HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARMERS' MONTHLY 



HUNTINGTON POULTRY CLUB 



gills' club a sewing machine and Miss 

 Randolph, the leader, states it goes in- 



HEARS COMMUNITY MEN —"^ 



The Huntington poultry club had Mr. ' 

 W. A. Munson talk to them on January 

 .6th about "Poultry Diseases" and on Feb- 

 ruary 10th Mr. Joseph Burr will meet 

 with them and talk on the "Value of 

 Early Hatching." Later in the winter 

 Mr. Munson will have the members visit 

 his farm and see incubators running and 

 learn about hatching. The club is com- 1 

 posed of about ten high school boys but 

 the talks are attended by twelve or fif- 

 teen boys from the Grammar School who 

 are taking an interest in poultry. The 

 School Department is co-operating ex- 

 tensively in the carrying out of our pro- 

 gram. 



Miss DeConeigh of Smith College, the 

 leader of the Baii State Club, is now tak- 

 ing up .stencilling on sanitos with the six- 

 teen members of the club. 



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 Nortljamptou. Mass. 



POULTRY CLUB MEMBERS | 

 TO GET LORD FARM EGGSj 



The Lord Farms of Methuen, Massa- i 

 chusetts, are offering to poultry club 

 members in Massachusetts one hundred 

 settings of their Leghorn eggs for the 

 coming spring. We are asked to distri- 

 bute ten settings in this county. Those 

 taking settings will return a pullet in the 

 fall or the price of the eggs. In addition 

 the Lord Farms offer a prize of five pul- 

 lets and one rooster to the member re- 

 turning the best bird, and also a similar 

 prize to the member i-aising the greatest 

 number of chicks from a setting of fifteen 

 eggs. They also offer one hundred hatch- 

 ing eggs to be delivered in 1926 to the 

 three members who get the highest aver- 

 age egg production from the pullets they 

 raise from the Lord Farm eggs before 

 March 1, 1926. 



We are offering the eggs for this coun- 

 ty to seven members raising leghorns, 

 namely; Philip Ives of Amherst, Dennett 

 Howe of North Amherst, Eloise Parsons 

 of Enfield, Henry Randall of Granby, 

 Lawrence Feeley of Ware, Viola Albee of 

 Amherst, and Perry Dunham of Ware. 



H, D. SMITH 



Hatfield, Mass. 



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FARM MACHINERY 



House Wiring and 



Electrical Repairing 



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Noi'tKompton , Mass. 



AROUND THE COUNTY 



Horace Babb has become leader of a 

 group of fourteen boys at North Hadley 

 who are doing handicraft work this win- 

 ter. 



At Hungtington, Miss Annie Parker, 

 local leader, has divided her group of 

 thirty-five clothing girls into four clubs. 



A person who was planning to exhibit 

 some chicks in the juvenile class said, "I 

 am going to exhibit in the jubilee class." 



The Dwight Club has recently bought a 

 few more tools. They raised the money 

 by giving a play. The parents filled the 

 school house. The town has given the 



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ONION SEED 



We can take a few more ordei's for 



The Southport Yellow Globe Onion Seed \\ 



The same reliable kind we have sold tor years, your <| 



neighbors grow this seed successfully, you can do the i\ 



same. ® 



FOSTER-FARRAR COMPANY 



162 Main Street, 



Northampton, Mass. 



