Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-11-08
HOW US. HELPS
farms
Bulletins Published for Rural
housewives Which Are
q Great AID

Following it's policy to aid farmers
housewives the Department of Agricul-
ture has recently issued a list of free
publications which apply, particularly, to
Women's work. This list is furnished free
on application to the editor and chief of
the division of publications, United
Suites Department OF Agriculture, WASH
| ington, as are the bulletins which it des-
cribes.
The bulletins are divided into over 100
special classes, there being sometimes as
many as a dozen pamphlets for a subject.
with dairying, while others specially con-
Germ butter, cheese. cream and ilk
Among the bulletins dealing with milk are
the following:
uo The c :sSso of MI Mi!k an and d It's use in np the
Of Cities "Thc Covered Milk Paail,S"
Cost of Market Milk" and "Lacto, a
New and Healthful Frozen Dairy Pro-
duct"
Bulletins on the subject Drugs" are
"Harmfulness of Headache Mixtures
and "Habi.- Forming Agents; Their In
discriminate Sale and Use a Menace to
the Public Welfare,
There is a set Of bulletins dealing with
bees; a set dealing with birds, and al
other set dealing with such household
insects as the ant and the flea. Guinea
pigs, rabbits and rats also have each q
bulletin devoted to them, and particular
attention is given to paultry under tue
following heads:
Poultry Accounting" Poultry Dis
eases and Pests" Ducks and Geese
F EGgfA'" .r npGn,tIg FssfFS oaIfiy M S4sssa
ing" "Rheasants," "Squa. Turkeys"
Farm conveniences in general have one
set of bulletins to describe them, and
farmers Institutes another
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wide range of subjects, including apples,
banana flour( bread. cereal breakfast
foods, CLANS, coffee substitutes and corn.
There are twelve bulletins devoted to
canning and preserving. while the fire
bulletin.
Fruits and lowers, each receive their
merited share of attention. Annual flow
ering plants, directions, for making win
dow gardens, china asters, garden sweet
jects treated in the Horticulture set; while
BURBERRY. grape, melons, the mulberry,
the raspberry, the roselie and the straw.
berry make up the fruit culture set OF
bulletins on asparagus, celery, cucumber,
mushrooms orka, rhubarb and tomato.
The housewife who wishes to know
about helpful organisations for boys and
girls. such as the corn. poultry and can
sending for the list of pamphlets includ-
ed under the heading Agricultural
Clubs"
Trees, school gardens, roads, paint
and whitewashes, Industrial alcohol and
water. are samples Of the wide range
of subjects of these publications which
the department will send free to the farm
woman on application. :,
Because OF the limited supply appfi-
cants are urgently requested to ask
only for those bulletins In which they
are particularly Interested: The de-
partment cannot undertake to supply
complete sets. nor may the applicant
ask for more than one copy of n pub
LEGATION for herself.
IN applying for these publications, the
department advises. first send for the
list and then indicate from this the
name Of the series and serial number OF
the bulletins or circulars that are de.
sired.