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American Agriculturist, October 13,1923 
The Home Bureau at the State Fair 
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P ERHAPS never in the history of 
the Home Bureau in New York 
State has its work been so favorably 
presented to the general public as dur¬ 
ing the recent State Fair in Syracuse. 
For the first time the State made it 
possible for ten of the counties to ar¬ 
range exhibition booths, on the same 
basis guaranteed the Farm Bureaus for 
some years past. 
The task of assembling displays was 
a new field for the various county man¬ 
agers, and for their memberships, but 
every man, woman and child who 
strayed through the “dome” building 
at the fair and saw the exhibits, said 
emphatically that they made good. 
Chenango County won the first prize 
ribbon. Members of this Bureau, and 
Miss Adelaide Bai’ts, manager, did not 
know until one week before the Fair 
that they were to exhibit. That did 
not dismay or discourage them, how¬ 
ever, and a whirlwind campaign of 
assembling samples resulted in their 
capture of first prize. Perhaps the 
most prominent display in this attrac¬ 
tive booth was a large table in the 
foreground, showing the food preserva¬ 
tion project as recommended for one 
person for one year. The exhibit in¬ 
cluded the correct amount of garden 
placards in the foreground of the Sar¬ 
atoga booth was the statement that the 
work aimed to have “Theodore Roose¬ 
velt’s Dream Come True.” 
Original Features from Saratoga 
This booth had so many original fea¬ 
tures that it is hard to select the most 
worthy. For one thing, the collection 
of jellies, jams, fruit juices, canned 
fruits, meats, and vegetables, also 
dried and candied fruits, has been se¬ 
lected to go to the New York Fruit 
Exposition in November. The exhibit 
will first be shown in one of the com¬ 
munity houses in the home county for 
the benefit of the Saratoga Board of 
Supervisors. The display of the food 
preservation project, 210 cans in all, 
showed many original “kinks” such as 
the labels: “A Happy Choice of 
Sweets,” “Fruit Juices for Fresh Win¬ 
ter Jellies,” “Our Juniors Can Too,” 
“Don’t Forget—Two Fruits a Day,” 
“Delicious Soups and Salads at a Mo¬ 
ment’s Notice,” “For Economy and 
Convenience, Can Meats,’ and so on. 
A complete jellymaking equipment 
was' shown. Also two wheel service 
trays made by two young girls of the 
county, from old-fashioned washstands. 
These trays bore samples of jelly in 
An exhibit easy to see and understand 
vegetables, both fresh and canned, as 
well as stored for winter; also the 
fruits recommended for health. 
The display of canned fruits, jellies, 
fruit juices and vegetables was very 
interesting, and the array of beautiful 
one-piece dresses, waists and children’s 
clothing, made by the members as a 
demonstration of the clothing projects 
of the county, was unequaled at the 
Fair. 
Figures that Tell the Story 
Striking posters and placards stated 
that 8 Home Bureau groups of the 
county had assisted in screening their 
schoolhouses, 7 had improved their 
school playgrounds, 3 village schools 
had given milk to the children in the 
forenoon, with the result that of 18 
children who were underweight in Oc¬ 
tober but 4 were underweight in May; 
44 changes of housefurnishing; 24 
homemakers learned to save time, steps 
and energy by changes in kitchen ar¬ 
rangement, equipment, or working 
heights; 6 Home Bureaus had put on 
plays at fairs; while the splendid fact 
was heralded that 90 per cent of the 
schools of that county had been in¬ 
duced to serve one hot dish per day. 
Other features of this exhibit were 
samples of modern kitchen equipment, 
scales used in weighing children, and 
a model country schoolhouse, not to 
mention a framed copy of the beauti¬ 
ful Home Bureau creed, written by 
Ruby Green Smith, the gifted secretary 
of the State organization. 
The Saratoga Home Bureau exhibit 
won the second place, though it was 
said to have found first place on a 
straw vote of the judges. _ Yet,^after 
due consideration, the decision finally 
placed Saratoga in the second place. 
This booth, as did many others, 
stressed the work in nutrition and 
health. Colonel Roosevelt was an ad¬ 
miring visitor on Tuesday, when he 
expressed the liveliest approbation and 
enthusiasm over the work. One of the 
tiny glasses for a single serving for 
invalids or children. The caps on the 
glasses were unique, made of milk bot¬ 
tle caps, a collar button for a knob, 
fastened on with red sealing wax, the 
entire cap being coated in blue seal¬ 
ing wax. This display is also going 
to the New York Show. 
Placards stated that there are 50 
steam pressure cookers in use in the 
farm homes of Saratoga county and 
too many fireless cookers to make an 
accurate estimate. Besides a full line 
of handsome one-piece dresses, waists 
and skirts made by the women, there 
was a very attractive group of cloth¬ 
ing made by the young girls of the 
county. One pink dress and bloomers, 
made by a 10-year-old girl, would have 
done credit to any experienced seam¬ 
stress. Samples of patching, darning 
and hemming of fine quality were 
shown by a girl of eleven. 
The Saratoga County Fair Associa¬ 
tion was one of the few in the State 
that couldn’t see the advantage of home 
talent plays at the Fair as a means 
of competing by wholesome amusement 
with the usual gambling devices and 
cheap shows. But the Home Bureau 
this year, with the assistance of Mrs. 
Green of the college, put on six plays 
by as many communities. They hired 
their own orchestra and after the ac¬ 
counts were made up, presented the 
Fair with a nice sum to demonstrate 
that wholesome recreation holds a high 
place in the minds of the people. 
ing cooperative movements, field day 
events, rural dramatics, and Red Cross 
activities. 
Miss Lucille Brewer, food preserva¬ 
tion specialist, may take just pride in 
the work done in this county and its 
recognition by the Fair and the New 
York Show. It is one of the few coun¬ 
ties in which pretty nearly the entire 
food project as outlined to date has 
been given. 
Tompkins County won third place. 
Some of their food preservation ex¬ 
hibit was so good that it also was in¬ 
vited to the New York Exposition. In 
the corner ocupied by this excellent ex¬ 
hibit was an old garden bench that the 
Fair officials had long had under foot. 
When the booth was complete, one of 
the men who thronged all these dis¬ 
plays was heard to say: “See there! 
Those women have made use of that 
old bench we thought was junk.” 
Tompkins Has Trained Local Leaders 
It is said that in the three years this 
county has been organized under the 
leadership of Miss Vera McRea, its ac¬ 
complishments have, perhaps, sur¬ 
passed those of any other county in the 
United States. Miss McRea has just 
resigned her position, to the great re¬ 
gret of a membership of over 1,000, in 
42 communities of the county, to join 
the staff of the Dairymen’s League Co¬ 
operative Association. One tribute to 
the far-seeing qualities of this leader 
is the introduction of the local leader 
idea in the work. 
Otsego, Ontario, Oswego, and the 
other exhibiting counties followed in 
the list of awards. 
As a first attempt the Home Bureau 
display was a real triumph. Most of 
the women put up their booths with 
their own hands. Some of the women 
wore dresses made in their clothing 
project through the week, as they in¬ 
terviewed the throngs that viewed their 
work. One group had on exhibit and 
others wore the “health” shoes they 
had adopted since taking the health 
projects. 
On Friday the ten Home Bureaus 
represented gave a luncheon to Mrs. 
Burt Miller of Owego, whose services 
have been invaluable in making this 
exhibit possible. Mrs. A. E. Brigden, 
President of the State Federation, was 
an honored guest on this occasion. 
Among the really rural features of 
the Fair this year the Home Bureau 
booths easily led in interest. Men and 
women alike feeemed to recognize its 
importance and vital influence on the 
farm home.—M. G. F. 
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Photography and Clipping Records 
Another effective item was a real 
household account book, as kept by a 
farmer’s wife, showing her system of 
budgeting and financing in detail. 
The Saratoga County Scrap Book, 
Home Bureau news files, and “Pictorial 
Review” must not be omitted in an an- 
count of this work. For some time 
back a comprehensive historical _ and 
pictorial record has been kept of differ¬ 
ent lines of county activities, includ- 
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