The star-progress., 1921-04-06
HOME AGENTS REPORT
MANY ACTIVITIES

Newly organized agricultural clubs /
in .esdwelI parish are making good .
showing according to Miss ZiIla /
Shows, home demonstration. agent,
who repbrts she. has ordered thirty !
five settings Of purebred eggs this
week for cne Of here new clubs. Miss
Shows says that she believes her new
clubs will be close rivals to her old
er ones organized last year. A car
load OF mixed poultry will be shipped
from Caldwell soon. This plan Was
devised as menas of getting rid OF
the mixed breeds of poultry. Through
the influence of the agent arrange
ments have been made whereby the
banks are going to lend the farmers
Of this parish money to place pure
bred poultry on their farms.
Poultry club members in Natcni-
toches parish have placed from 100 20
$50 eggs in the mammoth incubator
at the normal for incubation, eports
Mrs. W. C. Pierson, home demonstra-
ton agent. The manager Of the in
cubator made a special price for the
club members. The agent has placed
an exhibit Of canned goods in one OF
the leading show windows and she
has received orders for beans. chow
chow, jelly and preserves.
Buying bee hives and Grating them
wss the major work done this week
in Madison parish by Miss Rebecca
Whitaker, home demonstration agent
These hives were purchased for DE-
monsrators who secured their stand
ard hive material last year too late 10
get bees at that time Miss Whitaker
says there is marked increase in in
telest in the bee culture. she en-
rolled two more demonstrators this
week.
/ Club children in Allen parish have
gotten the iden that purebred stock
lis the only kind to have, according
to Mrs. Eleanor Tyree, home demon
stration agent One Of her club MEM
bers sold six spring chickens this week
and she says that club work is boom
ing there.
Mrs. Corneaila Staples, home agent
in Lincoln parish, says that the auc-
tion sales no the first Wednesday in
each month are always successful.
She recently displayed garden seeds,
the steam pressure canner, preserved
eggs and a model dress form which,
she says, caused many people to come
to her for seed and to inquire about
the Gamer. Mrs. Staples sold last
week nine dozen cans of tomatoes for
one OF her club girls for $1.25 dozen.
Louisiana Club Leaders" were dis
tributed throughout Natchitochese
parish this week by Mrs. w. c. Pierson
home agent, Mrs. Pierson says that
she doesn't know of anything that af-
fords members more pleasure than
club paper that is issued each month.
Natchitoches parish is taking live
" interest in the poultry drive and 1t
looks as IL this parish will soon be
ranking high in the purebred poultry
business. she says.
Taking women with you on trips
throughout the parish in order to
give them object lessons is not a bad
plan, believes Mrs. Martha Grouse,
home agent in Washington parish.
she says that she took lukewarm
poultry demonstrator on a trip with
her and the woman came back
thoroughly convinced that poultry
would pay, so she went home and or
dered some baby chicks and got to
work. The latest report from her
stated that she had built model poul-
try houses and had ordered an incu-
bator.
Leona Campbell, poultry club
member from Ouachita parish, has
new poultry yard. She has built some
model houses from plans furnished
her BY Mrs. Jewell McQuiller, home
agent. and she has set out to win the
So gold piece that is being offered
for the best Barred Plymouth Rock
chicken raised in the prish this year.
one of the Ouachita club girls has
saved SO towards paying her way 10
the summer short course a. Baton
Rouge.