HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARMERS' MONTHLY 



CLUB WORK 



WHAT'S GOING ON 



THIS WINTER? 



DECEMBER EGG LAYING POULTRY TEAM WINS 



CONTEST SECOND AT NEW YORK 



About 675 members are doing club jobs 

 this winter. They are organized into 63 

 clubs. The table below will show you 

 what the members are taking : 



Project Members Clubs 



Clothing ' 284 30 



Handicraft 133 13 



Home Decoration 70 8 



Farm Management 15 2 



Poultry 58 8 



Food 30 2 



Scattered Enrollments 



in Poultry 53 



Dairy Enrollments 30 



Baby Beef 4 



Every town in the county except Pres- 

 cott and Greenwich has club members in 

 it. 



Town iiinl Community ^ 



Amherst 

 Center 

 Cushman 

 North X 



South X 







5 (^ 



KQ 



Belchertown 

 Dwight 

 Center 

 Bondsville 

 Cold Spring 



Chesterfield 

 West 

 South 



Easthampton 



Goshen 



Granby 



Hadley 



Center 



Hockanum 



North 



Russellville 



Plainville 

 Hatfield 



Center 



Bradstreet 



North 



■ West 



Huntington 

 Middlefield 



Northampton 

 Bay State 

 West Farms 



Pelham 



Center 



West Pelham 



Plainfield 



Ware 

 Westhampton 



Center 



Hill School 



X 



X 



X 



2X 



X 



X 



X 



X 



X 



XX 

 XX 

 X 

 XX 



4X1 X 



X 



Williamsburg 



Center 



Haydenville 

 Worthington 



Center 

 _ West 



Total 



X 



|2X 



X 



30 



13 



X 



X 



The production of the members' flocks 

 increased in December over Novembei'. 

 The results of the December contest were 

 as follows: 

 Flocks under JfO birds. 



First — Charles Klimoski, Hadly— 17 



birds — 18.53 eggs per bird. 

 Second — Joseph Donis, Hatfield — 8 

 birds — 18.50 eggs per bird. 

 Flocks over iO birds 



First — Norman Rowland, Huntington, 



48 birds — 8.80 eggs per bird. 

 Second — Henry Randall, Granby — 51 



birds — 7.35 eggs per bird. 

 Each of the boys who win first get 

 fifty pounds of grain from their home 

 dealers and those taking second get twen- 

 ty-five pounds. 



GRAIN DEALERS GLAD TO 

 HELP POULTRY MEMBERS 



Give 1,200 Pounds of Grain 



The Grain Dealers of this county have 

 gladly agreed to help us by giving grain 

 for prizes in our egg laying contest with 

 the young club members of this county. 

 Eight dealers have each pledged 150 

 pounds so that each month from Novem- 

 ber until June we can award two 50 

 pound first prizes and two 25 pound sec- 

 ond prizes. The grain dealers co-operat- 

 ing are: i 

 Merrick Grain Company of Amherst 

 Giving (100 lbs. of Full of Pep Scratch 

 Feed 



(50 lbs. of Wirthmore Laying 

 Mash. 

 J. A. Sturges & Company of Easthampton 



Giving — 150 lbs. of poultry feed. 

 Ryther and Warren of Belchertown and 

 Enfield 

 Giving — 150 lbs. of poultry feed. 

 W. N. Potters Sons and Company of 

 Northampton. 

 Giving — 150 lbs. of poultry feed. 

 D. F. Howard and Sons of Ware 



Giving 150 lbs. of poultry feed. 

 George B. Sampson of Holyoke 

 Giving (100 lbs. of Purina Mash. 

 ( 50 lbs. of Hen Chow. 

 H. C. Puffer and Company of Huntington 

 Giving— 150 lbs. of Egg-Em-On. 



(Either laying or growing 

 mash). 

 Bisbee Brothers of Williamsburg 



Giving — 1.50 lbs. of Wirthmore Feeds. 



A card will be. sent to the winners each 

 month notifying them where to get their 

 prize grain and one to the grain dealer 

 notifying him that the winner will come 

 to his store for his prize. 



The Hampshire County Poultry Team 

 which represented Massachusetts at 

 Madison Square Garden in the judging 

 contest on January 24th won second place. 

 Connecticut won fii-st and New York and 

 Pennsylvania won third and fourth. The 

 team from this county composed of 

 Horace Babb and Lewis West of Hadley 

 and Herman Andrews of Southampton 

 left for New York on Thursday night, 

 taking the 10.20 sleeper out of Northamp- 

 ton. They were accompanied by the Club 

 Agent. At 7.30 A. M. we got off the 

 train at the Grand Central Station in 

 New York and walked down to the Hotel 

 Brozdell where rooms were reserved for 

 us. That morning we went up to the 

 Bionx Park and then went through the 

 American Museum of Natural History. 

 At 4.30 P. M. we met Mr. Nodine, State 

 Poultry Club Leader, at the poultry show 

 at Madison Square. The boys studied dif- 

 ferent breeds of birds and prepared them- 

 selves for the next day's judging. We 

 dined that evening with the other three 

 club judging teams and the six different 

 college teams who had judged that day. 

 After the meal and a short meeting of 

 club teams we all went to the Hippodrome 

 and after the show walked down Broad- 

 way. 



The next day, Saturday, we went into 

 the poultry show, where the judging was 

 to be held, at 8.45 because the judging was 

 scheduled at nine o'clock. The boys 

 were asked to judge eight classes of birds 

 with five birds in a class. Four of the 

 classes were fancy and four were judged 

 for utility points. 



Horace Babb was third high man. Con- 

 necticut got a score of 1790, Massachu- 

 setts 1560. 



We got the 4 o'clock train out of 

 New York for home and arrived at 

 Northampton at about 10 o'clock. 



Plan that garden. Test the seed you 

 kept over from last year. Find out if it 

 will germinate now. 



Order your certified seed potatoes now 

 before they are all gone. 



Buy chicks from flocks recently tested 

 and found free from White Diarrhea and 

 where they have good laying stock. 

 Hampshire County has a lot of good 

 breeders of good chicks. 



At Bondsville forty-eight boys and girls 

 are doing 4-H Club Work. Eighteen of 

 them are girls who are sewing and the 

 remaining thirty are boys doing handi- 

 craft work. They are planning to learn 

 to refinish furniture as one of their new 

 jobs this year. 



