Tomato club booklet, Ruth Hodgen, Greensboro

Early

Ruth Hodgen - Greensboro X 4 [?] Agent Grace Schaeffer

History

I joined the canning club to learn how to can tomatoes and other vegetables. And also to get some pin money.

Size of my garden was 132 ft by 33 ft, it lays almost level. The soil is black loom. I selected it because I thought I could raise good tomatoes on it. I had two one [horse?] loads of manure put on my plat, and then had it plowed good then harrowed good.

I had to use the 8-2-4 fertilizer because I could not get any other kind. I used half of a pack on my plat. I put it in the furrows as i set the tomatoes out. Which was in May and June.

My tomatoes plants were grown in a [cald?] frame bed. 6 ft by 6 ft square. I fitted it half full of manure, then put dirt on that then sowed my seeds. I did not transplant my plants as they did so well.

My tomatoes were cultivated and [hard? hand?] as often as necessary.

I only [started?] two rows of my tomatoes.

The only disease my plants had was the tomato rot.

I only had tomatoes and beans on my tenth acre.

A crowd of we canning club girls gathered at one of our neighbors, and most allways canned all day. I haven't made many preserves as this is my first year.

We canning club girls and boys gave a lawn party this summer to raise money to get a canner. Miss Schaeffer

and Miss Johnson were with us, and helped us out, and we certainly did have a nice time.

I have learned how to put up and make catsup, jelly pear preservers, fig preserves, and how to put up other vegetables.

There were 1370 ft of tomatoes of my tenth acre. I canned 350 cans of tomatoes off of my tenth acre.

The club has heped me in many different ways.

I have learned how to can