The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-12-17
GIRLS TO SAVE BILLION
Domestic Science Proves What
Farmers Daughters Can DO.
TEACH COOKING and SEWING
Housekeepcrs on the Farm Are to Be
Trained In the Art .: Saving.
"Short Course Planned"

Omaha, Neh.--One billion dollars
is the amount which girls on Amer
lean farms will be able to save the
nation every year when they are
trained in domestic science and art
as the young men OF the farms are
being trained in scientific agriculture,
according to Jessica e. Besack Of Co
iumbia University, director OF the do
mestic science department Of the Ma
ton Corn Exposition
The United States produces yearly
practically $7,500000,000 worth OF
plant and animal products. One bill
lion Of this is credited to agricultural
science. Such authorities as Willett
M. Hays, assistant secretary OF agrl-
culture, say that science Will make
the new wealth produced on the farm
$10,O00,000,000 annually without in
creasing agricultural acreage.
Now come the women OF the agri-
cultural colleges, who have made the
departments OF domestic science a
success, and say that another billion
can be made, because it can be saved
by the housekeepers OF the farms
when they learn to eliminate waste,
prepare foods from cheaper materials,
substitute the inexpensive for the
high in price and buy clothing as the
experts buy it.
Thus, while the young men learn
to quadruple the crops, the girls are
learning to reduce the cost Of living
one-half. In the fields and orchards
the farmer creates new cereals and
trees; in the kitchen the women will
create new and nutritious foods with
out the use of eggs, butter and high
priced meats.
AS the young men eliminate quilted
hillsides by systematic tree-planting,
the young women vii cut out waste
by systematic buying to build up
their wardrobes one season at time.
Instructors in colleges and women
thinkers who have realized for years
that the housewives demanded y
training school have been puzzled as
to just how to get the information
they have gathered disseminated.
They have demonstrated that they
have mastered the problems of living,
and speculated ais to why the initial
scheme OF Vassar College had fallen
to live up to the plan,
"The colleges did not reach and do
not reach the Masses" they said. "The
young women Will never save one bill
lion IL they must first get training
in the colleges"
The "Short Course" Planned.
So the short course" was planned
and these short courses, given in con-
nection and farmers Institutes and
school district meetings, are taking
the knowledge to thousands OF girls
who will manage the homes on the
farms of the future.
Another plan has been inaugurated.
The American Beef Producers Assoc
citation has calmly given notice that
unless the people of the nation learn
to use the cheaper cuts Of meat, the
average family will not be able to
afford meat in the future The ASSOC
citation offered an illustrated lecture
and a demonstration.
A little party Of college women gath
cred around Miss Jessica Besack and
opened at the National Corn EXPOSE.
! ton, which was held in Omaha, De.
cember 6 to IS, a great laboratory
where a thousand girls took q short
course In domestic science and art
Every day these girls cooked, sew.
ed and shopped. For the best dishes
the exposition management offered
prizes. A girl won 500 for ten corn
mullins: good price for mullins
Here's meal which the girls pre-
pared. 1t looks good, and four per-
sons may have 1t at total cost for
the four OF exactly n cents.
A 77-cent Dinner.
Celery Soup (5 cents)
Hot Potato Salad (l6 cents)
Garden Peas GO centsl
Cornbread az cents) Butter g cents)
Berry Shortcake (16 cents)
The potato salad is the secret OF
this meal. 1t is hot German salad
and contains bacon. 1t utilizes both
the bacon and the drippings, and costs
less than it would to serve the pota-
toes to four persons.
To sew on buttons so that the thread
and not the cloth will bear the strain
will result in a saving that the de-
partment proposes to teach the girls
how to do such little things. no
square darn, to make eQEare-end but
tonholes, to make clothing for kitch-
en- wear and many other such things
are counted as those which ii gener-
ally known, viii help the young wom-
en- save their billion.