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tion is a splendid market for this product. 
KUMQUAT PRODUCTS 
No fruit from the grove lends itself to 
our work better than the kumquat. By 
plunging the fruit into boiling water, with 
a large proportion of soda, the oil sacks 
are broken, the peel made tender and 
much of the oil removed. From kum- 
quats so treated, the preserves put up of 
whole kumquats and of the halves, a 
marmalade of excellent quality, a sweet 
pickle and crystallized kumquats may be 
made. The kumquat juice is rich in pec¬ 
tin. A confection may be made from this 
by preparing the juice from the fruit as 
for jelly, and adding to it sugar, and the 
kumquat boiled until tender and rubbed 
through a seive. This may be used like 
fondant as a basis for French candy, and 
also may be made into a gum drop. Kum¬ 
quats being rich in pectin, may be com¬ 
bined with the strawberry juice. 
One woman in Brevard County who is 
selling thousands of glasses of jelly this 
year, makes a kumquat jelly flavored with 
mint and colored green. She calls it mint 
julep jelly. 
Mrs. Ives, of Manatee, in response to 
a request from the Waldorf-Astoria for 
roselle jelly, sent samples of other pro¬ 
ducts and received from them at once an 
order for fifty-five pounds of kumquat 
jelly and later the order was duplicated. 
REPORTS FROM HOME DEMONSTRATION 
WORK 
The following reports sent in from 
some of the home demonstration County 
agents indicate to what extent this work 
is being carried on in some of the thirty- 
three counties in the State. 
From Putnam County 5,300 containers 
of products from the citrus fruits and 
5,740 containers of products from the 
guava are reported this year. Winifred 
Cannon, a Putnam County Club Girl, 
made 1,500 glasses of guava jelly last 
year. She sold to the home market large¬ 
ly, supplying hotels near, but shipped a 
few cases North. Winifred has a good 
trade in citrus products, getting the citrus 
fruit at home. She buys all the guavas 
she needs and still makes a good profit. 
From her prizes and profits this year, she 
is planning to build and equip a small 
preserving kitchen. 
In Osceola County, 8,000 containers 
were reported, with one girl reporting 
500 quarts of canned guavas, and 275 
other containers. 
In Brevard County, 8,800 containers 
were filled by the girls before the contest, 
but the County Agent writes that several 
of the girls are making quantities of jel¬ 
lies and marmalades and find a ready sale 
for them. 
Mrs. Vandergrift of St. Augustine, had 
had an excellent business for the past two 
years, and besides selling 312 half gallon 
jars of marmalade, she has sold 486 con¬ 
tainers filled with other preserves and jel¬ 
lies. 
In DeSoto County a group of girls 
put up 1,400 glasses of guava jelly and 
sold it in Tampa. 
In Polk County a number of women 
and. girls are making and selling marma- 
