The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-01-07
CANNING CLUB
WORK PLANNED
Mass MEETING HELD LAST
WIGHT FOR DISCUSSION OF
HOME DEMONSTRATION.
MISS CARTER HERE
TELLS Business Men and Ladies'
About Progress of Work Through
out Texas and Urges CO.
operation Here.

The weather conditions prevent
ed many from attending the meet
ing at the. Chamber of Commerce
rooms last night for the purpose of
discussing Home Demonstration
work, but the few present were so
favorably impressed with the work,
as outlined by Miss Carter of A. &
NJ College, that it Is very probable
that arrangements will be perfected
during the present week to carry
the message Of home economics and
right living into the outlying pre-
cincts Of the county through the
medium of Home Demonstration
agent. Miss Carter was ably as
sisted in presenting this work by
District Agent G. w. Orms, who is
urging a system of sane and safe
farming and home grown living on
the farms of this district.
The purpose of the meeting was
to determine whether or not Ellis
county shall take up the Home de-
monstration work. Miss Carter
brought a proposition from the ag-
ricultural extension department to
appropriate $4,000 for this work
provided the county would contrib
ute sum sufficient to keep the
work going during the year. In
other words the government will
pay the salary of home demon
stration agent for two months If
the county will pay as much as six
months salary, but Miss Carter does
not favor undertaking the work
here under less than twelve
months basis.
The speaker was introduced by
President Spalding of the Chamber
OF Commerce. She said in her
opening remarks that it was her
purpose to demonstrate that wo-
man could quit talking, that she
had only one hour in which to pres
ent her work and catch train, and
that when this hour Twas : up she
would quit. Getting down to her
subject she said home demonstra-
ton work goes hand in hand with
farm demonstration work. She said
women and girls respond more
readily to the home demonstration
work than farmers do to the farm
work, and that it's opportunity for
improving the conditions in farm
life was equal in every way to the
farm demonstration work that is
revolutionizing farming throughout
the country. She said the plan was
to begin with the girls and extend
the work to the grown-ups as soon
as they will accept it. Home de-
monstration work originated first
in the Girls canning clubs, and
canning fruit and vegetables still
form very important part of the
work. To engage in the work a
girl must either cultivate one
tenth of an acre of tomatoes or
raise chickens. The instructions
are confined solely to the country
girls who may be interested. The
reasons why tomatoes are grown is
that the culture of tomatoes give
every principle Of agriculture need
ed in growing vegetables. She said
1t was wholly wrong to suppose
that the county agent would not
teach anything but the culture OF
tomatoes, however the growing of
tomatoes has proven very profitable
to many of the girls who took up
the work. Next to tomatoes comes
poultry. Then follows the intro
duction of labor saving devices at
the home. In talking on poultry
Miss Carter said it was not advis-
able for the average farm woman
TO undertake to raise fancy poultry,
that they were more concerned in
the production of eggs than in hay-
ing poultry with every feather
marked to its very tip. She said 1t
was fact that not more than five
per cent of the farm people know
that infertile eggs will keep in
summer time, and that they should
separate the flock when summer
time comes. She said fertile eggs
start termination when the tenn
perature reaches a certain point
and thu cool night causes it to die
and then decay starts and the egg
Is spoiled. One purpose in this work
Is to teach farm women how to take
care of their chickens and secure
best results. She said there was
only one way in which to do this
work and that was through person
al contact.