News From Farm Homes, December 1937

“Keeping Up With Farm Women” by Jane S. McKimmon, State Home Demonstration Agent, from the December, 1937, issue of Carolina Co-operator

·         According to Irene Brown, assistant home agent, Anne Hamilton, Johnston County 4-H Club girl, won’t have to worry about her diet this winter. She has canned 1,093 pints of fruits and vegetables and has dried 580 pounds of foodstuffs form the garden and orchard.

·         Mrs. J.S. Royal, Sampson County farm woman, reports that home beautification contests have been sponsored by practically every home demonstration club in the county, and rural homes are showing the result.

·         Mrs. F.E. Bost of Catawba County made enough money in one month from her poultry flock to pay the family grocery bill after paying all the expenses of feed for the flock.

·         Miss Ruth Current, State home agent, reports that 326 North Carolina farm kitchens are being remodeled in a contest under the direction of Pauline Gordon, extension specialist in home management and her assistant Mamie N. Whisnant, in Alexander, Avery, Caldwell, Chatham, Davie, Haywood, Orange, Polk, Surry, and Watauga counties.

·         Mrs. George Bost of Cabarrus County, aided by her husband and son, has converted a junk room into a convenient pantry which saves her many needless steps.

·         Thirty-three home demonstration women in Forsyth County braved a pouring rain and a cutting wind to see a demonstration in the courthouse in Winston-Salem, and went home with a greater knowledge of how to bake cakes and bread.