The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-10-19
HOME DEMONSTRATION
WORK AS REPRESENTED
AT THE STATE FAIR
(By Miss Mary B. Martini

10y VulSS N1oIS -
Tie State Fair exhibits gotten up
by the canning club members and
Home Demonstration Workers. bid
, fair to be better this year than ever
before and to prove exceedingly in
teresting. I should like to call the
attention of the public, both those
who may attend the fair and those
who may be less fortunate. to the
results of our club, members work
along this line and to the duties OF
your county agent during the fair
week.
Each agent will be absent from her
county for about ten days before
and during the fair.
The work of canning club, bread
club members and Home Demonstra-
ton Workers will be exhibited in va
rious. and appropriate places in the
Home Demonstration Department.
There will be twelve or fifteen booths
each of which will be in charge OF
three or four agents. These ladies
will be on duty from 900 a. m, to
LOO P. M, and from 200 P. NJ, to
500 P. NJ, and will wear a uniform
of white dress, apron and cap while
on duty.
The most interesting, economical
and helpful phase of home life will
be demonstrated by the young la
dies in charge. The departments are
as follows:
l.. Canning. To teach plain can
ming, conservation of space, use OF
standard containers and concentrate
ed materials as tomato. pa~ee, paste,
etc.
@. Bread. To show finished pro-
ducts of various kinds of bread as
loaf, quick bread, rolls and the use
of -four substitutes, as soy bean meal,
peanuts, corn meal, rice, potatoes,
oat, rye and barley flour.
8. Poultry: Plenty of preserved
eggs will be exhibited to show ad-
vantage of egg preservation and the
economical usage therefrom.
Farm Butter. Cottage Cheese,
and Meat Substitutes. To demon
strate proper method of butter max
ing, the making of cottage cheese,
and its application as a food pro-
duct and meat substitute.
Sewing Room. Exhibition of eco
nomical and necessary equipment for
Sewing Club Members, sewing
screens, other appliances and sam
pies of club girls sewing, including
aprons, caps, holders, jelly bag, cup
towels, dress, napkins and table run
ners.
Laundry and Kitchen Exhibition
of modern appliances for expedi-
tious work, making and use of soaps,
starches, etc., in laundry, and a pro-
perly equipped kitchen, showing cor
rect arrangement of sinks, table,
stoves, etc., in regard to saving
steps. 81.
Dining Room. To illustrate cor
rect and attractive method of equip
ping a dining room, keeRing and
cleaning silver and glassware, plan
ming and serving well balanced meals
at smallest cost.
Bed Room. Practical and attrac-
tive arrangement of furniture shown.
Home Decoration Booth. To show
how homes, grounds, orchards, lawns
and environments may be made at
tractive.
Dried Fruit and Vegetables. Pur-
pose-Economy Of containers, pro-
cess of drying, samples of dried pro-
ducts and prepared cooked products
of dried materials.
In the center of building will be
placed a center stand which will con-
tain the following:
l.. Symbolic Jar of containers. A
symbolic jar frame made as frame
work filled with standard containers
to symbolic Home Demonstration
work, built on a base representing a
frustrum of a pyramid covered with
tin containers.
2. Winter Garden. To impress
the necessity of a continuous supply
Of fresh vegetables during the win
ter.
8. Perennial Garden. An ex-
ample of continuous growth of ro-
tating vegetable crops all the year
round. Plants will be growing on
plats of fair and a glance at these
will show you what and when to
plant in order to supply necessary
vegetables needed the year round.
If you are interested in any of
the features of this work, call on the