432 TwENTY-FlKST BjBflNNIAL EePORT 



We find two special advantages from our experi- 

 mental Home Demomstration Work, one is that we can 

 hold the interest of the girls in the miners' homes, since 

 we cannot get vegetables enough to do much canning. 

 The girls became first interested in sewing, then in cook- 

 ing and bread-making. They also learned to do better 

 gardening, some of them selling a few vegetables at a 

 high price. Another special advantage in Home Demon- 

 stration Work is that it gives the necessary home sani- 

 tation preparation for making preserves and jellies. 



So far as the tomato crop is concerned, we have a 

 very poor report to make. The crop was a failure 

 throughout the State, owing to continued rains, especially 

 during the polinization season. The plats in bottom land 

 were lost entirely, a few surviving plants had little fruit, 

 and that of an inferior quality. The crop was less than 

 twenty-five per cent, of an average crop. 



This small crop of tomatoes was large enough to 

 serve the purpose of organization, instruction and in- 

 spiration, and the girls put their energy and enthusiasm 

 into canning other vegetables and fruits. The summary 

 shows an enrollment of nine hundred and twenty-two 

 girls, number reporting four hundred and twenty-six, 

 and the number of caps and aprons made four hundred 

 and fifty-two. This indicated that more girls wanted to 

 sew than wanted to can. The number of No. 3 cans of 

 toamtoes is twenty-eight thousand eight hundred and 

 ninety-eight, and the number of vegetables and fruits in 

 quart jars is thirty-six thousand five hundred and fifty- 

 eight. The number of other products, preserves, jellies, 

 pickles and ketchup, is twenty-two thousand three hun- 

 dred and sixty-seven, a total of one hundred and seven 

 thousand eight hundred and twenty-three containers. 

 An estimated value of this product makes a total of 

 eighteen thousand five hundred and two ($18,502) dol- 

 lars. The estimated expense of cans, jars (more than 

 half the jars were already owned), sugar, spices, etc., is 

 three thousand and ninety-three ($3,093) dollars, making 

 a net value of fifteen thousand four hundred and nine 

 ($15,409) dollars, or a net average profit per girl of 

 thirty-six dollars and seventeen ($36.17) cents. 



(Mes.) Helen B. Wolcott, 

 State Agent Home Demonstration Work, 



