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eyed peas. Another of her regular customers was a large hotel in Lubbock
which bought her canned products for banquets and other special occasions.

All the members of the family took a hand in preparing the goods for market
by helping to gather, clean and prepare the vegetables for canning. Two large
pressure cookers were used in canning, one accommodating nine No. 3 cans
and the other fifteen No. 3’s. In one day, with the aid of the family, Mrs.
Fenton put up 150 No. 3 and 200 No. 2 cans of vegetables. The canning
season lasts about eight weeks and while the Fenton kitchen was a busy place
during that time, careful planning of the work and kitchen arrangement has
simplified the job considerably. By planting the vegetables at two-week
intervals, sufficient time elapsed between the maturing of each crop to allow
for a smooth flow of work in the kitchen.

While many of the vegetables were raised under field conditions, most of
them were grown in a subirrigated home garden. The subirrigation was
necessary because of a mineral deposit in the soil which made it impossible
to farm after several years of surface irrigation. The simple subirrigation
method consisted of three lines of homemade concrete tiles which cost one
cent a foot, exclusive of labor, a windmill and water tank, and a hose. The
windmill pumped the water into the overhead tank and gravitation forced it
down through the hose where it enters the intakes of the tiles. Watering for
two or three hours once a week was sufficient to moisten the soil unless the
weather became extremely hot.

As the market for Mrs. Fenton’s products grew, the money earned was more
than sufficient for her daughter’s use. There was even enough left over to buy
some of the labor-saving devices most women want in their homes.

“Pinch Hitting” for Housewives Solves CollegeProblem

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EANNETTE HARDY had her heart set on going to college. Before she
entered high school, she had her plans all made to study home economics
with the idea of teaching the subject when she finished college. But her aunt,