FARMERS' MONTHLY OF HAMPSHIRE COUNTY 



STATE HONORS WON | 



Record for poultry club members are 

 compared at the state office each month. 

 The ten highest are considered state win- 

 ners. Hampshire County had two boys 

 on this list in the December contest. 

 Phillip Ives and Lovett Peters of Am- 

 herst stood ninth and tenth for egg pi-o- 

 duction, their birds each producing 18.8 

 eggs for the month of December. 



Walter Phelon was ninth among the 

 first ten in Massachusetts for .January. 



Edgar .Judd of Goshen was sixth for 

 large flocks in March. His forty birds 

 laid six hundred and twenty eggs, 15. .5 

 eggs per bird. Howe Brothers of Am- 

 herst were tenth with their forty birds 

 which laid five hundred ninety eggs or 

 14.7 eggs per bird. 



On May 27 and 28 Hamp.shire and 

 Franklin Counties will unite in holding a 

 Club Members' .Jersey Meeting and a 

 Holstein meeting at Massachusetts Agri- 

 cultural College. The Jersey folks will 

 be gotten together on the 27th, and on 

 the 28th the HoLstein members will be 

 rounded up. Plans will be made at 

 Draper Hall for a banquet supper at six 

 o'clock after which will be moving pic- 

 tures of the Holstein Breed on the second 

 night. On each night there will be a 

 Dairy Breeder from each county to talk 

 to the members and parents present and 

 also a club member from each county will 

 talk on their club work. A trip to the 

 college barns will be arranged before the 

 banquet if the people arrive on time. 



Every club member who is interested 

 in developing the Health H in the four 

 leaf clover ought to be a garden or a 

 canning member. A garden produces 

 crops entirely necessary for health. 

 Canning keeps them. 



The Wirthmore Poultry Club of South 

 Hadley is to have on May 8th a poultry 

 show at which each member will exhibit 

 a pen (four females and one male) of 

 birds. Mr. Howard Orsborne helped get 

 these boys together in the winter and now 

 has ten enthusiastic young.sters planning 

 their chicken work for this coming sum- 

 mer. At a recent meeting the President, 

 Howard Nelson, appointed three boys to 

 prepare a demonstration on feeding 

 chicks and two other boys to be getting 

 ready to give one on the control of lice 

 and mites. These will be given at the 

 show for the benefit of all who attend. 



The judging contests at Northampton 

 next fall are all arranged for. The Hope 

 Grange of Hadley and the Northampton 



Chamber of Conimei'ce each have given 

 three five-dollar gold pieces which will be 

 used as prizes and given to the three 

 winners of the winning teams in the homo 

 economics and livestock judging contests. 

 These gold pieces are given this year in 

 place of the cups which the same two 

 organizations presented last year to the 

 Hampshire County Dairy Club Team and 

 the Smith Academy Home Economics 

 Team. 



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AROUND THE COUNTY 



•James Garvey, Jr. has two hundred 

 Rhode Island Red chicks and one hundred 

 white Leghorns. All came from certified 

 flocks. 



State Inspected and Certified 

 Healthy 



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