This monthly section presents brief reports on the progress, results and applications of farm and home research currently being conducted by your agricultural and home economics experiment station at Iowa State.

Microwave cooking operates on a different principle from that used in conventional cooking. And electronic cooking calls for some different techniques. Here are some of the facts now known about electronic ranges.

Treating symptoms may relieve the pain but not effect a cure - unless the basic causes are recognized, understood and treated also. Here's a straightforward look at the two major farm problems we have today and at some possibilities for doing something in the near future to overcome or solve them.

Though consumers' incomes have been increasing, a smaller percentage of their incomes is being spent for food. Consumer spendable income rose more than 80 percent during 194 7-58; spending for food and related services rose roughly 50 percent while farm receipts for food rose only 10 percent. Why?