Club work and results

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Ella Lewis.

Club Work and Results.

By Ella Lewis. age 11 years.

Club work and results.

The object of the girls canning and poultry club is for instruction and profit. to give the girls a chance to learn to be helpful, and also to get money out of work they could do, there is so little a girl can do to make fine [?] money. Now [?] I have a very modest-time [?] certificate in the Bank. the result of my canning.

I only raised tomatoes. our Club made such a late start, we did not have time to raise plants from sowed seed.

I got most of my plants from a tobacco plant bed.

just volunteers we call them. that is, plants that came up without being sowed, and soon [?] can just think of any [?] lovely variety. yellow, pear [?], large and bumpy, small and medium, made up a large part of my crop.

In canning, I had to leave out all yellow ones. as well as many others, this made my yield some less than it would have been.

I had stiff red soil. land was prepared by plowing deep.

guano was used in drill, could not get barnyard manure, the rows three feet apart

The land had been well harrowed before being laid off in rows. as this was a very dry year it proved a disadvantage to have the plants set on a raised bed.

The tomatoes were plowed twice, and worked twice with a hoe.

My plants were never slick [?]. Owing to the very wet and then dry weather, the first tomatoes rotted badly. just at the end.

No other disease bothered me.

Having no market for tomatoes I had to can all of mine.