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During the month of June, Miss Burrier, a graduate 

 of State University, was sent to Rockcastle county to 

 demonstrate Home Economics throughout this section. 

 While she was here we visited ten ditt'eront schools in 

 Rockcastle county, visiting the ones where we had club 

 members once a ^\eek. She demonstrated cooking while I 

 demonstrated canning. 



This year I have found the women in the rural com- 

 munities such a help and inspiration. They have been so 

 interested in canning different fruits and vegetables, 

 and in the differfut ways of cooking fresh vegetables. 

 I have received calls from different parts of the county 

 to come and show the people our new way of canning, 

 and they are easily convinced that it is easier and better 

 than the old way which required the use of salicylic acid. 

 One woman said to me: "I am tired of canning just one 

 thing; I want a variety." She was always bringing 

 different things, too, to learn to can them. Another 

 woman said: "People ought never to can any other way 

 when things look that pretty." 



At one place where I had a club organized, we had 

 forty persons present at one meeting. Then just last 

 week the teacher in that district gave me sixteen names 

 of girls who want to become club members for next year. 



This is the fiist year we have had a sale for canned 

 blackberiies in Rockcastle county. Mr. Newman, Com- 

 missioner of Agriculture, gave one hundred lacquered 

 lining tin cans to the county. In spite of the scarcity of 

 berries in many sections, these cans Avere filled and read- 

 ily disposed of. One little club girl with her mother 

 picked and sold one hundred and twenty gallons of fresh 

 berries, shipping some out of the county in crates, be- 

 sides picking and canning two hundred quarts. 



Although things look pretty discouraging for the 

 girls ' work this year, so far as results to be found in tin 

 cans are concerned, there is a greater enthusiasm 

 for Home Demonstration Work in the rural communities 

 of Rockcastle county than ever existed before. 



Miss ElLA Caeson, 

 County Agent Home Demonstration Work. 



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