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Carolina Farm Wome
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(BY JANE S. MeKIMMON) to the farm horn
With an average net income of home agent could
$2.10.00 from farm crops of all ing the standard
classes on North Carolina farms saw something m
in 1SC.6 and later, tnere was too provide some mot
little money to permit many com- to do ft.
forts or conveniences to be added There were n
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Real estate in the C
which 1938 taxes are unj
for sale for taxes begini
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citizens of this common
sary expense and needh
coming in before Angus
1938 taxes.
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<penses of her travel and it
as used for that purpose.
What the home agent did in
le situation was to demon;rate
to women and girls how to
lrn the garden, poultry, and
tills in cookery into cash for
leir needs.
Already many canning club
iris had been able to earn from
15.00 to $300.00 on their canned
;getables each year and mothers j
lining with daughters found as
me went on they were buildg
up a trade substantial enough
i warrant opening an organized
oman's market for surplus farm
-oducts and for the cakes,
eads, dressings, and other cook1
products they had learned to
ake in their Home Demonstraan
work.
Starting Women's Markets
The first organized women's
arkets were in Anson and Paslotank
counties in 1921, Anson's
i the Courthouse green and
lsquotank's on a vacant lot
ar the center of town, and
efy both did business on Satury
mornings only, with an inrested
and growing group of
wn housewives. These small bennings
were successful enough
point the way to other counts
and 1924 say fifteen women's
irkets serving women in Nash,
ison, Cumberland, Robeson,
ecklenburg, Wake, Pasquotank,
ince, Durham, Guilford, Richond,
and what was called the
ipe Fear Home Demonstration
arket at Wilmington including
nnen sellers from New Haner,
Brunswick, and Pender.
The Market Place
Women's markets at first were
r the greater part curb marits
and marketers sold from
eir automobiles, but from the
ginning, cold, bad days furnisha
problem and tobacco wareluses
offered their space, Councommissioners
opened the
isement of court houses and
her interested people loaned
oms and the venture was launled
to operate winter and sumer.
Rocky Mount Home Demonration
Market, organized in
123, and serving Edgecombe as
ell as Nash, took the lead from
,e first. Housed in a big tobaci
warehouse and drawing its
oducts from farm homes in a
ction of the state which proices
a varied agriculture, it had
sound foundation.
Its greatest asset was its Home
gent, Effie Vines Gordon, who
spired her club members, inrested
the town buyers, got the
>od will of the county commisoners,
and with her personality
id genius for marketing,
ought her sellers through the
inture with a fine profit.
Rocky Mount market, thereire,
furnished a good demonstraon
and its plans were copied
f other counties who visited and
iw what and how things were
splayed, type of salesmanship,
id what was set in operation
i improve standards.
What They Sold
In the first markets women
irried just what they could find
1 the farm to the market place,
id vegetables, poultry, butter,
fgs, hams, sausage, and flowers
!1 began to increase on the farm,
ne seller carried a clothes bas?t
full of headed lettuce on her
rst effort at selling and in a
lort time after she arrived at
le market found her Basket
npty. She went home puzzled
j to what she would add the
ext week and decided to try
le cakes she had been taught to
lake at her Home Demonstraon
Club. She sold her cakes
jickly and received orders for
lore, and incidentally she built
a a cake trade that brought in
ross returns of $18,666 in the
in years she sold on the mar;t.
And so it went. Marketing was
lilt from simple beginnings. Selrs
were not debarred because
ley brought ungraded products
i the market. It did not take
lem long to see that eggs all of
re color or size packed in a
irton would bring five cents
lore per dozen than a job lot
irelessly displayed in an old
aard box; and that Irish potaies
freed from dirt, rubbed and
raded brought more than an ill
ssortment with the dirt from
le field clinging to them. In a
rord, a woman learned through
a appeal to her pocketbook bejuse
she had found that some
lore enterprising saleswoman
'ould capture the trade if she
antinued to practice slovenly
lethods.
Market Committee
Almost from the beginning a
larket committee composed of
irm women and consumers was
lected in each market by those
slling and it does much to settle
roblems, help define policies,
nd assist in determining prices.
Sanitary Regulations
Sanitary regulations are being
bserved in many markets and
o much to impress the public
ith what is done to protect the
HPORT, N. C. t,
food it buys, they are usually
isplayed in the market space of r~
the cellers. In Cumberland county
these regulations road:
This home is screened, and
has approved water supply, .
has approved toilet facilities,
has health certificate for all
sellers: all members have I
been vaccinated against ty- j
phoid fever within past three <
. years.
Housing
Today the farm women would
not think of wasting time peddling
what she has from door to
door as she formerly did, but to
pack the Ford with the things
she can easily spare from the
garden or dairy, and drive up to!
a building that has been specially
set aside for her at the county j
seat or some other town in the
county is quite another matter, i
And, today, 34 home demonstra- J
tion markets are in buildings
vhich house them comfortably |
nd 13 of these buildings were
ilanned and constructed especialy
for markets.
Growth ;
The farm women's market has i
grown and . given . satisfaction !
thrnmrh honest weights nnri fnefl-1
ures, reliable products, constant- I
y advancing- standards, and a |
riendly, wholesome personnel
v/hich has created a buying public
that likes what it Duys and
ells its neighbors about it.
Today, 1939, there are 42 farm
v/omen's markets in North Carolina
with 1697 producers selling
regularly and they did a business
in 1938 of $309,149.99.
Other types of farm women's
marketing and as shipping to
Institutions, m e r c ha n ts, etc.,
brought in returns of $311,269.74
making a grand total of $620,19.73
for farm marketing in
938. The largest individual sales
or 1938 were made by Mrs. Goron
Gainey, of Cumberland couny
who received $1,915.74 for
iroducts of her farm. Mrs. Cornelia
Morris, the efficient home
emonstration Market Specialist,
aj's Mrs. Gainey's total sales
rom the time she began selling,
October 1931 to November 1938
amounted to $9,453.16, which
was an average of $1,350.45 per
year. Telling of the hard work
necessary to accomplish so great
an undertaking, Mrs. Gainey
says: "I fear it has shortened my
ife several years, but marketing
has made it possible for me to
spend what is left of life in a 1^
good comfortable home which we
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We established a m<
counties at the request of i
G. Phifer, is both well kno
is honest and dependable i
In addition to our lar(
selection in Lumberton whi
thing should be quality mei
intrusted to the man or fi
and well equipped to eXeci
We carry as complete
enables us to take care of
ing the finest there is to b
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HERBERT G PHIFE
WHITEVILLE,
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Bowen's Point, near Shallotte. M
world still live in Brunswick cou
to go down there on a visit.
I am engaged in the furnitui
to invite my Brunswick county f
can save you money on things j
I have two large floors crowde
mington, and if you don't see wh
more stock in my warehouse. Ou
00, and that gives you a lot to cl
The fall is the time that im]
made in home furnishings. In or
year I am planning to run a ser
newspaper, offering you special I
and when you see something tl
guarantee to save you money.
Lewis Fui
601 - 603 N. 4th St.
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irm who will take the interest of the
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our customers. We employ only skille
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riends to come to see me. I know I
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ribute to one that has gone. ..
the people of Columbus and Brunswick
and we have selected a man, Herbert
r interests at the Whiteville plant. H?
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LUMBERTON, N. C. *
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