Words under newspaper article: Henrietta Ruffin, R. 2, Box 232, Fountain, N.C., has canned 674 quarts of fruits, vegetables, and meats. She has purchased 460 baby chicks, and has sold $84.00 worth of surplus eggs and chickens on the curb market. The first line of defense is on the home front.

Let every rural Negro fam family in 1942 mobilize every resource for National Defense. With higher food prices and the general uncertainty over what is ahead, all these ought to lead every farm family to make us certain as possible an ample food supply in 1942, and since that supply begins with a good garden, WE urge you to make the best garden in 1942.
Buy your garden seeds Now.
-Jane Amos Boyd, Negro Home Agent.
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Note: Negro Home Agent Jane Amos Boyd highlighted the efforts of homemaker Henrietta Ruffin to insure an ample food supply for her family and community. Ruffin canned 674 quarts of fruits, vegetables, and meats; bought 460 baby chicks; and sold more than eighty dollars worth of surplus eggs and chickens at a curb market.

Though Ruffin had a Pitt County address, she lived between Saratoga and the Wilson-Pitt County line and was a member of the Yelverton Home Demonstration Club.