HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARM BUREAU MONTHLY 



home: making 



HOUSEHOLD ACCOUNTING 



Easthampton to be the Demonstration 

 Group 



Up to the present time, 76 Household 

 Account books from the Mass. Agricul- 

 tural College have been distributed to 

 women in the county. Several of these are 

 being kept by Easthampton women. Miss 

 Gifford plans to spend each third Mon- 

 day afternoon in the month with women 

 there and make a study of account keep- 

 ing. The meetings are open to all 

 women. Similar demonstration groups 

 are being conducted throughout the State. 

 The Home Demonstration Agent plans 

 to take the work with Miss Gifford so 

 that she will be able to lead other groups 

 who desire to choose the same program. 



WOMEN SHOULD ATTEND 



The annual meeting of the Hampshire 

 I County Farm Bureau will be held in 



Northampton on Tuesday, November 18. 

 [ There will be an 



arranged for the women as well as the 



men. Keep the date in mind and plan to 



be present. 



Program for Demonstration Groups in 

 Household Accounts 



1. 



4. 



•5. 

 6. 



7. 



9. 



Why and how to keep accounts. 



Where does the dollar go? 

 Meat cutting demonstration showing 



cheapest and best cuts of meat. 

 Demonstration. Use, preparation 



and cooking of cheaper cuts of meat. 



Making and use of tireless cooker. 

 Demonstration. Use of left-over 



meats. Meat substitutes. 



Demon.stration. Use of Milk. 

 Grocery order for family of 5. 

 Discussion of changes which may be 

 made with either same food value, 

 or increased food value at the same 

 cost. Discussion of change in order 

 for variety, maintaining the same 

 cost. 



Planning of meals from the grocery 

 order. 



a. balanced meals. 



b. variety and attractiveness. 



c. time of preparation. 



d. value of planning ahead. 

 Problems of buying. 

 Making a budget. 



One Ship Drives East 



One ship drives East 



Another drives West 



While the self-same breezes blow; 



'Tis the set of the sails and not the gales 



That bids them where to go. 



Like the winds of the sea 



Are the ways of the Fates 



As we move along through life; 



'Tis the set of the soul that decides the 



goal. 

 And not the storm of the strife. 



— Autlior Unknown 



THE SAME IS TRUE 



IN HAMPSHIRE COUNTY 



"There are a good many little pale 



faces in the Schools," reports a Home 



™ r'!*^"!.„,'"'!^T' ' Demonstration Agent in New Hampshire, 



"and I want to get the people interested 



in installing hot school lunches this fall." 



There are 5,000,000 undernourished 

 children in the country. Is your child 

 one of them? There are more under- 

 nourished childi-en in the country than in 

 the city. The school lunch has proved 

 an invaluable factor in raising that 

 standard of health among children. The 

 rural school is an ideal place to begin, 

 and the school where your children go is 

 a still better place to begin. Let the 

 Home Demonstration Agent help you and 

 the teacher start the plans. 



The Unpardonable Sin 



To live in a County 

 To make a living OFF OF IT — 

 and OUT OF IT— 

 To get every thing you possibly can 



OUT OF IT— 

 And put ABSOLUTELY NOTHING 



INTO IT— 



Home making is as much a business 

 as any that is connected with selling the 

 farm crops. Thrift in the home is 

 more than ever necessary in these times. 



"Proper feeding is one of the chief 

 factors in health." 



Try Mrs. Morey's (Cummington) Recipe 

 for Raised Doughnuts 



At night scaled 1 pint milk, put in 1 

 scant cup fat, fill up pint measure with 

 whole milk. Add IJ cups sugar, 1 

 yeast cake, dissolved in 1 cup warm 

 water. Put in nutmeg, salt (11 tsp.) Add 

 flour and mix so it can be handled 

 easily. In the morning, stir down, let 

 rise again, cut out and rise, fry and roll 

 in sugar. 



Read, 



Mac- 



Mac- 



As a result of the Clothing Efficiency 

 exhibit made by the Easthampton gi-oup , 

 at the Northampton Fair, three towns 

 have asked the Home Demonstration 

 Agent for instnactions in this line of 

 work. Two new groups are being 

 carried on in Hadley and Williamsburg. 

 Nearly all the groups that began last 

 year have organized and are preparing 

 for the advance work. Mrs. Reed will 

 meet the Enfield group October 30. All 

 interested women in that part of the 

 County are invited to be present. 



One woman in the County became in- 

 terested in making her work easier. 

 The fireless cooker came first. Next 

 she had a pantry built and so planned 

 that she can work there without 

 taking extra steps or making any ia\^e 

 motions because utensils and materials 

 have been thoughtfully grouped. Re- 

 cently she has had the sink and other 

 working surfaces raised so the work can 

 be done with fewer backaches. Al- 

 though she has a family of five and does 

 all her own laundry and other work, she 

 has time to lead a Clothing Efficiency 

 group, a Mothers' Club and keep up 

 with other community interests. 



Some Books Worth Knowing 



Save and Have. The University Society, 

 New York. 



The Mothercraft Manual. M. L. 

 Brown Little Co., Boston. 



Education Through Play. Curtis, 

 millan Co. 



The New Public Health. Hill, 

 millan Co. 



The- Newer Knowledge of Nutrition. 

 McCollum Macmillan Co. 



Training the Girl. McKeever Mac- 

 millan Co. 



Housewifery. Balderston, Lippincott. 



How to Live. Fisher & Fisk, Funk 

 Wagnalls Co. 



Health Education in Rural Schools. 

 Andress, Houghton Mifflin Co. 



Play & Recreation. Curtis, Ginn & Co. 



Manual of Homemaking. VanRens- 

 selaer & Cannon, Macmillan Co. 



Household Engineering. Frederick, 

 American School of Home Economics. 



Home and Community Hygiene. Broad- 

 hurst, Lippincott. 



The Business of the Household. Taber, 

 Lippincott. 



Cuncludfd from page 1 

 The Dentist reports the following: 



Number of days worked (.June 1-Sept, 

 30) 11. 



Extractions, 6. 



Treatments, 7. 



Cleanings, 17. 



Cement fillings, 18. 



Silver fillings, 35. 



People worked on, 22. 



People from neighboring towns took 

 advantage of the clinic as well. 



No free work was done. Each person 

 paid according to woi-k done. 



There seems to be general satisfaction 

 and appreciation of the clinic so that it 

 will no doubt be carried on another year. 



Other towns similarly situated might 

 well take up work of this kind. 



