FARMERS' MONTHLY OF HAMPSHIRE COUNTY 



HOME MAKING 



WILL YOUR CHILD RANK 



100 PER CENT 



Let us check up on ourselves and see if 

 our children show the effects of being 

 well fed and cared for. To help in doing 

 this Dr. Fritz Talbot of Boston has care- 

 fully defined good nutrition as including 

 all the following factors. 

 Expression — alert 

 Eyes — clear, bright, no puffiness 

 Skin — clear, neither too dry nor too 



moist 

 Color — good in cheeks, eyelids, earlobes, 



lips 

 Tongue — clear, red 

 Breath — sweet 



Muscles — firm with sufficient firm sub- 

 cutaneous tissue 

 Muscular co-ordination — good 

 Nervous control — good 

 Endurance — good, no distress on or- 

 dinary exertion 

 Weight — optimal for height and type 

 Teeth — strong, even, closing well, no 



cavities 

 Shoulders — even 

 Back — straight 

 Chest — broad and deep 

 Knees — joints of normal size 

 Legs — straight 

 Ankles — joints of normal size 

 Feet — toes straight — arches long 

 Posture — head erect, ear in line with 

 .shoulder cap, chest held forward of 

 abdomen, flat, held back of line of 

 chest, antereposterior foot position, 

 weight on balls of feet 

 An air of vitality and joy characteris- 

 tic of a healthy child. 



If your children test 100% you may be 

 well pleased with yourself. You are 

 probably doing your duty and raising 

 healthy children. 



ISN'T IT THE TRUTH 



You know the model of your Car, 

 You know just what its powers are. 

 You treat it with a deal of care 

 Nor tax it moi'e than it will bear. 

 But as for self — that's diff'erent; 

 Your mechanism may be bent. 

 Your carburetor gone to grass. 

 Your engine just a rusty mass. 



Your wheels may wobble and your 



cogs 

 Be handed over to the dogs. 

 And you skip and skid and slide 

 Without a thought of things inside. 

 What fools, indeed, we mortals are 

 To lavish care upon a Car 

 With n'er a bit of time to see 

 About our own machinery! 



— John Kendrick Bangs. 



HOME HAPPENINGS 



, The millinery groups in West Chester- 

 field, Worthington, Huntington Street 

 Norwich Bridge, Norwich Hill and Mid- 

 dlefield finished their millinery work with 

 a style show at Huntington. Eighty-two 

 women were present and wore their hats. 

 Each leader gave a report of the work 

 accomplished by her group and from 

 them we are led to believe that the women 

 have not only had good fun meeting to- 

 gether and have good looking hats but 

 they have saved some money which is 

 quite an important item in these days. 

 One hundred twenty hats were made at 

 a cost of $150.18 and a saving of $660.32. 



A MATTER OF MINERALS 



Minerals may be Obtained from Sweets 



Many persons eat things they do not 

 like for the sake of getting needed min- 

 erals in the diet. It is well, therefore, 

 to know how to supply minerals in at- 

 tractive form, says the United States 

 Department of Agriculture. Cookbooks 

 have for many years carried recipes for 

 a kind of confection known as Parisian 

 sweets, made by finely chopping and mix- 

 ing equal weights of dates, figs and 

 shelled walnuts. This mixture is usually 

 formed into caramel-shaped pieces or into 

 balls which are rolled in sugar to reduce 

 their stickiness. Or it can be spread 

 between slices of bread, and if it hap- 

 pens to be graham bread the product is 

 a sweet sandwich in which mineral is 

 added to mineral. If we compare a 

 sandwich made of 1 ounce (two small 

 slices of graham bread) and 1 ounce of 

 the mixture mentioned above — or, in 

 fact, almost any combination of nuts 

 and dried fruits — with a sandwich made 

 from the same amount of white bread 

 spread with butter and sugar, we find 

 that the former has more than six times 

 the calcium, more than twice the phos- 

 phorus, and, best of all, since iron is 

 hardest to find among foods in common 

 use, more than four times the iron. 

 This one sweet sandwich, in fact, sup- 

 plies one-tenth of all the iron needed by 

 a grown person in the course of a day. 



BRIEF SUMMARY 1)F WORK FOR 1925 



WHAT ONE HUSBAND THINKS 



A saying that has been in vogue for 

 years, "That a man with good footwear 

 and an up to date hat is well dressed," 

 is no doubt applicable to the women for 

 we know that an unbecoming hat on a ] 

 woman is quite noticeable. I think this 

 should be taken into account in selecting 

 the proper shapes as well as colors and 

 trimming materials and we can help our- 

 selves greatly in this matter by observing 

 the efl'ects of these suggestions on others. 

 For like the old Scotch saying, "O had 

 we the gift to gi' us, to see oursels as 

 ithers sae us." 



Thanks to their instructor, the women 

 feel that for the first time they have made 

 a creditable showing and with the in- 

 struction they get and a proper interest 

 on their part this venture will result in 

 the desirable coupling of pleasure and 

 pi-ofit. — Mr. Cleaveland, 



West Chesterfield. 



Westhampton and Easthampton women 

 are doing just what we want them to do, 

 that is, keeping along with work which 

 they carried as a project the year before. 

 These women are making felt hats by the 

 dozen and all the Home Demonstration 

 Agent has had to do is supply their 

 leader with the patterns and the address 

 of the American Felt Company. 



Belchertown women are starting work 

 with the children's clothes project. 



The towns not taking the food selection 

 project are missing something good. The 

 nutrition leaders have lai'ger enrollments 

 this year than any leaders have had in 

 the last three years. Amherst has 

 twenty, Granby twenty-five, South Had- 

 ley thirty, Southampton forty-two, and 

 Westhampton twenty-six. This does not 

 mean only eni'ollment, in most instances 

 this number of women are attending 

 meetings. 



Extension School plans are being made. 

 Be sure to attend the school to be held 

 in vour town. 



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Every town in county reached but one. 

 Practically one thousand women enrolled 

 in project work. Women reported saving 

 $2,485.06 from the clothing and millinery 

 projects and $825.42 from the furniture 

 renovation project. 



The Home Department of the Hamp- 

 shire County Extension Sei-vice has made 

 progress in several»ways this past year. 



1. In the development of the advisory 

 council into a working body. 



2. In the number and quality of our 

 local leaders. 



3. In the development of leader train- 

 ing in our project work. 



4. In the response of local women 

 toward project work. 



5. In the methods of checking results. 



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