Farm and home cook book and housekeeper's assistant

Amateur cooks and beginners who are ambitious to extend their knowledge in the culinary line need not necessarily learn by bitter experience alone. Almost every State Agricultural College has connected with it a department of Domestic Science, which issues bulletins periodically, containing much useful information, being the cream of many experiments and researches. Some of these departments conduct correspondence courses for farmers' wives, and the Department of Agriculture at Washington, D. C, will send free of charge to anyone who asks for them, bulletins on the values and chemical composition of various food stuffs. The government and state departments of agriculture are generally able and always willing to help the farmer and his wife, because they are there to help them. Don't be backward about asking for information. The editor of this unique little cook book begs the indulgence of all who may become possessed of a copy. She does not claim to "know it all," and in this instance has confined herself chiefly to the task of picking out from among a million good recipes, kindly contributed by the good cook readers of "Farm and Home," such as seemed the best and the most deserving of finding a place in the "Farm and Home Cook Book." A glance through the index will prove that there is no lack of variety, and every woman who is represented in this book with one or more recipes has reason to be proud of being found in such good company. The editor extends hearty thanks to each and every one for the kindly and intelligent co-operation which helped to make this book possible, and that in turn, it is hoped, will help out many sister cooks all over this broad land of ours, where "Farm and Home" is a welcome visitor, when confronted with the problem, "what shall I cook, for a change?" Recipe for a Good Appetite A task to do, be it great or small, A cheerful heart with a smile for all; Faith in the good and love for our brother. The wish to help, and not hinder each other; Banishing useless worry and care, Seasoning work with a song and a prayer; Helping the old world on the right way. Doing and growing a little each day, — Celia Parker Woolley. Bread, Rolls, Buns and Toast "Back of the loaf is the snowy flour, And back of the flour, the mill. Back of the mfll is the wheat and the shower And the sun, and the Father's will." N the culinary line there is nothing more important than to know how to prepare and bake good, wholesome bread — ''the staff o£ life." The dry, tasteless composition miscalled bread by some anxious-to-get-richquick professional bakers, and by don't-knowhow housewives, is calculated to make one place undue emphasis on the old saying that "man cannot live on bread alone." As a matter of fact, such stuff is not only unpalatable, but also lacks the nutritive elements bread ought to have, being made of poor flour and deprived of whatever little good there may have been in the flour by ignorant or careless handling and baking. And yet, really good, wholesome, nutritious and palatable bread is not expensive nor difficult to make. On the contrary, the art can be easily learned by anyone who is willing and anxious to learn, be she a wholly inexperienced beginner or a discouraged amateur, desirous of improving.