Bureau op Agbicultube., 475 



also, a school orchard is being prepared and will be 

 planted this month. 



The egg and its food value, including marketing, 

 etc., is being studied and demonstrated. When plans 

 have materialized, one of the Home Clubs will supply 

 our local hospital with eggs at a profit above the local 

 market price. The Egg Circle Bulletin is being used as 

 a basis for this plan. This plan, of course, is in its in- 

 fancy, and can scarcely be termed a co-operative market, 

 but by the time the spring season opens and produce is 

 more plentiful, I hope to have so proven to the members 

 the material gain by co-operation, that the parcel post 

 system of marketing may be successfully used. 



Test questions that have a tendency to keep alive 

 the interest, and at the same time have their instructive 

 value to the Canning Club girls, about the growth of 

 tomatoes, are being submitted from time to time for writ- 

 ten answers. 



Recipes are also given and demonstrated to them 

 from Household Science and Arts. Each girl has a 

 blank recipe book, and when a recipe has been success- 

 fully tried, it is copied in the book for home use. 



Some special visits have been made, and meetings 

 among the mothers have been arranged, at which meet- 

 ings household devices were discussed. The fireless 

 cooker and its value as a labor-saving device was advo- 

 cated. These women had read of the cooker, but none 

 had seen it in operation. A demonstration is needed be- 

 fore its value can be made convincing. 



(Miss) Frances Tuggle, 

 County Agent Home Demonstration Work. 



MEECER COUNTY. 



The work of the Girls' Canning Clubs in Mercer 

 county began under the present Agent in April, 1914, 

 with a four-months ' term of employment. The co-operat- 

 ing agents were the U. S. Government, the State of Ken- 

 tucky, and the Mercer County School Board. After 

 being in the work for the four months, I found that it 

 was impossible to drop it. The canned goods were not 



