In the culinary line there is nothing more important than to know how to prepare and bake good, wholesome bread "the staff of life." The dry, tasteless composition miscalled bread by some anxious-to-get-rich-quick professional bakers, and by don't-know-how housewives, is calculated to make one place undue emphasis on the old saying that "man cannot live on bread alone." As a matter of fact, such stuff is not only unpalatable, but also lacks the nutritive elements bread ought to have, being made of poor flour and deprived of whatever little good there may have been in the flour by ignorant or careless handling and baking. And yet, really good, wholesome, nutritious and palatable bread is not expensive nor difficult to make. On the contrary, the art can be easily learned by any one who is willing and anxious to learn, be she a wholly inexperienced beginner or a discouraged amateur, desirous of improving. That our farm cooks know how to bake bread is fully attested by the following delightful variety of recipes: