Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-01-11

. WHO eHTOlleu Tor demonstration WOl
IN food production during 1917. I'll
achievements OF these workers Al
] suggested when 4lb counties In Sout
ern States were organized under wor
en- county agents, These agents 4
structed 37964 girls In canning club
9'o5b girls In poultry clubs, 22,O4
women as home demonstrators, an
22ll women in poultry clubs,
The Department OF Agricultur
through the cooperation of the Coul
Gil of National Defense, shipped /
carload lots to certain Southern coui
ties 100000 cans These were sol
at cost plus the freight and handlin
charges, Mrs. Jane s. McKimmor
North Carolina Home Demonstrate
Agent, notes that one merchant 4
Wake county ordered nine carloads O
glass containers and sold them al
within the confines OF the county.
The total enrolment III the South O
women and girl demonstrators includ
ed 5l,575 girls In canning clubs. 13.46
girls in poultry clubs, and 35.506 won
EN-. The number of containers OF fruit
and vegetables packed by women anC
girls under demonstration methods
was 5,l44,747, with valuation O
$956,669 The women and girls cult
waited 7,649 winter gardens.
In North Carolina.
The report of Mrs. Jane s. McKim
mon indicates that 3,2S9,4l5 contain
ers were filled in the summer by club
members in North Carolina. and that
5,4SS,S47 containers were flied by
women outside the province of the
demonstration organization Thus the
total was S,77S,262 containers for SIS
counties. The valuation of these can.
ned pre- ducts were s2,179362, with a
profit OF 81 634,519 acriuing to the can.
ners. The number of gallons brined
was 22S,56S, and 557S53 pounds of
products were dried.
In Eastern North Carolina, the dis.
trict agent, through the cooperation
of the North Carolina Bureau of Mar.
kets sold l,135 bushels of pears for
$4,000. The city of Durham. with the
assistance of County Agent NJ. r. Nc.
Girt and Miss Helen Simmons. county
demonstration agent, produced $1,000
cans in its community canneries. The
city of Wilmington scored the record
In the State with the production of u.s..
900 cans. The Caraleigh and Raleigh
Cotton Mills filled 54.S6S containers in
three months. This was accomplish
ed through the efforts OF Miss Elsie
Marlborough and student at the State
Normal College. They were assisted
by so women in the mills.
The United States Department Of
Agriculture comments thus on the
work in the South. War conditions
and needs have brought about a great
extension OF activities along the gen
eral lines which the home demonstra.
iion workers have pursued for the last
seven years in Southern States. For
example, the very earnest campaigns
)f the last year for a home garden on
Every farm were part of safe
program which has been ad
iocated for several years. These cam
'aigns have extended to the cities,
owns and villages, and 1t is believed
hat the number OF gardens increased
Turing the last year from 200 to 300
yer Gem"
Mrs. McKimmon reports that the
managers Of seven cotton mills in
torth Carolina requested the services
4 trained girls in the art OF garden.
ng and canning. The Patterson Mills
t Roanoke Rapids employed a club
irl for five months, and her achieve
1ents were so pronounced as to result
a her retention as teacher and com.
1unity worker Fifty.eight girls in
he Patterson Mills packed 1864 con.
ainers The three Cone mills OF
greensboro each employed a canning
pecialist
Growing Vegetables.
The United States Department OF
griculture holds up the mills OF
orth and South Carolina as examples
n duplication where backyard gar
ems are available. The department
Is made survey and discovered that
orkingmen's families In mill villages
North Carolina and South Carolina
ade an average OF 1858 on back.
ard vegetable gardens. These gar
ems averaged one-fourth OF an acre
dimensions. The cost was 1884,
I'd the vegetables produced were val
ID at s29S7.
Says the survey These results OF a
tile encouragement on the part of
Ill owners, while In no way remark.
lie agriculturally, are presented as s
digestive of what the industrial es. I
bishments can do for its employees e
; locating where the cost of living I
ay be kept down by the home pro /
lction OF food I
Nine North Carolina and South Car b
Ina mill villages exhibited records Of 4
& gardens ICE noultry focks. "a v
VS., and 81 hogs. The cost to main. '
In each garden was 1854, distributed C
US: labor $1.51; seed, $751;; fertiliz 4
8, $685. The item of labor resolved h
elf into blowing and furrowing the 4
rden. o
The average flock Of poultry was be-
cen 10 and IA fowls. with an aver
e egg yield OF SO dozen. The ex