Norwich bulletin., 1921-12-07

the dIiiudl lCPOlt IiAO AAOiAiO oC-
monstratien agent, Miss Gladys E.
Stratton. In her report Miss Strattan
says:
While at the annual meeting held in
December 1920, it. was reported that
! ten communities were organized with |
fifteen local leaders, this year there are |
| thirty-six organized communities repre- |
scented by forty mine local leaders. The |
| women are little more willing to act as /
representatives for their community and |
all committees have been more definite In |
stating projects wanted.
| Farm Bureau Annual Meeting-The |
annual meeting was held in December |
/ 1920. At that meeting the, constitution
! and bylaws were changed, so that the
extension work in the county would be
| organized on a programme of work basis
| In the various communities. At this
time there are thirty-six communities
| with definite programmes for work and
project leaders in charge of each line
Community Committee Meetings-Very
little time has been spent in assisting
community committees in developing pro-
grammes of work as the resuuests for
work already come in so fast the prob
lem was to manage to handle work al
ready requested. More time should be
given to assisting local committees and
in planning work with them, which could
| De carried on by them leaving In6 agent
free for other communities, not yet de-
veloped Nineteen community commit
tee meetings have been held five in com
munities which lined up work last year,
and fourteen in new communities.
! State Extension Conferences-There
were two extension conferences during
the year at the state> college. In the
spring plans were talked over for CO.
ordinatlng more closely the work of ex-
tension specialists and home demonstra-
ton agents.
At the. fall conference held in October
a more definite programme of work was
! outlined than ever before, in which ten
tative work in different projects was
agreed upon between the specialists and
home demonstration agents This will
make it possible to formulate tentative
: state programme with definite periods for
! time of specialists in each country.
! The county agent and home demon
. stration agent met with four community
: committees in as many towns represent
: ing entirely different sections of the
9 country to discuss the possibilities of
! holding field DAYS in these communi-
: ties, which would be attended by people
in that part of the community One com.
/, munity committee decided to cooperate
: with another, thus three communities
. adopted the project and worked out pro
grammes for the day. The field days
were held in August, in Lebanon, North
Stonington and Waterford with a splen-
. did attendance at each of them. The pro
gFamme as carried out for all the field
h days was much the same In the morn.
q ing there were demon strations for the
y women in judging canned goods cake:
Il and breads. The object of these demon
e STATIONS was to give them an idea o.
"a how these things should be Judged, ant
what to strive fer in local fair exhibits
). At one of the field DAYS a demonstration
n in how dress forms was made wa.
/ given. There were at the same time cat
n tie Judging and poultry demonstration
for the men. A picnic lunch was en-
m joyed at noon, to supplement tits ar
: rangement were made with local peo
a pie to see ice cream. cold drinks an
~ light refreshments for th1e bringing n
ia Hnch. After lunch there were brie
- speeches for both men and women
good programme of sports was then car
ried out, which had been carefully line
If up before hand by the committee Il
v charge. Some of the people from on
is community attened the field in their aw
AZ community and also the following day /
as some other part of the county. TIL
field days proved popular enough t,
warrant repeating the project.
Food Project
T" Projects dealing with food work hav
II not sold we'll this last two years Tn
Il home nursing project aroused an. interes
~ In the subject of foods and preparatio
;, of foods for sick or convalescent peo
- pie, as we'll as in the subject of food
o. which would help keep people in a bette
al condition. Then the work done in weigh
ID ing and measuring children showing
v hight per cent. of underWeight or undo
he nourished children has started the We
is men to think perhaps there is somethin
- tl1er shoui1 know about what CROWN,
M children used to eat. Following II
" home nursing course two meetings WEI
Of held in Lebanon Pouuetanock. Palme
town, North Stonington, and Baltic,
Foods for the Sick" and Foods fl
the Family" At these ten meetings thel
was an attendance of 245.
sk Out of these meetings came the reoue
ng for the weighing and measuring of chi
a dren and the starting of a school 1unc
to in Lebanon; organized work in Paine
ne town. Also individual work with mot
We eFs on diets for children under scho
'ht age.
hg Lyme-Nerth Plains-The communi
! aus made nutritional work past of their pr
les gramme of work. So following Il
10 weighing and measuring Of the scho
III began to show them how to get the
MS children I'D to normal. The first less
took up the content of the COMM
foods and why certain ones should
used more extensively. The next NEE
ing will take up diets for constipatio
~ AS the mothers are so ANXIOUS to coo
~ crate here It seems as though 1t won
- be an easy matter to raise the percen
"a age of normal children from 20 per eel
az to 100 per cent.
It'll TWO talks were given TO mothers in t
bv Jordan and Quaker Hill schools on foo
es for growing children at the request
tie the school nurse.
G. MontviIle-In this community also t
wo request has come through the sche
ers nurse for assistance in nutritienal wol
Ell, She has asked for two meetings In t
lie, town one in AIontville Center and +
es- other in Palmertown. In both these pla
ase es there are large percentage of Je
fsh families. So arrangements ba
d. been made with Mrs. Chanin state re
resentative Of the Council of Jewish "
men to assist by acting as interpret
who for Mrs. pakin the nutrition special
her School Lunch-Four communities ha
leld done some work in this project or ha
With requested assistance, Waterford. Lyr
in East Lyme and Lebanon.
cie- Various plans of procedure were ia
" ed over. Two teachers in the buildi
I" were already serving lunch. soups
this 1Tbe Irnch heinz -,ranar ed on. ne, roer
Sc the rooms. They were buying canr
her Sou,e and usinr ,.,nad Lii, =
re- the children of the two upper gra,
ware served The tea cbers IF tho -,