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was the organization of eight Home Demonstration 

 Clubs, with an enrollment of 109. Since then, I have 

 visited them when I could, and during my busy season 

 with the girls, they have attended our canning parties, 

 and gained information by 'phone, letters and bulletins, 

 which I mailed to them. 



I have also visited a number of farmers' wives, not 

 enrolled, to gain their interest in the work. 



To get the best results, the girls' work and women's 

 work must go hand in hand, and is going hand in hand 

 in this county. The daughter is glad to help her mother, 

 and the mother no longer feels that she would rather 

 do the work herself, than to take the trouble to teach an 

 unwilling daughter; In many homes there is develop- 

 ing a spirit of co-operation between parent and child, be- 

 fore unknown and how beautiful to see ! 



Together they are learning to make labor-saving 

 devices, together learning better and easier methods of 

 canning and preserving and better ways of cooking. 

 They are also learning to balance rations, and, as a re- 

 sult, how to keep the family in better health and spirits. 

 Father and brother find things moving on more syste- 

 matically. In short, in many instances, what was form- 

 erly a hoiose is now becoming a home in the true sense 

 of the word. 



Kentucky is justly proud of her Commissioner of 

 Agriculture, Honorable John W. Newman, for bringing 

 this great work into the State. The good he has done will 

 live long after this brainy, big-hearted man has passed 

 away. 



Mrs. Annie B. Goddard, 

 County Agent Home Demonstration Work. 



MONROE COUNTY. 



I began work on March 15, 1915, without any knowl- 

 edge of what I had to do, except a short talk with the 

 agent who recommended me for appointment ; however, I 

 began at once, and succeeded in organizing five clubs 

 with forty members, but as a matter of fact, not all of 

 these remained in the work. Twenty-one of these girls 



