PLAN No. 722. MOUNTAINEER WOMAN CANS TO KEEP TEN CHILDREN IN SCHOOL
Knowledge of how to can products that will command a ready sale is enabling a mother in the hills of Virginia, to keep her ten children in school. Schoolbooks and clothes cost money, but this ambitious mother was determined that her children were to have schooling if it were possible.
Late in the fall, with a 2-horse wagon loaded with her canned fruit and vegetables, this woman of the hills drove 20 miles to the home-demonstration agent’s headquarters. She brought 30 gallons of apple butter, 376 quarts canned tomatoes, 8 quarts ripe tomato catsup, 8 quarts green tomato catsup, 12 quarts succotash, 36 quarts soup mixture, 12 quarts okra, 12 quarts fox grape preserves, 48 No. 2 cans string beans, 36 cans (No. 2) corn, 48 quarts peaches, 48 quarts blackberries, 12 quarts butterbeans, 12 quarts squash, 2 quarts damson preserves, and 8 quarts green tomato and mince meat to be sold.
Through the co-operation of the home-demonstration agent, the wagon was emptied in a short time in the university town, and the little boys and girls up in the hills will have shoes and schoolbooks this winter as a result.