The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-02-11
HOME SERVICE
ON HALF time
Department of Home Service of
Valley and Roosevelt COun-
ties on Part Time Basis.
BOYS and GIRLS CLUBS
A Wonderful Work Accomplished in
All Branches of this Department
the Past Year. State Nutrition
Clinic for Valley County.

Miss Gertrude Erickson, home dem
onstration agent for Valley county has
just returned from a trip to different
communities of the county where she
has conducted demonstrations and OBJ
tanned reports of the activities of the
membership of her department.
Under the leadership of Miss Erick-
son, the home demonstration depart
ment in this county has advanced in
the lead of almost every other county
in the state, conditions considered.
F.; The following is a detailed report
issued this week by Miss Erickson and
is full of facts and noted accomplish
ments for which Valley county can feel
Justly proud.
"Vallev county has home demonstra-
ton work on the half time basis, the
home demonstration agent spending
the first half of the month in this coun-
ty. We have twenty-five organized
communities doing active woman's
work. The past year we have worked
on the following projects: Gardening,
canning, cheese making, poultry, cloth
ing, boys and girls club work. We
have over two hundred and fifty wo-
men Farm Bureau members.
"In each of the twenty-five organ
lied communities are women project
leaders who take an active part in
promoting the women's work.
Farm Bureau work is not limited
to m in the rural communities,
many of the women's clubs of Montana
are organizing a home economics de-
partment and taking advantage of the
assistance that can be secured through
the Farm Bureau.
In Valley county the past year we
had eight boys and girls clubs that
completed their years work in the
bread, garment. poultry and garden
clubs. One of the poultry clubs went
out in relays Of three to Gull poultry
throughout the neighborhood. Two of
the mothers said they had not killed a
laying hen since the children learned
to Gull. Several of our club children
premiums at the Helena and Bill
lings fairs.
"We had several clothing and millin-
cry schools where the women made
dresses, coats, hats and dress forms.
In one community nine dress forms
were made in one day. These nine
dress forms cost $3.50 but would have
cost at least $4,000 had they been pur-
chased.
"Seven hundred and twenty-eight
pounds of cheese were made as a re-
suit of three demonstrations. The wo-
are splendid co-operators. Two
women who each owned a cow moved
together for a week and made So
pounds of cheese from the milk of two
cows. In another community where milk
was not plentiful all of the women in
terested in making cheese held several
meetings and each brought milk; in
this way they all made cheese.
"a garden and canning contest was
put on last spring. Business men of
Glasgow contributed $4,000 in pre-
miums. Twenty women entered the
contest and twelve women completed
the work. AS a result 1928 quarts of
vegetables We're canned by the twelve
women. which was valued at S1,123.O 90.
We had a splendid canning exhibit of
between four hundred and five hundred
jars at the Valley county fair. These
sent in by our Farm Bureau COM
munities.
six culling demonstrations were
given. AS a result 56 flocks of poultry
culled and 1,347 hens were cul-
led out. This represents a big saving
feed.
The following report shows the
work done by 125 women in the county:
1916 new fruit jars purchased; 6,7O2
quarts vegetables canned; 94S quarts
chicken canned; 1890 quarts of other
meat canned; 72S pounds of cheese
made; 1.075 dozen eggs preserved:
l,347 hens culled out; as dress forms
made; 1908 pounds of home made
soap; lO.O92 pounds of meat cured; "a
rural schools serving the hot lunch;
worth of clothing made or re-
made at clothing schools. We have
ecured for the local Red Cross organ
$4,000 worth of clothing. This
vas the estimate made by Mrs. George
Berry II local Red Cross worker. The
,otal of the years work represents
$3.50 worth of work done.
This year we plan for more clothing
millinery work. more work in
gardening, canning, poultry
md club work.
Miss GRADER, our state food special |
st, will use Valley county as a clinic
n nutrition work. A class of twenty
me children and their mothers has
'een organized at the South Side
chool for the work. Miss GRADER will
pend three days of each month in
ilasgow in the interests of this nu-
rition clinic. The nutrition work to-
with recreation will represent
'ur new project for this work"