FARMERS' MONTHLY OF HAMPSHIRE COUNTY 



CLUB WORK 



EGG LAYING CONTEST 



December records came in pretty well. 

 Forty-nine members reported their egg 

 Ijroduction. These members repoi'ting 

 own 1170 birds which laid 671 dozens of 

 eggs so that the average production per 

 bird was 6.9 eggs per bii-d. This means 

 that some of you boys want to plan to 

 get a few more eggs in the month of 

 December. If your hens wei'e laying as 

 they should each one should have laid ten 

 or more eggs during that month. 



The winners of the December contest 

 for flocks between five and forty birds 



Effgs 

 nird.^ per bird 

 Phillip Ives, Amherst 24 18.87 

 Lovett Peters, Amherst ' 11 18.80 



Winners for flocks over forty birds 

 were: 



Egg-.s 

 l!irds per bird 

 Walter Phelon, North'ton 30 10.8 

 Henry Randall, Granby 67 10.4 



The boy.s will get their prizes of fifty 

 or twenty-five pounds of grain as given 

 by the local grain dealers in the county. 



The other boys whose hens laid over 

 ten eggs per bird were: 



Egg.s 

 Bii-ds per bird 

 George Ritter, North'ton 30 1.5.0 

 Robert Cutter, Hatfield, 20 13.7 

 Howard Gorham, East'ton .5 13.0 

 D wight Nutting, Granby 11 12.1 

 John Cernak, Hatfield 7 12.0 



Donald Truesdell, 



So Deerfield 14 10.9 



Charles Klimo.ski, Hadley 1.5 10.7 

 Phillip Reed, Hadley 7 10.5 



GRANBY GIRLS COOK 



Mrs. Ashley Randall has twelve Gran- 

 by girls in a 4-H club. They met to or- 

 ganize on Thursday, .lanuary 7, when 

 they elected Gertrude Bernier, president, 

 Bertha Tack, vice-president, and Sylvia 

 Bardwell, secretary-treasurer. Their 

 regular meetings will be on Thursday 

 afternoons when they will be excused 

 from school by Miss E. D. Haines, their 

 teacher, to go to Mrs. Randall's home. 

 Demonstrations on making baking pow- 

 der biscuits, custards, chocolate pudding, 

 corn chowder and so forth will be some- 

 time given by the leader, Mrs. Randall, 

 and sometimes by the girls themselves. 

 On Thursday morning, .lanuary 14, Miss 

 Lillian Shaben, of the Ru.s.sell Miller Mill- 

 ing Company gave a demonstration on 

 the making of cinnamon rolls to the club. 



Some of the girls preferred to sew and 

 therefoi-e the group will learn to clothe 

 as well as feed themselves. 



Some over six hundred boys and girls 

 are enrolled in 4-H club work .so far for 

 1926. 



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Also during the business meeting a 

 committee of members on tours, field 

 days, exhibits, etc. was appointed to help 

 arrange some interesting trips for the 

 coming year. The committee appointed 

 is as folows: Alice Randall of Belcher- 

 town, Stanley Sapowcky of Granby, 

 Frank Misterka of Northampton, Ashley 

 Gurney of Cummington and Dennett 

 Howe of Amherst. 



George L. Farley, state club leader, 

 told the group in the morning of a New 

 England-wide attempt to organize dairy 

 club work and was enthusiastic over the 

 successful first meeting of this county or- 

 ganization. Later in the day he helped 

 line out a program of tours and field days 

 which stirred the interest of the club 

 members. 



Roland A. Payne, county argricultural 

 agent, gave a lantern slide talk on rais- 

 ing I'oughages, urging the members to 

 raise clover, alfalfa, soy beans and other 

 good roughages to reduce their grain bill. 

 Then C. J. Fawcett, dairy specialist at 

 M. A. C. followed with a plan of Econom- 

 ical Feeding. 



W. F. Howe, assistant state club lead- 

 er, and E. .1. Montague, Superintendent 

 of the College farm, told the members 

 some good points in selecting calves and 

 urged breeders to help boys to get good 

 calves and not use them for a dump for 

 their poor stock as a few have attempted. 



Three club members gave fine talks. 

 Alice Randall of Belchertown who owns 

 six animals herself and is her father's 

 right hand man on a farm of over 60 

 head told "My Interest in the Farm" 

 while Steven Brusko of Hatfield told 

 about his prize winner, Kolrain Ormsby 

 Cornicopia, and ended up by saying, 

 "When I get too old for club work, 

 I'll teach others what I know. I'll 

 be a local leader and keep club work on 

 the go." Then Osborne West (Suds) told 

 of his "Plans in Dairying" and said he 

 was going to keep at it. Suds already 

 has nine purebred Holsteins of fine qual- 

 ity. 



This dairy club is organized to en- 

 courage young people on farms to start 

 with high quality stock and develop small 

 herds. Proper breeding, feeding and 

 raising of breeds follow. 



At the Russell School in Hadley about 

 seventy girls will be in clothing work led 

 by Mrs. Edna M. Powers, Miss Doris 

 Chittim and Mrs. Margaret Brooks. 

 Further attempt is being made to get to- 

 gether a group of girls in a food club who 

 get help from Mrs. Doris Champlain, 

 domestic science teacher, and her home 

 economics girls. 



MY HERD 



This is my sixth year in the Dairy 

 Club and I have five registered Holsteins. 

 I am a member of the Holstein-Friesian 

 Association of America from which I re- 

 ceived a fine certificate, a button and a 

 picture of a true type Holstein cow. 

 The letter of thanks I wrote to Mr. 

 Cooper for the prize money I received 

 through the association was printed in 

 the November issue of the "Calf Club 

 News." 



During the past year I have had a 

 great deal of work to do; earing for my 

 stock and poultry, helping my father and 

 mother, and taking the Commercial 

 course at school. 



This year Eleanor Pontiac Model, No. 

 763628, was milking but my father has a 

 milking machine .so I do not have to milk, 

 altho I help do all the other chores. I 

 fed her Eastern States Milkmore and she 

 had a good milk production as shown in 

 my record book. Her calf, Alice Fayne, 

 No. 1015328 has done very well and I 

 think she will be a fine individual. 



My other two heifers, Elina Rag Apple 

 Mata and Blue Meadow Vivian Elsie 

 Piet.ie, did not do very well this year, as 

 they were at pasture all summer, so I 

 sold one at the last of September. 



In June I purchased Summit Roxland 

 Parthenea. No. 972720, at an auction at 

 the Eastern States Exposition of the 

 Summit Lumber Co. of Davidson, Maine. 

 Her sire is lowana Aaggie Sir Fayne and 

 her dam is K. W. J. L. Brua Korndyke 

 who is a daughter of King Walker 

 Johanna Lad and who is a good trans- 

 mitting son of the King of the Black and 

 Whites. Her dam as a 3 year old pro- 

 duced in 305 days, 532.34 lbs. butter and 

 13287.70 lbs, of milk. 



I staked Parthenea out doors every 

 good day, but I kept Alice in the barn, 

 and she did the best. 



Two weeks before the Exposition I had 

 the job of turning the crank on the clip- 

 ping machine for my father to clip seven 

 head. It was certainly some task but 

 they looked fine after we were through. 

 Then some of them had horns so I had to 

 scrape, sandpaper and polish them. It 

 was a busy time. All the cattle exhibited 

 at the E. S. E. must be tuberculin tested 

 within ninety days prior to the .show or 

 come from an accredited herd. 



On Sept. 19, they were ready to be 

 loaded into a big truck to go to the Ex- 

 position. When we arrived there we 

 found a great many more calves than 

 had been there the previous years. I have 

 exhibited at the Exposition for three 

 years and each year I learn and see many 

 more interesting things. This year three 

 new buildings were built, — Maine build- 

 ing, Hampden County League, and the 

 Eastern States League building which 



