Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1913-11-14
FOR FARM WOMEN

H' L. S'' at i've cents per COPY,
FOR FARM WOMEN
Following its policy to aid farm
ers housewives, the Department OF
Agriculture has recently issued a list
OF free publications which apply par
tlCularly to women's work. This list
Is furnished free on application to
the Editor and Chief of the Division
or Publications, U. S. Department of
Agriculture, Washington, d. c., as
are the bulletins which it describes.
The bulletins are divided into
over 100 special classes, there being
sometimes a" many as a dozen pam
phlets for subject.
There is one class of bulletins
dealing with dairying, while others
specially concern butter, cheese,
cream, and milk. Among the bulle-
tins dealing with milk are the fol-
lowing:
The Care of Milk and It's Use in
the Home.
Ropy Milk and Cream.
Bitter Milk.
Clean Milk.
Milk Supply of Cities.
The Covered Milk Pail.
Cost Of Market Milk.
Lacto, New and Healthful
Flozen Dairy Product.
Bulletins on the subject Drugs"
are entitled:
Harmfulness of Headache Mix
lures.
HabitForming Agents; Their In
discriminate Sale and Use a Menace
to the Public Welfare.
There is a set of bulletins dealing
with bees; set dealing with birds;
and another set dealing with such
household insects as the ant and the
flea. Guinea pigs, rabbits and rats
also have each a bulletin devoted to
them, and particular attention is
given to poultry under the following
heads:
Poultry Accounting.
Poultry Diseases and Pests.
Ducks and Geese.
Eggs.
Poultry reeding.
Guinea Fowl.
Incubation.
Poultry Marketing.
Fheasants.
Squads.
Turkeys.
Farm conveniences in general
have one set of bulletins to describe
them, and Farmers Institutes an
other. Hints on how to prepare
foods cover a wide range of sub
jects, including apples, banana flour,
bread, cereal breakfast foods, clans
coffee substitutes, and corn. There
are IL bulletins devoted to canning
aud preserving; while the fireless
cooker is the subject of a separate
bulletin.
Fruits and flowers each receive
their merited share of attention.
Annual Towering plants, directions
for making window gardens, china
asters, garden sweet peas, peonies,
and rose slugs, are subjects treated
in the Horticulture set; while the
biueberry, grape, melons, the null
berry, the raspberry, the roselle, and
the strawberry make up the fruit
culture set of publications. Vege>
table culture includes bulletins on
asparagus, celery, cucum Der, mush-
rooms, okre, rhubarb, and tomato.
The housewife who wishes to know
about helpful organizations for boys
and girls, such as the corn, poultry
and canning clubs, may learn about
them by sending for the list of PAM
phlets included 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 publica-
tions which the Department will send
free to the farm woman on applica-
ton.
Because of the limited supply ap-
plicants are urgently requested to
ask only for those bulletins in which
they are particularly interested. The
Department can not undertake to
supply complete sets, nor may the
applicant ask for more than one copy
OF any publication for herself.
In applying for these publications
first send for the list and then indi-
cate from this the name of the series
and serial number of the bulletins or
circulars that are desired.