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moted, for although the home economics movement reaches out in 

 many practical ways into home and community life, it is after all 

 an educational movement. The agricultural experiment stations, the 

 agricultural colleges, and the Department of Agriculture have per- 

 haps contributed more than any other group of educators and in- 

 vestigators to the fund of information on which the subject of home 

 economics is based, and it naturally follows that those who are inter- 

 ested in agricultural education and investigation are interested in 

 home economics as Avell. 



The subject of home economics is already an important one in 

 American agricultural colleges. Some twenty-five of these colleges 

 and similar institutions receiving government aid are now offering 

 courses in this line, and others contemplate the introduction of the 

 work. Their active interest in home economics is also shown by the 

 attempts which are being made to classify and arrange available 

 material related to home economics for educational purposes in the 

 same way that agricultural data have been reduced to pedagogical 

 form. 



The experiment stations have already made important contribu- 

 tions to home economics literature and should be interested in the new 

 organization because it should prove a stimulus to further research. 

 Such an organization which aims to bring together investigators, 

 teachers, students, and others whose interests are in considerable part 

 the same should be able to do a great deal for the advancement of 

 home economics throughout the country. 



