THE DEMONSTRATION WORK 



tainers worth $5,970.17. In Hamilton County, Tennessee, 102 girls 

 put up $14,240.00 worth of fruits and vegetables but, of course, this 

 represents the surplus of the farms and orchards as well as their own 

 little gardens. In Barnwell County, South Carolina, the Girls' Club 

 grew and sold more than $2,000.00 worth of pimiento peppers, and 

 the club of Polk County, Florida, put up and sold about $7,000.00 

 worth of guava products. 



Special work has been done with peaches, berries, figs, scup- 

 pemongs, mayhaws, agritos, oranges, cumquats and many other 

 fruits of the South. Nearly 3,000 girls now belong to Poultry 

 Clubs. Many of the best trained club members are succeeding with 

 winter gardens. In all of these activities, the women on th© farms 

 have given active help. Fiscal ofi&cers, school officers and teachers 

 have cooperated in many ways. 



The individual records of thousands of the club members were 

 excellent in 1914. Hester Sartain, of Walker County, Alabama, 

 grew 7,037 pounds of tomatoes. She put up 1,620 cans, jars and 

 bottles and the entire output, at market prices, was valued at $221.35, 

 of which $146.20 was profit. Cora Brown, of Polk County, Georgia, 

 produced 5,290 pounds and made a profit of $144.61 Lois Robertson, 

 of Comanche County, Texas, realized a profit of $193.00, counting 

 4,868 pounds of tomatoes grown in her garden and the fruit she 

 put up from the farm and orchard. Many other records were almost 

 as good." 



It was observed in the report of that year that many club 

 girls were following a systematic course of work by taking 

 two vegetables the second year, three in the third, and so on, 

 and that they also showed a disposition to plant perennial 

 vegetables and fruits. The agents encouraged this tendency 

 because they realized that such permanent gardens would 

 serve as memorials to club members who had gone off to high 

 school or college. It was realized, also, that such gardens 

 would serve as magnets to draw the girls back to the farm- 

 steads. It was noted that these older girls still had a pride 

 in the possession of things which they could call their own. 

 They had not lost any of their desire to earn something. It 



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