Excerpt from The Journal of Home Economics, 1922, Vol. 14 Most superintendents are willing and able to take the first steps, one of which is the equipment Of their schools with scales. Of the 59 cities in New York State, for instance, only 4 have no scales in the schools. Of the 58 villages in the state only 9 have no scales in the schools. In some parts of the state, scales in the rural schools are found in surpris ing numbers. In Erie County the Red Cross has helped to equip 131 rural schools with scales. In Broome, Chenango, and Sullivan Counties the Red Cross has taken a similar step. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.