The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-02-11
HOME DEMONSTRATION NOTES

Twenty-Five Bonnie Terre women
met Monday afternoon, February 7th,
and completed a program of work for
the year. Projects to be taken up are:
Dress forms, short cuts in sewing;
meal planning; food preparation; in
valid cookery, and nutrition clinics.
The nutrition clinic work will be
done in cotpeetiSn with the regular
monthly weighing affd measuring Of
the school children. The Home DEM
onstration Agent viii give talksI to
Eunderweight children and their mbth-
ers, ifthey will come. Individual work
will Be done If anyone desires it. The
clinic work win be carried on until
school closes. At that time, it may
be relpaced by child feeding classes
through the summer vacation.
The pressure cooker demonstration,
given by the Home Demonstration
Agent was part of the program
Monday afternoon. Meat, potatoes,
parsnips, and dried apricots were
cooked in the same vessel. Time re-
quired to start the cooking, get up the
pressure and actually COOK the meal
was aobut thirty or thirty-five min
utes. Girls who are taking domestic
science work in the high school We're
present for this part of the program.
All women who are interested in
the betterment of homes are invited
to come to the Home Demonstration
meetings which will be held the first
Tuesday of each month.
The Jay Dee program of work, as
adopted at the community meeting
Tuesday, Feb. list, will include the
poultry, home convenience and food
projects.
Problems in poultry work which the
women are most interested in are,
early Matching, care of baby chicks,
culling and feeding.
In the home convenience project,
the women will work on installation
of pitcher pumps, use of the pressure
cooker and Encouragement Of kitch-
ems.
For food work, child feeding, meal
planning, and food preparation will he
studied.
An interesting meeting was held at
Leadwood Feb. End at the home OF
Mrs. Edward Karsch. Sixteen women
were present. The subject for dis
cussion was meal planning. The
Home Demonstration Agent gave a
talk on the necessity of planning
meals, which, included discussion OF
the necessary foods for proper growth
and building up of the body. Empha-
sis was laid upon the need of in
creased use of fruits, vegetables and
milk for children and use of less fried
foods, sweets and heavy desserts.
There was a lively discussion OF
foods, meal planning and menus, in
which practically every person took
part. The meal planning work will
be continued at other meetings. DEM
onstration of milk and vegetable cook
cry will be given, some of them by the
Home Demonstration Agent and
others by the women. One rneetins
will be given to o display Of simple
desserts, made by the women and
brought in. At this time reports will
be given Of changes in meal planning
and food habits as a result of meal
lpanning work.
Girls Clubs
Inc ClTHe LOT OTBdIlZdtLoa vi oPh NIB
clubs will soon be here. BY April LIST,
the girls who are going to do club
work should be organized and ready
to start work along the particular
line which was chosen. Canning,
baking, and garment making clubs
are the spring clubs which may be or
ganized.
For standard club the following
are the requirements:
/. A membership of five working
on the same project.
2. A.local leader in charge during
the club year.
8. A local club organization with
the necessary officers.
A. A definite club year program.
Any community which is interested
in organizing a girls club, phone or
write to the Home Demonstration
Agent, or, better STILL call at the
Farm Bureau office and set a definite
time for organization.