Reports, Outlines, and Miscellaneous, of the Director, 1915

Superintendent of Public Instruction State of North Carolina Raleigh J. Y. JOYNER, SUPERINTENDENT DEPARTMENT OF RURAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS L. C. BROODEN N. C. NEWBOLD STATE AGENTS Home-Makers' Club Work, North Carolina March 3, 1915 Circular Letter # 1. To County Supervisors: I am glad to tell you we are going to continue the Home-Makers' Club work this year. The General Education Board has appropriated $100 for your County, and your County Superintendent assures me that the County will appropriate $25, or he will secure this amount from other sources, making a total of $125 for the season's work. Do you wish to have charge of this work in your County? If so, please see your County Superintendent at once and arrange all matters necessary concerning it, as to time to begin, when you are to do the work, etc., also the number of clubs to be organized, etc. I would suggest that the time given to the work should be about three months after your contract as supervisor expires. This you could divide by giving, say, two months in the spring and early summer, after your present term closes, and one month in the canning season; or you can give part of your time each month from the time your term as supervisor closes until the end of the canning season in the fall. Your Superintendent will know how to advise you concerning this matter. Either plan you and he agree upon will be satisfactory to us. Let me know as soon as possible if you will do the work, and state the plan you and your Superintendent agree upon. If you are to do the work, I suggest the following: First, That you begin at once to organize clubs of women and girls, say ten to twenty in a club. Second. That these club members begin at once to plant tomato seed in hot-beds or window boxes and to prepare the land for their gardens. Third. Four to eight clubs might be as many as you can well direct. (See Superintendent about this.) Fourth. Caution each member to keep a careful record in a book similar to the one I enclose. Fifth. I am enclosing a letter which gives definite instructions about beginning the