FARMERS' MONTHLY OF HAMPSHIRE COUNTY 



CLUB WORK 



Osborne West Outlines Work 



Continued from pnge 1. c-riUimn 2 

 At the first of this year I had ten head, 

 four of them milking. I had them tested 

 for T. B. and lost three of them. I now 

 have nine head, three of them milking, 

 three two-year olds, one yearling, one caif 

 and a bull calf. 



The Way He Feeds 



I feed the milking cows a grain mixture 

 of equal parts of bran, ground oats, corn 

 meal, oil meal, cottonseed and gluten 

 feed. 



I feed the young stock a grain mixture 

 of two parts of bran, corn meal, ground 

 oats and one part of oil meal. Also good 

 hay and silage. Young calves I feed 

 whole milk about six to eight weeks and 

 then change to skim milk. We try to get 

 them to eat grain and hay as soon as 

 possible as it develops their capacity. 



Wins $670.00 in Prizes 



I showed my animals at Eastern States 

 and Northampton Fair. At Eastern 

 States I won first and second on heifei- 

 over two years, third senior yearling, 

 second and fourth Junior yearling, first 

 calf and second herd. Also champion 

 heifer from Massachusetts and a medal 

 for being the best showman. Winning a 

 total of $180.00 on six head. 



At Northampton in the open class I 

 won second two-year old, second yearling 

 and third calf. In the club class I got 

 first calf, first and third yearlings, and 

 second, third and fourth on two year olds. 

 Also first prize in the Hampshire Frank- 

 lin Holstein Club Special. Forty-nine 

 dollars in all, making a total of $229.00 

 at the two fairs. 



I first started showing in 1922 and have 

 showed each year since. That year I 

 showed one heifer and won $43.00 on her. 

 In 192.3 I showed two heifers and won 

 $104.00. In 1924 showed five and won 

 $294.00 on them. This year $229.00 mak- 

 ing $670.00 in four years besides many 

 ribbons and a lot of good times. 



How He Fits Them 



About four weeks before the show is to 

 start I bring them into the barn and feed 

 them better and blanket them. About 

 two weeks before the show I clip them all 

 over. The day before the show I wash 

 them. 



Heifer Makes 21,072 of Butter 



I have just tested my heifer that won 

 first three times at Eastern States for 

 seven days. She made 515.5 lbs. of milk, 

 21.073 lbs. of butter. She is now giving 

 about 70 lbs. of milk a day. I fed her 

 30 lbs. of silage, 50 lbs. of beets, 18 lbs. 

 of grain and what alfalfa hay she would 

 eat. 



I have enjoyed being in the dairy club 

 very much. I have learned many things 

 and made lots of friends. 



JUNIOR EGG LAYING CONTEST 



Boys reporting their egg production 

 for January showed a production of 7,576 

 dozen eggs from 1,106 hens. Forty-eight 

 boys sent in reports. At sixty cents a 

 dozen their eggs are worth $432.96. 



The contest were won by John Cernak 

 of Hatfield and Walter Phelon of North- 

 ampton. Phillip Ives of Amherst and 

 Edgar Judd of Goshen were second. 

 These four win the prize grain from 

 local grain dealers. The ribbons given 

 to the three individuals having the high- 

 est production per bird go to .John 

 Cernak, Phillip Ives and Russell Burr of 

 Huntington. 



Members having good production are 

 printed below: 



No. of Eggs 

 Small Flocks Birds per Bird 



John Cernak, Hatfield 10 17.9 



Phillip Ives, Amherst 23 16.9 



Russell Burr, Huntington 23 16.4 



Joe Bonis, Hatfield 12 15.4 



Dwight Nutting, Granby 11 14.9 



Lewis West, Hadley 18 14.9 



Edward Wesolowski, Hatfield 5 14.4 

 Victor Fournier, Northampton 26 14.3 

 Lovett Peters, Amherst 11 14.5 



.Joe Newman, Hatfield 17 13.1 



Donald Truesdell, So. Deerf'd 14 12.8 

 D. Bradley Gaylord, East'ton 16 12.5 

 Adolf Wilier, Easthampton 7 11.7 

 Alan Damon, Williamsburg 14 10.5 

 Phillip Reed, Hadley 7 9.4 



Madeline Rowland, Hunt'ton 24 9.3 

 Helen Parker, Amherst 16 9.3 



George Ritter, Northampton 30 9.3 



Large Flocks 



Walter Phelon, Northampton 80 14.9 



Edgar Judd, Goshen 40 13.1 



Joe Sena, Easthampton 40 12.2 



Henry Randall, Granby 65 10.2 



ALICE RANDALL DAIRY CHAMPION 



Alice Randall of Belchertown has been 

 six years a dairy club member. At 

 present she has five fine registered hol- 

 steins. She trys to get typy looking 

 animals and those that fill the milk pail. 

 Alice says she doesn't milk because her 

 father's milking machine does that chore, 

 but she does every other duty required 

 on a dairy farm. Alice knows not only 

 her own animals by name but also those 

 in her father's herd which numbers over 

 fifty head. She's her father's walking 

 encyclopedia of his herd. 



At the Eastern States Exposition Alice 

 always reports a grand time. She has 

 been every year and so knows most of the 

 better dairy club members in Massachu- 

 setts who bring their calves there for ex- 

 hibit. This last year she had five animals 

 at the show and won $80.00 in prizes. At 

 Northampton she won $20.00. 



We try to get the dairy members from 



now on to think of growing good feed as 

 well as getting good stock. Alice jumped 

 right into this idea and grew one-half an 

 acre of soy beans last season. This win- 

 ter she has noticed their value in pro- 

 ducing milk. She had been feeding al- 

 falfa twice a day. When she fed soy 

 beans in place of one feeding of alfalfa 

 the milk flow remained the same. 



Eleanor Pontiac Model No. 763628 is 

 her favorite animal and from her she has 

 two daughters as a start toward the 

 Eleanor family. 



Alice has been a steady worker in 

 dairy work and is surely entitled to the 

 honor of Dairy County Champion. 



AROUND THE COUNTY 



C. Hilton Boynton recently had two 

 heifers freshen. He got one bull and one 

 heifer calf. His Mt. Hermon heifer, May 

 Rose, milks around twenty-five pounds 

 while Sarah milks thirty-five pounds per 

 day. 



The Russellville school clubs in Had- 

 ley are in progress. Miss B. A. Ryan 

 still leads a club of boys in handicraft 

 and one in sewing. 



Miss Harriet Woodward, assistant 

 state club leader, met with ten girls of 

 the Merry Kitchen Club of South Hadley 

 on Friday evening February 12th. Miss 

 Woodward showed them how to make 

 scalloped apples and bread crumbs and 

 also baked spinach. The meeting was 

 opened by the president who called for the 

 secretary's report. The secretary asked 

 each member to give a list of cooking she 

 had done since the club started. Each 

 one reported cooked articles such as bak- 

 ing powder biscuit, bran muffins, cus- 

 tards, soups, cookies and so forth, which 

 they had made. 



Mrs. R. 0. Nicolai and Mrs. Arthur 

 Ryan, the local leaders, were present and 

 are pleased with what the girls are doing. 



The Granby poultry club and the 

 Wirthmore poultry club of South Hadley 

 met at Mr. Ashley Randall's home in 

 Granby on February 13 for a joint meet- 

 ing on Judging. Mr. E. H. Nodine, state 

 poultry club specialist was present and 

 gave a demonstration on how to judge 

 birds taking up the points desirable in 

 the good layer. Following his talk each 

 of the fourteen boys present were given 

 cards and judged a class of five leghorns, 

 placing them as they thought best basing 

 their judgment on ability to lay eggs. 

 Frank Deitz and Elmer Ittner of South 

 Hadley were first with a score of 90%. 

 Howard Ittner of South Hadley and 

 Peter Saponckey of Granby were second 

 with a score of 80% while Dwight Nutt- 

 ing" of Granby with a score of 70% was 

 third. 



