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Show FARManiHOMEto UTAH STATE EXTENSION SERVICE ACKICULTl'RR - HObUS tCONuMKS By Mary Lois Reichert Home Demonstration Agent FARM AND HOME INSTITUTE Homemakers from Utah farms in every part of the Beehive state this month will learn firsthand first-hand the most up-to-date methods meth-ods of managing a farm home and keeping a family healthy and happy. This instruction will be offered at a Farm and Home Institute July 8 and 9 at the Utah State Agricultural College i in Logan! Planned as an educational vacation, va-cation, the Logan event will give mothers a chance to leave their children in care of USAC experts during the two' days of tours and demonstrations on many phases of home economics. Special tours and discussions will also be conducted by college col-lege specialists for men participating parti-cipating in the Institute. Women and men will meet together to-gether Thursday morning, July 8, at 10 a.m. in the college auditorium aud-itorium for the opening session. It will include greetings to the visitors by USAC president' Henry Hen-ry Aldous Dixon, several musical musi-cal numbers, and a talk, "What Echo Park Dam and Colorado River Development Means to Utah," by George Dewey Clyde, Utah commissioner of Interstate streams. Special events for the farm women will get under way Thursday afternoon, with Thel-ma Thel-ma Huber as chairman of the session. Miss Huber, supervisor of Extension Home Economics Programs, will comment on the Extension Service's work with farm homemakers. Dean E. O. Greaves of the School of Home Economics will speak briefly on "What Home Economics Means to Your Community.'" Key speaker of the women's program, Lydia A. Lynde, federal fed-eral Extension specialist in Parents Par-ents and Family Life Education, will then talk on the subject, "The Development of a Healthy Personality." Discussion of this topic will then be led by Dr. Bruce Gardner, USAC professor in Child Development. Questions from the audience will be encouraged. en-couraged. At 3:30 p.m. Thursday, women wo-men participants will break into in-to two groups. One group will tour the Home Economics build ing, viewing modern facilities for better family living, and the other group will attend a tea in the college women's lounge. At 4:15 the two groups will switch activities until 5:00 p.m., the time of adjournment. I An evening under the stars is scheduled for Thursday evening, with a program in the outdoor ampitheater and dancing and recreation on the quadrangle. Friday morning the farm women wo-men will meet in the college auditorium for a 9:00 a.m. talk on "Family Discipline and Behavior Be-havior Problems," by Dr. Gardner. Gard-ner. Miss Lynde will help conduct con-duct the, discussion period that follows. Farm health will be highlighted highlight-ed for the rest of the morning. At 10:30 a health forum of well-known well-known Utah experts will discuss "The Value of Clean Water and Sewage Disposal," "Virus En-cephilitis, En-cephilitis, and Undulent Fever," and 'Rheumatic Fever." Separating again for the final afternoon's events, one section of the women ' participating in the Institute will hear Jenniev Poulson, home demonstration agent in Utah County, discuss "Management Problems in Utah Homes." The other group will meet in the college's home management man-agement house for a talk on "Safety in the Home," a demonstration dem-onstration on "Safe Use of Electricity Elec-tricity in the Home," and light refreshments and a tour of the test home used in giving practical prac-tical training to USAC's students stu-dents in home economics. Women in the two groups will exchange locations and programs pro-grams at 3:15 p.m. The two-day meetings will come to a close at 5:00 p.m. |