Annual Negro Report of Home Demonstration Work for Women and Girls, Mecklenburg County, NC

COOPERATIVE EXTENSION WORK IN AGRICULTURE AND HOME ECONOMICS STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA

[folded corner partially obscuring text] [North Carolina] STATE COLLEGE OF [AGRICULTURE] AND ENGINEERING, [NORTH CAROLINA] STATE DEPARTMENT [OF AGRICULTURE], AND UNITED STATES [DEPARTMENT] OF AGRICULTURE, [COOPERATING]

FARMERS COOPERATIVE DEMONSTRATION WORK

Report of Colored Assistant

[time-stamp: RECEIVED 'DEC 31 1919 US DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE [clock face with a clock hand pointing to approximately 11:45] States Relations Services Office of Extension Work in the South]

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE HOME DEMONSTRATION WORK, FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS, CALENDAR YEAR 1919.

Negro

State of N.C. County Mecklenburg

Report of F. [O.?] Butler

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I. No. of years Home Demonstration work has been carried on in your County --

2. No. Months you have been employed this year -- [0? 10?]

3. No. Clubs holding regular meetings -- 6

4. No. [crossed out] Are community activities developing in your county as the result of your work? -- Yes most of our clubs took some special line of improvement work aside from canning and conservation of food. For instance, one club bent all of its energies toward tyring to exterminate flies.

I2. Number of:

Consultations at home or at office -- 437

Bulletins distributed -- 340

[Letter?] written -- 117

School clubs visited --

Club members visited -- 36

Meetings held -- 53

Estimated attendance -- 3056

[Visit?] to farmers and others not includedin the above -- 30

Miles traveled -- by rail 1020 by auto 56 by team 1046

Suggestion : What do you consider the most effective and satisfactory demonstration work done in your county this year? Describe it -- The most effective and satisfactory demonstration work done in our county this year was I think the work done with trying to save beans, corn & tomatoes. So many of our club members who

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had utterly failed in their efforts with these products last year, got the idea so well this year that they were willing to try their hand with these products (especially beans) under almost any sort of condition. Many of the club members have taken real pride in canning beans and have successfully saved all that they will need for use in their families for the entire year.

Suggestions for work needed in your county next year and your plans for carrying on your work -- In our County, there is a great and growing need for better sanitation in and about the home and more sanitary toilets - toilets generally - My plan to meet this need is to offer a prize to the club member or house wife, who will keep the cleanest and neatest kitchen for three months, and another to the one who will do the same for six months and still another to the member who will get at least three toilets built in her immediate community.

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I. Total number of organised clubs in the county : -- 10

2. Total number of demonstrators enrolled in the clubs --

3. Estimate the number of women influenced by your work aside from demonstrators : -- 1001

4. Specify the most important demonstrations give by agents to women . Kind -- No given -- Kind -- No given -- Canning -- 20 Drying -- 2 Utilizationof vegetables -- 14 - tomatoes - beans -

5. Estimate the [number?] attendance of women at demonstrations : -- 550 Approximate number of quarts of canned fruits put up by women under demonstration methods -- 43843 Approximate number of quartsof canned vegetables -- 39380 No. pts. preserves, jellies and marmalades -- 3183 No. pounds dried vegetables stored -- 420 No. pounds dried fruits -- 860 No. pounds brined vegetables -- 3 bbls Fly eradication -- give interesting factsand methods : -- Many of our club members screened their homes with simple mosquito net. Others made improvised screens from wire net which they secured at Camp Green at greatly reduced price

Agents Name -- F.[O.?] Butler

Map of Mecklenburg County

[image - hand-drawn map of Mecklenburg County divided into fifteen sections. The middle section is marked as Charlotte. Some of the other sections have either O's or P's in them, some sections have none]

Community Clubs O

Home Dem. Centers P