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Show SHOWING HOW TO DO THINGS Much That Could Be Accomplished by Woman County Agent in a Community. The United States department of Agriculture has started a movement to place a woman county agent lu every community in this country. And why shouldn't It? Mother needs help just as well as father. The woman county agent is to do for women, girls and the home what the farm demonstration agent does for the men and the boys ou the farm. The aim in each case is to get done some definite worth-while things, which teach a lesson and inspire to greater achievements. In the girls' canning-club work, the girls are instructed in-structed how to grow tomatoes and other vegetables on one-tenth of an acre, and how to can, preserve, pickle, and in other ways utilize the products. Winter garden clubs and poultry clubs have naturally followed the work in canning and summer gardening. Bread making and many other forms of home-improvement home-improvement work have also been taken up. This work trains girls to become efficient home makers, develop the resources of the farm, to Improve the quality of the country life and to become economically independent. From the girls' garden to the mothers' moth-ers' kitchen and the home is a short and easy step. The work with girls has opened the way for systematic homo-economics work in the rural home, and has developed the logical organization and method for doing tliia work. |
