Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-20

heart, health and hand. The club
works develop it's members along
these lines.
The emblem is a square with an
II in each corner. 1t is drawn around
a circle with the four-leaf clover
in the center. The clover leaf
brings prosperity
Advantages Gained
Besides the, many enjoyable af-
ternoons I have spent at the club
meetings | have had some educa-
tional advantages. 1 have taken
two short courses at Athens and
one at Monroe I have learned how
to use vegetables in many differ
ent ways, how to be more sani-
tary and economical in cooking
them, and how to serve them more
attractively.
especially like.
Creole Sauce
1 pt. tomato sauce; IL cup green
pepper (cut in 1-2-in. cubes or
strips); 1 tosD. celery seed Crush
ed; 2 tbsp. chopped onions; / tbsp.
sugar; l bay leaf; IL tsp. minced
parsley.
Season with salt and pepper. Meas
ure and add the chopped vegetables
to the ketchup and simmer for half
an hour. Serve hot. CREOLE sauce
can be used in soups, omelets with
rice croquettes, veal, lamb, boiled
fish and with creole chicken. When
this sauce is to be canned simmer
only fifteen minutes before packing.
Pack hot in tweIve-ounce jars or No.
2 cans. Process glass jars for TWEEN
i tn
utes.
1 raised four hundred and fifty
pounds of tomatoes, four hundred
and four pounds of beans and one
hundred and seventy pounds of pi-
mento peppers on my tenth acre gar
den.
I used sixty-two pounds of vege-
tables at home, canned one hundred
and ninety-seven cans of vegetables
and thirty one containers of fruits.
Receipts ................ $47.82
Cost Of work ............ 1895
Net profit .............. 28.4I
The club work has helped me in
many ways. 1t has learned me how
to raise more pounds on less acres,
to rely upon myself, to cook and
serve vegetables in various ways, to
spend my summer vacations in prof
liable work instead of idle play, and
to live happily at home
Live at Home
BY Nena Coleman, Worth County
1 joined the canning club because
| wanted to learn to Give at home"
l had been a member once before and
L saw the good of being a club mem
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ferent things and 1 could not resist
the temptation of being a club mem
Der. We all like something good to
eat and wanted to be one that knew
how to fix things-so I Joined.
My garden is seventy yards long
and seven yards wide and is situat-
ed on a hillside. The soil is sandy
loan. L selected this place because
I was near small stream and the
plants would be kept moist and grow
better. The soil was also rich and
suitable for a garden.
My garden was broken up in De-
cember with a Chattanooga pillow so
the soil would be loose and hold more
moisture. In March the land was
narrowed and the rows prepared for
plants.
I only used one two-horse7 wagon
load of barnyard manure in fertiIiz-
ing my garden, which was sown in
drills when the rows were prepar-
ed.
planted one paskage of tomatoes
and peppers in a box the last of
March and one package in the gar
den. AS I live in south Georgia, it
O% - -
or cold frame. About the first of
May I transplanted my plants, set
ting them two and one-half feet
apart.
Flowing Reduced
Every week or two I would take
my hoe and hoe the garden. If it
was not grassy L would loosen up the
dirt around the plants so they would
grow faster. Then it would not need
to be plowed so often. My garden
was only plowed twice after the
plants were set out.
My tomato plants were growing
mighty pretty when one day L MOTTO
ed something had eaten all the
leaves off of one of them. 1 began
looking around and found a worm
about three inches long with horns
and about the color of the plants. l
killed all L could find and from then
on I looked the plants every day I'M
til they were gone. A few of my to-
mato plants died of wilt. l pulled
them up and planted something else
in their place. Several stalks of my
pepper died, but I though it was
caused from so much rain, as I no.
tianH ntbarc fn
I began gathering ripe tomatoes
the last of June, but did not take
any to market, as 1 wanted to can
all I could. I would take the pretti-
est for canning and the others to
make ketchup and sauce. I only had
three and one-half rows of tomatoes.
AS I was a second-year girl my dem
onstrator said I could plant other
vegetables so I planted one-half row
of pimento pepper, one-fourth row
okra, three-fourths row corn and a
row of string beans.
My county demonstration gave us
bulletins sent out by the government
and 1 did all my canning and pre-
serving by recipes given in those
books and the help given me by the
county agent so they could be mark
ed the Four II. Brand, meaning
Hand, Head, Heart and Health.
Lots of Fun
Oh, the good times we have had.
Several times our demonstration
would tell US she would come help
us certain day and we would all
meet and have the grandest time
canning (and, Of course, eating, too).
Then one day all Of us (club mem
bers) met out at the park at Syl-
vester and played games until ~
o'clock. Then we spread our lunches.
After lunch we had several good
talks from our county superintend-
ent and other prominent men. Last,
but not least enjoyed, was the swim
ming, free to all club members.
First Tuesday in August fourteen
club members (twelve girls and two
bOyS) went to Triton TO the Short