480 TwENTY-FlEST BlENNIAL EePOKT 



visited. We only liope slie may be sent back to us 

 again. 



We also extend our appreciation to tbe fiscal court 

 for their co-operation and generous support in helping 

 the home-makers as they have home-builders. So true : 



"A house is built of briclJs and stones, 



Of sills and posts and piers, 

 But a home is built of loving deeds, 



That stands a thousand years. 

 A home, though but an humble cot, 



Within its walls may hold 

 A poem of priceless beauty, 



Rich in love's eternal gold. 

 The men of earth build houses, halls. 



And chambers, roofs and domes ; 

 But the vyomen of earth, God knows, 



The women build the homes." 



Miss Iris Boggess, 

 County Agent Home Demonstration Work. 



ROCKCASTLE COUNTY. 



In the beginning of this year, I took an enrollment 

 of only twenty-one members, hoping to accomplish more 

 with the small enrollment than I had with the large one. 

 I tried to get girls who were in earnest, and eager to do 

 good work, but owing to weather conditions and some 

 home difficulties, only a few of these have remained as 

 club members. These girls have made their caps ""and 

 aprons, canned beans, tomatoes, apples, blackberries and 

 beets for home use, besides making jelly, pickles and pre- 

 serves. 



I have visited the homes on an average of once a 

 week, endeavoring to teach cleanliness and neatness 

 about their work, as well as economy, and a different way 

 of sterilizing from their old method. The girls have 

 learned to make ketchup out of parts of the tomatoes 

 that will not do to can. 



The home-made fireless cooker has interested the 

 people as much as anything, and even the men like the 

 idea of the fireless cooker, when you tell them that 

 means less cutting of wood. 



