The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-12-29
Home Demonstration Work
MARY LENNON, DemanSIIator
ANNIE KeELS, Assistant
Report OF Home Demonstration WOri,
I'm Sumter County.

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was the most successful year in the
history of Home Demonstration Work
here five years ago. AT first an agent
was employed for nine months to
carry on Tomato Club work for girls
and to supervise rural schools. AT
the end OF the first year it was seen
that the Tomato club work alone
would require the entire time of the
agent. The second and third years.
the agent was employed for ten
months In 1916, an assistant agent
work. Sumter county was the second
county in the State to put on an as
sistant county home demonstration
agent. The work had grown to such
an extent that one agent could not
meet the demands of the people. 1t
would have taken three or four
agents this year to give demonstra
tions and instructions requested
However, the two agents met the de-
mands as well as time would per-
NIT.
The home demonstration work is
carried on through home demonstra-
ton clubs for women. domestic sci
ence classes and girls canning clubs
In the home demonstration clubs q
definite programme is carried ouS
each month. These programmes are
prepared by experts from Winthrop
College and the United States Depart
nlent of Agriculture.
During the past year, we have TAX
en- up at monthly meetings the fol-
lowing subjects: Curing of meats,
cookery of fruits and vegetables, |
home and community sanitation.
home nursing, canning and preserv-
ing Of fruits and vegetables, conser-
walton of grape products, breads US
ing wheat flour substitutes, and plan
ming three meals a day.
There are 332 women enrolled in
home demonstration clubs. These |
clubs are in the, following communi-
ties Wedgefield, Bethel, Concord. |
Providence, Shiloh, Trinity, Hagood |
Rembert, Salem, Oswego, Dalzell and |
Sumter Graham, General Sumter
school and Mayesville have asked for
clubs. Demonstrations have been |
given in the Graham and Stateburg
communities. There are 115a girls |
enrolled in canning clubs: "a frs.
year, 25 second, 20 third, and IS |
fourth year. These clubs are in the |
following communities: Oswego. Pa
ker school, Trinity, Pleasant Grove. |
Olanta, Route No. /, Rembert, Ha- !
good, Wedgefield. Bethel, Concord |
and Dalzell. These clubs not only |
can tomatoes and beans from their
own plots. but also conserve the sur
plus fruits and vegetables from the
nome garden and orchards Domes- |
TIC science equipments have been in
stalled in nine schools. Two hun |
dred and six girls from Bethel. !
Wedgefield. Concord Providence |
Rembert, DaIzell. Oswego, Shiloh and |
Trinity have been taught bread max |
ing.
sumter county has been very sor-
tunate in having every specialist that
came TO the State to visit the county. |
Dr. Lund from Washington gave 10
a crowded audience of city women u
demonstration in drying fruits and
vegetables. Miss Wessling, from the
Bureau of Chemistry, Washington.
gave demonstration break MAKING.
using wheat flour substitutes. before
an audience of eighty-two country
girls and as many city women as the
domestic science room of the Girls
High school building could accommo-
date. Miss Gladys Smith. of Win
throp College also gave demon
stration using wheat flour substitutes
MIS-. Dora Dee Walker, Of Winthrop
ColieSe, gave to five hundred women
Oh sumter practical talk on gar
dening Tile agent had DR.. l.. A. Ris-
er STATE director of rural sanitation.
~ come TO the county last spring, and
give twelve illustrated lectures on
nome and community sanitation ana
personal hygiene.
The county home demonstration
'ee''s worked with the county coun-
Gil OF defense in their campaigns and
meetings Tor extraordinary produc
'ioh ana conservation of food last
spring We distributed 1000 papers
OF garden seed; 1850 bulletins ,f
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