Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-27
MANSFIELD CENTER GIRL
 WRITES OF CLUB WORK
Miss Rose Anthory's Story is One of
 Great Interest.

The Extension Service club work bu- reau of the Connecticut State Agri- cultural college have sent out a copy of a story recently given by Miss Rose Anthony of Mansfield Center on her club work. This story was read be- fore a section of the National AssO- CiatiOn of Education at New York, and also before a Chautauqua at Neridan, and is of interest to boys and girls who are members of clubs. Miss An thOny's story follows:
 My Experience as Club Member
 My experience as club member began two years ago last spring when I was still attending our district school MT. Brundage was organizing clubs and l thought there might be a chance for me to make little spending mon ey-so I joined the Tomato club
 l started in a small way with only a hundred and fifty plants. Of course, l had had no experience in raising to- matOes, but they grew and bore very well We had a short season that good many that way. In spite of this we canned about three hundred cans, and took several small prizes at fairs.
 This encouraged me so much that I decided to join a club the next spring, although I was no longer a member of the district school, having entered the high school near by.
 Much of my canning work last sum- mer was in the nature of an experi- ment, for I canned several products which I had never tried before and which 1 was not at all sure I could do well.
 One reason why I joined the club last summer was that the seven dol lars in prize money offered by the Berlin Fair Association for the best collection of canned products, looked good to me.
 began early last spring and as each product came along, I put up one glass jar. Sometimes I had to put up two or three before got one that suited me.
 At the end of the season. I found I had one of each of the following va rieties: asparagus, strawberries, peas, string beans, swiss chard, rasDberries, huckleberries, blackberries, pineapple, plums, beets, tomatoes peaches, pears, SpiCed pears, corn on the cob, corn cut from the cob, whole apples, apple pie filler, apples canned in quarters for salad.
 I took this prize of seven dollars at Berlin on this collection, as well as two dollars at Hartford on a can of tomatoes and one dollar and a half at Danbury on a can of tomatoes.
 The only product I canned to sell was tomatoes. I had about four hun dred plants which cost us only about 20 cents.
 The plants bore very we'll, but the season was a very wet one and think they did not bear as heavily as they would have done otherwise. canned this product in No. 8 tin cans. For an outfit we used an ordinary wash boiler My father made a wire bas- ket which just fits inside the boiler and we used this both in scalding and in cooking them afterward. It holds twenty cans at once.
 Of course, I did not do all the can ming alone, for my school began in the height of the canning season. My father and mother both gave their ser vices, and, in fact, the whole family is now interested in canning. We put up six hundred cans which were sold at Il cents a can. I also sold thirty baskets of fresh tomatoes at thirty cents.
 Now just @ word about the market ing of the canned tomatoes. have never had any trouble along this line. The first year I had only a limited quantity and I sold them mostly among my friends and neighbors-a dozen here and a dozen there, and every one seemed re4 pleased with them.
 Before F began canning" at an last