HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARMERS' MONTHLY 



t'uiitiiiucd fi'din pHge 1. ciilumn 1 

 matter what business one has when he 

 Kiows up. I think you agree with that. 

 While young, impre.'^sions are made which 

 we never forget. 



Isn't it more probable that a boy or 

 girl will leain success from failure, right 

 from wrong, in a garden or with a calf 

 to look after or making her garments than 

 in idleness with no responsibility? Club 

 Work makes the member.s responsible and 

 it helps tie them to the farm by giving 

 them an interest or a kind of partnership 

 in it 



The Department at Washington has re- 

 cently agreed on the following definition 

 of club work. 



"The objects of 4-H club work organ- 

 ized and conducted by co-operative agri- 

 cultural extension workers is to aid in 

 the establishment of better practices in 

 agriculture and homemaking through the 

 agency of rural young people in such a 

 way that the young people themselves 

 may be kept in touch with the best in 

 i-ural life and may develop leadership 

 and citizenship." 



No wonder these two national organ- 

 izations are active in the support of club 

 work. It is with boys and girls such as 

 those in Hampshire County that they 

 wish to establish better practices in agri- 

 culture and homemaking so that they 

 themselves can be kept in touch with the 

 best in rural life and develop leadership 

 and citizenship. 



We are going to co-operate with the 

 granges of this county in getting young 

 people in this work and in assi-sting them 

 to get the utmost out of it. This necessi- 

 tates leadership and we look to the 

 Grange to put their organization on the 

 trail for the develojjment of a better rural 

 community life by way of 4-H Boys' and 

 Girls' Club Work. 



JANUARY EGG LAYING 



CONTEST 



The production was better in January 

 than in previous months. Two flocks of 

 birds which were bought by Hatfield boys 

 from John Howe, a club member in North 

 Amherst, won 1st and 2nd place for 

 flocks under 40 birds. The winners in 

 the two contests were as follows: 

 Flocks under 40 birds 



Paul Vachula, North Hatfield— 8 birds, 

 22.8 eggs per bird. Joe Donis, Hatfield — 

 7 birds, 19.3 eggs per bird. 



Flocks over 40 birds 



Norman Rowland, Huntington — 48 

 birds, 13.1 eggs per bird. Arthur Gould, 

 Ware — 48 birds, 9.6 eggs per bird. 



The above winners will get prize grain 

 from their local dealers who are helping 

 make this contest interesting. 



The ribbons which are given each 

 month to the three highest egg yields re- 

 gardless of the number of birds are: 



Paul Vacula — 1st. Joe Donis — 2nd. 



Alice Randall — 3rd. 



We have noticed that some members 

 having good egg yields in December had 

 poorer ones in January. In some cases 

 this is due to the pullets getting thin. 

 To bring them back into laying you must 

 get them back into condition. Feed more 

 scratch feed. 



(gazpltc Priutiiiiji (!ln. 

 Nurtl^autptmt. iHaas. 



H. D, SMITH 



Hatfield, Mass. 



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