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There was the greatest interest in this class and I 

 was glad to find at the end of the season that in most 

 of the homes the methods demonstrated in club meet- 

 ings had been followed. 



I was asked by another settlement house to show 

 them how to can beans, and so with the help of some 

 neighborhood girls canned fifty-three quarts in one 

 day. 



I was able to do a great deal of home visiting dur- 

 ing the season, on account of the small enrollment, mak- 

 ing a total of two hundred and seven girls visited. In 

 most of the homes the girls were fairly well to do, but 

 in the home of one girl the conditions were very bad. 

 This girl, who is but thirteen, borrowed a horse and plow 

 from a neighbor, and plowed the ground herself for her 

 tomatoes, as her father would do nothing to help her. 

 She had raised her tomatoes from seed, and had just 

 gotten them into the ground, and in good growing con- 

 dition, when a series of heavy rains started. Her plants 

 were on a steep hillside, and were washed entirely away. 

 As she had some extra plants left after filling her 1/10 

 acre plat, she replanted them, and a few out of the en- 

 tire lot produced some inferior tomatoes, but most of 

 them became scalded and dried up. 



This little girl, who was next oldest of the family, 

 would go into the hills behind her home, chop wood and 

 carry or drag it back to the house. She also did most 

 of the washing and ironing, besides attending to the 

 smaller children, one of whom was a cripple. 



They had but few vegetables on their place this 

 year. There were some pear and plum trees, and Jose- 

 phine canned these for home use, besides gathering 

 blackberries from the hills near their home,, and ped- 

 dling them in the city of Louisville. By doing this, with 

 her mother's help, she was able to pay the rent on their 

 little farm. 



Beatrice Agee, another club member, in the begin- 

 ning of the season had prospects for a very fine crop of 

 tomatoes, besides selling several hundred plants to less 

 fortunate girls. Her plants were the finest in the coun- 

 try at the beginning of July, but within three weeks most 

 of them had dried up. Notwithstanding the loss of the 



