The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1914-04-08
Tomato Club Work.
(By Miss Janye Darlington,
Tomato Club OrganiZer.)


One Of the "Ten Commandments
of Agriculture" laid down by the late
DR.. S. A. Knapp was this: Produce
all the feed required for men and ami
mails on the farm AS a rule the
Southern farmer does not take advan-
tage Of all the possibilities Of his soil
If the house garden Is taken care of,
as it should be. ii will supply cheap
and wholesome food for the farmer.
We must save the waste fruits and
preserve the vegetables for winter
use.
The demonstration work seeks to
reach the farmer his boys, girls, and
his wife.
In 1908 Dr. Knapp, the patron saint
of agriculture, believing that girls in
the rural districts should have the
same advantages as boys, organized
the girls into Tomato Clubs
1t was decided that one tenth Of an
acre should be planted in tomatoes.
Later each girl was urged to plant
some other kind Of vegetables and to
can surplus fruits.
The objects OF the Girls Demonstra-
ton Work arc:
Cd To encourage rural families 10
provide purcr and better food at a
lower cost, to utilize the surplus and
otherwise waste products Of the or
chard and garden.
t2) To stimulate interest and
wholesome cooperation among Nom
bcrs Of the family in the home
CD TO provide some means by
which girls may earn money at home,
and at the same time get the educa-
ton and viewpoint necessary for the
| ideal farm life.
ca To open the way for practical
demonstrations in home economics.
(5) To furnish earnest teachers a
plan for aiding their pupils and help
ing their communities.
Another object Of this work is not
to get few girls into the business
Of canning vegetables for market, but
to get many girls to growing good
home gardens and filling their moth
crs pantry for winter With canned
vegetables and traits.
| Girls joining the club must be be-
tween the ages Of ten and eighteen
years. Special classes will be organ
iZcd for older girls. In these clubs We
want only girls who arc enthusiastic.
Girls who have determination, pcrsc-
vcrancc, and Il desire to learn. Girls
who will make up their minds to stick
to the work.
| Or. ID. b. Johnson president OF Win
throp College, has offered two schol-
arships Of ten days at the Winthrop
summer school in July. These schol-
arshipS will be awarded two girls in
each county making the highest score
on their plot and keeping the best
record books.
| This is the first time that such fine
prizes have been offered. Every girl
should strive to receive this valua-
bic instruction. While at Winthrop
she will be taught cooking, sewing,
canning and poultry raising. The two
girls in the county making the high
est score from the fifteenth OF June
until the close Of the canning season
will be given this scholarship for the
| following summer.
The motto Of the club is "To make
the best better. We also strive to
! educate the head to think, plan and
reason; the hands to be useful, help
full and skillful; the heart to be kind,
| true and sympathetic; the health to
| resist disease, enjoy life, and make for
efficiency. For this reason our toma-
toes are called the Il II Brand.
1t is our aim to teach the girls not
only to live up to what the "a H's"
stand for. but to teach them to carry
out the following notices:
"To teach the beautiful in the use
full"
Save the surplus
CLONE work for home girls
Helping our mothers"
Eat all you can, and can all you
can't"