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way such subjects as Household Sanitation, Bacteriology, Rural 

 Schools, Nutrition, and Care of Children. The last bulletins 

 on Care and Feeding of Children were written because requests 

 such as these came from all over the State, "Give us some specific 

 instruction as to how to care for our babies and children." "Tell 

 us how to care for ourselves so that our babies may be born 

 healthy and how to care for our babies so that they may attain 

 healthy manhood and womanhood." No bulletins which we 

 have sent out have met with such general interest as these, and 

 in our trips through the State we find that they are doing a good 

 work for the babies. 



There are a great many opportunities for a department of a 

 State institution to make exhibits. At the New York State Col- 

 lege of Agriculture one of the chief of these is made at the col- 

 lege itself during what is known as the Homemakers Confer- 

 ence and Farmers Week. Last year one of our largest exhibits 

 consisted of tables spread with typical dietaries to be served to 

 children of different ages; illustrations and demonstrations show- 

 ing ways of modifying milk and types of bottles and nipples. A 

 trained nurse was put in charge. The room was a center of in- 

 terest for the passing crowd of people all during one week. The 

 comments were many and varied and a deep interest was shown 

 by both men and women. The following episodes were typical 

 of many others : A man going through the room stopped at one 

 table showing the dietary suitable for a baby eighteen months old. 

 In his arms he carried a sound, rosy cheeked year-and-a-half- 

 old child, who belied any idea of poor feeding. His glance swept 

 the table contemptously. "Look here," he said, "this baby eats 

 sausage and pancakes for breakfast every morning, and I'd like 

 to see a healthier specimen." We had nothing to say in the face 

 of such evidence and the time was too short to point out that the 

 end was not yet. The second story is that of a woman who ex- 

 amined each food carefully and missed no word of the legends 

 hung above the tables. When the crowd had thinned she went 

 to the nurse and said, "If you had only started this thing five 

 years ago I could have saved my babies. I realize now I have 

 lost two children through sheer ignorance." 



In spite of the progress of what we may call a new rational- 

 ism there still lingers in the minds of many intelligent persons 

 a doubt as to the actual necessity of including the sort of training 

 above outlined in the higher education of women. Not only its 

 need has been doubted, but I have heard the fear expressed that 

 girls would object to it. It is our experience that no work given 

 in the university is more welcome or more enthusiastically re- 

 ceived than that dealing with those subjects given under the head 

 of Home Economics. 



