284 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE 



bj both county and local leaders and this year we look for 

 better results in the number of hot lunch clubs enrolled. If we were 

 to Avrite an entirely new bulletin, we would recommend other changes 

 in the organization of the work, but this will not be done until the pres- 

 ent supply is exhausted in order to present too much confusion of 

 ideas. 



Several schools observed so far in the 1922-1928 season have added 

 considerably to their equipment indicating the security of the project 

 where it has once been successfuly carried out. 



Very strong support is coming to us from the county nurses. For 

 a few years we found it difficult to get them to organize the groups into 

 clubs, though they did promote the serving of a hot food at noon. This 

 year a large number of the county health workers are co-operating with 

 us, realizing that permanency of the work in a school cannot be secured 

 when there is a rapid change of teachers and no well-organized group 

 left behind to start the new and perhaps uninterested leader. The in- 

 fluence of the nurses is the strongest factor we can call to our assist- 

 ance, and we look for good results from this co-operation. 



CLOTHING. 



The garment work still leads the Home Economics subject in popular- 

 ity, due to several reasons. First, the immediate utility of the product, 

 second, the season of the year in Avhich the work is done (winter), and 

 third, the fact that it is the easiest project for which to find leadership. 

 There is also a more pronounced sentiment on the part of high school 

 superintendents to credit the sewing work done by farm girls j) receding 

 their entrance to the high school. In many instances their departments 

 at tlie high schools are especially crowded in the ninth grade, so several 

 have met this situation by allowing ninth grade credit to girls who 

 have completed the first two years of garment club work. An especially 

 encouraging support from educational sources comes from the Western 

 State Normal. Their registrar has found that he cannot admit to its Home 

 Economics course because of crowded conditions, girls who have not had 

 previous work in this line. They now accept club certificates of achieve- 

 ment given in the firet two years of garment work as the necessary pre- 

 requisite for their courses. 



Three years ago we attempted to restrict our garment-making to 

 winter season only, realizing that unless we did so, we could no longer 

 give satisfactory help on the project to our county and local leaders, 

 owing to the pressure of the canning and fair seasons. There was some 

 opposition at first, but with this as a second summer, we had but five 

 summer garment clubs, where before almost one-lialf of tlieni were work- 

 ing through the summer. This has worked to great advantage in keep- 

 ing up our canning enrollments, and we would not change back to the 

 old vsystem unless forced to do so. 



The work runs through three years as follows: 



First Year. 



Bag or sewing apron (hand). 



Kimono draft and one garment (machine). 



Bloomers or second garment on draft (machine). 



