FOURTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART VIII. b\i\) 



A course is also given in history, art and home decoration. The 

 principles of ornamentation and color are applied to the furnishings of 

 the home, and to the treatment of walls, floors and ceilings. This work 

 is illustrated by photographs of architecture, sculpture and by paint- 

 ings, by specimens of textiles, wall papers, pottery, fine glass and silver. 



Besides the work in domestic economy regular college work as it is 

 given in any scientific course is pursued, including algebra, geometry, 

 trigonometry, chemistry, French and German, elocution, physiology, phys- 

 ics, ecology, history, literature, geology, political economy, bacteriology, 

 zoology, entomology, psychology and ethics. Thus giving the girl a well 

 rounded practical education, which fits her for work in life. 



The two-year course is offered especially to those who expect to teach 

 domestic economy in schools and colleges. It takes up the study of 

 domestic economy as it is given in the four-year course with the addi- 

 tion of a year of the theory and practice of teaching. In this work the 

 planning of courses for public schools and colleges is made an important 

 feature with a study of the equipment and cost of such departments. 

 The girls also give demonstration lessons to which the ladies of the cam- 

 pus are invited. Practice classes, consisting of the children of the pro- 

 fessors are taught by the girls. The courses are planned by them, and 

 the buying and teaching is done by them under the strict supervision of 

 the instructor. In this course only those sciences which relate most 

 closely to domestic science and upon which it is based are studied. Chem- 

 istry is taken throughout the entire course. Physics, botany, English, 

 physiology, psychology and bacteriology are also studied. 



The aim of the work in domestic economy at the Iowa State college 

 3s to bring intelligence and scientific knowledge, as well as manual skill 

 into the work of home-making. To impress upon the young woman the 

 fact that the work of the home is not ojily worthy her best intelligence 

 but may be made very attractive and enjoyable as well. When a young 

 woman finishes the course she leaves the college better fitted for the 

 duties by which she will be confronted and better equipped to minister 

 to the comfort and well being of others, wherever she may bie or in 

 v/hatever occupation she may be engaged. 



I wish I could make you feel the need of this work as I feel it so 

 that when you leave this place you will be a thorough convert to a do- 

 mestic science education for girls and that your influence will be the 

 means of establishing this branch in all of our public schools. 



POULTRY ON THE FARM. 



Mrs. 0. W. Browning, before the Jasper County Farmers' Institute. 



We shali begin by giving a few statistics in regard to the poultry 

 of our own State and county. 



The total number of chickens in the State in 1900 was 18,907,673; 

 turkeys. 424.306; geese, 223,612; ducks, 487,752; an average of 91/2 fowls 

 for each person in the State. 



