FARMERS' MONTHLY OF HAMPSHIRE COUNTY 



CLUB WORK 



NORTHAMPTON FAIR-YES! 



The premium list is out. Over $375.00 

 is offered in cash prizes by the North- 

 ampton Agricultural Society. Also you 

 can try for $16.5.00 worth of special 

 prizes given by publishing houses, grain 

 stores, clothing stores, dairy cattle clubs, 

 granges and chambers of commerce. 

 •Judging contests for both boys and girls 

 will be again featured. The dairy poul- 

 try, vegetable, clothing, food and other 

 exhibitors will be very much pleased with 

 the opportunity to compete for prizes. 

 Even though many other departments in 

 the Fair were cut to save expenses the 

 boys' and girls' premium list offers as 

 much as it did la.st year. There will be 

 town exhibits, 4-H club exhibits and 

 canning exhibits. The Dairy Club Mem- 

 bers will have the best and largest .show- 

 ing of livestock ever entered at North- 

 ampton. The poultry, vegetables, canned 

 products, food, clothing and handicraft 

 prizes are all in the premium list. In' 

 fact there is a fine chance for any young 

 person who has any punch. Seventy-five 

 dollars is off'ered for winners in judging. 

 In the livestock and home economics judg- 

 ing ten dollars is offered for the first 

 prize, five for the second and three for 

 the third. In poultry the prizes are 

 four, three and two. However special 

 prizes are again offered by the North- 

 ampton Chamber of Commerce. They 

 offer three five dollar gold pieces to the 

 three members of the winning livestock 

 and poultry judging teams. The Hope 

 Grange of Hadley offers three five dollar 

 gold pieces to the three members of the 

 winning home economics judging team. 



Special Prizes 



The Hampshire Hardware Company 

 will give a strainer milk pail to the best 

 Holstein showman and Foster Farrar 

 will give a Dover Sanitary Milk Pail to 

 the best Guernsey showman. 



The Farm Journal is offering Biggie 

 Books to the exhibitor of the best 

 Holstein, Guernsey and Jersey and second 

 be.st Holstein, also two garden and four 

 poultry books. 



The Hampshire Franklin Holstein Club 

 is doubling its prizes this year and so give 

 $15.00 in three prizes to the best Holstein 

 under two years and $15.00 for the best 

 over two years. 



The Franklin County Jersey Club also 

 is giving twice what it did last year. For 

 Jer.seys not in milk $10.00 is offered in 

 three prizes and $10.00 also for Jerseys 

 in milk. The Holstein Friesian Associa- 

 tion of America and the American 

 Guernsey Cattle Club offer fine ribbons to 

 winners in their breeds. 



In poultry special prizes are offered by 

 the Purina Mills of St. Louis, Mis.souri. 

 The Poultry Item of Sellersville, Pa. of- 



fers nine years of subscriptions to its 

 paper and a copy of Dr. Wood's "Modern 

 Fresh Air Poultry Houses." The Farm 

 Journal of Chicago, Illinois, is to give 

 away five subscriptions to their poultry 

 publication. J. A. Sullivan and Company 

 have put up a Putnam stove while 

 Dennett Howe of Amherst offers a setting 

 of Rhode Island Red hatching eggs. The 

 Tioga Mill and Elevator Company of 

 Waverly, N. Y. offers a silver cup and 

 two medals as pictured below. 



The Collis Products Company of 

 Clinton, Iowa, again offer one hundred 

 pounds of Collis process pure dried but- 

 termilk while James A. Sturges Company 

 of Easthamj^ton will give two hundred 

 pounds of grain to winners in Southamp- 

 ton, Westhampton, Easthampton, West 

 Farms and Pine Grove. 



The Phelps Publishing Company offer 

 nine subscriptions to the New England 

 Home.stead to gardeners. 



For food exhibitors Grife's Department 

 Store in Northampton helps by offering a 

 set of yellow mixing bowls and Igleheart 

 Brothers offer six sets of Swans Down 

 Cake Mixing utensils and fifteen pack- 

 ages of Swans Down Flour. The Pictorial 

 Review Company of New York and the 

 Pri-scila Company of Boston offer two 

 .subscriptions to their magazines. 



Lambie's in Northampton will give 

 sufficient rayon for a dress to a clothing 

 winner and McCallum's have offered 

 muslin for a dress. 



And so you see anybody with that 

 necessary ambition can either pick up 

 some special prizes or some of the cash 

 prizes offered by the Northampton Fair 

 Association. 



It comes on October 5, 6 and 7. 



APRIL CONTEST RESULTS 



They say any old bird will lay at this 

 time of year. But they don't all lay as 

 well as Joe Newman's flock at West Hat- 

 field who got an average of 28.1 eggs per 

 bird from fifteen hens during the month 

 of April. Read the.se results tabulated 

 from forty-one records sent in by 4-H 

 club members. 



41 members reporting 



896 birds or 21.8 birds a piece 

 17,074 eggs laid 



19.05 eggs per bird 

 63.59r production 



Below are some of the boys getting- 

 good results. 



Flockf; betti'cen five and forty birds. 



Hggs 



per 



Birils Eggs Bird 



Joe Newman, Hatfield 15 421 28.1 



Phillip Ives, Amherst 18 471 26.2 



Michael Filipek, Hatfield 25 640 25.6 



John Cernak, Hatfield 6 146 24.3 

 Henry Hendricksen, 



So. Hadley 20 485 24.3 

 Milton Dietz 



So. Hadley 20 4*^5 24.3 

 Frank Dietz 



So. Hadley 20 485 24.3 



Joe Sena, Easthampton 16 376 23.5 



Robert Ryan, Hatfield 9 210 23.3 

 Donald Truesdell, 



So. Deerfield 12 279 23.2 



Howe Brothers, Amherst 27 609 22.5 



Lovett Peters, Amherst 11 245 22.2 

 George Ritter, 



Northampton 26 570 22. 



Lester Coit, Huntington 14 304 21.7 

 George Bergman, 



Easthampton 30 652 21. 

 Stanley Skormpski, 



Hatfield 9 188 20.9 



Robert Barr, Huntington 36 749 20.8 

 Madaline Howland, 



Huntington 11 228 20.7 



Flocks over forty birds. 

 Henry Randall, Granby 45 1134 25.2 

 Alice Randall, 



Belchertown 60 1290 21.5 



Erick Moburg, 



Southampton 40 639 15.9 



Walter Phelon, 



Smith School 68 921 13.5 



The three ribbons for April go to Joe, 



