FARMERS' MONTHLY OF HAMPSHIRE COUNTY 



CLUB WORK 



CLUB MEMBERS PRODUCE 



6,070 DOZEN EGGS 



Average Flock Twenty-two 



Poultry club members throughout 

 Hampshire County have been keeping 

 egg records during the past winter. 

 Sixty-eight members have reported their 

 production. Some have reported twice 

 and some eight times. The average num- 

 ber of times reporting was four. The 

 following, therefore, amounts to a report 

 of sixty-eight members' work for four 

 months time. The figures are actual, be- 

 ing taken from the members' report card 

 or record book. 



The sixty-eight members kept one 

 thousand five hundred nineteen birds 

 which layed seventy-two thousand, eight 

 hundred forty-eight eggs or six thousand 

 seventy dozen eggs. Accepting fifty-five 

 and one-half cents a dozen as an average 

 price for the eight months in the contest, 

 the value of these eggs was three thous- 

 and three hundred sixty-eight dollars and 

 eighty-five cents. The average produc- 

 tion for the four months was forty-seven 

 and nine-tenths eggs per bird. In other 

 words they were laying at the rate of 

 forty-nine and nine-tenths percent. 



By means of the monthly records sent 

 in we have been able to select the flocks 

 having the highest egg production. The 

 winners each month received grain for 

 prizes which was given by eight different 

 grain dealers in the county. The follow- 

 ing are the winners in the yearly egg 

 laying contest of 1924-2.5. 



Dennett Howe Hand = H 



At Camp Gilbert, recently held at the 

 Massachusetts Agricultural College for 

 County and State Champions, Dennett 

 Howe of Amherst, poultry champion from 

 this county, was chosen to represent the 

 Hand H in the camp first service held the 

 last night of camp. The four H's on the 

 club emblem, the four leaf clover, stand 

 for Head, Heart, Hand and Health. Out 

 of a group of sixty other champions from 

 Massachusetts Dennett was selected as 

 the one typifying most the Hand H, an 

 honor well to be proud of. 



FLOCKS UNDER 40 BIRDS 



Egg! per 

 Birds Bird 



Joe Donis, Hatfield 

 Eloise Parsons, Enfield 

 Walter Phelon, Smith School 



6 

 35 

 19 



19.4 

 18.2 

 16.9 



FLOCKS OVER 40 BIRDS 



Joe Sena, Easthampton 53 18.8 



Herman Andrews, South'pton 40 15.3 

 Norman Howland, Huntington 44 14.1 



Iowa Boys Judge in England 



Raymond Monahan, Harlan Leonard 

 and Lester Olson, Franklin County, Iowa 

 farm boys who were declared the Nation- 

 al Champion Dairy Cattle Judging team 

 at the National Dairy Exposition in Mil- 

 waukee last fall when they won highest 

 honors over teams from 19 other states 

 in the boys club judging contest, will sail 

 on May 29 from Montreal to represent 

 the United States at the English Royal 

 Livestock Exposition in London this sum- 

 mer. 



The Iowa state Legislature has ju.st 

 appropriated $4,000 for the trip which 

 will include visits to the islands of Jersey 

 and Guernsey. 



ABOUT THE COUNTY EXHIBIT 



Northampton Fair 



One of the best 4-H Club Exhibits in 

 the State is anticipated this fall at the 

 Northampton Fair. The Fair Associa- 

 tion is offering three hundred and seventy- 

 five dollars in cash prizes this year to 

 young people and we have secured special 

 premiums from many grain and supply 

 companies valued at one hundred and 

 ninety dollars. There will be exhibits in 

 clothing, canning, cooking, poultry, gar- 

 dening, potatoes, corn, dairy animals and 

 handicraft. The club group exhibits will 

 be a feature and five or more special ex- 

 hibits of individual members will tell the 

 story of their success. The judging con- 

 tests which include individual contests in 

 livestock, poultry and home economics 

 will be made more attractive this year. 

 Team competition has also been made 

 possible through the help of the Hope 

 Grange of Hadley and the Northampton 

 Chamber of Commerce who have given 

 beautiful silver cups properly engraved to 

 be presented to the winning teams in the 

 boys' livestock and poultry contest and 

 the girls' home economics contest. Any 

 club or school department can enter a 

 team in these contests. The parade will 

 be carried out as in the past years. Each 

 club should have their float. Through 

 the generosity of a man whom you will 

 know later we will probably have a water- 

 melon feast for club members this year 

 after the greased pig race. Further an- 

 nouncements will inform you of this. 



Plan to judge, exhibit and take part in 

 the Youth's Department at the North- 

 ampton Fair. 



The Manhan poultry club of East- 

 hampton spent from Saturday noon, June 

 20th, to the following Monday afternoon 

 at a lake in Pelham. Fishing was the 

 main sport. All the supplies were pur- 

 cha.sed with the club fund and cooked by 

 the seven campers and their leader. 



Poultry and dairy members are begin- 

 ning to think about exhibiting and going 

 [ to the Eastern States Exposition. At the 

 1 Northampton Fair they will show better 

 than ever before 4-H Club Work. 



DAIRY MEMBERS TO EXHIBIT 



Eastern States Northampton 



Dairy members are fitting their ani- 

 mals for showing. The Eastern States 

 dairy calf exhibit attracts attention first 

 because if a member has an animal fit to 

 go the owner also goes. A week at the 

 greatest show in the East is a goal for 

 many a boy on our dairy farms. 



From Cummington to Ware are boys 

 grooming, carefully feeding and training 

 animals to appear their best. Some have 

 training jobs especially. Calves right in 

 from pastures rise high when tied out by, 

 the barn. Roger Barstow of Hockanum 

 had to sprint to keep up with his. But a 

 month and one-half of blanketing, coax- 

 ing, grooming and good treatment work 

 wonders with the animal and possibly 

 some of the boys. 



Club Work Practical 



A boy starts with a few pullets kept in 

 a little old shack. Here he learns about 

 feeding and also the advantage of im- 

 provements. He accepts responsibility. 

 He then builds a poultry house which is 

 quite a development from his little poul- 

 try start. He builds nests, roosts, cur- 

 tains and hauls gravel. All are for the 

 improvement of his poultry flock. The 

 flock enjoys the improvements and re- 

 turns a better profit. The boy by means 

 of a logical procedure has not only 

 learned about poultry but about building, 

 business, and planning. 



Leroy Nutting, Henry Randall and Leo 

 Noel of Granby; Dennett Howe of Am- 

 herst, Roger West of Hadley, Adolf 

 Wilier of Easthampton and many others 

 have grown this way in their poultry 

 work. Is it a practical way, parents? A 

 word to the wise is sufficient. 



Poultry Members to E:astern States 



An opportunity for poultry members to 

 spend a night at the Eastern States Ex- 

 position has already prompted members 

 to pick out their birds for the exhibit. 

 They will shut these up separately and 

 give them their best chance to develop. 

 Members who have well matured birds 

 of good quality can exhibit them for pre- 

 miums at the club poultry exhibit at 

 Springfield and attend the exposition on 

 Tuesday and Wednesday, staying over 

 night at Camp Vail. 



Louis West of Hadley, Alice Randal! of 

 Belchertown and C. Hilton Boynton of 

 South Hadley each bought fine Holstein 

 heifers at the sale on the Ea.stern States 

 Exposition Grounds the first part of June. 



Rachel Randall of Belchertown bought a 

 couple of Guernseys at the East Long- 

 meadow auction recently and is joining 

 the dairy club. 



