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that if a girl wanted to be a club member, and she said 

 that she could have one-tenth acre of land, and mamma 

 did not care, all I had to do was to get her name and 

 address, and send it to our headquarters, Washington, 

 D. C. I also felt that she was fully qualified for the 

 work. In this way I lost some fifteen or twenty girls 

 who need never have been enrolled. Some girls had not 

 one-half of the one-tenth acre when the time came to 

 measure the plat. Others had joined because they en- 

 joyed attending the first few little meetings, and did 

 not realize that there was any work connected with it. 



Early in"-the spring, just after most of the girls had 

 set out their plants, we had a, hail storm which destroyed 

 five or six entire plats. This left the girls with fewer 

 and smaller plants. Later we had two floods, said to be 

 the worst in twenty years. Many crops were beaten to 

 the ground, and partly covered with soil, sand or clay. 

 By this time our prospects looked very small, and so 

 many of the plats too wet to replant with other vege- 

 tables. 



Only four club members have canned any tomatoes 

 for sale. One of these girls has canned only fifteen cans. 

 Two girls have canned about two hundred and twenty- 

 five each, and the fourth girl has canned about five hun- 

 dred and fifty quarts in gallon cans. Lona Templeton, 

 the girl who canned the gallon cans, is a very deserving 

 girl. She kept house for her father, and was a mother 

 to her younger sisters and brothers from the time she 

 was thirteen years old until last year. She is now eigh- 

 teen. Her graded school educaton she has gotten the 

 best way that she could. Having a desire to teach, and 

 finding her father not willing to help her get an educa- 

 tion, and having a sister now old enough to take charge 

 of the home, she went to keep house for an old lady. 

 Every penny she could save she saved. In the spring 

 she joined the Girls' Canning Club, and has made enough 

 money on her club work to carry her through the Ken- 

 tucky Normal School for one term. She is now at the 

 Normal School, and waits upon the table for her board 

 and room. She will be able to stay there through the 

 entire year, otherwise she could have stayed only 

 through the fall and winter terms. I am only sorry that 



