AORICULTI'RAL APPROPRIATION HILL, IVC*. .lJi3 



PLAN or RK0K(JA.M/AT10N. 



Doctor Hall. 'Vhv drpartinont is n.skini; as a part of itn riH»r"""Jfa- 

 tioii plan that the sricntifir and rrsoarrli w<irk wliuh wa.H : Iv 



incorporated in the States Kolat ions Service l>e removed and that the 

 work in home economics he made afj independent hiireau. 



In askin{^ this the <h>[)artmeni i> r>ot ready at this lime to oiithnr 

 what the hnal reortjanization of the homo economics work will !><•. 

 It is the intention of the department to call in n comnnttee of experts 

 on tlie (liU'erent phases of the suhject and to ask them to conswh-r tho 

 orj^anization of a proj^ram of development of this work and to trv 

 and (it that work into the present or;;ani/.ation of the Department of 

 Af^riculfure. In its hroa<lest aspects a home e<-onomics drpartinerU 

 would he as l)i<; as the whole Department of A^ricidture, htit it would 

 cover practically the same lines of work the department !U)W d<M's; 

 so instead of or<;anizin<; home economics as a hureau coverinj^ all of 

 those phases (»f the work the idea W(»uld he to make the Hureau of 

 Home Economics the center or<;anization wiu«h would cooperate 

 with the other hureaus to make the full and complete field of woman's 

 work. 



For instance, wo have in the Puhlic Hoads a di\ i^ion of airricullunil 

 eni]:inoerini;. Tlu' Dci)urtment of Home lOconomics, jis fully devel- 

 opetl, would have a (livision that would consider equipment of the 

 h(»me. especially the machinery of the kitchen, and that work could 

 he hamlled in cooperation with the Scientilic Enjjineerin*; Division 

 with special applications to the woman's prohlems. The same thing 

 is true in the nutrition work. There will he certain phases of the 

 nutrition work whicli will he purely related to the food of man. hut 

 in a very larj;e percenta<;e oi nutrition pn>hlems there will he no 

 difference iYi method or application hctween the studies carried on 

 for the henefit of man or the domestic animals. Therefore it is 

 prohahle that most, if not all, nutrition w(»rk. except special adapta- 

 tions in foods and cooking, would he hamlled ro.MXM-.itiv.K under 

 the Hureau of Home Economics. 



In the same way we would fin<l that as vou organize and develop 

 the home economics work, comhining it M-itli the work of jigriculture. 

 you would find a very small amount of it needed to have sne<ial 

 developments of its own. It simpiv means organizing that work and 

 applying all of it to the prohlems of the home. There will he certain 

 other pluises in which tliore will he no change needed and tin* work 

 will he continued as at the present time. 



Mr. Buchanan. What phases are not receiving attention now t 



Doctor Ball. 1 would not say that there was any particular phase 

 receiving no attention; but take, for instance, tiie e(|uipments, 

 which is probably one of the phases in which substantial advances 

 could be made 



Mr. BiH'iiANAN (interposing). E(|uipment for the horned 



Doctor Ball. Equipment for the home: the mechanical appliances 

 in the home are receiving practically no attenti<m at the present time. 

 The major research problems of the Office of llome Economics up to 

 the present time have been the nutrition problems and the textile 

 problems. This work restetl largely i)n the utilization of agricul- 

 tural production and so, of course, the nutrition and textile pn»hlems 



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