The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-17

1 was then Il months old. Jack entered the Dig in some of the classes outside the clubs and got five blue ribbons anc $25 in cash.
 1 The demonstration agents have given me many such stories, but these will do Tor the pigs They also tell stories of the baby beeves which the Texas boys are now raising, and of the baby beef clubs The whole gives a promise of larger and better meat supply than ever pe' fore.
 And now as to chickens and eggs The bureau of animal industry of the depart ment of agriculture has aided in forming boys and girls poultry clubs throughou' the south and they are raising grea' numbers of pure bred fowls and market ing quantities of eggs Their product Is far above the grownups of the nelgh- borhood who keep poultry, and their fowls are larger and fatter when ready for sale. Full information regarding poultry raising can be gotten from the department of agriculture in Washington and there is no reason why tens of thou sands of boys and girls in every state should not add to our food supply in this way. There are many of these poultry clubs here in Texas. In Dallas they have nine egg circles, which have marketed 54000 eggs in the past few months. In
 
 as to their poultry club work now have total of more than 4000 hens in their flocks They raised HOO chickens last year and produced more than 13,0V0 dozen eggs Each girl made a profit of more than $25.
 In Mississippi seven counties have CO operative egg selling associations, and each member has on the average 2 chick ems. One girl raised chickens worth $69, and another sold 120 dozen eggs. Vir- gnia has 670 members enrolled in the poul- try club work. One of them has cleared xlbo from 30 hens.
 The best results shown by the girls have come from the canning clubs. Nearly 50,000 girls were enrolled in them in 1915, and they raised and put up more than D. OOo0O0 pounds of tomatoes and over B. 00000O cans of vegetables and fruits. The farms of the club members were each only one-tenth of an acre; but the average profit from these small patches was over $42, or more than $240 per acre.
 These girls were scattered throughout the Is southern states, and, as I have said, there were more than 5000 of them in Texas. One of the latter put up 173O cans of tomatoes and peaches and POO glass jars of berries and other products. She made profit therefrom of $242.
 Willie Haworth, another Texas girl of 15 years, won the first prize for her crop of canned goods at the state fair at Dal- las. She rented her tenth of an acre from her father for $1, rental equal to $10 per acre, and paid boy of the neighborhood S1.90 to blow it 14 inches deep. She planted her seed in a hot bed in February, and set out the plants on March 29 She had her first ripe to- matoes June g, and from then on they kept coming until she had 143S pounds in all She put up from them more thar 1000 cans of tomatoes, and in addition from her fathers orchard 37S cans ol peaches. In her canning exhibit at the fair she had also 7S quarts of berries 2' quarts of cucumber pickle, six quarts o1 beets, six quarts of plums, eight quarts of peach pickles, one quart of onions peppers grape juice, tomato catsup anc other things. This was the work of one child. Think what thousands of such children could do in supplying vegetables sauces and dainty tidbits for our troops in the field Willie Haworth sold her entire stock at good prices, and her net profits were several hundred dollars.
 Full directions for growing tomatoes and other vegetables on these one tenth-acre farms may be gotten from the department of agriculture at Washington, or from the farm dem onstrators who are now working throug ghout the southern states One tenth of an acre is not more than two small city lots. It is equal to strip about 43 feet front and 100 feet deep, and there are enough vacant lots ill our towns for growing hundreds of thousands of such gardens It would be mean farmer, indeed who would