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cattle getting in during a storm and trampling two plats 

 into the ground, two plots developing with yellow pear 

 tomatoes, and a few minor things, are the obstacles we 

 have had to combat in this season's work. 



The first of September was devoted to getting ready 

 for the State Fair, visiting club members, helping with 

 reports, and visiting schools. We are at present using 

 up our green tomatoes in pickles. There are some sweet 

 potatoes yet to be canned. 



The girls sold a great part of their tomatoes in the 

 market, tor they brought so good a price that it was 

 more profitable than canning. 



Cans cost this year $3.00 per hundred. I have 

 traveled about 1,560 miles, held eighty-five meetings, 

 with an estimated attendance of 1,579, and visited eighty- 

 four women and girls. The mothers into whose homes 

 I have gone have been profuse in their thanks to me for 

 the improvement in the girls in the club, and say they 

 want to have some women's clubs as soon as the fall 

 work is over. 



Visits of the county agents have inspired a pride in 

 the appearance of the home; we have noted porches 

 mended, houses papered, and kitchens cleaned in ex- 

 pectancy of their visits. 



Mes. Maey F. Gtinn, 

 County Agent Home Demonstration Work. 



HAEDIN COUNTY. 



The girls' canning clubs were organized in this 

 county during the month of May, and as it was too late 

 to make a hotbed the girls got their plots of one-tenth 

 of an acre each in order, and used the plants they could 

 obtain from the homes. Forty girls put out their plots, 

 twenty plots were lost, mostly by high water gr the 

 rains, while the other twenty girls, most of whom lived 

 in the country, tilled their plots, sprayed their plants, 

 and worked on through the discouraging weather until 

 the tomatoes began to ripen. By that time the girls had 

 successfully canned in gl^^s every fruit and vegetable 

 that had come in season; had made theirs caps and 

 aprons, and did the embroidery work at a cost of 35c 

 per cap and apron. They drafted and cut patterns for 



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