Home Accounts - A Key to Future Plannings

What will it cost to run your household in 1947? Well, the unpredictable New Year will be a little more predictable for those of you who have been keeping home accounts

Planning the kitchen

Convenient, attractive kitchens have not always been considered essential. But actually the old fashioned kitchen with no sink, few storage places, improper working heights and many doors is as out of date as the horse and buggy. At best, some kitchen work is monotonous and time-consuming. Because many homemakers spend more time in the kitchen than in any other room, it should be the most carefully planned room in the house. Provisions must be made for getting work done with the least use of time and energy and yet with the greatest amount of pleasure. Before planning a kitchen, each family will want to determine just what activities are to be carried on there. If some or all of the meals are to be eaten in the kitchen, if laundry work or food preservation is to be done there, the kitchen should be so planned

Farm family housing needs and preferences in the North Central Region

This bulletin reports the results of a survey of farm family preferences and activities as they relate to housing needs, carried on as a cooperative regional project by the agricultural experiment stations in 12 North Central states and the Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics of the United States Department of Agriculture. A sample survey of nearly 900 households, made in the spring of 1948, provides a basis for making reliable estimates of the housing needs and preferences of the 2,270,000 households in the open-country portion of the North Central region. The information obtained about preferences-about what proportion of all the farm families want one-story houses, or basements, or dining rooms, for instance-can guide architects and engineers in planning houses for farm families. Information about the activities of farm families is needed both by those who plan farmhouses and by research workers who want to determine, by laboratory studies, the amount and kind of space needed for the things farm families actually do in their houses. With the facts obtained in this survey as a foundation for their laboratory studies, research workers can develop recommendations on space requirements for the use of engineers and architects

The Iowa Homemaker vol.37, no.2

They Say it’s Love, Ann Baur, page 4 Marry in a College Chapel, Merna Borror, page 6 Learned by Heart, Beth Cummings Paschal, page 7 I’d Like to Know, Sandy Newman, page 8 Blueprint for Packing, Carolyn McIntyre, page 10 The Honeymoon, Reverie to Reality, Jackie Andre, page 11 Present Picker, Marilyn Jensen Nadler, page 12 An Electric Dinner, Ann Walters, page 14 Say Yes… To Entertaining, Rosemary McBride and Roma Walker, page 15 ABC’s of Money Management, Linda Nelson and Marie Budolfson, page 16 What’s in a Wedding Custom, Janice Furman, page 18 Plain Clothes Man? Ha!, Norma Scholes, page 22 Why All This Fuss Over Sex, Gail A. McClure, page 2

Home Accounts - A Key to Future Plannings

What will it cost to run your household in 1947? Well, "the unpredictable New Year" will be a little more predictable for those of you who have been keeping home accounts.</p

Planning the kitchen

Convenient, attractive kitchens have not always been considered essential. But actually the old fashioned kitchen with no sink, few storage places, improper working heights and many doors is as out of date as the horse and buggy. At best, some kitchen work is monotonous and time-consuming. Because many homemakers spend more time in the kitchen than in any other room, it should be the most carefully planned room in the house. Provisions must be made for getting work done with the least use of time and energy and yet with the greatest amount of pleasure. Before planning a kitchen, each family will want to determine just what activities are to be carried on there. If some or all of the meals are to be eaten in the kitchen, if laundry work or food preservation is to be done there, the kitchen should be so planned.</p

Farm family housing needs and preferences in the North Central Region

This bulletin reports the results of a survey of farm family preferences and activities as they relate to housing needs, carried on as a cooperative regional project by the agricultural experiment stations in 12 North Central states and the Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics of the United States Department of Agriculture. A sample survey of nearly 900 households, made in the spring of 1948, provides a basis for making reliable estimates of the housing needs and preferences of the 2,270,000 households in the open-country portion of the North Central region. The information obtained about preferences-about what proportion of all the farm families want one-story houses, or basements, or dining rooms, for instance-can guide architects and engineers in planning houses for farm families. Information about the activities of farm families is needed both by those who plan farmhouses and by research workers who want to determine, by laboratory studies, the amount and kind of space needed for the things farm families actually do in their houses. With the facts obtained in this survey as a foundation for their laboratory studies, research workers can develop recommendations on space requirements for the use of engineers and architects.</p

The Iowa Homemaker vol.37, no.2

They Say it’s Love, Ann Baur, page 4 Marry in a College Chapel, Merna Borror, page 6 Learned by Heart, Beth Cummings Paschal, page 7 I’d Like to Know, Sandy Newman, page 8 Blueprint for Packing, Carolyn McIntyre, page 10 The Honeymoon, Reverie to Reality, Jackie Andre, page 11 Present Picker, Marilyn Jensen Nadler, page 12 An Electric Dinner, Ann Walters, page 14 Say Yes… To Entertaining, Rosemary McBride and Roma Walker, page 15 ABC’s of Money Management, Linda Nelson and Marie Budolfson, page 16 What’s in a Wedding Custom, Janice Furman, page 18 Plain Clothes Man? Ha!, Norma Scholes, page 22 Why All This Fuss Over Sex, Gail A. McClure, page 25</p

Agricultural Research Bulletins, Nos. 378-391

Volume 30, Bulletins 378-391. (378) Farm Family Housing Needs and Preferences in the North Central Region; (379) Agricultural Cooperatives in Iowa: Farmers' Opinions and community Relations; (380) Evaluation of Variance Components From a Group of Experiments with Multiple Classifications; (381) Returns From and Capital Required for Soil Conservation Farming Systems: A Study of a Specific Population of Farms and Soils; (382) Principles of Conservation Economics and Policy; (383) Economics of Crop Rotations and Land Use: A Fundamental Study in Efficiency with Emphasis on Economic Balance of Forage and Grain Crops; (384) Nutrient Uptake by Soybeans on Two Iowa Soils; (385) Defrosting and Cooking Frozen Meat; (386) Relationship of Crop-Share and Cash Leasing Systems to Farming Efficiency; (387) Demand and Diversity of Use of Electricity on 16 Farms in the Eastern Livestock Area of Iowa; (388) Resource Productivity in Iowa farming: With Special Reference to Uncertainty and Capital Use in Southern Iowa; (389) Cost of Manufacturing Butter: A Study Based on Data From 13 Iowa Creameries; (390) Substitution Relationships, Resource Requirements and income Variability in the Utilization of Forage Crops; (391) Some Obstacles to Soil Erosion Control in Western Iowa</p