The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1917-04-13
HOME ECONOMIC DEPARTMENT
Club News.

Is every girls club doing her part ,
to raise food that will be so much
needed if the war should last as it is
more than likely to. about two years!
Girls. let's don't wait till we feel the
war, but let's begin now. Let's have
a war garden. Up until this time the
! first year canning club girls have
been required only to grow 500 toma-
to plants. This year we ought to
grow everything that We can. Use
every bit of land and energy that
YOU have to help ward off the usual
war famine. The Home Garden has
become a national duty; we must do
our part. ,.
Every club girl that raises 10 diff
ferent vegetables and cans them dur
ing this year will be given 40 points
on her work for the year, so that she
can make a good promotion grade
ever though she does not produce as
many tomatoes as usual. Try 1t,
girls; let's raise 10 vegetables beside
our Ito acre of tomatoes. Every
club girl and woman, canning club
or poultry member is asked to take
up this War Garden work and allow
ances will be made accordingly on her
grade for her years work.
The Beat Rally Days at Holcomb
and Gore Springs were quite success
full. in spite of the bad weather.
Nearly every member was present.
Club songs and yells were given;
members made reports about the
progress of the work this year and
last. And Miss Bonslagel gave an
unusually interesting demonstration
in making corn-brcads. With flour
as high as it is, it is well that every
club girl know and practice making
corn-bread. We are planning Beat
Rallies for the other three beats
some time in May.
Canning Club Members-Don't let
your tomatoes grow too high with
tooth pick stems. They should be
transplanted to another box if they
are too thick to develop the stem
we'll. Spindly stems make dead to-
matoes when transplanted. The stem
should be at the least three-quarters
of an inch thick when it is five inches
high. Go look at your plants and
see if they are thin. If so, trans
plant; divide the boxes by thinning
out half and putting them in another
box. | will have to be at A. q M.
| Agents Course of Study for ten
days, beginning April 16, and won't
be here to help you transplant. When
YOUR tomatoes are ready, transplant
as follows: About 3 p. m. of the
evening that you expect to trans
r plant. soak your boxes of seed, Lee
them soak two hours; then take up
. the plant with as much of the soil as
t YOU can get. Take them to your
e one-tenth acre about 6 o'clock and
4 set out in rows. Set about 18 inches
a apart in the row and have the rows
about one foot apart.
Setting the Plants.
Before taking up the plants, the
r soil in which they are growing should
be thoroughly soaked in order to
make it adhere to the roots. Where
+ the plants are grown in pots, cans
: etc. the whole mass of soil should
adhere to the plant when it is set out
I If the plants are not grown IN IN,
h dividual receptacles, as large a bal
of soil as possible should be taken W
I with each plant.
The plants for the early croI
I should be set out as soon as all dan
ger of frost is over. A good methot
to use in setting them is to open &
furrow with a tu%rn-plow and set then
in this furrow. If the soil is dry
pour in about a pint of water arount
each plant. AS soon as the water
e has soaked in. pull some dry sol
around the plant. Press the sol
G down firmly around each plant.
a The distance of planting depends
e on the method of culture. Where
e the plants are to be pruned to one
or two stems and tied to stakes, make
the rows 3 to A feet apart and Sc
the plants 2 to 21a feet apart in thu
n row. If the plants are not to b'
e trained to stakes, set them 3 to
feet apart in the row with the rows
feet apart.