1915 girls club, tomato club booklet by Aldon Baggett

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Oct. 6 1915 I joined the tomato club to learn how to can and to make some money of my own. My tenth of an acre was on good rich soil. I had broke up read deep and used about one tird of a sack of guano the only fertilizer I used. I sowed my hot bed the second day of april and set my tomatoes out the fiftenth of May. I did not hoe my tomatoes a time they were only plowered twice My plants did not have any diseases and I gathered my tomatoes in a large tub and took them out in small baskets and scaulded them [crossed out] put the red ones in cans togethers and the pales ones together marked the pale ones. I did not grow anything on my tenth of an acre except tomatoes. We had lots of fun at our meeting we did our canning under a shelter out in the woods in the shade we kept our yard clean for we had company nearly every day we canned. I have learned lots about canning the club work has helped me in several ways. Aldon Baggett Mingo Club