The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-24

In December last a Girls Canning club was organized in Jefferson coun- ty. This club is already composed of 245 members, ages ranging from 10 to Is years
 The club is subject 10 the rules and regulations of the state organization of girls canning clubs, and has already begun activities. Instructions have been given them in building and pre- pairing hotbeds, the care of young plants, and more recently the setting out of more mature plants, their treatment and culture
 Miss Jennie Rosser has been nomi- mated county agent for canning, pre- serving and poultry clubs of the coun- tya and her activities along the line of developing the industry are just anoth CT evidence of what can be accomplish ed by a young girl when she makes up her mind to succeed. There are so many avenues open for women today that she has no excuse for living drone in the hive. Miss Rosser Is en- thusiastic over this new branch of her work. She says. q can hardly wait for plants to grow. I am so anxious to see our girls at work at this new indus try" It Is a new industry, indeed, and one that is susceptible of great results. Think of a home supplied the year around from ones own garden with real nouic Cdiiiltu 6OouS, tuc IT uitS Ol hohi' orchards and gardens. The possibili ties are great for extended results. be- cause there will always be a market for such articles and these girls will find 1t a splendid investment of time. The industry is so new in this com munity that the equipment Is crude, and space for work Is limited. Neces- sarily the location for instruction must be in a neighborhood center, and cor ner of the school room will be the point for the present. The girls will collect their fruits and vegetables and convey them to this locality for work day, and the class in each precinct will work to- gether. "One item that is bungle- some now" said Miss Rosser, Ifs the supply of cans. No dealer here handles them, and a temporary warehouse takes a gold mine-so our greatest problem now Is to keep cans nearby for the demand, and we hope this will be great"
 This being the beginning starts just as it with everything else new-has its own delays and obstacles. but 263 girls are not going to be thwarted by tin cans; they are going to have them. and going to fill them by the hundreds
 "Perhaps, at Corner, nine miles from Warrior, We have the best equipment in the county" said Miss Rosser. There are 15 girls in that class. and tuty WILL III iuo nSdT lutuIt inStah canning outfit. The neighborhood will use this, now that they have a splendid new school building and the factory.
 '"rhis is splendid neighborhood of thrifty people, and a fine farming country surrounds them. The people live at home, are practical farmers making a dive. dty of crops and grad ual1y improving their grade of stock In fact, all over Jefferson county, even though you find many holes in the ground where the property holder has probably tried to strike oil" there is vast improvement in the care and cultivation of the soil, and marked interest in marketable products. When the young girls of the home begin to preserve the unsold stuff there will be no waste and mighty little want.
 Miss Rosser has very broad field of work, and she Is equal to the emer- gency Besides her interest and du- ties in the work of this club over the county, she is teacher of domestic science in five rural schools; in other words, she is a good cook and is teach ing the young girls this art.
 The schools where these lessons are installed include Bradford Mines, Bessie Mines. Pleasont IIill. Morris and Boyles. At some of these schools each pupil brings the material from homo for the lesson. This seems to me to be q very splendid idea. because the girls will learn to utilize such materials as she can find in her home. So often modern cooking lessons combine dishes of such Aoreign names that one feels as if there