The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1925-04-02
A LIST OF HOME DEMONSTRATION
PROJECTS OUTLINED FOR MONTANA
Girls Club Work Considered Far Reaching and
Home Management is Most Fundamental.
Clothing Project Most Popular Throughout the
Country.
BY BLANCHE L. LEE


A. Corsetry for health.
5. Exhibit. Demonstration" Cloth
ing for Health"
This is the project which can be
most easily measured in terms of dol
lars and cents. If woman makes a
hat that is worth 500 which cost her
only $3.50, it is readily figured that
$3.50 has been saved. If she makes
a $1,000 dress form for S1.20, she
saves $3.50. This saving alone would
pay her part toward the employment
OF Home Demonstration Agent for
several years to come.
The general requirements as they
are related to the Clothing Project
hre:
/. The project should be made
county wide, dividing the county in
from three to FIVE units.
2. Definite assignments are made
at the end of each demonstration. At
least ten women in each community
must complete these requirements be-
fore the next demonstration is given.
3. 1t is planned to give these dem
onstrations once every two months
and to hold an exhibit of work ac-
complished at the end Of each unit Of
work.
4. Girls Club Work, may be con-
sidered as the most far reaching in
its effects. Teaching the better prac-
tice of home making to girls who are
to be the mothers of tomorrow is
certainly worthwhile. Girls Club work
is especially important in our rural
districts where no home economics is
taught in the public schools.
3. Poultry Work. which is usually
handled Jointly by the Home Demon
stration Agent and the County Agri-
cultural Agent, is also an economic
project. Better housing and feeding
leads to better production. Marketing
organizations lead to better prices.
8. Other Projects supervised and
planned by Home Demonstration
Agents may include community recre-
alton, the establishment of rest rooms
for rural women community and
county fairs, establishment of market
ing centers for farm and home pro-
ducts, mothers camps, etc.
What Does Home Demonstration Work
Cost in Montana
The average cost per individual tax
payer is very small, as viii be seen
from the following figures:
County Home Demonstration Work
costs per $1,000 valuation Maximum,
$.123, minimum, $.022, average $.05S
per 500 taxes, maximum, STE, min
imum, SIPS, average, s.S1.
The above figures are based on full
time work by one agent to county
District agent work would be less
From the above facts each taxpayer
may figure out for himself the cost Of
County Extension work.
In very few cases would special
levy be necessary. This small sun
is usually taken out of the general
fund so that there is no increase In
taxes.
Does Home Demonstration Work Pay
Does it pay to have better health
and more healthful surroundings?
Does it pay to have more convenient
and more attractive home in which to
live and rear our families?
Does it pay to have better and more
attractive clothing for our family al
less cost?
Does it pay to improve our poultry
iocks so we realize more in the way
of profits from them?
Does it pay to provide opportunity
for teaching our rural boys and girls
bne FiSub piAitSipicc VA hcihS hh1hAhe
and of agriculture
Does it pay to build up community
organizations which help to make oui
rural communities more desirable
places In which to live?
Although we feel the most import
ant values Of Home Demonstration
Work cannot be measured in terms o.
dollars and cents, yet we have facti
and cures to prove that Home Dem
onstration work more than pays fol
what it costs in dollars and cents.
One county, which is typical OF
many realized the sum of $3906.9I
more than it paid for Home Demon
stration work in one years time. On'
hat or dress made in an Extension mil
linery or clothing class would save
n the individual sufficient money to pa,
her share Of Home Demonstration
work for several years to come. One
non-laying hen culled from your poul
try flock is an estimated saving Of
$500 per year. One child brought W
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