Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics: What It Is and What It Does

1953

National Agricultural Library

Human Nutrition and Home Economics 112

To put science to work for better everyday living is the assignment of a small research bureau in the United States Department of Agriculture: The Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics.

The Bureau does its work in the interest of consumers, particularly homemakers, as other Government branches aid the farmer, manufacturer, merchant, wage earner. Homemakers in the United States now number more than 33,000,000. They are sometimes called the largest occupational group. The degree of their success in buying, and in managing time, energy, and goods, has an important bearing on the kind of living that the Nation's families enjoy.

The Bureau's task, in one sentence, is to develop through research new knowledge about efficient household management, and ways to make best consumer use of food, fiber, and other products of the country's farms.