HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARMERS' MONTHLY 



CLUB WORK 



BAY PATH CLUBS WIN SEALS W- a. Root gives 5,500 plants 



Miss Hewlett Completes Ten Years 

 of Club Work 



The South Amherst school house was 

 filled on Wednesday evening, May 6th. 

 with youngsters, parent visitors and ex- 

 hibits. The annual club exhibit was be- 

 ing held and the work of nineteen girls 

 and thirteen boys decorated the walls and 

 tables. Both the boys' handicraft club 

 and the girls' clothing club won 1925 gold 

 seals for their club charters which signify 

 that each is a banner and a 100% club. 

 Thirty-two four leaf clover club pins 

 were given to the club members and Miss 

 Cora A. Howlett was presented with a 

 National club pin in appreciation of her 

 successful club year. For ten years Miss 

 Howlett has furthered club work. ! 



Mrs. Clifton Johnson of Hadley, a j 

 trustee of the County Extension Service, 

 judged the girls' clothing and gave the 

 following first prizes: first year work, 

 Elizabeth Rock; second year work, Mary 

 Matrishon; third year work, Nellie Ames; 

 fourth year work, Dorothy Wentworth. 

 In the handicraft the following club mem- 

 bers took first prizes; first year work, 

 Herbert Cook ; second year work, Charles 

 Thayer ; third year work, Robert Schoon- 

 maker; fourth year work, Howard At- 

 kins. 



The exhibit was held in conjunction 

 with the Parent Teachers Association. 

 Mr. O. A. Morton, Superintendent of the 

 Hadley and Hatfield schools emphasized 

 some of the values of the modern schools | 

 and praised club work as a contributing 

 benefit to education. The club members 

 sang three times. Refreshments were 

 served after the program. 



Club members have set over six thou- 

 sand strawberry plants this spring in 

 their gardens. From twenty-five to one 

 hundred plants wei-e set along with their 

 garden vegetables. They do this to make 

 their gardens more permanent. They 

 have already put in a crop for next year. 

 Wright A. Root of Easthampton has 

 made this possible. We have secured 

 over fifty-five hundred plants from his 

 farm. The Roots have given these plants 

 for the good of boys and girls and to 

 help interest them in small fruits. Mrs. 

 Root said, "We will give the plants and 

 what you charge the boys for them can 

 be put in a small fruits fund and used to 

 help encourage the work." And so the 

 one-half cent per plant which we have 

 charged minus the cost of digging and 

 postage will be used in the work. This 

 year the members have made but a start. 

 From these plants we hope they will in- 

 crease the bed another spring so that each 

 family can be well supplied with eating- 

 berries and canning berries. Berries to 

 sell will then be considered. 



RACHEL HARLOW SURPRISES BOYS 



Rachel Harlow took first place in a 

 stock judging contest held May 21st at 

 Mr. Henry Morey's and Mr. Frank 

 Steele's farm on Cummington Hill. Mr. 

 F. Earl Williams, principal of the Cum- 

 mington Junior High School, co-operat- 

 ing with the extension service, arranged 

 the field trip for his agiicultural class, 

 many of them being 4-H club members. 

 Four cars transported eight girls and 

 ten boys to Mr. Morey's farm right after 

 dinner where Professor C. J. Fawcett, 

 field dairy specialist from Massachusetts 

 Agricultural College, gave a demonstra- 

 tion on judging before the group. A ring 

 of Jer.sey cows and one of heifers were 

 then judged by the group and after the 

 papers were handed in, Mr. Fawcett gave 

 his way of placing and explained why. 

 The party then went to Mr. Steele's farm 

 not far down the road and judged a class 

 of Holsteins. Helen Wells took second 

 place, Anna Lacy third, and Isabel 

 Streeter was fourth. 



APRIL EGG LAYING CONTEST 



Adolf Wilier and Joe Sena Win Again 



Adolf Wilier and Joe Sena, both of 

 Easthampton, seem to be on top again. 

 Some of the best records are as follows : 



FLOCK.S under 40 BIRDS: 



Name and Address 



Adolf Wilier, Easthampton 5 27 



Charles Damon, Williamsburg 12 25.6 



Phillip Reed, Hadley 11 25.5 



Alfred Harris, Amherst 21 23.5 



John Howe, Amherst 7 2.3.4 



Robert Lowe, Southampton 39 22.7 



Helen Wells, Williamsburg 11 22.3 



George Bergman, Easthampton 25 22.0 



Dennett Howe, Amherst 10 21.5 



Sam Adams, Easthampton 19 21.3 



•Joe Donis, Hatfield 5 21.2 



Paul Malinsky, Hadley 12 21.1 



Bradley Gaylord, Easthampton 9 21.0 



Leo Noel, Granby 16 20.6 



Terrence Rogers, Amherst 12 20.5 



Walter Tyminski, Granby 20 20.6 



Erich Moberg, Southampton 5 20.0 



Flocks over 40 birds : 



Joe Sena, Easthampton 55 21.8 



Henry Randall, Granby 50 21.2 



Robert Burr, Huntington 53 20.4 



Walter Sullivan, Hatfield 77 20.1 



Herman Andrews, Southampton 46 19.7 



Lloyd Pennington, Williamsburg 45 18.0 



Norman Howland, Huntington 40 16.0 



The Needlecraft Club of Worthington 

 votes to exhibit at the Northampton Fair 

 next fall. 



Mr. John C. Read has charged of the 

 garden club work in Amherst this sum- 

 mer. 



BELCHERTOWN CLUBS- 



100 PER CENT 



Club Pins go to Ninety Members 



Belchertown 4-H Club members all 

 finished. One hundred per cent was the 

 goal reached. At the second annual field 

 day and exhibit held Friday, May 8th, 

 forty-two clothing club girls and forty- 

 eight handicraft club boys received their 

 four clover leaf pins while their leaders, 

 seven in all, were presented with the 

 National club pin of 4-H Club Work. 

 Six clubs were represented and each re- 

 ceived a 1925 gold seal to stick on their 

 club charter. This shows they are a 

 banner or a lOC^r club. 



Exhibits by the members covered five 

 fifteen foot tables and thirty garments 

 I were hung on the walls. Miss Harriet 

 i Woodward, Assistant State Club Leader, 

 judged the girls' work and pronounced it 

 as being very high in quality. The boys' 

 one hundred and fifty handicraft articles 

 placed by the club agent were not an 

 easy lot to judge. 



Before ten o'clock in the morning 

 youngsters arrived. Sports were held 

 j under the direction of seven high school 

 students. The boys had a ball game 

 while the girls had a sack race, potato 

 I race, pass the candles game and various 

 i games with the basket ball. At noon a 

 picnic dinner was enjoyed after which at 

 one o'clock a two hour program was be- 

 gun. Miss Woodward lead the singing. 

 Miss Mabel Randolph's club from Dwight 

 gave a play "Club Spirit," Miss Helen 

 Keyes of Bondsville coached her eighteen 

 girls for a Style Show. A plastolart 

 demonstration was given by two of Miss 

 Nellie Shea's boys from Bondsville, and 

 Miss Edith Towne's club with the as- 

 sistance of Mr. Harold French's handi- 

 craft boys presented a play "The Calf 

 Club." Miss Woodward talked to the 

 group on affairs of interest to 4-H club 

 members. 



About twenty-five adults were in the 

 audience. 



Stanley Misterka of Pine Grove, 

 Northampton, has five wild ducks he 

 hatched with broody hen from eggs taken 

 from a nest in a swamp. They seem con- 

 tented with civilization. 



Irving Clapp of Westhampton will have 

 his Guernsey heifer freshen for the .sec- 

 ond time the first of August. 



Henry Randall has a Guernsey calf 

 that looks promising dropped from one of 

 his father's cows. 



There was a write-up about Herman 

 Andrews in the June issue of the Massa- 

 chusetts Guernsey Breeders .Journal. 



