BuKEAu OP Agbicultuke. 473 



MAGOFFIN COUNTY. 



There were thirty-five girls enrolled in the Girls' 

 Canning Club at the beginning of the season of 1915. 

 Seventeen of these, after sowing seeds and oaring ~f or 

 plants, got them transplanted into tenth-acre plats. The 

 other eighteen failed to go even this far, the reason with 

 most all of them being an inability to get the ground in 

 which to set the plants. Of the seventeen who planted 

 their one-tenth acre plats, seven remained in the work to 

 the close ; the .others lost their plants during the -heavy 

 rains before they bore tomatoes. The seven who re- 

 mained hoping to have some tomatoes, late green ones, if 

 nothing more, and who were glad to learn the canning 

 of other vegetables and fruits, were: Mary and Iva 

 Hammond, Bonnie Blankenship, Lucy B. Gardner, Het- 

 tie and Elsie Prater, and Eugene Thompson. Of these 

 only Bonnie Blankenship and the Prater girls got any 

 ripe tomatoes from their plats. They canned these for 

 home use, as did all the others who canned their prod- 

 ucts in this county. 



Outside of these club members, other housekeepers 

 of the community were anxious to learn our method of 

 canning vegetables and fruits; this I was glad to show 

 them. We canned and preserved beans, beets, okra, 

 rhubarb, gooseberries, soup mixture, strawberries (their 

 .syrup), dewberries, huckleberries, a few blackberries, 

 plums, apples, and made apple butter, cucumber pickles, 

 chili sauce and chow-chow; and made into jelly, apples, 

 crab apples, plums, wild plums, grapes, wild grapes, dew- 

 berries, blackberries, rhubarb and apples. 



Of course, each girl or housekeeper did not get all 

 of these things put up ; only those of the list which were 

 produced on her place, or which she could get from 

 others. But all these things were put up for winter use, 

 some in only small quantities, but enough each time to 

 learn the method, which was generally admitted ' ' good. ' ' 



One of the most valuable things to be taught along 

 with this work was, I thought, sterilization and thorough 

 cleanliness. Also methods of disinfection and sanitation 

 generally around the home. I had occasion to call at- 

 tention to the care of the waste matter, and its preven- 

 tion from reaching the water supply, particularly where 



