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rapidly increasing and the demand for groceries
canned goods is now supplied by the north. From
this time such things will be produced in the coun-
try near by,
County Fairs and Club Parades.
These boys and girls clubs are making a stir all
over the south The corn clubs have resulted In the
organization of many county fairs In places where
fairs have been unknown before. The boys have
brought their exhibits to the county seats, and the
farmers have thereupon organized fairs at which all
Of live stock farm produce have been shown.
This has been the in Aiken county, where a
fair company has been organized with capital OF
$4,000, and where prizes given for tomatoes and
tomato products.
One Of the most interesting features Of the tomato
clubs 10 It's effect the social community 1t brings
the people together and creates fellow interest in
each others work. sort of gathering has been
instituted known the girls canning party. AT this
the members of of the several clubs come to-
gether their tomatoes ending their work with
party picnic. Such events usually at the home
of one of the members. The boys of the corn clubs
often invited and they aid the girls by bringing
in the wood and water and in keeping the fires They
also help with the soldering,
In some of the places the canning outfit Is carried
from one another and in other instances each
club has its canning outfit, which can be fur
nished at as low cost as $40. have before me a
report of of these tomato parties 1t occurred at
White Pond, s. c. at the home of one of the girls.
There are ten members of the Tomato club present
and crowd of spectators from the farms nearby. The
canning began early, and was carried on under the
instructions of of the teachers BY noon 100
filled and capped ready for shipment After this
a dozen watermelons served, and picnic dinner
eaten under the trees.
Poultry Clubs for the Future.
The Department of Agriculture thinks 1t best to
continue q tomatoes although
little later on cucumbers and beans will be added
1t is expected also to extend the prizes to poultry but
the competition in poultry raising will be confined to
the graduates of the tomato clubs and will
their instruction in vegetable raising.
The most of the work is being done in connection
with the schools and it is found be highly educa
tional teaching the little much about soil and
plants, and at the same time intoxicating practical
ideas of business hygiene general home improve
ment.
Uncle Sans Daughters.
have been especially interested In the patriarchaI
nature of this movement. Uncle Sam writes to the
girls though he were a real uncle and they were
really his children. Here. for instance, extract
from a letter which sent out last spring from
the Department of Agriculture at Washington to the
girls canning and poultry clubs. 1t is personal ap-
peal to every girl who is working. 1t begins
my Dear Club Member: You entering
upon of the most important lines OF work open
to the girls OF America. That is, to render
tractive rural homes. We efficient and con-
tented girls and women in every home, and have
selected you to help through your garden
plot way of helping to make a good home Every
girl should be interested in this club work and to help
in this national demonstration work We cannot af-
ford to have single member fail, and 1t Is important
that every should do her best ofcourse you will
be one of the best. Write US often for help and an
formation about your garden work, and do not fail
read carefully the inclosed instructions"
The letter then goes on to give some of the OBJ
jects of the girls clubs and to say that each will be
sent package of tomato seed. 1t also mentions the
farmers bulletins which will help her In her work.
Uncle Sans Ideal Cook.
In connection with this work the department has
on hand a number OF cook books. have before
which from there 1t is gotten up by the In
dustrial college, at Winthrop, s. c. which gave q
scholarship to the girl who raised 612 of to-
matoes her one-tenth-acre patch The book is de-
voted to recipes for tomatoes casups and cucumbers
and it begins with this quotation from Ruskn to
the ideal cook:
ITO be good cook means knowledge Of all fruits,
herbs balms and Spices OF all that healing and
sweet in fields and groves and savory meats 1t
carefulness inventiyeness, watchfulness willingness
and readiness of appliance II the economy OF
your great-grandmothers and the science OF modern
chemists. It means much tasting and no wasting II
means English thoroughness French art and Arabian
hospitality 1t means in fine that you are to be per-
fectly and always Ooaf givers) and 70 see
that every one has something nice to eat"
The book then goes to give recipes for canning
and to show how to cook tomatoes in various ways II
deals with tomato salads, tomato pickles, tomato
catsup and green and ripe tomato preserves Such
work cannot fail to improve the cooking Of the public
FRANK q. CARPENTER.