The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1921-08-20
WHAT THEY LEARNED
AT THE SHORT COURSE.
Women and Girls Study Prob
lens Of Living at Home
and Market Gardening.

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How to Live Well at Home and
How to Make Money without Leav-
Ing Home,' was the keynote Of the
State Home Demonstration Short
Course for farm women and girls at
the Mississippi Normal College, and
some fine reports were offered to sup
port the possibilities Of doing both.
Mrs. s.. L. Lloyd Of Boyett. plant
ed IA acres strawberries, made
$500 by shipping fresh. She sold
No. 2 cans at 40 cents per can of
strawberry preserves, and had straw
berries on the table every day.
She has, given this summer four
demonstrations in canning beef. As
| 1t took some Of her. time and she used
her steam Gamer. and Burpee sealer
and orders the cans, she charges 8
cents per can. She has six engage
ments to can beef now. She gets on
an average Of 81 per week from her
cream checks. She has raised. $50
chickens, sold some eggs and few
broilers. Her fruit and vegetables
and fruit canning have beeh below
normal, due to the dry weather. She
has canned SO cans of tomatoes and
so cans of peaches; has one dozen
No. fats of chicken for sale and
will can more.
Mrs. Bertram Ray is making spe-
cialty Of pickles, All brand: Her
I'cucumber pickles are fine, a pretty
green color in tweIve-oance screw
to jars. She has sold to local res
taurant five-gallon keg Of these.
Lena Belle Ellis has canned for
market: 125 cans No. 8 snap beans,
100 No. cans tomatoes, 25 No. 3
cans fresh cabbage.
Besides these she has about $50
jars of various things.
Angie Hanna made $34 from hot
bed about 12x4 feet; expense So.
Sold tomato plants, egg plants, pep
per plants. Some were sold to the
City Drug Store that ordered plants
from Crystal Springs and other
points. She could have sold more
If she had planted more. She can
ned 100 cans peaches.
Marion Purdy made pine needle
baskets from our local short pine
needles and sold 50 worth in Durant.
Mrs. Malone has made and sold SIS
worth Of willow baskets and tables
and work stands.
Mrs. ~. ]. Riley has canned 100
cans otpolackberries for market.
Mrs. H. A. Weeks Matched OF $50
chicks; sold 200 at prices ranging
from S1,25, $L00. rs cents and SO
cents each, at one day old,
She sold eggs to March to the
amount Of $3.50; roosters at $50
each and IL roosters at $s25 each;
$4S worth Of broilers and number
of hens. She has canned some fruits
and vegetables, sold $50 worth of
fresh peaches. Has canned three doz-
en- cans of chicken, i've dozen cans
Of sausage and two spareribs and
backbones. Will can beef later. Her
cream checks are on an average of
$22 per weeks. In 1920 she had one
standard hive of bees, now has two.
She has sold 81 worth of honey and
has had fresh honey on her table
since April ].
Mrs. Paul Matthews has raised 400
Brown Leghorn chickens. -
Report of Miss Nettie I. Giyens'
fall, winter and spring garden for
1920-2I. Walleryille. Union county,
Miss Twenty cents worth of Big
Boston lettuce seed planted last of
August in seed bed. Plants trans
planted as they grew large enough,
Is inches apart.
Spring Planting the New York
Wonderful, or Hanson, was planted
in seed bed. Barnyard fertilizer used
together with 81 worth of nitrate of
soda. Cabbage seed were sown about
Sept. Is and transplanted in rows in
November, where they were to grow
and head for spring use. Onion seed
were sown in November in rows and
trAnsplanted as soon as they were
large enough.
Outlay on lettuce seed----s-$ 20
Nitrate Of sode ------------- ZOO
Seed for spring sowing ------ 20