Rural Handicrafts in the United States

1946

U.S. Department of Agriculture. Miscellaneous Publication Number 610

National Agricultural Library

Balancing the pottery cabinet at the opposite or east end of the gallery was an attractive roadside stand designed by members of the Millbrook Garden Club of New York State, who came to Washington to dress it up. The exhibits were kept fresh by daily replacement by one of the men in the Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils, and Agricultural Engineering. The roadside stand was unusually attractive in design and color. When artistically filled with fruits, flowers, eggs, grains, meats, jellies, jams, honey, beeswax, herbs, corn, peppers, and other farm products, it gave just the aesthetic rural note needed. Near the stand was placed an attractive farm-home pantry shown by the Texas Extension Service. A well-filled farm- home pantry with satisfying form and color balance, and with proper variety and food balance for the family's annual food supply, is often a work of art that lifts those who fill it to a higher plane of living and an appreciation of beauty in work well done.

U.S. Department of Agriculture

Russell Sage Foundation