Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-02-22
South Carolina at the Top in
Home Demonstration.

is interesting to all South Carolinlans.
Edgefeld is one of the few counties
having no home demonstration agent:
"Eas the woman vote stirred the
civic consciousness of women in your
community?
Has it done anything to make life
safer and sweeter for women and
children; anything comparable to
What wide-awake women are doing
in South Carolina and Kansas?
Everybody who talks statistics
points to South Carolina as a sad ex-
ample of infant mortality and Tilt
eracy. But other folks who travel and
Din their faith On human-interest
facts know that many interesting and
helpful things are in that same state.
For example, it claims and proves
that it had the first county agent in
the United States, Miss Marie Gro
mer; that it had the first canning
clubs ever organized among girls and
women; and that it leads the entire
South in the number of women en-
rolled in home-demonstration work,
and in it's marketing work.
The South Carolina county home
demonstration agent is a college
graduate, specially trained in home
economics. Each year she goes to
Winthrop College, at Rock Hill, to
be instructed in the latest fine points
of domestic science, and she also
brings to the college wonderful infor-
nation about the problems of the
farm women whom she visits the
other fifty weeks of the year.
When she learned that the far
mer's money was tied up in cotton
and the farmers wife had just no
money at all, she decided that some
thing must be done-and done quick
ly. The result was the formation of
the community or club market.
Women-and men-were encour-
aged to raise vegetables and chick
ems, to make butter and cottage
cheese. Then, aided by chambers of
commerce, club women and progress
ave business men, these home demon
%strators secured the use of public
squares, halls or vacant stores, and
established public markets practical
ly overnight. In two towns, Green
wood and Bennettsville, the town
councils have appropriated funds for
building small but attractive mar
kets. In twenty other places, resource
full women are solving the problem of
housing the rural saleswomen.
One farmer, thoroughly discourag-
ed with cotton market conditions,
was amazed when his wife averaged
1925 per month from the sale OF
farm products at the Camden mar.
ket. The money thus earned kept a
five-tenant farm going for eight
months.
Another farm woman marketed
800 pounds of butter, netting her
S175; in addition to which she sold
cream, cottage cheese, and other
dairy products. A third woman, ia
NOUS for her preserves, received an
order for 200 jars from a Northern
housekeeper. Almost pathetic is the
story of an old farmer who had cot
ton a-plenty but no cash, and who
drove twenty-five miles under a hot
sun to sell less than fifteen dollars
worth of produce, and left the mar
ket grinning over his profits.
Miss Christine South, the state
home demonstration agent, and Mrs.
Francis Y. Kline, the state marketing
agent, are marketing canned prod
ucts for the wives of farmers through
cooperative associations, as another
method of helping the farm woman
solve her need of cash.
The community market not only
meets the financial needs of the farm
women, but it is teaching their hus-
bands the value of crops other than
cotton, and it is bringing about a bet
ter understanding between women
of towns and farms.
Do You want a community market
In your town? Then write to Miss
Christine South, Winthrop College,
Rock Hill, South Carolina, for sug-
,gestions on organizing one.
Time for Old to Quit Says
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