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Show Balanced Expansion Urged By USDA Unit Balanced .expansion of pll aspects of the U. S. Department of Agriculture's home economics research program was advised by members of the Department's Home Economics Research Advisory Ad-visory Committee at the recent annual meeting in Washington. Particular attention was made to the need for additional studies in clothing, housing, and family economics, along with the important im-portant work in food and human hu-man nutrition. In supporting its general thesis the committee said an urgent specific need is for additional research on the water requirements require-ments of modern farm homes and farm enterprises. Such studies, the committee said, may be aimed at developing improved im-proved facilities for supplying water and isposing of wastes on farms. New information on clothing requirements especially the design de-sign and construction of clothes to meet special needs of women and children is also needed. Basic physiological research on body dimensions and muscle movements would heln to estab- lish accurate new classifications of sizes and pattern tolerances. The committee also suggested exploration of possible studies to improve the sizing and durability durabil-ity of children's shoes. Family living studies should seek particularly to develop information in-formation on living expenses, to provide both national and regional re-gional data for farm and rural families comparable to urban data compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It also advised a continuous program of small scale family living studies related re-lated to special problems. Together, To-gether, these types of investigations investiga-tions give direction to national and local problems for improving improv-ing levels of living. |
