442 TwENTY-FiEST Biennial Bepobt 



I am always given tlie best, whicli is sometimes dread- 

 fully poor. 



I have made sixty (60) home visits. In some I have 

 helped can beans and peas, telling of the fireless cooker, 

 and promising to help make several. 



I have been able to make several suggestions which 

 I hope were helpful, while discussing various household 

 duties, as bread-making, butter-making, ventilation, san- 

 itation, pure water supply, poultry raising, and sewing. 



The work is only started, but I realize that a county 

 agent has a wonderful work before her. It is a great 

 privilege to be able to go into the home of a tired, over- 

 worked woman, carrying a little of the outside world in, 

 and making her forget for a little while, as the girls are 

 shown how they may become self-supporting, and, at 

 the same time more helpful in the home. 



The members of the clubs canned seventy-five (75) 

 No. 2 cans of peas, one hundred and twenty-five (125) of 

 beans for home use, and made preserves and jellies, a 

 part of which was sent to the State Fair. 



We have canned nearly eight hundred (800) No. 3 

 cans of tomatoes, most of which will be labeled "4H." 



Some of the girls and their mothers are planning 

 for next year's crop, believing that with an early start 

 the plats will pay them well. 



Respectfully submitted, 



Mes. Nannie R. Mitchell, 

 County Agent Home Demonstration Work. 



CHRISTIAN COUNTY. 



To set the people canning in Christian county was 

 not a difficult matter, because we are a very progressive 

 and receptive community. Our county was the first in 

 the State to employ a farm demonstrator (this being 

 done before State aid was available), and the canning 

 olub movement, therefore, was the next step in our dem- 

 onstration work. 



The appropriation for this was readily secured, and 

 on March first, 1913, the first club was organized; and 

 the statistics concerning the growth and the popularity 

 of this club speak for themselves. The membership of 

 the 1915 club nearly doubled that of 1913, the number 



