 Second, we have as an important purpose the training of teachers in 

 this subject who are to go out to teach the youth of our State. We 

 lay particular stress on this training and the scientific requirements 

 which should underly such training. You would not consider a young 

 man with no other preparation than the practical experience on the 

 farm prepared to teach agriculture in your schools, yet practical home 

 training is frequently considered a short cut to the preparation for 

 teaching Home Economics. Third, it must serve as an experiment 



Food Laboratory. 



station, as the place where scientific investigations of household prob- 

 lems can be carried out, labor saving devices tried and the literature 

 of pure science culled over to determine what can be adapted to our 

 uses. We are to stand as the connecting link between the scientific 

 world and the home. Through such meetings as these and through 

 the teachers we send out to the homes the knowledge gained here. 



' At present we have in our department over 150 girls, and were 

 obliged to turn others away for lack of room. These will fall into 

 three groups: (1) A. B. girls who elect our work; (2) those working 

 for a B. S. in agriculture who may be required to take a certain 

 amount of our work and may elect more; (3) those who expect to 

 teaoh and combine our work with work in education. 



In conclusion, let me invite you to inspect our laboratories, which 

 are at present very crowded, but next year we hope to be able to 

 show you better and larger quarters. 



