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planted a tomato crop, but this was a very bad season for 

 tomatoes, on account of so much rain, and quite a number 

 of those who tried to raise a crop had to abandon it, and 

 I had only twelve members who made a crop of to- 

 matoes. These twelve, or most of them, did good work 

 for the season, and raised a fine crop, though they only 

 put up for market about one thousand cans. Most of 

 their goods was for home use. I had some honorary 

 members who put up for market seven or eight hundred 

 cans, besides a very fine quantity for home use. We are 

 twenty-five miles from railroad transportation, but we 

 have a home market for all our goods. 



This is the first attempt at anything of this kind in 

 Monroe county, and, of course, I had a lot of ups and 

 downs, and more downs thans ups. Our people need 

 training, and I think that some of them are waking up 

 and want to do something. 



I did not get my commission in time to attempt much 

 in the poultry line, however, our people are interested 

 in this line and only need to be instructed. I demon- 

 strated in needle work, and in domestic science in the 

 homes I visited, but did not keep a record of this work. 



JtTLiA "White, 

 County Agent Home Demonstration Work. 



MUHLENBEEa COUNTY. 



Words are weak messengers to carry to Uncle Sam 

 the appreciation we feel for the Home Demonstration 

 Work in Muhlenberg county. Mothers are beginning to 

 realize that the training of the girls heretofore fit them 

 for everything except for that which is to be their real 

 business in life, namely, the making of homes. 



Home making as a profession is a thing of so great 

 importance that it calls for years of careful preparation 

 and earnest study. So the little time spent in Muhlen- 

 berg county in this work tells its own story. 



Out of an enrollment of seventy-five girls, fifty-three 

 canned over five hundred cans for exhibit work, in addi- 

 tion to their home canning, making about two hundred 

 and fifty glasses of jelly. 



