Milford chronicle., 1932-12-23

There ere fourteen Home Demon
stration Clubs with a total enroll
ment of 345 women, that carried OF
outlined projects for the year. The
Home Demonstration program anC
projects, which are always related
to the Home" (both inside and out
side) and food supply of the home
both physically and economically
preservation of foods included).
The results of the Home Garden
activities with the people of the
county are as follows:
One hundred and nine women re-
port the use of spring and summer
gardens that produced a large va
Iiety of vegetables including beets,
carrots, lettuce, spinach, corn,
string beans, lima beans, cabbage,
onions, tomatoes, peas, caulifower,
peppers, New Zealand spinach, swiss
chard, cucumbers, kale, squash and
asparagus. Twenty in number as
compared to a limited five or six
vegetables, such as peas, onions, po-
tatoes, tomatoes and lima beans,
which was found to be the average
number and variety of vegetables
being grown at the time that the
Health Survey" of Sussex county
was made in 1929-1930 by the Home
Demonstration Agent. Thirty-one of
these women report Fall Gardens"
which include the following variety
of fall and winter vegetables: celery,
turnips and turnip greens, brocOlli.
parsnips, satisfy, endive, late cab
bage, peppers, egg plant, cauliflower,
collards, late pea, rape, swiss
chard, rutabagas, late string beans.
late carrots, potatoes and sweet po-
tatoes, late corn, radish, late beets
and beet tops for greens, late on
ions, lettuce, spinach, kale, parsley,
a total of twenty-nine vegetables in
variety as compared to a possible
five that has been the prevailing
habit relative to fall and early win
ter growing vegetables, which the
survey shows to have been limited
to sw eet and white potatoes. tur-
nips and turnip green's, late cab
bage and any possible carry over
from the summer garden Of lima
beans and tomatoes.
Perhaps, when one compares
thirty-one families or even one hum
dred and nine families with the pos
sible 345 families represented in the
Home Demonstration Club member
ship, the results may seem low. On
the contrary when one realizes that
it has only been two years since,
a close and detailed survey
made by the Home Demonstration
Agent and the State Nutritionist, in
Sussex county, that it was impos-
sible to find families that had the
habit of growing more than a hall
dozen vegetables, either spring,
summer or fall, and in cost cases
very few gardens of any kind after
the first spring time appetites were
satisfied with fresh vegetables, it is
possible for one to also realize that
The trend is gradually changing rel
ative to foods and that people are
beginning to see the value both
and economically OF
real Home Garden"
At the close of each year EXten-
sion Agents must compile results OF
their activities into an annual re-
port which is sent both to State and
National Extension Departments. In
order that this may be done the EX-
ension Agents must ask for reports
Or records of what has been done
relative to extension projects, from
he people with whom they work.
Many times, regardless of what the
have been, people,
10Th men and women, do not take
he time to fill out report blanks
hat are sent to them, with the re-
ult that the Extension Agents are
lever able to make a full and COM
,lete report of what has actually
,een accomplished by the people.
his experience is just what hap
ened to the Home Demonstration
lgent of Sussex county this year.
)ut of 345 women enrolled in regu-
ar and active Home Demonstration
york only 1876 women took the time
D fill out and return the reports. SO
his accounts for the seemingly j
cry low number of families that
sed information relative to the
ardening work, for truly the Home
Agent feels that $
many of those who made no reply
ave done just as much, perhaps, as :
hose who did reply, but of course !
hey cannot be included in a final I
eport.
One hundred and thirty-one re- !
ort the canning of SAP quarts of (
egetables from these gardens,
,hich again shows that more !
lought is being given to the feed {
ng of the family during the winter
lonths when food cannot be gath I
red from the gardens.
Next weeks article will give a {
ummary of the "BeautificatiOn OF {
le Outside of the House" including c
ONE grounds and farm steads. '
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