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organized four clubs in Owsley county, with twenty-four 

 members, and visited about twenty homes. Here I met 

 with much encouragement, and most of the people 

 seemed to appreciate the work done for them. Then I 

 took up my work in Clay county, but was again delayed 

 by deep snow. I organized six clubs in Clay county, 

 with fifty-nine girls, and I never saw people more in- 

 terested in any work than the mothers in Clay county 

 were when I told them of the Girls ' Canning Club work. 



In June I started out again to do more demonstra- 

 tion work. I visited each of the girls, and helped most 

 of them make their caps and aprons. The girls were 

 very proud of them, but many were too poor to buy the 

 material, so I advanced them the money. I visited about 

 eighty homes in all, and besides making the aprons, I 

 demonstrated making four fireless cookers, and some 

 breakmaking; also helped to can two hundred quarts of 

 berries in tin. I was out about six weeks, and traveled 

 over two hundred miles. 



In August I started out again to give demonstra- 

 tions in canning in tin for the tomatoes. I found the 

 tomato crop very poor on account of the unfavorable 

 weather conditions, and only a few girls had enough to- 

 matoes to can in tin, but I taught them how to-can, and 

 they all seemed anxious to try again next year. One 

 girl raised one hundred bushels, but only a few were fit 

 to can, and they were black in the middle. I cannot give 

 the exact number canned, but the number in tin will not 

 exceed one thousand for home use. 



However, the work has not been a failure, even 

 though the tomato crops in most places were failures. 

 The girls are all anxious to try again, and the interest 

 manifested by both old and young proves there is much 

 to be done in the years to come. 



Besides the berries and tomatoes, we canned several 

 lots peaches, apples and beans. 



(Miss) Elizabeth Scoville, 

 County Agent Home Demonstration Work. 



