e to me than I am able to tell. My
two years' experience has taught me how to prepare nice things for
the table, how to beautify the home, and how to make life in the
country attractive and happier. Nothing has done more to train my
mind than our Club work. I have read bulletins, cookbooks, books
on home-making and domestic science, and dozens of different
papers and magazines in the two years' work. I have written
histories of my crops, and compiled "Tomato Recipe" booklets, and
"The Life History of the Tomato"; and have drawn the plan,
complete, of my home and grounds. On all of the above I won First
Prizes in my State and County.

[Illustration: Springtime in the country. City children may well
envy their little country cousins the free life in the open and
the companionship with animals.]

I have as a result of my two years' work two Jersey calves, 17
Indian Runner ducks, raised from a pair I won last year, a pen of
thoroughbred chickens, a tireless cooker, a cut glass bowl, and a
great many small prizes, as well as some cash which I won at
different places. I love best of all my calves, ducks and chickens
and hope to tell you some ups and downs with them some time.

I have always been a "Benton County country girl," and love the
farm and its life. I had been out of my county but twice when I
became a Club member. In the last two years I have traveled in ten
different States--but still like Tennessee best of all. I have
also visited a great many large cities, our National Capital being
one.

Last year, Miss Moore said I could go, as First Prize Winner, with
four other girls to the National Corn Show at Columbia, S. C. We
spent a delightful day in Atlanta, a week in Columbia, and two
days in Charleston on this trip, besides stopping at several other
cities for a few hours. O how grand the Atlantic looked and how
majestic its ships! I thought then that a Tomato Club girl could
be no more highly favored than I.

But this year when Miss Moore wrote me that I had been selected to
go to Washington it seemed too good to believe. What a delightful
time we had, girls and boys from Michigan to Florida and from
South Carolina to Oregon. The greatest people in the land showed
us that they thought we too had some degree of greatness because