Growing and Canning Tomatoes Is Profitable Venture For Franklin Teenager, June 20, 1919

From The Franklin Times, Louisburg, N.C., June 20, 1919

Good Canning Record Made by This Club Girl

“I have dressed myself, paid for music lessons, bought books and thrift stamps, helped my mother, who is a widow, and have enough to pay my expenses in college next year,” was the answer of a club girl in Franklin County, N.C., when asked how she had used the money she had made in canning during the past five years.

This girl, Monnie Stallings, a member of a canning club established by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and North Carolina Agricultural College (NCSU) has a fine five-year canning record. She joined a canning club in the spring of 1914, when the work was new, and canned 550 No. 3 cans of tomatoes from her tenth-acre that year. She was awarded a medal for the largest number of jars canned from a tenth-acre plot, and also won a number of merchandise prizes. The next year she canned 1,000 cans, and again won the medal for canning the largest number of cans in the county. Her exhibit in glass won #$126 in cash prizes. In 1916 her canning exhibit won several prizes—a pure-bred Jersey heifer, worth $100; a college scholarship in domestic science, and $5 in cash. The fourth year 1,300 cans were filled, and an exhibit of them won blue ribbons in her township fair and $27 in cash at the county fair. In the summer of 1918, although it was a bad fruit year in North Carolina, she canned 1,000 cans and won a medal and subscriptions to magazines.