Suggestions to Readers. 413 



lesson. The recipes used may be found in the Home Science Cook Book 

 by Miss Barrows and Mrs. Lincoln: i. Uncooked Foods. — Functions 

 and Uses of Food, Circular No. 46, office of Experiment Stations, C. F. 

 LangAvorthy. 2. Effect of Fire and Water. — Canned Fruits, etc., No. 

 203.* 3. Classification of Foods. — Principles of Nutritions, etc., No. 142, 

 4. Milk. — Milk as a Food, etc., No. 74. 5. Eggs. — Eggs and Their Uses 

 as Food, No. 128. 6. FM.— Fish as Food, No. 85. 7. Meats.— Meats, 

 No. 34. 8. Poultry. — Poultry as a Food, No. 182. 9. Vegetables. — 

 Beans, Peas, etc., No. 121. 10. Grains. — Cereal Breakfast Foods, No, 

 249. II. Breads. — Bread and Bread Making, No. 112. 12. Miscella- 

 neous. — Sugar as Food, No. 93. The Chemical Composition of American 

 Food Materials, Bulletin No. 28 revised, office of Experiment Stations. 



COURSE II.— One Hour Daily. 



Miss Martha Van Rensselaer and others. Announcement of special lectures by- 

 visiting specialists and members of the Cornell faculty will be made as the 

 course proceeds. 



Household Art and Household Management. — Legal transactions for 

 purchase or rent of home ; selection of site ; early homes and evolution of 

 the home; layout of grounds, cellar and foundations, building material; 

 arrangement of rooms ; finishing woodwork, floors and walls ; furnishing 

 care and selection of utensils, silver and china; carpets and rugs; library; 

 labor saving devices in housework; household accounts; entertaining; 

 household service; instruction to waitress. The children, care, food and 

 training; physical training; principles of the proper use of muscles to 

 secure strength, elasticitv and health without use of apparatus. One 

 hour daily, except Saturday. 



COURSE III. 



Farm Home Industries. — Affords instruction in the garden, poultry 

 husbandry and dairy and may be taken by those whose home-work de- 

 mands it. It offers lectures on feeding, care and marketing of eggs and 

 fowls, diseases of fowls ; general horticulture, vegetable culture, floriculture 

 and ornamental gardening. 



Women who desire to pursue the Winter-Course in Home Economics 

 should correspond in regard to rooms and accommodations, 



Corespondence regarding the course mav be addressed to 



Martha Van Rensselaer, 

 Supervisor Farmers' Wives' Reading-Course. 



♦Farmers' Bulletins. All these publications if available may be obtained by 

 addressing the Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



