The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-09-20
RURAL life TO Be
ENRICHED TAR OUCH
THE PUBLIC SCHOOL
GIRLS SHOULD BE GIVEN CON?
SHERATON AS WELL AS
THE BOYS.
SHOULD Be IN SYMPATHY
Girls Industrial Clubs the Method
Suggested to Supply the Markets
With Fresh Products-WIses to
centralize on One Thing at Time.

Suggested to Supply the Markets
With Fresh Products--WIsest to
centraIize on One Thing at Time
(By Miss Virginia P. Moore.i
The object of this article is to slim.
ulate and intensity the importance of
this very interesting subject.
1t is hoped that the boys corn clubs
and the girls industrial clubs, as some
choose to call them, VIII help to
make wholly new enterprise of the
school, rendering it as broad and sig
nificant as the community itself. 1t
is the elementary and country schools
that reach the very sp,Ings of life.
The girls demonstration club work Is
very new. The first work inaugural
ed was in the summer or 1910 In con-
nection with the boys corn club work
in South Carolina.
The U. s. department or agricul-
ture has seen the great and far
reaching benefits of the boys corn
clubs throughout the Southern
states. The boys have demonstrated
that, with proper care of the soil, the
proper selection of seed, etc., as
much as 228A bushels Of corn can be
produced on an acre, whereas. the av-
erage farmer produces only SO BUSH
els to the acre. Not only Ia this
training the boy for the future, but
his father and other members of the
family are being taught N concrete
way.
/ heard a learned agriculturist a
little more than a year ago say:
Something must be done for the girls
We are training the boys for the
farm, but we are doing nothing for
the girls. What can FARMER do
without the right sort of helpmate?
The girls are being trained away
from the farms. At least the girls
should have a sympathetic knowl-
edge of soil, crop rotation, FOODS and
food values, not only for the animals
on the farms, but the greatest of all
1t is estimated that fully forty per
cent of the products of the gardens
and orchards now in existence are
wasted and last to the family be-
cause no direction has been given as
to the proper methods OF saving the
surplus products by the simple ana
home canning outfits. 1t
IS hoped that through the girls indus
rial clubs not only the lost products
vii be saved but the acreage of home
gardens will be increased; thus sup
plying, not only the home, but the
ocal markets, with a better grade of
fresh and canned home products, in
stead of sending their earnings Of the
fCdI W lolCiSA mai hClS lOl tuCiI Ia
Die supplies.
Some of the objects of the girls
Industrial club work are:
1. To stimulate interest and
cooperation between
members Of the family In their home
lie. /
2. To provide some means by
which the girls may cam money at
home and at the same time get the
education and view point necessary
or the ideal farm home.
8. To help the girls furnish their
ZONES with constant supply of veg
,tables, both canned and fresh.
4. To encourage rural families to
i've at a lower cost and to save the
'theriwse waste and surplus products
# the garden and orchard.
5. To encourage the iour-sided in
erests of rural life, and to make the
lome attractive, interesting and help
ul to the entire family and to len
Ter less probable the dissatisfaction
10 characteristic of so many farm
RS wives and daughters.
g. To encourage the use of the
arden plot and kitchen ~ the labor
tory and correlate them closely with
he work of the school room
The motto is: ITO make the best
utter" The emblem is the four-leaf
lover, and upon each of the four
ayes Of the clover ds.ign will be
,laced the four "H's" which signi-
y Equal training Of health, heart,
cad and hand" After one or more
ears experience with the garden
Tub work, the poultry club work may
e undertaken.
I believe It is wiser to centralize ON ,
ne definite thing and succeed with ]
hat, while the one sdccess will
ave reached into many channels. [
With the agricultural high schools !
nd he state normals, teachers will I