HOME DEMONSTRATION WORK 



there are some, women demonstrators who make farm butter 

 by the best methods and put it up in artistic "4-H" cartons. 

 Now that the start has been well made the numbers will in- 

 crease more rapidly. A special campaign for one year, during 

 the war, on cottage cheese and other milk products has served 

 to advance the milk work. Home Demonstration Agents are 

 still pressing to get cows on farms which do not have them. 

 They are also keeping the food value of milk constantly before 

 their people. This means health. 



Doubtless the women agents have had the most fun with 

 the demonstrations in time-saving and labor-saving devices 

 for the home. As a rule, they started with fireless cookers. 

 Given a soapstone, a bucket, a lard can and some sawdust 

 or excelsior, and the Home Demonstration Agent will soon 

 make a ' ' Fireless ' ' which will render the toughest old rooster 

 tender and toothsome, while the agent is conducting a pre- 

 serving or a butter making demonstration with the whole 

 club around her. In addition there are a few men and boys 

 in the audience, who are constantly expressing their doubt as 

 to the prospective chicken dinner. They are dietetic skeptics. 

 They are forthwith converted, however, and become co- 

 workers for home improvement. Thousands of fireless cookers 

 have been made. So, also, have iceless refrigerators, kitchen 

 cabinets, wheel trays, ironing boards, butter molds, wood- 

 boxes, shower baths and other useful utensils and conven- 

 iences. Of course the fathers and brothers have helped, but 

 the women and girls used their own mechanical and inventive 

 ability to a large extent. It has been found that it develops 

 ingenuity to focus the minds of a whole community upon the 

 farm kitchen and the farm home generally. The Patent Office 

 will show the effect of this campaign in the near future. Not 

 enough inventive thought has been put upon this phase of 



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