A Howard University class in nutrition is shown gathered around Mrs. Helen C. Douglas, an information specialist of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, to look at the information bulletins and leaflets she used in her lecture on the various ways Agriculture gets information on food research and other subject matter to the public. For example, it distributes about 30 million copies of publications annually. Mrs. Douglas delivered her lecture before the class recently while Dr. Flemmie P. Kittrell, head of Howard's home economics department and teacher of the class, was in India. U. S. Department of Agriculture, Office of Information, Washington 25, D. C., For release February 25, 1957

Instructor and female students in classroom.