HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARMERS' MONTHLY 

 HOME MAKING 



A CEMETERY AND A SERMON JELLY AND JAM 



It was a neat little country cemetery, 

 much like most little country cemeteries, 

 yet there was something queer about it. 

 There was the arched gateway and the 

 customary weeping willow by it. The 

 clipped hedge was like most cemetery 

 hedges. The tombstones were about the 

 average run of tombstones. But, withal 

 there was something queer — even shock- 

 ing. Then you discovered what it was. 

 These were truthful tombstones. Consol- 

 ing platitudes — "Too pure for earth," 

 and that like — found no place. Instead, 

 there were such epitaphs as these: 

 ^'Mother — walked to death in her 

 kitchen;" "Sacred to the memory of 

 Jane — she scrubbed herself into eter- 

 nity;" "Grandmother — washed herself 

 away;" "Susie — swept out of life with 

 too heavy a broom." 



The people who saw that cemetery — 

 and there were thousands of them — may 

 have been shocked for the instant, but 

 they came away with the thought that 

 one might be better for seeing such a 

 ■cemetery. For, you see, it was a minia- 

 ture cemetery, 3 feet square, and it was 

 part of an exhibition at the Montana 

 State Fair. Such levity with the most 

 solemn thing that mankind knows, could 

 not be justified merely on the theory that 

 the things said were true — but those who 

 saw it came away with the belief that it 

 was justified by way of keeping just those 

 things from being true. And that was 

 the purpose of the exhibit, placed there 

 by the agricultural extension depart- 

 ment of the Stat Agricultural College of 

 Montana. It was meant to emphasize 

 the need for home conveniences, for lack 

 of which many a faim woman has gone 

 to her grave before her time. 



There were other exhibits designated to 

 drive home the same hard truth. One 

 was a model showing a bleak farmhouse 

 on a bare hill. At the bottom of the hill 

 ran a little stream, and by the stream 

 were barns and cattle. Struggling up 

 the hill toward the house with two heavy 

 pails of water was a bent old woman. 

 And the legend was: "Convenience for the 

 cattle — but not for the mother". Then 

 there was a farmhouse with water supply 

 as it .should be, the woman in the yard 

 sprinkling her flower beds with a hose. 

 And the inscription read: "Convenient 

 for mother — and the cattle, too." An- 

 other model showed a kitchen as it should 

 be, and another a kitchen as it should not 

 be. And there was a legend: "A long- 

 distance kitchen shortens life." 



The lesson taught by the exhibit is one 

 that the State Departments of Agricul- 

 ture are trying to teach by every means 

 at their command — greater convenience 

 and a larger measure of comfort in the 

 farm home. 



EXTENSION SCHOOLS 



Though it may seem in the dim and 

 dark future, plans for extension schools 

 to be held by the Horticultural Manu- 

 facturers Department of the College are 

 now under way. 



This plan is proposed in the belief that 

 multiple extractions of fruit juices and 

 their conversion into jelly using less 

 than commonly used proportions of sugar, 

 and the manufacture of jams with addi- 

 tion of less proportions of sugar than is 

 commonly practiced is a project of more 

 than usual importance. The plan has 

 been worked out and is suggested as a 

 means of passing this information and 

 instruction to a large number of people in 

 the shortest possible period of time. 



The Extension Specialist proposes to 

 cover the State during May, June and 

 July on a definite schedule of dates by 

 Counties holding two one-session schools 

 daily. One school to be held during the 

 afternoon and a second duiing the 

 evening in separate communities. 



It is suggested that the afternoon 

 schools begin at 1.30 and run until 4.00 

 or 4.30. The evening schools to begin at 

 7.30 and run until 10.00 or 10.30. 



So far as possible these schools are to be 

 aimed at the local leaders, those who may 

 be expected to carry the instruction to 

 others. 



The County Extension Services will be 

 expected to provide place of meeting, flre, 

 water, receptacles for refuse, advertising 

 and take care of local conditions 

 generally. 



The State Extension Service will pro- 

 vide raw materials, instruction and the 

 necessary utensils used in the work. 



It is suggested that the communities 

 accepting this project agree on a mini- 

 mum attendance of eight. That there 

 be no maximum except the capacity of 

 the room used as a meeting place. 



The days scheduled for Hampshire 

 County are June 29 and 30. Considering 

 the limited time, etc., towns putting in the 

 first bid will naturally get first choice. 



Child May Overcome Defects 



Here is another point made at the re- 

 cent Nutrition Institute in Manchester: 

 "A child may have all the symptoms of 

 malnutrition: — he may have under- 

 weight for height; he may show typical 

 slouching posture of fatigue; he may 

 have protruding shoulder blades; he may 

 have a 'dull face'; he may show a thin 

 flabby upper-arm; but if he can breathe 

 well through the nose, he is free to gain. 

 So simple a thing as one pint of milk a 

 day and the teaching of health habits 

 will put him on the upgrade. 



Less and More 



Eat less, breathe more. 

 Talk less; think more. 

 Ride less ; walk more. 

 Clothe less, bathe more; 

 Worry less, work more; 

 Waste less, give more; 

 Preach less, practice more. 



Contimu'd from page 3, cohinm 2 

 value lies not only in "program develop- 

 ment" but principally in helping the 

 interested people in self-analysis, which 

 is the basis of all progress. The estab- 

 lishment of definite "goals" in connection 

 with extension work was first introduced 

 two years ago in program building in a 

 few countries in the State of Washington. 

 It has been adopted in more than half of 

 the Northern and Western States and is 

 becoming an accepted principle of pro- 

 gram development. 



Continued from page 1, column '.i 

 cooperative extension work in agriculture 

 and home economics organized by the 

 State Agricultural Colleges and the 

 United States Department of Agriculture 

 under the Smith-Lever Extension Act and 

 related Federal and State laws. It may, 

 therefore, cooperate with the Extension 

 Service of the State Agricultural College 

 and the Department by contributing of its 

 funds toward the maintenance of one or 

 more extension agents in the county and 

 joining in the work of the Extension Ser- 

 vice through its committees and other- 

 wise under agreements with the State 

 Extension Director. The Farm Bureau 

 is organized with a president, secretary, 

 treasurer and executive committee who 

 will themselves or through other repre- 

 sentatives of the Farm Bureau solicit 

 memberships, collect dues, handle its 

 funds and in general manage its affairs. 

 The Extension Service 

 The Cooperative Extension Service of 

 the State Agricultural College and the 

 United States Department of Agricul- 

 ture is organized as a division of the Col- 

 lege to conduct extension work defined in 

 the Smith-Lever Extension Act as fol- 

 lows: 



Sec. 2 — That cooperative agricul- 

 cultural extension work shall consist 

 of the giving instruction and practical 

 demonstrations in agriculture and 

 home economics to persons not at- 

 tending or resident in said colleges in 

 the several communities, and im- 

 parting to such persons infomation 

 on said subjects through field demon- 

 strations, publications, and other- 

 wise, and this work shall be carried 

 on in such manner as may be mutally 

 agreed upon by the Secretary of Ag- 

 riculture and the State agricultui-al 

 college or colleges receiving the bene- 

 fits of this act. 



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