THE DEMONSTRATION WORK 



Total No. labor saving devices made 68,294 



Total No. labor saving devices purchased 32,739 



Total No. improved devices for butter and cheese 



making 20,055 



Total No. lbs. butter made under Home Demon- 

 stration methods 16,507,711 



Average increase in price per lb. for butter made 



under Home Demonstration methods $ .173 



Total No. lbs. cottage cheese made and reported.. 1,042,542 



Approximate No. of chickens raised 1,592,357 



Total No. dozens of eggs preserved in water glass 130,297 



No. of dozens of eggs sold cooperatively 575,593 



No. lbs. of market poultry sold 1,148,728 



The woman county agent in the Home Demonstration 

 Work is a new institution. European countries have workers 

 whose duties are somewhat similar to the farm demonstration 

 agent, but the home demonstration agent is a pioneer. Other 

 countries have various kinds of itinerant teachers, both men 

 and women. They go from school to school and teach groups 

 just like special music and drawing teachers in city schools, 

 but the woman county agent directs her work to the home 

 and focuses it there. She marks her progress by the results 

 achieved by the girls and their mothers in the great science 

 and art of home making and building. In ten years she car- 

 ried the evolution of her work from one vegetable in the gar- 

 den through the poultry yard, the orchard, the kitchen, the 

 household with all its better equipment, arrangement and 

 beautification. She is now guiding the activities of thousands 

 of demonstrators whose crowning purpose in the work is the 

 improvement and beautification of the entire farmstead. 



At the close of the first decade of this type of endeavor 

 and enterprise by girls and women, it is possible to take stock 

 and determine steps of progress. A traveler, who had occasion 

 to visit several state and county fairs in the South recently 



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