. Inglenook, The (1911) . rls, Miss Katie Gunter, put up 512 cans oftomatoes from her tenth of an acre. Aftershe had paid all of her expenses there wasa net profit of something over $40. That,you see, is no small item. It is equivalentto a net profit of $400 per acre. It is aneasy matter to sell the tomatoes since thecanning is done much better than that ofthe factories. The cans are labeled as to-matoes usually are, and the following isprinted on each label: Put up by theGirls Tomato Club of Aiken girl writes her name on the can whichshe puts up and this adds a personal inter-est
. Inglenook, The (1911) . rls, Miss Katie Gunter, put up 512 cans oftomatoes from her tenth of an acre. Aftershe had paid all of her expenses there wasa net profit of something over $40. That,you see, is no small item. It is equivalentto a net profit of $400 per acre. It is aneasy matter to sell the tomatoes since thecanning is done much better than that ofthe factories. The cans are labeled as to-matoes usually are, and the following isprinted on each label: Put up by theGirls Tomato Club of Aiken girl writes her name on the can whichshe puts up and this adds a personal inter-est to the value of the tomatoes. Since the winter of 1910 the work of MissGromer has grown wonderfully. Withinthe past year five Southern States havetaken up the growing and canning of to-matoes. Miss Cromer now has charge of3,000 girls who are doing club work. Theoriginal appropriation for the enterprisewas $5,000 but to this sum the General Edu-cation Board of New York City has added$25,000 to meet the expenses. The United. Marie Samuella Cromer. Girls Tomato Clubs. LAST week we spoke about the workof Miss Agnew, in Virginia, whohas been interesting the girls incanning fruit and raising Marie Samuella Cromer is doing asimilar work in South Carolina under thedirection of Farm Demonstration Serviceof the Department of Agriculture. Previ-ous to her present undertaking Miss Crom-er was a Southern school teacher. She sawthe boys being interested in corn clubs andcontests of various kinds, and thought thatthe girls ought to have a share of the at-tention of the United States opportunity to put her ideas into prac- 1350 The Inglenook States Department of Agriculture is push-ing the work all over the South and besidesthe canning of tomatoes other things willbe taken up later on. The accompanyingphotograph shows Miss Cromer at workwith the girls. It is taken from the Ameri-can Magazine from which we have takenmuch of the above information. Music School Settlem
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