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States Department of Agriculture. She is quite a friend of 

 the Club Work and was the author of the recipe for B. S. 

 Chutney, which so many girls made and used. 



In 1911, a former county superintendent of education 

 from Iowa, Mr. 0. H. Benson, was brought into the Wash- 

 ington Office to help with the Club Work, which had been in 

 existence for years, and was then developing very rapidly. He 

 had already used a badge with his boys and girls in Iowa. It 

 was a three-leaf clover. The idea of using a four-leaf clover 

 and adding a new H was suggested by another assistant of 

 Dr. Knapp's, who had been in charge of the Club Work since 

 its organization in the Department of Agriculture. After the 

 girls began to make exhibits of canned tomatoes and other 

 high-class vegetables and fruit products at the fairs and put 

 them on the market, a suggestion came in from Mrs. Jane S. 

 McKimmon, State Agent of North Carolina, that there should 

 be a special brand name for all of these products which should 

 come up to standard requirements. She had realized this need 

 when she took the matter up with some of the leading grocers 

 in her state. The idea was passed on to various state agents 

 with the request that suggestions for a brand name be sent 

 into headquarters. Quite a number of suggestions were made, 

 but none seemed to meet with general approval. It was at the 

 Conference for Education in the South, in Richmond, Vir- 

 ginia, in 1913, that the idea of using the figure 4 in front of 

 the H came to the author of this volume as the solution of the 

 problem. It was during the course of a meeting while listen- 

 ing to an address. As soon as the meeting was over he called 

 together the state agents who were present and said : ' ' I have 

 it." When the suggestion was submitted to the agents it met 

 with unanimous approval. It soon appeared on an artistic 

 tomato label which was used all over the country. From that 



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