The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1922-05-22
AGRICULTURAL COLUMN
Articles ON Agriculture and
Home Economics by County
and Home Demonstration
Agents.

South Carolina will be held at Win
throp College June 9 to Is inclusive.
About 400 women and girls from
every part Of the State are expected
to attend. Five women and five girls
are sent from each county, these
delegates being elected for excel
lence in Home Demonstration work
and their ability as leaders. In addi-
and their ability as leaders. In addi-
tion to the regular delegates, the
County Farm Women's Council will
send special representatives.
An interesting and instructive
program has been arranged by the
State Home Demonstration Agent
and her assistants. Prominent dem
onstrators and lecturers from all
parts of the country will be on the
program. Among the speakers are,
DR.. C. B. Smith, Mr.. o. B. Martin,
and Miss Florence Ward from the
u. S. Department of Agriculture,
Washington, D. C. DR.. Ruby Green
Smith, Associate State Home DEM
onstration Leader, New York State,
DR.. Leon G. Palmer, General Super
intendent, South Carolina Sunday
School Association; Mrs. Chauncey
B. Mcdonald, Secretary, S. c. Tuber-
culosis Association; and DR.. L. A.
Riser, of the State Board Of Health.
Demonstrations along many lines of
home making will be given by the
specialist and the county home DEM
onstration agents.
Recreation will be an important
4 feature of the program. A trained
director will have charge of the
work in the gymnasium, including
drills, games, folk dancing and
swimming. Mr.. R. E. Nell Of the
Rock Hill Y. M. C. A. will conduct
the community singing each evening.
In addition to the entertainments
mentioned above there will be NOV
ing pictures, parties and "stunts."
A feature of special interest to the
girls will be the course in Health
Education, conducted by Miss Har-
riett Wedgewood- Of the U. S. Bu-
reau of Education. Here the girls
will be taught the "Rules of the
Health Game" and Fright Living"
i indications are that this Short
Course will be the best ever held.
President D. B. Johnson has gener-
ousIy given US the use of the VIM
throp College buildings and equip
ment, and is cooperating in every
possible way to make the Short
Course a success.
! South Carolina Home Producers
Association
The home demonstration depart
! ment has realized for sometime that
the crying need of the country wo-
! men is to dispose advantageously Of
! what products she has. This could
! only be accomplished through orga-
nization. A cooperative organization
handling the products of many pro-
ducers is in a better position to es-
tablish and maintain outlets for
these products than the Individual
growers. Also it is a we'll known fact
that organizations brought into be-
ing as a result of a we'll defined need
are very much more secure than
those created by an appeal to preju-
I, dices or misconceptions. The year
: 1921 will ever be remembered as
year of unprecedented financial dis
aster and depression especially
among the agricultural class. Not
: since the Civil War has the farmer
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 organiza-
: ton to be known as the South Caro-
: lima Home Producers Association
were made in April 1921. The pur-
pose of this association is to convert
: surplus yield of the farm into money
T by placing on the market standard
oroduct and Inv This means to en-