In 1912, the first Girl's Tomato Clubs in Texas were organized in Milam County to acquaint young women in rural areas with tomato production and canning techniques. At the request of the United States Department of Agriculture, Mrs. Edna Westbrook Trigg, a local high school principal, undertook the project and organized eleven clubs throughout the county, with members ranging in age from ten to eighteen. A similar program for boys, the Corn Clubs, had been instituted in Jack County four years earlier. Each member of the Girl's Tomato Clubs was to produce a tomato crop on one-tenth of an acre of land and was then taught proper canning procedures. The girls exhibited their products at Milano, Rockdale, the 1913 State Fair in Dallas, and the Waco Cotton Palace, and the success of these exhibits enabled several of them to start college education funds with the money they raised selling their goods. As the state's first rural girls' organization of its kind, the Tomato Clubs were forerunners of later programs, including 4-H, initiated under the supervision of the Texas Agricultural Extension Service, and although 4-H later expanded its scope, it maintained the principal objectives of its predecessors.