The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1917-04-10
WORK FOR BOYS
lAO GIRLS CLUBS


season In the educational extension
work In agriculture and home eco
Monies which Is being carried on Coz
Ioperatively under the terms Of the
| Smith-Lever act by the United States
department of agriculture and the
horticultural colleges OF the fifteen
Southern states. The various kinds
oil boys and girls clubs organized
Throughout the country now include
many members who have mastered
the elements OF their subjects, and
more advanced work Is to be under
taken for their benefit this year
In the corn clubs. for example,
boys In some sections who have
managed successfully their acre Of
corn are now to have an opportuni-
/ ty to learn the management of lar
ger areas three or four acres in
Iorder to give them an insight into
1.-THE principles of crop rotation and
1.-THE Improvement OF soil through the
growth Of legunses. In many other
sections the smaller boys till only
lone acre hut they use a rotation Of
ilegunes and small grain as well as
icorn. or course different crops are
planted in different attitudes but the
general principles OF soil improve,
rent are the same in all cases. Pro-
fitabIe ways OF disposing of the pro-
| dnce from these areas BY feeding It
tx hogs, baby beeves and other ami
mails are also TO be emphasized.
Similarly, girls who have done
well In canning tomatoes are now
being taught how to handle special
tiles which command better prices on
the market because they do not have
tta compete with the output OF COM
aaercial canneries. Second year girls
divide their garden into two parts
and grow two vegetables while third
year girls specialize On three. Par
ticuIar attention has been paid in
the South to red Spanish pepper
For this there is a good demand,
particularly for salad aTsd as season
ling, and the profits from canning it
should be, gseatsF thaas from toina-
toes. The product is, however, COM
paratiyely unfamiliar and the first
|step was TO train club agents in It's
preparation so that they can pass on
the information to the members.
Considerable attention is also be-
ing given to the chayote. squash
like vegetable which makes a partie-
ularIy attractive pickle. Il is PLAN
ned 70 distribute throughout HI
Southern states about 12,444 pack
cts OF seed OF this. The dasheen,
too, will be popularized to greater
xtent than II has been. This veg
etabIe. which resembles in a certain
way the white potato, has been
known in this country for a num-
her OF years but has not become
widely known.
In order to secure the proper SUI
pervision OF this work it is planned
10 add IN the Southern states APP
proximateiy $50 women county
agents TO the $50 or SO now engaged
in educational work for that sec
ton. These women and leaders do
not limit their instructions to the
members OF the girls clubs, but per-
form In home economics for the wo-
men OF the country much the same
service that their masculine col
leagues do in agricultural proper
for the farmers. Experience has
shown that success with the girls in
their clubs opens The easiest road to
the confidence OF the mothers, and
adult women generally. and OF this
fact fun use is made.
There were 21,0S3 women enroll
ed IN the South last year as yolun-
teer demonstrators--tha is to say.
women who undertook under the SUI
pervision OF the agents OF the gov
ernment and agricultural colleges 10
demonstrate for the benefit Of their
reighbofs the actual working out In
practice of the measures advocated
by the leaders In this tieid one OF
the most important features IS the
Development Of farm butter max
ing. The ordinary run Of farm but
ter is, as Is we'll known, such a poor
article that II brings very little mor-
ey and there is, in consequence, 1T
tie incentive for the unframed wo~
man 10 devote much time to IT,
With proper instruction and proper
equipment il Is not difficult, how
syer. for farmers wife % learn
how to manufacture a product witch
viii bring Oh the market double
what she has hcen accustomed to
getting The effect of this, q
ceurse ia 70 stimulate the keeping
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