472 TwENTY-FiEST Biennial Eepoet 



slie could not be a member next year, for sbe is now 

 eighteen. 



If there is no district nurse in our county, we 

 County Agents find many, many things in their line of 

 work that we can do. I have succeeded in persuading 

 one mother to stop feeding her eighteen-month-old 

 baby, weighing eighteen pounds, beans, new potatoes 

 and green fruits. There are many other mothers in my 

 territory who are doing the same thing. But it takes a 

 long while to change the people 's ideas about how to care 

 for and feed their baby when they have raised maybe 

 six or eight, and they feel that you have had no experi- 

 ence at all. If we County Agents were given twelve 

 months in the year to work with the people, and could 

 organize mothers' clubs or clubs of women and study 

 those questions together, it would be much quicker and 

 easier work to get the people to realize a few of these 

 facts. In one home where there are eight children, we 

 have had the water analyzed, and found it unfit for 

 drinking purposes. Before you can do many of these 

 things, you have to get well acquainted with the people. 

 That is one reason why each month or year that we 

 spend in the same county we can accomplish more than 

 we did the month or year before. We can easily realize 

 that from each visit we m^e to the same home. 



After our tomatoes were such a failure, so far as 

 quantity and quality are concerned, we turned our atten- 

 tion to the canning of fruits and vegetables, as well as to 

 other household tasks. Many of the girls have been 

 taught how to dress and cook a chicken, and every girl 

 has been taught how to make jelly. We have canned hun- 

 dreds of cans of fruit and many cans of vegetables, and 

 glasses of jellies. Our canning is almost finished for 

 this year, yet we feel that our work is just beginning, 

 for each day we see more things that we could accomp- 

 lish, that would be profitable both to the people 

 individually, and to our people as a whole. 



We are now looking forward to a more profitable 

 year, which will be made easier by our many hard ex- 

 periences of the past year. 



Miss Rebecca Oglesby, 

 County Agent Home Demonstration Work. 



