DEMON-STRATION WORK IN INCIDENT, STORY AND SONG 



and agreed to follow directions. I have never seen a happier 

 face, lighted by a desire to recapture the opportunities that 

 should have been her youth's measure. 



This mountain woman grew a wonderful crop of tomatoes 

 on her 1-10 acre plot and raised vegetables as never before in 

 her garden. She bought a canner and put all of them up. She 

 sold them at a fine profit and invested in a good cooking range. 

 Then she built up her chicken yard and grew some fine 

 chickens making a profit on that. She never missed a meeting 

 of the club, often walking miles to the meeting. 



She won a free trip to the state demonstration short course 

 at Montevallo this year. When told of this opportunity she 

 said that it would be her first train trip since she married and 

 in her quaint way said, ' ' I can go, I still have one black dress 

 saved." To tell of the new things that opened up to her 

 would seem like a fairy story. During the week's stay at the 

 college dormitory she was as eager as a girl and full of quaint 

 humor, laughing at her rude manners, and always willing to 

 learn the right thing. She went to every meeting and then 

 inspected the college. Perhaps the thing that fascinated her 

 most was the cows being milked by electricity. She wrote 

 regularly every day to her children and grandchildren at home 

 telling them of all the wonderful and new things she was seeing 

 and hearing. When the day came for her to leave, great tears 

 stood in her kind old eyes as she thanked everyone for being 

 so good and sweet to her. 



The next visit that I paid to her home I found her singing 

 short course songs and canning while she tended a new 

 grandchild. She showed me her thousand tin cans of tomatoes 

 and beans for sale, then led me to see her home supply. It 

 was the largest collection of canned vegetables, fruits and 

 preserves I ever saw in any pantry. 



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