The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-11-23
NORTHERN GIRLS
ARE CATCHING ON
Southern Canning Club Girls and
Corn Club Boys Have
Set the Pace.
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! WASHINGTON November @2-Wheu
the canning club girls and the corn
club boys from the Southern States ar
rive III Washington on December IL,
/ tiNcs Of The potato. corn and canning
clubs OF the Northern and Western
States TO Join them in receiving dipio-
mas from the Secretary OF Agriculture.
They viii also be shown the sights of
the capital; their expenses being paid
/ by individuals and local or State or
CARNATIONS Interested, and not b. the
& DEPARTMENT.
/ There will be twelve canning club
girls from as many OF the Northern and
western states. and fifteen or twenty
boys. champion winners OF the potato
and corn clubs. six States sending
/ potato boys" are massachusetts, Ohio
/ Utah lO~a and Michigan Colorado
Will send = "sugar-beet club" boy. who
VIII be the champion sugar-beet grower
OF the state, and the sole representa-
tive OF the club work which has re-
Department OF AGr!culturc
The work OF the clubs which the de-
partnent has encouraged In the various
states 10 interest the younger genera
( ZION III agriculture has been going on
/ IN INC Northern and Western states for
only a year and Il half The work was
as these We're considered to have a
greater economical need for IL Also.
me General! Education Board OF New
ork Clty oncreI TO help out the work
/ in the South, ana this board has mate
rally aided in inaugurating clubs TO
/ Interest boys and GIRL; in growing
corn tomatoes and cotton
N me meantime. an urgent demand
arose IN the Northern and Western
cta'cS lor similar cooperative work
!or Young people. The successful CLUB
work in the South furnished an i'm
petu2 Tor nation vide work. and the
youth OF the North and West have
! taken up the national club work with
Euch enthusiasm. In the co-operaiivc
-: .i. ran CEMENT With The Southern States
SO. .hec" Stnte had a Leader in charge Of
the cub work whose expenses we're
.'h'u; nan by the department and half
y" me !oca! organizations Interested
ne demands OF the North and West
nave Oetn so urgent that eight States
are now waiting TO pay half the cx
y. H.es OF inns club work, but the De-
pai tRcnt OF Agriculture has not at
prg.ehi the funds 10 furnish the other
hati however the work is continually
pstihE pushed into new territory as the
ICmGs bccome available
The individuals ana local orpapi.,
lons throughout the North and W'nst
H"Nc peSN most enthusiastic regarding.
~ ~ VOTE OF the boys and girls. Scna,
!ofs ana Representatives sometimes Aid
tne work by generous contribitions
I Last year five congressman from Iii
i i.o.: &Ione each furnished successful
W. N,o"tFS or corn with a trim to the
Ne" England States. New York .md
W cSt virginia brought club champions
ny individuals. the work OF a Vel
,ii2, society leader of Cleveland. O..
( ,Lt"E ne CITED She has devoted iron,
;inlee 10 four months of her time an.
,iS me past year to organizing and
pIoMotins girls canning clubs Sin.
~ naiu visits 10 the i26 girls in her
coLHN VINO have taken up the worI
niv among the girls who will shorty
.IStt WASHINGTON are two champions or
t tnIat uistrlct. who come at her ,.xnense
atet TWO daughters. aged fourteen anj
tch years are among the cImi
f.. oers and although not conpeti,,o
~ a. pr!ze. they have done the work Of
living tomatoes on a onc-tentbocra
fiI. ana canning the products
~; u!stIlcts where corn does not rro,,.
itauily' but where there are Ilapfr ~,
= uns people eager TO grow s6;ncthirtr
49, mas peen found that potato clubs ar.
MR. n,uIe satisfactory than corn clubs a.
o,,EahlZhtlon Of boys and girls was
crow leu iast year IN Massa chusetts to
SSa t0W potatoes, and there are now Is
~, ~ |oung people enrolled i'm no,ato
m;oIIk' most OF them being bows. aS fbe
= ...s are encouraged rather TO take M
aG ;i raising and canning Son.
h..s however have shown Interest -,
l ar.ii,v. , scfT,"'ns and have done particu
80, Wen IN manufacturing hons
j;t,iu potnio starch out of the ummar
Ne'"oie cu!is OF the vegetable.
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