Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 9, Number 47, DeMotte, Jasper County, 12 October 1939 — U. S. Farm Women Use Healthful Family Diets [ARTICLE]

U. S. Farm Women Use Healthful Family Diets

Better living for the family through better health continued to be a principal aim of thousands of homemakers on American farms last year, according to reports from extension workers in home economics in all parts of the country’. Better health through more adequate diets was an important part of the home demonstration program in more than 37,000 communities. Demonstrations conducted by extension agents representing the United States department of agriculture and the state agricultural college helped homemakers learn what constitutes a generously adequate diet. How to provide that diet the year around with available homeproduced and purchased foods was the subject of other meetings. As a part of this program farm women and 4-H club girls reported that they canned 70,000,000 quarts of fruits, vegetables, and meats. A total of 407.000 families served bet-ter-balanced meals as a result of recommendations of home demonstration agents, while 169,000 families followed food-buying recommendations discussed in extension meetings. Boys and girls in 16,138 schools had better lunches because home demonstration groups and similar organizations provided hot dishes to supplement the noon lunch brought from home. Home demonstration agents in some states, assisted by public health agencies and local physicians, held child-health clinics in hundreds of communities.