The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-18

practical lesson each morning in the gardening of tomatoes. As each girl grows tomatoes in her club garden, the lessons given in preparation of ground, planting and transplanting, cultivation pruning and stalking, and the eradication of insects and disease, will be most help full
 Miss Martha Patterson, head of the do- mestci2 art department, gave an inter- esting talk on how different kinds Of cloth were made. One of the summer school students demonstrated the use of the old-fashioned wool wheel and the loom. One of the smallest club girls whose grandmother taught her to spin very skillfully showed the girls how easily she could use the spinning wheel. Every afternoon in the large sewing rooms at Bloch hall, the girls sewed and chatted. The club emblems were embroidered for the uniform caps and aprons, and white collars and cuffs were made for the uniform Canning club dresses which are made of pink and blue gingham.
 One very Interesting and pleasant hour was spent each day at model club meeting. Officers were elected, committees appointed motions made, seconded. and passed, and business transacted according to parliamentary rules. This was done so as t. teach the girls how to effectively carry on the canning club work in their com- munities through organization and CO., operation.
 It was not all work and no play while the girls were at the short course. It was great fun for the girls from all parts of the state to meet one another, and many lasting friendships were formed. The girls made the walls of the dormitory ring with their club songs and yells Miss Hurst of the mu- sic department most enthusiastically led the songs. One of the most favored of the songs, "It Takes a Little Work With the Pleasure" was written by Miss Ilah Polhill of Jacksonville, Ala. and dedicated to the canning clubs of Alabama.
 The girls were entertained each even ing by the Alabama Girls Technical in- stitute girls at the sunset hou. with folk dances, story telling and songs. The canning club girls in their turn gave stunt Friday night for the summer school students and the people of Montevallo. After the club songs. the agents from the different counties told briefly of their work. Dr. T. w. Palmer told them how glad he was that they had come to Montevallo to the short course. Dressed in their becom ing white caps and aprons, the club girls, from the smallest prize winner of 10 years to the largest gifi, told how they raised their vegetables and fruits, canned and marketed them, and how they spent their earnings.
 TELL OF THEIR WORK
 "I have been in the Canning club three years,'' said a St. Clair county girl Last year I canned S95 cans of tomatoes, 324 cans of peaches, and 49 cans of beans. I saved enough of the cans for home use, and sold S59.75 worth. This money bought groceries and clothes for the family, so my father could hold his cotton for a better price. Besides this I have been able to buy an organ My brother belongs to the Pig club, and we bought COW together and are selling milk and butter.''
 q have been a club girl five years" said a Franklin county girl. "I canned 1000 cans of tomatoes one year, 1500 another, and about 750 cans of kr1ut and beans, I help buy the groceries.
 q canned 1460 cans of ton.atoes," said another Franklin county gi1i, "and my profit was $6O. I bought my clothes, fine chickens, and several pigs, I ex- pect to sell the pigs after I fatten them.'
 q have been a club girl three years" said a Tuscaloosa girl, "and 1 i've bought piano with three years earn ings, and am paying for my music les sons. I get 50 cents a quart for my peach pickle. I have put up string beans. and sell them for 25c for No. 5 cans"
 Another Tuscaloosa girl said, q sold $4750 worth of fresh tomatoes last year, 147 cans of tomatoes 52 cans of beans, AZ quarts of ketchup and 452 cans of kraut I also sold watermel on r!nd preserves to the drug strres at 50 cents quart which they used in. place of pineapple. I paid my tuition at Central college in Tuscaloosa with cans of saur kraut and my brothers tuition at the elementary school with money I made. I intend to make d speciality of peanut butter this year."
 My father was gone when I meas ured my ground" said a girl from Bald win county. "and when he came back he said I had measured off half acre irstead of tenth acre, so I tod him would plant a great many vegetables. I grew tomatoes, string beans, lima beans. beets and peppers. I won sew eral prizes at the fair, because of the quality of my products. I also belong to the Poultry club"
 An Escambia girl said: 'T have 300 plants of Spanish Pimento peppers and intend to can them in No. 1 cans for market
 Another St. Clair girl told how she, with her sister, canned over 2000 cans. These girls supplied the family with groceries and enabled their father to hold his cotton for better price,"
 'T ride IS miles to Mobile on my b- cycle to play baseball" said one of the smallest girls from Mobile county. q t1A