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One local secretary of a woman's club, when invited by the state agent, 

 gladly accepted the charge of a group of 18 girls in her community. She 

 visited these girls on an average of twice each during the year, provided 

 the premiums and through her local club secured a market for all of the 

 club products. Mrs. W. H. Gilbertson, wife of the county agricultural 

 agent in Sussex County, mothered the girls' club work in the county, did 

 practically all the work in the interest of the girls, and one of her girls was 

 a champion of the state, in this particular line of work (her name was 

 Miss Lucy F. Bale) with a production record of nearly two ton of tomatoes, 

 from a one-tenth acre plat. Her net profit on this piece of ground was 

 $70.00. The most important part of her work, however, was the work 

 with a little portable home canner. Through this little labor-saving device 

 she was able to transform the cheap product of her garden into a staple 

 product, capable of demanding on the markets of the world a uniform 

 price throughout the entire year. 



Mrs. J. K. Turner, of Cleveland, Ohio, a well-to-do and a leading 

 society lady of that city, directed a letter to the Department of Agriculture, 

 and asked for suggestions as to what she could do, of a worth-while charac- 

 ter, for the girls of Geauga County, Ohio, and wanted especially some 

 information in regard to the girls' club work, which she had read about 

 in some of the papers. She asked for and insisted upon the United States 

 Department of Agriculture giving her definite help in getting this new line 

 of work started in her county. She agreed to do all of the work of super- 

 vision, organization, and encouragement, and furnish a liberal amount of 

 prizes herself, if we would give the initial instructions in home canning to 

 the girls, and to furnish to them the follow-up instructions throughout the 

 year. This woman, without a dollar to reimburse her for several months 

 of hard work, at considerable additional traveling expense, as well as the 

 expense of banquets, picnics, receptions, prizes, etc., organized a club of 

 126 girls. She not only organized them, but visited every girl several times 

 during the year, invited them to her home, gave receptions to them, 

 and paid the expenses of a free trip to Washington for the four champions. 

 Mr. and Mrs. Turner and their two daughters, Nona and Norine, accom- 

 panied the champions to Washington. Mrs. Turner and her daughters 

 played the game with the girls, from A to Z, walked to the top of Washing- 

 ton Monument with them, in order that they might understand more fully 

 the distance from the base to the top, as represented by this Institution. 

 I am narrating these facts in order to show you that there are a lot of people, 

 who not only talk better agriculture, believe in it, but who are willing to 

 render personal service, and spend considerable of their money in this 

 regard. Mrs. Turner drew upon the bank to the extent of over $1,200 in 

 cash output for the encouragement of this work. I like folks who are 

 willing to give of their time and money freely to a worthy cause, and I 

 want to say right here, that there are some of your people in Philadelphia 

 who have spent a great deal of money during the past year for the good 



