Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1914-12-17
CLEVELAND TOMATO CLUBS GROW
25.SsS POUNDS OF VEGETABLES.
Girls of the County Grow 81 ,s99.9O
Worth of Tomatoes, s61.5O on
One-Tenth Acre.


tBy Susan @. Elliott in Cleveland Starr
There were enrolled in this county
for canning club work from December
1913 to December 1914 eighty-five
members. Only thirty-eight of them
made reports. Their reports state tina.
2o,838 pounds of tomatoes were pro-
duced on Club gardens and that 1851
pound tin cans were put up from
same. 2.275 glass jars and tin cans OF
tomatoes, string beans, peaches. APP
pies berries and other edible products
of the farm have been produced.
1otaI value. -. 81 1893. 90
Cost. -. 1880
FRONT. =. 1,O49.SO
Average cost per members 49,. 800
Average profit per member. 27.44
Miss Annie Alexander of the Falls
ton club made the best record She
put up 322 BIB cans of tomatoes and
and &c 1O-oz bottles of tomato catsup
from her 1-10c acre garden These
products represent $61.50 in cash
values. She put up $50 glass jars OF
fruits and vegetables other than from
her club garden.
The second best record was made by
"'AASo ~A<AOA VI Tic OdIQO C1uO.
She put up 500 BIB cans of tomatoes
ralued at $4,000 from her LILO acres
garden. She put up y glass jars of
fruit and 200 cans of peaches in sugar
syrup.
Miss Mildred Allen of the Elizabeth
club made the third best record. She
put up S22 BIB cans of tomatoes and
csed some fresh from her Ito acre
6arden. Her crop represent $43.5O in
cash value.
Owing to rnfavorable weather con-
ditions and some other things our girls
have not made as good record as girls
in some of the other counties, but our
financial returns are great enough to
encourage us to continue the work.
In these times of depression it would
seem the part of wisdom to put as
much into it as is possible. Our peo-
pie are beginning to see that at all
times wholesome food is a marketable
commodity, and that the surplus on
their farms may be turned into sub
ctantial income.
Earnest teachers cannot serve their
communities better than by interesting
their girls in the canning club work
AAON3A II my dA
OF cooperating with their parents in
providing better fruits and vegetables.
and greater variety of them for
home use, and of making some money
of their own. The pleasures they get
from club meetings, canning parties,
etc., and the feeling of independence
tnat comes from having money without
having to ask father for it will go a
long way towards keeping them con-
tent on the farm. Some girls are maxi
ing enough to pay their expenses
through school that could not have
gone if they had to depend on their
parents for funds.
Then 1t is a work that a girl can
carry on and live in her own home, one
that her parents approves, and one
that helps to fit her for a good house
keeper and home maker. Her train
ing is not to stop with learning to can
well. Each county agent is expected
tn grow gradually into a consultant
housekeeper for the county, promoting
home economics in the country schools
hy her small cooking clubs, giving in
struction in butter making, marketing
farm products, grading and packing
S5S@S lAnpA O0SAA6 INC SOSp0I OIL SdAlld-
ton and promoting "get-together-
clubs"
1t is impossible for me to say how
many miles travelled during the four
months worked, as the roads are not
Losted and have no way of determin-
ing the distance. wrote about $50
personal letters and mailed about $50
circular letters, held twenty-five meet
ing and canning parties and helped in
dividuals with their canning. Our
girls were so scattered / could not
serve them as we'll as I should like
to have done. Next year we hope to
have larger clubs where we are organ
tied and have new ones.