HOME DEMONSTRATION WORK 



remarked that there was wonderful uniformity in certain 

 canned and preserved products. Vegetables and fruits had been 

 standardized singly and in combinations. While the first-year 

 girls start with canning of one vegetable they soon advance 

 into the manufacture of this vegetable into a variety of higher 

 class articles of food. This is well. If the girls should con- 

 tinue in plain canning they would only compete with the 

 canning factories, where such work is done more rapidly by 

 machinery. Direction and training by the Home Demonstra- 

 tion Agents have their effect, however, and the girls soon mani- 

 fest skill and efficiency in putting up ketchups, pastes, soup 

 mixtures, relishes, macedoines, preserves, jellies, marmalades, 

 butters and fruit juices. Dixie relish is a fine example of 

 standardization by the club girls in the Southern States. The 

 instructions for making it were given at meetings of Home 

 Demonstration Agents in every state. Wherever the traveler 

 goes, in the counties worked, he can find this relish not only 

 at the fairs, but also in the stores and in the homes. Of course 

 there have been numerous modifications of the recipe and with 

 good results. Similar results have been achieved with a special 

 chutney and also with other vegetable and fruit combinations. 



The women agents have done much to extend demonstra- 

 tion principles to fairs and exhibits. The fairs will be rev- 

 olutionized. Heretofore an exhibit has simply been an illus- 

 tration, or rather samples of products. A collection of them 

 is supposed to make a fair. Thousands of square feet of space 

 are covered with them, and for the most part their condition 

 is one of museum stillness, except in the live stock department. 



The demonstration idea contemplates a living, active, in- 

 telligent human being doing a thing in such an effective way 

 as to attract attention, drive home a thought and compel imi- 

 tation and practice. 



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