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Participation in Agricultural Extension Home Demonstration and 4-H Club activities necessitated careful record keeping in order to demonstrate that the new practices and techniques taught by the county agents were economically advantageous to the farm families. Mrs. R. F. Garrett of the Whites Chapel community in Navarro County updates records at her combination china cupboard and desk. She kept leaflets and bulletins of the Texas Agricultural Extension Service, newspaper clippings, and business records in the lower half of the cabinet and some of her special dishes above. Mrs. Garrett is wearing a dress she made from feed sack material.
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Mrs. S. S. Schornick sells some of her products at the Taylor County Homemaker's Market in Abilene. She sold six or more homemade cakes, several dressed fryers, and a case of eggs each week and had plans to increase her flock of laying hens by a hundred. Money from the sales at the market enabled the Schornicks to purchase a radio, iron, refrigerator, draperies, and clothing as well as to make repairs to their house. Note the Texas Home Demonstration boxes on top of the case, along with several cakes and a dozen eggs inside the case. Cooperative markets such as this one in Abilene were operated by numerous Home Demonstration Clubs throughout the state.
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