The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1919-11-14
County Clubs Great Success.
Miss keithline Reorganlzing Clubs;
Plans made for Bigger and Larger
Work Next Year.

Work Ncxt Icdr.
Returns and reports from the
twenty different clubs in the county
show that altho they have been or
2anized less than a year they have
succeeded wonderfully and plans are
being made by Miss May Keithline
and County Agent Swedburg for
larger work for the coming year.
The garden clubs were organized
last spring and the reports OF the
clubs have just been received.
Each member Of the club is requir-
ed to write letter telling OF his
experiences and the results of his
work. The canning, poultry and
pig clubs we're organized later in
the summer, the total number of
which is 20. Many have applied
for membership in both the pig
and canning clubs and cow and
calf club is to be organized within
short time.
All that is required for member
ship is that the boy or girl has a
pure bred sow or cow with which
to start his work. If he has not the
money, the banks have arranged for
it and application should be made
thru the county agent.
A detailed report Of three garden
clubs here ia the city shows what
the members are doing. The first
club is children from the 4th and
5th grades of the public school
Total value. $l7l.0
Cost, z4.o4
Gain including premiums, 15O.39
MANY Of the members OF the gar
den and canning clubs exhibited
their products at the county a4d
state fairs and the premiums won
are included in the gains as shown.
Members of the second club were
from the 7th, 9Th and high school
Total va,ue. $lO5. go
Co,t 24.49
Gain including premiums, S4.Sl
Total ~. cost, S8O.Sl
Cost, to'ao
Gain including premiums. 6l.63
A few Of the boys and girls who
started with the clubs dropped out
before the end of the summer. six
being washed out by the flood, two
having moved away and two OF the
gardens were taken as building
sites. Ali of the other members
finished the season and have gained
in money as well as experience and
health.
The canning clubs were under the
supervision Of Mrs. j. |. Swedburg.
The money for the expenses OF
conducting the clubs was appropri-
ated by the city council and the
school boards. No estimate OF the
total number of quarts of fruit.
vegetables and jelly that were cann-
ed bv the members can be made. as
the letters from the memters are
not all in. But out of the canning
club. four girls won triIs to the
state fair and one of the four was
the champion girl Gamer for the
state.
The girl who won the state
championship is Sadie He eath. who
canned a grand total of 376a quarts
at that time and since has increas-
ed that total to 465 quarts. She
took prizes at the county fair and
exhibited 100 quarts at the state
fair. Each IF the other three girls
exhibited IL quarts. The other
.cirls who won the trips are Frances
Mcfarland, who canned % qts. Of
fruit ard ll2 qts. Of vegetables.
Helen Reynan. who canned 80 qts.
Of fruit. 52A OTIS. of vegetables. and
Z cups of jelly. and Agnes Bracht.
who canned 62a OTIS. of fruit and
73a Of vegetables.
The following letter is one of the
many received by Miss Keithline
and st Q ~ what the girls did:
Milbank. S. D.. Oct. 20. 1919.
I am 9oirg to tell you oil about
nv canning and how ! enjoyed it.
One day my mother told me l
might join the canning club. which
Iwas willing to do. About month
after this we had our first meeting
at the public school which was very
we'll ATTENDED. And the following
week we were to begin to can. We
each had day to come. ! had to
come on Thursday. The first dav
I canned twelve quarts. This look
ed a good number to nie tor the
frat time I ever canned. And | en-
loved canning very much. The most
quarts / ever canned in q day was
is quarts. continued to can
:, A. ono IF nuP first