The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-05-19
CANNING CLUBSOF
VIRGINIA GIRLS
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give us $4,000. and many countie
through the State wanting the worl
for another year. SO great was tn
demand that we We're forced to maxi
arrangements similar to those mad
for the boys work, whereby the coun
~, either through its Board of Super
visors. School Board or Il private citi
zen, paid one-holf of the expenses TO
q county worker, and the State through
/ the United Agricultural Board, pait
! one-fourth. and the United States De.
, partment of Agriculture, at Washing.
ton. paid one-fourth. Even with these
restrictions we have been forced tc
ask some counties TO walt for another
year. as our funds were exhausted.
Growth of the Work.
The first year. when we commenced
as late as June l, we managed 10
learn just q little about the work in
two counties. and one worker did il
all. Last year we had four counties,
and two assistants worked for two
months each. This year We have eleven
counties and ten young women. work
ing from two to five months each. The
exhibits at the three fairs should be
vast Improvement over the one eX.
hibit at tho State Fair last year. Girls
taking prizes at tho county fairs may
exhibit at larger fairs and try for dis
trict and State fairs.
The Norfolk and Western Railroad
has offered Stahl canning outfit to
the girl exhibiting the best case of
canned goods at the Roanoke Fair.
Two or three other prizes Will also be
offered there. Prizes for other fairs
are not yet offered.
Prizes MOI the object.
While we are naturally interested
in the prizes we do hot emphasize
them. for we want no girls working
simply for prizes 1t is the develop
ment OF the girl and the right atti-
tudc towards home and things that go
to make Il real home. not simply II
homo place of shelter. that interests
us most. And If girl can make ST.
600 an acre, and become merely n
commercial machine, we feel our work
ma. failed. Some giI1s in the far South
did make as much as 500 on their
one-tenth acre. Our Virginia girls
did not. One giri made as much as $50.
and she was not the girl who made the
greatest yield. but the eirl who made
her own market by writing hero and
there. whore she knew people, and
selling at retail.
The average cost OF putting
ginia last sumfacr was ; L.
cents, and the average sale price was
wholesale. . IL cents. and retail IL
i2 cents and 10 cents Some girls
made $50. some girls made only SIS.
Like everything else 1t depends upon
the girl behind the work The one
who puts in $50 worth OF work s.
pretty sure to get good results. the
one who puts in 81 worth OF work Will
get only So out OF It.
For this second year there are many
new girls coming in. not only in Vir-
Ginia. but all over the South. Last
this year we have $4,000 In twelve
States
Purity and Care Should Toll.
AS as the work grows the demand
for the goods on tho market should
grow also. How can this be manag-
cd unless we can interest the house
keepers OF our State IN the buying oil
pure food. and being willing to pay a
fair price. When we go to many groc-
ers. they say at once, We want goods
OF that class. and want to handle them.
but our customers want to get these
frst-class. hand-packed goods att
three for 20 cents How can we pay
you for them?
our appeal now Is to the intellisentl
women who recognize the necessity OIL
having only pure goods on their table
and who realize that hand pa ok ed
goods cannot be sold for three for %
cents, and we ask these women, all OF
whom We know are interested in the
developing OF rural womanhood. to
call for Girls Canning Club work at
their grocers Call for II during the
spring days. that when we approach
the grocer he may understand that his
customers want it. Call for 1t during
the carly fall days. We may not be
able to place all of oui goods by then.
and may need just the market YOU
can make. Speak of 1t 10 your neigh
mors and friends. II you are spend
Ing the summer in one of the counties
in which girls are working, ask ABOUT
the work. Go to Il canning party"
and see how 1t is done Give the girls
orders. and In this way be OF vital
service and assistance In the beginning
of this great work, which bids fair to
be one OF the largest agents for good
our country has yet known.