HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARMERS' MONTHLY ' 



CLUB WORK 



THREE YEARS A CORN 



CLUB MEMBER 



Herman Andrews writes as follows con- 1 

 cerning his corn growing for the past 

 three years. 



What I Have Done in the Corn Club 



"The raising of corn is somewhat in- 

 teresting because you do not have to 

 chase bugs as on potatoes and worms or 

 corn borers which have not troubled me 

 any. 



"Three years ago I thought I would 

 like to have some kind of a field crop or 

 something that seemed to be big. A field 

 of corn seemed the best. 



"I picked out a good one-half acre plot 

 of land and had the soil tested and found 

 it to be sandy loam and needed very lit- 

 tle. I got it plowed in due time about , 

 nine inches deep. After this the piece 

 was harrowed with a disc twice. Then 

 ten loads of manure were spread on it. 

 Again it was disc harrowed both ways 

 twice. Then the acme harrow was used 

 both ways twice. Next it was marked out 

 for check row planting. That year I 

 planted Mammoth yellow flint which I 

 bought at Dibble Seed Company of New 

 York. The seed came up fairly good. I 

 cultivated it five times through the sum- 

 mer. 



"I harvested about sixty-two measured 

 bushels. I made a profit of sixty dollars. 

 This corn did not ripen up the way it 

 should. 



"The next year I tried the same plan 

 and planted some of the seed that I saved t 

 the year before. I planted this a little 

 earlier but it did not ripen as good as 

 the year before and I did not save any 

 seed corn. I made a profit of forty dol- 

 lars. The corn made good stover with a 

 lot of leaves. This year I started with 

 a new bit of life to have a good crop of 

 corn. I bought seed from Mr. Streeter 

 of Cummington. Mr. Streeter had some 

 at the Northampton Fair in 1923 and it 

 looked to be nice corn. He got first prize 

 on a trace of 2.5 ears. I planted this corn 

 after preparing the soil in the same way 

 as before. The seed came up very good 

 and grew fast. It seemed to go on a 

 jump. I cultivated the com five times 

 both ways of the field through the sum- 

 mer. To my surprise the corn started 

 tasseling out in August and it was about 

 up to my shoulders. Between the first 

 and second weeks of September some of 

 it was glazed. I entered ten ears of this 

 corn in the juvenile department and a 

 trace of 25 ears and a collection of 10 

 ears in the adult class. I got first prize 

 on the collection of 10 ears in the juven- 

 ile department and I got second prize on I 

 the other two exhibits. After a long 

 time I finished husking the corn. I had 



eighty-one bushel measured or about 

 forty-six bushels by weight. I also have 

 three or four bushels of good seed corn, 

 this I would like to sell. I had two tons 

 of corn stover which I sold for twenty 

 dollars for the two ton. I valued my 

 shelled corn at $71.00, my seed corn at 

 $10.00 and my prize at the Fair $1.75. 

 My total income was $102.75 and my ex- 

 penses were $43.50. I made a profit of 

 $59.75 this year. Next year I will try 

 to raise an acre or more of corn rather 

 than one-half acre." 



SERIES OF CLUB 



CONFERENCES 



On -January 17th will start a series of 

 three clothing club conferences to be held 

 at the Hampshire County Extension Ser- 

 vice Office at 59 Main Street, Northamp- 

 ton, Mass. Miss Marion L. Tucker, State 

 Clothing Specialist, and Miss Harriet 

 Woodward will be present. We announce 

 the following program : 

 Morning 



Visions of Club Leaders — Geo. L. Far- 

 ley, State Club Leader. 



About Organization — Miss Harriet 

 Woodward, Asst. State Club Leader. 



Tools To Work With— N. F. Whippen, 

 County Club Agent. 



Question — From all the leaders present. 



Lunch. 

 Afternoo)! 



Fundamental stitches, finishes and ma- 

 terials — Miss Marion L. Tucker, State 

 Clothing Specialist. 



A second conference will be held on 

 .Jan. 31st and a third on Fob. 29th. 



Leaders from Franklin and Hampden 

 County will attend. 



It is desirable that the leaders who at- 

 tend one conference attend the whole 



NOVEMBER EGG LAYING 



CONTEST 



Eloise Parsons and Henry Randall Win 



Thirty members reported a production 

 for the first month of the Junior Egg 

 Laying contest. The contest will be in 

 two sections. One will include members 

 owning over forty birds and one with 

 members under forty birds. The winners 

 of the contest are as follows: 



Over 40 birds 

 Henry Randall, Granby, 52 birds 8.3 

 eggs per bird. 



Arthur Gould, Ware, 50 birds, eggs per 

 j bird 3.8. 



Under 40 birds 

 '' Eloise Parsons, Enfield, 37 birds, eggs 

 per bird 12.5. 



Herbert Smith, Hatfield, 12 birds, eggs 

 per bird 10.8. 



Howard Niedle, Easthampton, 23 birds, 

 eggs per bird 10.5. 



7 BIG WINNINGS THIS YEAR 

 FOR HAMPSHIRE COUNTY 



1st Place at Eastern States Dairy 

 .Judging Contest (70 members compet- 

 ing). 



State Champion Dairy .Judging Team 

 (Won at Brockton Fair). 



1st and 3rd place in Boston Scholar- 

 ship Judging Contest (Won by Roger 

 West and Irving Clapp). 



State Championship Poultry Team — 

 January 1, 1924. 



State Champion.ship Poultry Team — 

 January 1, 1925. 



Trip for team to New York City — 

 January, 1924. 



Trip for team to New York City — 

 January, 1925. 



AROUND THE COUNTY 



At Hadley Mr. Paul Brown has twenty- 

 two boys at woi-k with poultry as a pro- 

 ject. 



The Manhan poultry club of Easthamp- 

 ton met on Friday evening, .January 2nd 

 for a checker tournament. 



"Eleanor" a favorite heifer belonging 

 to Alice Randall of Belchertown has re- 

 cently had a heifer calf. Eleanor her- 

 self, even though her uddes- is caked and 

 she gets but four quarts of grain a day, 

 gives 35 to 40 lbs. of milk a day. 



Are you going to plant anything in the 

 spring? Better be getting your seed. 



Are you going to raise chicks? Better 

 order them at once if you want good ones. 



At the Boston Poultry Show Hampshire 

 County boys took 5 places out of the first 

 7. Roger West of Hadley was 1st; Hor- 

 ace Babb of Hadley 2nd; Dennett Howe 

 of Amherst 4th; Herman Andrews of 

 Southampton 5th and Lewis West of 

 Hadley was 7th. Thirty-nine boys en- 

 tered the judging. 



Dennett Howe, John Howe, Viola Albee 

 of Amherst, Roger and Osborne West of 

 Hadley, all exhibited birds at the Boston 

 Poultry Show. They took 13 first places, 

 7 second places, 8 third places, 3 fourth 

 places and 4 fifth places. 



Four grain dealers have already agreed 

 to give 150 lbs. of grain for prizes this 

 winter to the winners of the egg laying 

 contest. We need four more dealers to 

 help with this plan. 



