Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1914-01-08
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WOMAN ON farm
Many Free Publications For
Rural Housewives.
WIDE RANGE OF SUBJECTS.

Milk, Bees and Chickens, Cooking, Care
of Flowers and a Host Of Other
Things Among Topics Included In
Numerous Bulletins Now Issued by
Government-Supply Limited.
Following it's policy to aid farmers
housewives, the department of agricul-
ture in Washington has just 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 States department
Of agriculture. Washington. as are the
bulletins which it describes.
The bulletins are divided into over
100 special classes, there being some
times as many as a dozen pamphlets
for a subject.
There is n 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:
1.-The Care of Milk and Its Use in the
Home" "Ropy Milk and Cream" But
termilk.'' "Clean Milk milk Supply
Of Cities" The Covered Milk PAIL"
Cost of Market Milk" and "Lacto. a
New and Healthful Frozen Dairy
Product"
Bulletins on the subject Drugs are
entitled:
"Harmfulness of Headache Mix
lures" and Habit Forming Agents
Their Indiscriminate Sale and Use a
Menace to the Public Welfare
Bulletins Cover Wide Range.
There is a set of bulletins dealing
with bees: a set dealing with birds. and
another 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 poul-
try under the following heads:
Poultry Accounting Poultry Dis
eases and Pests" Ducks and Geese"
Eggs" Poultry Feeding" Guinea
Fowl" "~lncubation.' Poultry Market
ing" "PheasantS." Squads" ''Tur-
keys"
Farm ~conveniences in general have
n set of bulletins to describe them.
and farmers institutes another.
Hints Oh how to prepare foods cover
a wide range of subjects. including ap
Piles. panama -four. bread. cereal break
fast foods. CLANS. coffee substitutes
and corn. There are twelve bulletins
devoted to canning and preserving.
while the tireless 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 burberry. grape. melons. the
mulberry. the raspberry. the roselle
and the strawberry make up the fruit
culture set of publication. Vegetable
culture includes bulletins on aspara-
gus. celery. cucumber. mushrooms.
osra. rhubarb and tomato.
Facts About Agricultural Clubs.
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 pamphlets
included under the heading "Agricul-
tural 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 appli-
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 n copy of any
publication 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 num-
Der of the bulletins or circulars that
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