The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-06-13
South Carolina Home
Producers Association

The home demonstration depart
ment has realized for sometime that
the crying need of the country woman
is to dispose advantageously of what
produce she has. This could only be
accomplished through organization. A
cooperative organization handling the
products of many producers is in n
better position to establish and main
tain outlets for these products than
are the individual growers. Also it is
well known fact that organizations
brought into being as result of u
well-defned need. are very much more
secure than those created by an ap-
The year 1921 will ever be remem-
bered as year of unprecedented
financial disaster and depression es-
pecially among the agricultural class
Not since the Civil War has the farm
or been SO perpleXed with problems as
to his present need and his hopes for
the future, so it was that conditions
were ripe for launching this new de-
velopment of home demonstration
work. Plans for the sale of special
lied products through an organization
to be known as the South Carolina
Home Producers Association were
made in April, 1921.
The purpose of this association is to
convert the surplus yield of the farm
into money by placing on the market
a standard product, and by this means
to encourage production and conserva-
tion. Many women became Interested,
and as result, the association was
launched. Interest grew apace. A
state marketing agent was secured in
August, 1921, with headquarters at
Winthrop College.
Originally, contracts were gotten
out for a number of products, but ow-
ing to the difficulty of standardizing
so many different things, the con-
tracts were rewritten in October,
1921, and the number of products cut
down to ten, most of which are dis
tinctive of our state. They include
blackberry jam, plum jelly, artichokn
relish, fig preserves, grape juice. soup
mixture, Dixie Burgoo, Brunswick
stew, pine bark fish stew and butter.
These products are being prepared by
special recipes, put in attractive con-
tainers which are in most cases sealed
with a mechanical seal and sold under
a label of special design, the origina,
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ter colors. Emphasizing the fact that
these products were made in South
Carolina, beautiful palmetto tree is
portrayed in the foreground.
The output of the South Carolina
Home Producers association in 1921
was about 5000 containers. All of
these products which passed inspec-
ton have been sold.
We have contracts this year for
100000 containers. Containers are
heing ordered comparatively. They
are being bought in the wooden re-
shipping cases.
Two communities, Ft. Motto in Cal
houn county and Clio in Marlboro
county, have ordered their containers
by the car load.
An exhibit Of the marketable prod
ucts which attracted wide attention
was put on in Columbia at the meet
ing of the State Federation of Wo-
mems Clubs on April 2O-2I. The club
women became much interested in the
marketable products which are being
put up by the farm women of our
state. The presidents OF 23 clubs
pledged themselves TO try and secure
the endorsement of their clubs. Steps
have already been taken by seven of
these clubs, one of the county fedora
tions going so far as to order three
cases Of Dixie Burgoo in order that
the excellency of this product may be
tested