The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-01-19
DAUGHTERS AID
SOUTHERN FARMERS
GIRLS OF DIXIE GIVE DEMON
STRATIONS OF VALUE OF CROP
DIVERSIFICATION.
THE POSSIBILITIES ARt MANY

Conference of South's Club Agents
Shows Increased Interest of YOUNG
Women in Garden, Canning anC
Poultry Clubs.
WASHINGTON, D. C.-Daughter'
of Southern farmers, who have been
members of the United States depart
ment of agriculture's garden and can
ming clubs have been able to give
their fathers practical demonstra-
lions of the value of crop diversified
-fion during the present bad cotton
year. The actual products which the
girls have put up are proving an IN
valuable asset in many farm homes,
where the cotton crop has not
brought the customary returns and
many farmers are now substituting
whole acres of onions and tomatoes
in place of cotton after seeing the
success which the young women have
made with these crops.
A conference of the women agents
from Is Southern states was recently
held in the United States department
of agricu1ture's office of Farmers Co.
operative Demonstration Work in the
South. Fifteen women agents were
present, each representing a state in
addition to the members of the office
who have charge of the work These
agents supervise the work OF 369
county agents who direct the work of
33.420 girls Data of some OF the
state reports given here is merely an
indication of the general interest
that is being taken more and more
throughout the whole South in the
club-movement work.
Tennessee Girl DiVersifies Work.
Madge Farrar has proved the pos
sibilities of growing crops all the
year in her state. BY raising and
selling vegetables throughout the
year she made a net profit of $131.62,
while the second best girl, who also
did good work but d d not diversity,
made 5000 profit. The girl with
the second average grew only beans
and tomatoes during the fall and
summer. Miss FarraT, however, hay-
ing grown these crops put in onions
during the winter which she sold at
good profit early in February. She
then proceeded to plant cabbages,
which brought her an income during
April and May, while peas were her
main crop in June. This brought
her back to the tomato and bean
season and rounded out year of
profitable vegetable growing.
Another young woman found
peach orchard into which hogs had
been turned She took her Gamer
with her and established herself in
the orchard to save what was left
from the hogs, and made $50 in one
week from her work. Similar in
stances have demonstrated the posi-
bilities of saving waste in that sec
ton and there has been a more gen.
eral interest exhibited not only by the
farmers daughters but by many of
their wives.
Fig Possibilities in Mississippi.
Although the area where figs will
grow in this country is extremely lin
tied in certain sections of Southern
Mississippi this fruit grows so plenti-
fully that it's value is not appreciated
and barrels of figs go to waste every
year. Under the conditions that exist
in dooryards and gardens the trees
require little or no cultivation and
the majority of owners eat a few
can few for home use and permit
the rest to go to waste, except in
localities where commercial Gamers
are prepared to buy the fruit from
day to day as it ripens.
During the past year two counties
of Southern Mississippi decided to
specialize in canning figs. One girl
packed 500 pints which she sold for
from 80 cents to 40 cents a pint.
The girls in these sections are now
leaving tomato for other less fortu-
nate districts where figs will not
grow and are planting six fig trees
on their tenth-acre formerly planted
to the other crop. The demand for
this product from figless sections is
far beyond the supply.
Pimentoes have proved particu-
lar boon to certain counties in South
Carolina, as have figs in Mississippi.