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Show CONVENIENCES FOR HOME EASILY MADE Few Simple Tools and Ability Abil-ity to Use Them Needed. (7Tapare4 try trio ttnltrri states Department oi Agriculture.) Various labor-saving conveniences for the farm home may be made at small expense by anybody who has a few simple tools arvi the ability to use them. Most of these help save the time and energy of the housekeeper house-keeper or add to ber comfort, to the economical muuagement of ber household, or to Its sanitation. Among the most useful of these homemade conveniences described In Farmers' Bulletin 027-F, by Madge i. Iteese, of the office of co-operative extension ex-tension work, are the kitchen cabinet, the flreletts cooker, the dish drainer, the serving table or wheel Iray, the folding Ironing board, the Icelesj "refrigerator," "re-frigerator," the cold box, the fly trap, and the cook-stove drier or evaporator. evapor-ator. These convenience have been developed in the course of borne demonstration dem-onstration work for farm women. In different parts of the country, and have been found successful. Attention Atten-tion Is called to the Importance of having the heights of working surfaces sur-faces suited to the worker, and a method of raising the height of a kitchen table by means of fitted blocks untler the legs Is suggested. I. ahor saving equipment for butter-making butter-making and cheese-mnklng Is Included, and directions for Installing a supply of clean running water In the farm kitchen. A number of suggestions are made regarding cleaning utensils which snve time and mnke the work easier, snch as having a bucket with an attached mop wringer, having a square board on rollers for moving Ihls bucket shout, using a long handled han-dled dustpan, an oiled floor mop, and many other accessories. The bulletin, which Is a revision of an earlier publication, is free npon application to the United Stntes Department De-partment of Agriculture, Washington, IX O. |