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TReabfnGssCourse for J^armers' Mlves 



Published by the New York State College of Agriculture, at 

 Cornell University, from November to March and Entered at 

 Ithaca as Second-Class Matter under Act of Congress of July 

 i6, 1894. L. H. Bailey, Director. 



Martha Van Rensselaer, Supervisor. 

 SERIES V. ITHACA, N. Y., NOVEMBER, 1906. No. 21. 



SUGOESTIONb TO READERS. 



For four years formal bulletins have been sent to the members of the 

 Farmers' Wives' Reading Clubs and we know have our fifth year readers 

 who have graduated from the reading of these special studies, to whom 

 we shall send now and then greetings and suggestions for further thought 

 and occupation. While we may not send to them the same kind of bulle- 

 tins as formerly, we desire to keep in touch with their lives and to have 

 the opportunity of suggesting outlines of study and reading which will 

 continue the home culture. The time does not come when we are ready 

 to lay down the book, fold our hands, and consider the improvement of 

 life at an end. One of the most beautiful pictures in life is an aged 

 person finding happiness in an open book. 



The report of the Reading-Course for Farmers' Wives, November 

 1st, 1906, shows the following membership: 



Series i 

 " 2 

 " 3 

 " 4 

 " 5 



New Readers 194 



2046 



6861 



4460 



6952 



Total ' 20,513 



The interest in the Reading-Course work has been very active even 

 on the part of those who did not regularly fill out and return the Discus- 

 sion-papers, as the following letters indicate. 



Letters from Members. 

 in answer to question as to why the Discussion-paper is not returned : 

 " I consider the Reading-Course of great value to me, and it is 

 through no lack of interest that I have never returned the Discussion- 

 papers, but because I have not had the strength or time, or have neglected 

 to do so, not having many new ideas to pass out." 



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