FARMERS' MONTHLY OF HAMPSHIRE COUNTY 



I have found successful both for fancy 

 and utility birds." Further on he says, 

 "We hope to develop the 'H-U-T' strain 

 of hens. H — is for health, that makes 

 the chicks grow. U — is for utility that 

 brings you the dough. T — is for type 

 that wins at the .show." There is truth 

 as well as poetry to this for Dennett is 

 considering- the three important points. 



Dennett was a member of the state 

 champion poultry judging team that was 

 at the Boston poultry show in 1924. He 

 also went to the Madison Square Garden ! 

 Show in New York City to .judge. He ! 

 has judged at Boston, Springfield, Am- 

 herst and Northampton for the past four 

 years. He was the president of the Am- 

 herst poultry club in 1923. 



His exhibiting has been interesting to 

 him. Last year he took thirty-five dol- 

 lars in prizes. 



Our county handicraft champion comes 

 from Granby. He is Henry Randall. 

 Henry has been a handicraft member for 

 four years He has consistently im- 

 proved until this year he not only made 

 many articles but was an immense help 

 to Miss Haines, the local leader, in help- 

 ing the younger members along with their 

 work. He made a floor lamp and shade, 

 a fernery, a set of shelves, an eight foot 

 by ten foot brooder house, a mash hop- 

 per, a set of six nests, a step ladder, a one 

 tube radio and a work bench. Besides 

 this he has repaired four dining room 

 chairs and a garden marker, cut a couple 

 of windows in the rear of his hen house 

 besides doing a good many other farm 

 jobs. We feel that he has really earned 

 the right to become handicraft champion. 



One state champion comes from Hamp- 

 shire County. Reno Smith of South Am- 

 herst won this honor for his good work 

 done in the winter of 1924. He will at- 

 tend Camp Gilbert this summer. 



Paul Vachula of North Hatfield has 

 been picked for garden champion. Last 

 summer he raised one-half an acre of 

 onions besides other garden crops. He is 

 fourteen years old and for the past win- 

 ter was a freshman at Smith Academy in 

 Hatfield. This season he has an acre of 

 onions which haven't a weed in them. He 

 can make the push hoe sing between the 

 rows. 



Out of about three hundred clothing 

 members we picked Dorothy Wentworth 

 as clothing champion. Dorothy has been 

 at it for four years. This year she made 

 two aprons, four sets of underwear and 

 five outer garments. She did all her own 

 stocking darning, made ten button holes, 

 three patches, four bound button holes 

 and a baby's cap. She does practically 

 all her own sewing and also part of the 

 family mending in which there are five 

 children. She wa.shed the dishes two 

 hundred times, made the beds twenty-five 

 times, swept fifty times and dusted 

 seventy-five times. She blackened the 

 stove three times and cleaned the silver 

 once. 



Dorothy is nearly fourteen years old 

 and will enter the Amherst High School 

 next fall. Her garments will be shown 

 at the Northampton Fair next Fall. She 

 has surely earned her light as County 

 Champion in clothing work even against 

 the hard competition. 



Records must be kept by club members 

 in good .standing. You can never become 

 a champion without a record. 



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Prtntera 

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H. D. SMITH 



Hatfield, Mass. 



GRAIN, COAL, ICE 



AND 



FARM MACHINERY 



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ELECTRICAL CONTRACTING 



Beautiful 



ELECTRIC FIXTURES 



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NortKanipton , Mass. 



Electricity helps around the Farm 



Let it help in the House 



The use of electricity is not expensive 



It costs 3 to 6c per hour, varying with the size of the 

 iron to run an Electric Flat Iron — You can make 6 

 cups of coffee for Ic with an electric Percolator and 10 

 slices of toast for Ic. 



Let "The Little Servants of the Home" make House- 

 keeping Happy. 



FOSTER-FARRAR COMPANY 



162 Main Street, 



Northampton, Mass. 



