HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARMERS' MONTHLY 



WESTHAMPTON CLUBS WORK 



100 Useful Articles iVlade 



The Busy Bees and the Center Clubs 

 of Westhampton made the new Home 

 Decoration Project a grand success. 

 Their exhibit came on the evening of May 

 20th. Over one hundred articles were 

 exhibited. They painted glass bottles and 

 candle sticks, painted milk weed pods for 

 winter flowers, framed pictures, gilded 

 birds' nests, made table runners, lunch- 

 eon sets, center pieces, coasters from j 

 reed, sandwich trays, and wax beads. 

 They made flowep- stands out of white 

 birch and constructed the metal part for 

 the inside out of old gallon oil cans. Tie 

 racks, key holders and stencilled towels 

 were also part of the achievements. The 

 ingenuity used to get around difficulties 

 was good to see. 



The Busy Bees made fifty-one useful 

 articles for a total cost of four dollars 

 and fifty cents. They learned how to cut 

 the glass for their picture framing work. 

 They had their difficulties but succeeded. 

 A fine wood box was also made at the 

 Hill school by the members. The desks 

 were all cleaned, scraped, varnished and 

 re-set by the youngsters themselvse under 

 Miss Helen Crowley's supervision. The 

 walls were an eye .sore. They cleaned 

 and painted them with alabastine and 

 sent in the bill to the town. The floor 

 was oiled. Miss Crowley said, "The boys 

 and girls think more of the room now. 

 They fixed it up themselves." 



The two clubs are made up of sixteen ] 

 members, four boys and twelve girls. [ 

 Each club received a gold seal for its j 

 charter and the members received club • 

 pins. Miss Helen Crowley and Miss Alice 

 Graves, the club leaders, each received a 

 national club pin. ! 



Cummington boys in taking a side trip 

 while on the stock judging meeting at Mr. 

 Frank Steele's farm saw a comparison of 

 apple trees, one row in grass, and one 

 row in cultivation. On one part of the 

 farm the trees in a cultivated orchard 

 stand fifteen feet high while across a 

 path in a non-cultivated strip the trees 

 that continued to live in sod stand no 

 more than five feet high. Cultivation 

 made the best trees by far. 



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PICNIC ON PETTICOAT HILL 



Girls from Worthington, Williamsburg 

 and Haydenville met on Saturday, May 

 2.3rd, for a picnic. The dinner was eaten 

 on Petticoat Hill which rises to quite a 

 height out of Williamsburg Center. At 

 ten o'clock in the morning thirty girls 

 and their leaders met at the Williams- 

 burg High School where Miss Sara H. 

 Bottom of Smith Agricultural School 

 gave a demonstration in garment judg- 

 ing followed by a judging contest by the 

 club members. Dorothea St. Laurent of 

 Haydenville won with a perfect scoi-e. 

 Rosalyn Brown of Haydenville was sec- 

 ond while Cora Bligh of Worthington, 

 Alice Dansereau and Corrine Lupier of ^ 

 Haydenville tied for third. 



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AROUND THE COUNTY 



Boys and girls of the county have set 

 out over six thousand strawberry plants 

 in their gardens this spring. What a 

 start they will have for another year. 



Why let your home and farm 



buildings go without paint 



when you can paint and pay one-fifth the cost now and the 

 remainder in monthly payments ? 



The Home Owners' Pai-tial Payment Plan lifts the finan- 

 cial burden of painting. 



Paint and decorate now— use du Pont Paints and Var- 

 nishes. They give maximum protection and greatest beauty 

 at least cost. 



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162 Main Street, 



Northampton, Mass. 



