THE FARMERS' MONTHLY, NOVEMBER, 1927 



W B Z--M. A. C. FARM 

 FORUM RESUMES 

 WINTER BROADCASTS 



The regular winter and spring broad- 

 cast of the M. A. C. Farm Forum from 

 radio stations WBZ, Springfield, and 

 WBZA, Boston, will be resumed Novem- 

 ber 7, according to W. E. Cole, who 

 is in charge of the radio forum work 

 from the college. 



At 6:00 each Monday evening for a 

 fifteen-minute period, members of the 

 Massachusetts Agricultural College staff 

 at Amherst will broadcast answers to 

 timely farm questions which were sent to 

 the college for answer by people of the 

 state. These questions will cover such 

 fields of agriculture as fruit growing, 

 flowers, landscape and vegetable garden- 

 ing, animal husbandry, farm forestry, 

 poultry, farm management, and eco- 

 nomics. 



New Forum Started 



In addition to the regular forum there 

 will be a forum for farm women which 

 will be broadcast regularly from the 

 same stations at 2 p. m. every Monday 

 afternoon. This new feature will be 

 taken care of by women on the college and 

 extension staff's and will be conducted 

 mostly on the question and answer basis. 

 Clothing, millinery, health, nutrition, 

 home furnishings, and kitchen improve- 

 ments will be among the subjects dis- 

 cussed. 



Opening hours for both forums will be 

 taken care of by Mr. Cole, who will ex- 

 plain the workings of the forum and give 

 various announcements regarding the 

 coming broadcasts. Following on the 

 homemakers' program on November 14 

 will be Miss Margaret Hamlin, who will 

 talk on "Opportunities in Agriculture for 

 Women." Miss Edna Skinner, head of 

 the department of home economics at the 

 college will speak on November 21 on 

 "Opportunities at the College for Home 

 Economics Training." Following this 

 will be Mi.ss Helen Knowlton on Novem- 

 ber 28, who will explain the teaching side 

 of home economics at the college. And 

 on December 5 Miss E. S. Davies will 

 g^ive the results of some research work in 

 rural life. 



On November 14 the farm forum will 

 he in charge of C. L. Thayer, head of the 

 floriculture department, who will answer 

 questions pertaining to landscape and 

 and arrangement. George L. Farley, 

 state leader of boys' and girls' club work, 

 will talk on November 21 on 4-H club 

 work in Massachusetts. Farm forestry 

 questions yill be discussed by R. B. Par- 

 menter, extension forestry agent, on 

 November 28. And on December 6 H. 

 B. Rowe, extension specialist in market- 

 ing, will discuss questions pertaining to 

 marketing agricultural products. 



The homemakers' program will run un- 

 til April 30 with the exception of the 

 dates, December 26 and .January 2, which 

 are holidays. The regular farm foi-um 

 will run until June 26. 



Complete programs for the entire 

 broadcast may be obtained by writing to 

 the Mailing Room, M. A. C, Amherst, 

 Massachusetts. 



M. A. C. CORRESPONDENCE 



COURSES 



The Massachusetts Agricultural Col- 

 lege is off'ering some ten weeks courses in 

 Home Economics to start January 3, 1928. 

 These courses are planned specially for 

 the young women at home, the club lead- 

 ers, local extension leaders, social work- 

 ers, and home makers. For further in- 

 formation write to the Director of Short 

 Courses, Massachusetts Agricultural Col- 

 lege, Amherst, Massachusetts. 



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