The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1921-06-02
ACTIVITIES REPORTED
BY Home Demonstration Agents as
Result Of One Weeks Work.

BY Home Demonstration agents Is
Result of One Weeks Work.
L. s. II. Press Bulletin.l
As means of raising money to send
club children to the short course at
Baton Rouge in August the members
OF the Lower Bayou Club, Lafourche
Parish. held box supper and raised
the sum Of $46.25. Miss Clyde Schill-
Ing, home agent. thinks this is a good
method Of collecting funds, as it brings
the people together and results indi-
rectly in closer cooperation among the
people Of a community. The agent
says that one of her club members has
fourteen purebred chickens and that
she is SO proud OF them that her father
has promised to get rid OF all the mixed
ones and just have purebred chickens.
Putting in ten or twelve hours day
Is not an unusual practice among the
home demonstration agents. Recently
Miss Verna Lilly, home agent I'm More
house Parish. began meat canning
demonstration at ITO am. and finished
cooking the last can at twenty minutes
to six. The demonstration consisted
of cunning veal loaf, chile, plain steak.
hamburgers, roast, hash and soup. Sew
enty-five three-pound cans were put mp
In all.
Visiting thirty-seven club members
and four demonstrators in one week in
order to interview parents Of club chill
dren before schools close comprised the
work carried on by Miss Ola d. Over
by, home agent in Caddo Parish, this
week Some Of the poultry club MEM
bers In this parish have lost some Of
their flock. either through disease or
from attacks by rats. Miss OVERLY
says. however, that where instructions
were carried ont In using potassium
perlnanganate in drinking water the
mortality was quickly checked.
Club members in Ouachita Parish
have been making use Of the curb
market to dispose Of their surplus prod
ucts Recently three sections Of the
curb market booth were filled with
club products The girls sold their
own products and they had no trouble
fiji doing 50, as they were cleaner and
OF q l,eter quality than the others Of
fered for sale. reports Mrs. Jewell Nc
CUTLER, home agent
| Miss Rebecca Whitaker, home agent
In Madison Parish, succeeded In get
ting an expert from Chicago to come
to her parish and teach her demon
strators how to make Ice cream. These
people had not been able to make 1t to
suit their trade. The demonstration re-
mained in the parish week aud the
result seems to be in every way salts
factory, she says.
With bridges washed away and roads,
practically impossible iii Tangipahoa
Parish, Miss L4etie Ensign, home agent,
has had to abandon her automobile and
use the train and buggy In travelling
through the parish This week. Not.
withstanding the many handicaps, Miss
Ensign visited five clubs. two demon
strators and thirteen club members,
and has given four demonstrations.
Mrs. Jewell McQniller, home demon
stlation agent In Onaelita Parish
staged an exhibit In her. parish last
week which has met with general ap
prevail. The club members were well
pleased with the results and the rural
school supervisor told Mrs McQufllel
that the exhibit was the biggest thing
of the kind ever undertaken III the
i parish.
i Farmers and housewives OF Calcasieu
Parish are well pleased with the curl
market, according to Mrs. Bertha
Knox, home agent. Cream cheese has
been one Of the chief products for sale
and many requests have reached Mrs
Knox about the making Of cheese
and the price. A number of the clnl
children In the parish are starting
bank accounts with the money they
receive from the baskets which they
make from the pine needles.
Since organizing the clubs in Vernon
4 Parish Miss Pearl lie Feyre. home
agent. says that she has been trying
to make the members feel that the or
ganization is theirs, and not hers
When the clubs In her parish hold theil
meetings she has them conduct then
alone and she says that they are car
ried on as we'll us any adult meeting.
that she has attended. Miss lie Fevr,
usually serves on the program OF nj
meetings by giving some constructive
demonstration.
Meat canning demonstrations a
which On Ytso 90 roust qua ,,x,S.l. x,l,1.,,