Extension work among Negroes 1920 . Fig. 4.—The old (A) and the new (B) in poultry houses. The following are some of the outstanding things that have beenaccomplished through the Negro women agents: Extension Work Among Negroes, 1920. 15 Clubs organized among women and girls, 1,571; membership,45,791; meetings held, 8,513; estimated attendance, 373,595; demon-strators listed in clubs, 15,232; estimated number influenced to makesome kind of improvements around the home, 56,156; total numberof garden demonstrations, 2,871; home gardens, 20,494; orchards andvineyards started, 1,589; winter garden
Extension work among Negroes 1920 . Fig. 4.—The old (A) and the new (B) in poultry houses. The following are some of the outstanding things that have beenaccomplished through the Negro women agents: Extension Work Among Negroes, 1920. 15 Clubs organized among women and girls, 1,571; membership,45,791; meetings held, 8,513; estimated attendance, 373,595; demon-strators listed in clubs, 15,232; estimated number influenced to makesome kind of improvements around the home, 56,156; total numberof garden demonstrations, 2,871; home gardens, 20,494; orchards andvineyards started, 1,589; winter gardens, 15,533. In the poultryclubs there were enrolled members. The number of membersestablishing pure-bred flocks was 1,148; approximate number ofchickens raised by these clubs and demonstrators. 128,552; poultryhouses built (fig. 4) at suggestion of agents, 291; total value of poul-. Fig. 5.—A group being instructed in canning and other home demonstration work. try products, $71,880. The number of family cows purchasedthrough suggestion of agents was 452; butter demonstrators enrolled,5,308; pounds of butter made in accordance with instructions,138,469. Under sanitation and health work there was listed general clean-ing up of 460 homes; screening 1,828 houses; improvement of thewater supply in 498 homes: talks given on prevention of contagiousdiseases, 1,311; instructions in care of sick, 1,361: in the care ofchildren, 1,037; in preparation of diet for the sick, 3,351; in thepreparation of milk and lunches for school children, : demon-strations in better cooking, 6,359; demonstrations in the use of fire-less cookers, 234. The work in food conservation (fig. 5) includedquarts of fruit and vegetables canned, 4,534; gallons of fruit juices 16 Department Circular 190, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. and sirups made, 19,819; containers of relishes, 1,306; preserves,
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