HOME DEMONSTRATION WORK 



have to deal, because it is the most delicate and most difficult of all 

 problems." 



"We try to teach the farmer greater thrift, to raise his own pro- 

 visions, to can his vegetables, so that he may have them the year 

 round; that he must put his money into a better home, and so per- 

 colating and drifting through his home there will be a broadening 

 element and there will be a gradual uplift of conditions, and as there 

 is an uplift movement of conditions, the men themselves will become 

 a little broader and a little straighter and a little firmer, till by and 

 by this home society where he must live, this rural society, will be a 

 great dominating force in the land, and we shall become a pattern, 

 not only to our own country, but to all countries, showing how a 

 great and free people were able to readjust their conditions." 



"Our project would have been sufficiently ambitious if we had 

 said, 'We will increase the wealth and give the people greater earn- 

 ing power, but other things that we teach incidentally are that we 

 must improve the moral tone, the moral conditions, and the whole 

 prosperity of the people, to try to turn all avenues of the wealth 

 that we create into the proper channels so as to create a better people. 

 But even this is not quite enough. We may have wealth and social 

 prosperity and home comforts and not be a high-minded, stalwart, 

 courageous and brave people. We must teach that." 



The rapid growth of the Home Demonstration Work in 

 the South can best be shown by the following statistics for 

 1918: 



Tptal number of clubs, (Women and Girls.) 23,096 



Regular enrolment 738,407 



Emergency enrolment , 3^283,669 



Total Amount of Food Preserved: 

 Vegetables, fruits and fruit products canned (con- 

 tainers) 64,604,531 



Value $15,566,456.15 



Meat and fish canned (containers) 157,605 



Value $56,463.34 



Dried vegetables and fruit stored 8,982,787 



Pounds, worth $1,846,625.56 



Brined vegetables stored (Gallons) 1,006,222 



Value $382,808.73 



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