CORNELL 



IReabinG^Course for jfarmers' lHHives 



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., JANUARY, 1907. No. 23 



A SUPPLEMENT TO BULLETINS Nos. 2 AND 3. 



The Farmers' Wives" Reading-Course is deemed to be practically 

 complete with the four series covering bulletins one to twenty, although 

 the work of women in homes will always admit of further study in the 

 improving of conditions of work, the lessening of labor and the bettering 

 of home products. 



Series V aims to make the twenty bulletins workable by printing 

 suggestions and correspondence concerning them, by instructing corre- 

 spondents and clubs as to best methods of procedure, and by serving as a 

 means of keeping acquainted with the members of the Reading-Course 

 who have taken the four years' Course. The readers register in one of the 

 former Courses or Series (I to IV). The present series is not for the 

 purpose of securing new readers. 



The present Bulletin (No. 23) is a supplement to Bulletin No. 2 on 

 " Decoration in the Farm Flome," and Bulletin No. 3 on " Practical 

 Housekeeping." 



I. SUPPLEMENT TO BULLETIN NO. 2 ON " DECORATION IN 



THE FARM HOME." 



The meaning of pictures is a subject to which very little careful 

 attention is given. Most persons seem to regard a picture as a picture; 

 but there are " points " in a good picture, as much as there are in an 

 animal or a cheese. It is for the purpose of illustrating some of these 

 points, in order to suggest the significance that lies in pictures, that the 

 following article and the one of last month are written. 



BREWING MISCHIEF: UNITY IN VARIETY. 



By Charles DeGarmo. 



What particular piece of mischief the little maid is brewing, it would 

 be hard to tell, but it is easy to see that there is mischief in the air. 

 The face and pose of the gypsy maid are surcharged with the growing 

 determination to do something that will be a mixture of audacity and 



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