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given by the college gpecialists, reading and observing, and was awarded 

 in 1922 a blue rosette by the Massachusetts Department of Agriculture 

 for the best collection of canned goods at the Orange Grange Fair. She 

 began to sell canned goods that summer, principally through the Farm 

 and Garden Association. Her work as club leader was of such excellence 

 that she was awarded the County Championship in 1922. In 1923, her 

 fourth year of work. Miss Jefferies put up 629 jars of fruits and vege- 

 tables and 210 jars of jams and jellies, and 11 jars of pickled products. 

 In addition to accomplishing this feat, she led, unassisted, a club of 

 younger girls. In addition to selling a great deal of her products through 

 the Farm and Garden Association, she made arrangements together with 

 two other girl friend members, to sell products at a Tea Room at Shel- 

 burne Falls. Her sales amounted to $70.00. She attended a 3-day Canning 

 School at Massachusetts Agriculture College during the summer. Miss 

 Jefferies exhibited and won prizes at many fairs and the Club which she 

 led was also successful at the fairs. 



This last year, 1927, she was supervisor of canning and garden club 

 work in Greenfield and Turners Falls with 134 canning club members and 

 125 garden club members to supervise and her work was a complete suc- 

 cess in every way. 



Since her start in club work in 1910, Miss Jefferies earned and saved 

 in her canning operations, over $1,000 which she intends to use toward 

 her expenses at Simmons College. 



John H. Storer, Jr., Groton, Mass. 

 Outstanding Contribution to the Poultry Industry 



"Pinecrest Strain of Reds" suggests at once to the mind of every New 

 England poultry breeder two dominant thoughts, — Outstanding Produc- 

 tion Quality Rhode Island Reds and, the name, John H. Storer, Jr., Groton, 



Starting in 1913 with a pen of twenty breeders, Mr. Storer set out 

 with the very definite object of breeding a strain of S. C. Rhode Island 

 Reds that would prove the most useful strain for poultrymen. Pinecrest 

 Strain has been consistently bred, pedigreed and managed during thir- 

 teen years under environments of quarantine and health factors — that, 

 in themselves, stand out as a model in poultry management. Developed 

 along the definite lines of health, vigor and productivity, 2,000 breeders 

 were housed this year, selected from only the choicest pullets raised from 

 300 special breeders, each with pedigree and trapnest records of over 250 

 eggs. So every year, the flock is built around a few of the best of the 

 outstanding individuals and each new generation of chicks is backed by 

 a stronger inheritance for vigor and productivity. 



Day-old chicks to the number of 31,000 were hatched and 8,000 hatch- 

 ing eggs were sold last year to other poultrymen seeking a source of su- 

 perior stock. Guaranteed absolutely free from Bacillary White Diarrhoea 

 by the Massachusetts Agricultural College, by whom close supervision of 

 the flock is maintained, their records show that from the total of all day- 

 old chicks sold, there was a mortality of only 39% — a remarkable testi- 

 mony to the vigor of the stock. 



An individual hen has just completed the phenomenal feat of laying 

 123 eggs in 123 consecutive days, which establishes a new record. 



As an experimenter, Mr. Storer has been foremost in developing and 

 trying out new ideas in their application under commercial conditions, 

 then generously passing along his results to fellow poultrymen. He has 

 tested out ultra violet-ray treatment on a portion of his flock, and finding 

 it impractical, resorted to trials with Cod Liver Oil, of which he has been 

 a consistent feeder. He was the first to originate the practice of hopper 

 feeding of all feed, a method that two years subsequently was adopted 

 and recommended by the State College. 



His personality, combining keen intelligence, strictest integrity, and a 



