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ment for the fair authorities to use some of their premium 

 money to pay all expenses and give prizes to the two or three 

 women in the state who had made the best success of grading, 

 packing and selling eggs. Numerous lectures have been deliv- 

 ered on this subject, but a visit to the markets and stores in any- 

 large city will show that comparatively few people have caught 

 on. A woman who can tackle a stack of mixed eggs at a 

 fair and put all the white ones of the same size in certain 

 cartons, and the brown ones in others, and then pack them 

 nicely for shipment, would have a crowd of interested spec- 

 tators gathered around her all day. 



One state agent reported, during the war time, when 

 there was a big demand for knitting for the soldiers, that her 

 most skillful knitter was an old lady of 82 years. Meetings 

 were held at her home and she took pride in teaching younger 

 women how to knit. A state fair secretary could have afforded 

 to pay all her expenses and a premium to come to his fair and 

 knit socks in the presence of the passing throng. 



A great deal of instruction has been given in regard to 

 making butter and cheese on a farm, but still only a com- 

 paratively few women are taking the advice. Some of those 

 who do the best work in these lines should be invited and paid 

 to make an active exhibit of it. This idea has already been 

 worked out, to some extent, in the use of fireless cookers, and 

 in the canning of vegetables, fruits and meats. In some 

 counties, too, the demonstrators have made $20 and $25 hats 

 out of material that cost $2.00 or $3.00, while the visitors 

 looked on with amazement and then proceeded to go home 

 and profit by the example . 



Such a homely thing as the making of good soap has been 

 neglected in this country, but there is a revival of interest in 

 it now. If the best soap maker in the county, or in a state, 



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