This monthly feature 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 College.

This is the eighth and last in a series of articles on our weather to appear in Iowa Farm Science. This article deals with our "usual" weather in the state- the kinds which are typical of a location or season.

Most price supports in the United States are based on percentages of parity, Large surpluses have built up in recent years, however, under several of the storage-support programs. This has raised the question of whether or not percentages of parity are good bases for price-stabilization programs. And, during the past year, some other bases have been proposed. Let's take a look at them.

More and more Iowa homes are being heated with electricity. Electrical house heating differs from other heating systems in several respects. Here's a situation report on this relatively new house-heating method.