Las Vegas optic., 1913-11-04
PUBLICATIONS TO
ASSIST FARM
women
GOVERNMENT PUBLISHES WORKS
ON. WIDE VARIETY OF
SUBJECTS

ON. WIDE VARIETY OF
SUBJECTS
Washington, Nov Following its
policy to aid farmers housewives the
department Of agriculture has recent
" issued 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
States department of agriculture,
Washington, d. c., as are the bullet
ins which its describes
The bulletins are divided into over
100 special classes, theer being some
times as many as dozen pamphlets
There is one class of bulletins deal
ing with dairying, while others spe-
cially concern butter, cheese, cream
and milk Among the bulletins deal
ing with milk are the following
The care of milk and its use in the
home.
Ropy milk andcream.
Bitter milk.
Clean milk
Milk supply Of cities.
The covered milk pail
Cost of market milk.
Lacto, a new and healthful frozen
dairy product.
Bulletins on the subject Drugs
are entitled
Harmfulness of headache mixtures
Habit-forming agents; their indis-
criminate sale and use a menace to
the public welfare.
There is "a set Of bulletins dealing
with bees; set dealing with birds;
and other set dealing with such house
hold 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 dis.
eases and pests; Ducks and geese;
Eggs; Poultry feeding; Guinea fowl;
lncubation; Poultry marketing; Phea
sant; Squads; Turkeys.
Farm conveniences in general have
one set of bulletins to describe them
and farmers Institutes another. Hints
on how to prepare foods cover q
wide range of subjects, including ap
Iples, banana flour bread, cerea
breakfast foods, CLAIMS, coffee substi
tues, and corn. Theer are 12 bullet
ins devoted to canning and presery
ing; while the fireless cooker is the
subject of separate bulletin.
Fruits and flowers each receive
their merited share of attention. An
nual Towering plants, directions fol
mailing window gadens, china asters
garden sweet peasc, peonies, and ros'
slugs, are subjects treated in the flor
iculture sets; while the blueberry
grape, melons, the mulberry, thu
raspberry, the roselle, and the straw
berry make up the fruit culture set o
publications. Vegetables culture in
cludes bulletins on asaaprgus, celery
cucumber. mushrooms, okra, rhubarb
and tomato.
The housewife who wishes to know
about helpful organizations for boys
and girls; such the corn, poultry anC
canning clubs, may learn about then
by sending for the list of pamphlets
included under the heading "Agricul
tural clubs.
/ Trees( school gardens. roads, pain
and white washes, industrial alcohol
and water, are samples of the wide
range of subjects of these publica
tions which the department will senc
.Ffree to the farm woman on applica
Ition.
4 Beacuse Of the limited supply, ap
Iplicants are urgently requested to ash
only for those bulletins in which they
are particularly Interested. The de
partment cannot undertake to suppl!
complete sets, nor may the applican
ask for more than one copy of any
publication for herself
4 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 o.
circulars that are desired
Al new play on the woman question