The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-11-21

interest on their Investments ana VINO
ms yet haven't taken the time to figure
just what they are doing. The sooner
they realize that something Is wrong
somewhere, Just that much sooner
they will be able to right the losing
proposition.
Pittsylvania--Mrs Campbell;
A woman said to me the other dav,
Mrs Campbell, want you to show
me how to can the way your club girls
do We had sale the other day for
our church and everybody wanted their
goods"
She nandoah-B. a. Warmer:
am still hearing favorable COM
ment upon the Boys Pig club exhibit
and am getting quite few inquiries
about our pigs. where we got them.
etc. As a result OF the pig club exhibit
nj our fair, have succeeded in plac-
ing two registered Poland-China pigs
already Our farmers are manifestfng
more interest in pure bred live stock
~ IN" present time than I have ever
known them. Since January I, 1919,
hy mcens of the Bcys' Pig club. the
Poland China association and the
Shorthorn association. have succeed
Cd in placing fifty-five head of regis
tered cattle and hogs in Shenandoah
county. They are as, follows: 90 regis
tnred cows and heffers. registered
bulls, 81 registered sows and 8 regis
tered bears. AS the association and
club work develops I find that it IL
very much easier to interest our farm.
ers in better live stock
Appomattox-Miss Bell:
A little girl in the Oakville neigh
borhood asked me recently IL would
give her another chance to join one of
MY clubs. She said she did not have
much faith in canning clubs or any
other kind of clubs that demonstration
egents got up when | came to her
school last spring, but she had gotten
sick and tired of hearing about short
courses. club picnics. club lawn par
ties and club prizes. and she Just want
ed chance to show these girls that
she could do things. too. She said she
mad never spent such lonesome sum-
mer.
one lady at Pamplin said to me on
my last visit to her house: II don't
feel that can ever repay you for
what you have done for my daughter.
I always knew she had domestic tai
crts, but have oeen TIC busy to teach
fnr the things I had To learn myself
after | was married. + girls in my
cav had had such opportunities house
keeping would not have. been such
Nl'rten, and a me i":n.
F5uvana--W. T. smith:
The club exhibit at the county fair
created more interest than any one
class Of products there. Some of the
pc opie could not get over the fact that
there was not pig there over seven
cnths old and two or three OF them
weighing approximately 800 pounds on
i5a days feeding. One OF these pigs
belonged to a little girl eleven years
old and was the finest specimen there.
Her father stated to me that he had
learned his lesson in hog raising and
there would be no more grades on his
farm, nothing but the good Duroc
J. rseY animals. All except pure breds
will he sla ughtered. or sold. ! wish all
farmers could see IL this way.
AGgusta--Miss Moffett:
one garden club girl had one fourth
ct an acre in a garden plot. She had
the blowing and narrowing done but
did tho rest Of the work herself by
han She raised thirty different vege-
tt bles twelve bushels of Irish pota-
toes and four Of sweet potatoes. The
in the garden were sprayed
vvcil and kept free from insects and
weeds. The girl lives In a town Of s.
e0e inha hitants
Mecklenburg-M Miss Massey:
\ club member tells me she has
canned everything she could possibly
get this summer for. she said. My