The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-08-20
Girls Tomato Clubs
make Best Better
continued on Page TWO
end in spite Of the pa1ching drought
Little Girls Story.

Little Girls Story.
one little girl only ten Years Of age,
who by the way was the prize winner.
wrote a most delightful story OF her
work. She had soWede her seed and
WAS waiting to transplant. She SAYS:
Il looked for rain: it never came. |
looked again: it did not come. |
planted anyhow. | brought the water
from the well and wet them and they
grew And they did grow to such
advantage that she sold $1,000 worth
Of the fresh fruit, and put up for
sale o91 cans. These We're sold for
her and she realized on her one-tenth
acre $53.06 in clear profit.
Can you@show me a male farmer
who can do better than that $3.50
per acre looks like a pretty good
business proposition.
The girl is to have as her own every
I single cent she clears on her garden.
n father may charge her $1.O0
ground rental, and she may pay him
the actual cost of his labor or any
fertilizer he may furnish, but her
profit is all her W. and she must be
allowed to spend it as she sees proper.
Advice from the parent is all right
but he must not coerce; she shall
spend it as she will, we hope wisely,
but at n rate she shall have the
pleasure of spending herself wha she
has worked for. If she be not allowed
to use her own judgment in the mat
ter. how is she ever to learn TO spend
wisely?
Some Of the Work.
We ave organized clubs in Gates,
Hartford, Pitt and Wayne counties in
the east; Wake, Moore, Granville
Alamance, Guilford and Mecklenburg
in the central; and Catawba, Wilke.
and Madison in the western portions
of the State.
All of these counties are now bus,
getting in supplies of cans and can
ncrs and most Of them are actually
at work canning goods for market.
In June a anning school was held in
ltaleigh for the bench Of the county
collaborators or directors Of clubs
These ladies We're tat,efd the most
approved methods Of canning in tin
and Went each to her own county tc
instruct her club girls
Our dealing will be with business
men when the time comes to put oul
canned products on the market. anC
we are e~ndeaVOrlng to plan our WORK
in a systematic, business like way
Each club has a president and secre-
tdry, WhO are appointed by the col
~laborator. and these girls are TO ac
as underStudies to her. This pro.
vides a business head for the clut
oliotiN III 'oAI - 49, - 49, -
son be absent.
The canning is done first in parties
for instance, each member Of Clut
No. / will bring her fruit to som.
meeting place agreed upon, wher,
there will be a canner, cans n al
utensils necessary for the work. The
girls are divided into squads Of peel
erS, packers. capperS, tlpperS, label
ers, etc. Each lot of tomatoes i
taken in turn to be canned. until al
are Systematically packed and scale
and ready for the market.
The collaboration and her assistant
see that can are properly steriiiZed
weight is full, and all ure food reg
ulations complied with.
After a girl has canned in partIea
until it is seen she has mastered tn
process. she is allowed to can .
, home, but not until then.
We are canning mostly for tn
wholesale trade. and We realize ther,
Will be no sentiment in our bushes
r%elations: they are not going TO asl
if a little girl ten years Of age pa
up the article, but if the quality j
first class and the weight good.
| To Make the Best Better.
I might say just here hat as gu
motto is TO Make the Best Better,
we are trying to pack into our can
requires to be sure We give bounte
just a little more fruit than the lay
{ Gus measure.
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