482 TwENTY-FiEST Biennial Eepoet 



WHITLEY COUNTY. 



In March I began the organization of the Girls ' Can- 

 ning Club in my county for this year. This is our sec- 

 ond year. I enrolled 69 members, and of this number but 

 three were members of last year's club. One of the three 

 took up teaching in July, and left me but two experi- 

 enced members. For one reason and another, the girls 

 dropped out, mainly because of much rain and no sun- 

 shine, until 1 have but thirty-two members now. 



Last year the tomatoes canned in tin amounted to 

 about 4,0(j0 cans, and this year we have nearly 13,000 

 cans. AV"e have canned in glass a great many more hun- 

 dred than last year for home consumption. Canning in 

 this county, to my belief, has been a great blessing, in 

 the poor homes especially, because a variety of eatables 

 will be served that have never been there before. 



When we failed on tomatoes, we put up beans, and 

 we have canned in about this proportion: Tomatoes, 

 8,000 in tin; corn, 1,100; beans, 3,500; peaches, 600 in 

 tin; blackberries in tin, 100. I think a fair estimate 

 would be that we have saved the county $2,000 on our 

 tomato plats, and on what would have gone to waste. 



I have been able to do most of my traveling by rail- 

 road, since most of my girls live near the stations, al- 

 though I have some that live five miles from a station, 

 and the entire membership of one club lives ten miles 

 from the railroad, and that of another fourteen miles. 

 I have used in this work a one-thousand-mile ticket book, 

 in addition to other railroad fare. I have walked 174 

 miles, excepting the visits to local girls. I have traveled 

 by team and horseback seventy miles. 



I have demonstrated in the individual homes prin- 

 cipally. I could not work in clubs. I have demonstrated 

 how to make bread; how to wash and scald dishes; how 

 to wash the udders before milking the cow ; how to make 

 biscuits and pies; how to fry meat and cook eggs with- 

 out cooking too long, and how to cook oatmeal and to 

 make butter. I have visited in every home an average 

 of five times. I have talked on sanitary wells, and beg- 

 ged, in as tactful a way as I could, for screens and some 

 kind of toilet or closet house. I have gotten homes to 



