Suggestions to Readers. 409 



It is not uncommon to do the work of the Reading-Course in con- 

 nection with the Grange. Here is a letter from one Grange : 



" We would like to report our Farmers' Wives' Reading Club in 

 connection with Yorktown Grange No. 862, as our meetings are held 

 during the Grange meetings and it is our. aim to make the Grange more 

 interesting and helpful. We hope next fall to do the work as laid out 

 in the program you sent me and feel that a good many more of our 

 Grange members will take it up then, for as yet only about one quarter 

 of our sisters have become interested enough to join the club. Do we 

 use the same programs next fall and the same bulletins r We do not 

 hold any meeting in the Grange from the middle of June till about the 

 first of September. So our club will have to rest over, too. If there is 

 any reading matter to be sent out during the summer months, I think all 

 the members of our club would be glad to receive it. We tliank you very 

 much for your kind offer of help and doubtless you will hear from us 

 often, as it is an entirely new undertaking to all of us." 



This meeting shows in a strong degree the intention of the Farmers' 

 Wives' Reading Clubs, — an instructive program, the study of home topics, 

 special and uplifting influences and the benefits to be deprived from 

 discussion one with another of problems common to all home makers. 



The program of the club for the next year will be of interest. We 

 shall be glad to print from month to month programs and accounts of 

 other clubs, if they are reported to us. 



Mrs. Charles A. Bushell. 



ANOTHER WORK FOR FARM WOMEN. 



A series of Women's Institutes under the direction of the New York 

 State Department of Agriculture, F. E. Dawley, Director, and the New 

 York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University, L. H. Bailey, 

 Director, have been held in the following places : 



Akron, Erie County Oct. 31-Nov. i 



Webster, Monroe County Nov. 2-3 



Hannibal, Oswego County Nov. 5-6 



Clifton Park, Saratoga County Nov. 7-8 



Rhinebeck, Duchess County Nov. 9-10 



These institutes are similar to the Farmers' Institutes of the state. 

 The speakers were : Mrs. Helen Wells, Syracuse, N. Y. ; Miss Martha 

 Van Rensselaer, College of Agriculture, Cornell University ; Miss Ger- 

 trude Gray, Toronto School of Domestic Science; Miss Matie Dann, 

 Walton, N. Y. 



