Labor Saving Devices For The Farm Home

Author : Texas; University; Division of Extension
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330046975
Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (469 download)

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Download or read book Schoolhouse Meeting written by Texas; University; Division of Extension and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-12 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Schoolhouse Meeting: Conveniences and Labor Saving Devices for the Farm Home Fellow Teacher and Fellow Citizens: The progressive farmer no longer cuts his grain with a cradle or does all his cultivating with hoes and old-fashioned plows; he has better and more efficient implements for his work. The new farm machinery lightens his labor and increases his crop. How about the farmer's wife? Does she have her labor lightened? Are her important duties of housekeeper and mother made easier, and is her efficiency increased by improved household equipment? Not long ago the Smith-Lever Bill was passed by Congress, appropriating funds for carrying on extension work in Agriculture, including the work in the farnl home. In order to learn how to wisely spend that part of the money which was to be used for the farm home, the United States Department of Agriculture sent 55, 000 letters to representative farm homes of the United States asking for suggestions from farm women as to their greatest needs and the best methods of supplying them. Only 2,241 answers were received. Among the suggestions given in these answers were such as these: "provide for farm women better opportunities for domestic science education," "publish more literature and bulletins on home sanitation and health," "send demonstrators to teach right ways of preparing foods"; but most frequent of all was the suggestion, "show us some way to do our home work better and without such an unceasing round of back-breaking water-toting, washing, cooking and cleaning up from before day till after dark." Undoubtedly the farm home has not had its share of the money spent for improvements on the farm. Improvements in the home are usually put off until a time when money will be abundant, but the days, months, and years drag by, and no such time ever comes. Frequently when the spare cash has come, it has been invested in additional land, which necessitated more help and increased still further the wifes burdens without providing her with any of the conveniences that lessen her physical drudgery and give her some spare time to make her home life attractive and to train up her children properly. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.