Jane McKimmon, Keeping Up With Farm Women, 1938

Many older folks remember taking cod liver oil. The following includes information on the dosage for children. “A Woman’s Touch or What Club Work Means to N.C. Farm Women” by Jane S. McKimmon, N.C. State College, Raleigh, in the January, 1938, issue of Carolina Co-operator.

Cod-Liver Oil

Infants are first given a small amount of cod-liver oil when they are about two weeks to a month old and during the first three months this amount is gradually increased until the baby may be getting two or three teaspoons a day. This amount is continued at least throughout the first two years.

Many children above two need cod-liver oil during the winter months but normally they get enough sunshine in the summertime to supply them with Vitamin D. Pediatricians advise from one to three teaspoons a day for children depending upon the section of the country in which they live and the potency of the cod-liver oil. This of course must supplement a well-balanced diet.

Cod-liver oil must be given regularly every day. When the daily quota is three teaspoons a day, this may be given a teaspoon at a time after each meal. Or two teaspoons per day may be apportioned one teaspoon after breakfast and the other after the evening meal.

Tribute to Mrs. Effie Vines Gordon

On Achievement Day in that same Rocky Mount building where so many women from the country had met and supplied the tables of Rocky Mount families with delicious food, the member of home demonstration clubs gathered to unveil and present to their beloved leader a bronze tablet bearing the following inscription:

“The Rural Women of Nash and Edgecombe Counties present this tablet in grateful recognition to Mrs. Effie Vines Gordon, beloved home agent of Nash County, through whose efforts this market was organized in 1923 and the present building was erected in 1936 for the benefit of rural people.”

The Rocky Mount home demonstration market is the largest farm woman’s market in size and sales in North Carolina, and it is one of the most outstanding and successful in the United States. Its organization is good, the number and quality of products sold is high, and the spirit of friendly cooperation of the sellers is apparent everywhere.

Mrs. Gordon has been the guiding spirit of this market since its inception. She has seen it rise from a simple beginning and a small income to its present commodious building and income of more than $40,000 per year today.

Keeping Baby Quiet

Mrs. Paul Rhyne of Gaston County has found a unique method of keeping the baby amused. Recnetly it was necessary that she be in town a few days, during which time she left her baby with the two young women hostesses at the Community Center in Gastonia. They were delighted to keep him and he received so much petting and was so highly entertained during his stay that Mrs. Rhyne found it hard to get him back to his old routine when the week was over.

As a substitute for all the attention he had been receiving, his mother tried making him comfortable in his high chair, pulled up to the radio. She then tuned in on a conversation and it worked perfectly. The baby was entertained and Mrs. Rhyne could go on with her work.

Apple Treatment

Don’t forget to keep a box of apples where children can reach them before you resort to the medicine chest for laxatives.

Keeping Up With Farm Women

Welcome to Anna Carolyn Rowe from Catawba County, who recently became district home demonstration agent for the mountain district.

Camden home demonstration club women are working on their home beautification program with a vengeance, according to Miss Mary Teeter, home agent of the State College Extension Service.

Ten new club houses have been erected or remodeled from other buildings in Caswell County since home demonstration club work began there 27 months ago.

Mrs. John Woods, president of the Purly Branch Club in Caswell County sold $298 worth of home products on the Danville, Virginia, curb market in less than a year. Mrs. Woods also realized a nice profit from flowers which she makes.

A net profit of $237 from her garden during the past year was reported recently by Mrs. Wilbur Davenport, garden leader of the Swain home demonstration club near Plymouth.

The six 4-H Club girls who represented North Carolina at the National 4-H Congress in Chicago in 1937 were Helen Whitlock, Stanly County; Ada Braswell, Anson County; Louella Dickerson, Vance County; Mary Frances Thompson, Durham County; and Sarah Amelia Gainey and Pearl Simpson, Cumberland County.