FARMERS' MONTHLY OF HAMPSHIRE COUNTY 



AROUND THE COUNTY 



Henry Randall of Granby has pur- 

 chased a Jersey Bull calf from Arthur 

 LaSalle of North Hadley. This is 

 Henry's second purchase as he already 

 owns a pretty Jersey heifer. 



Mr. E. H. Nodine from M. A. C. visited 

 the County the week of October 18 and 

 found some interest in the Poultry egg 

 laying contest in Plainfield and Goshen. 

 A Poultry club may be organized in both 

 of these towns if a leader can be found. 



A new club has been started in Bel- 

 chertown where there never has been a 

 4-H club in the past. The girls and boys 

 in the Liberty School have enrolled in 

 the clothing and handicraft clubs. Miss 

 Lucia DeSilvis, the teacher is to act as 

 local leader. About twenty-five will be 

 in the two clubs. 



Three girls in the Dwight school, 

 Belchertown, are to learn to make felt 

 hats, while the younger girls will con- 

 tinue with their regular clothing work. 

 All of the boys will do Handicraft work 

 as in the past. Miss Mabel Randolph, 

 the teacher, will continue to act as local 

 leader of the two clubs. 



When the club agent visited the Turkey 

 Hill school in Belchertown recently, he 

 found the boys and girls very much in- 

 terested in club work, especially clothing 

 and handicraft. If a local leader can 

 be found, these two clubs will be started. 

 Let us hope one can be found. 



Miss Dorathea Dige, teacher in the 

 Grammer School in Goshen, writes that 

 the young folks are very much interested 

 in clothing and handicraft. What is 

 beter still, she sent in several enrollment 

 cards to prove it. Because there are 

 some mighty good boys and girls in that 

 school and they have a good leader in 

 Miss Dige, we expect they will do some 

 very good work. 



Mr. Norman Whippen, whom most of i 

 you will remember as club agent until ; 

 recently, has started some handicraft 

 club work in the Hillside school of which 

 he is Superintendent. Fourteen boys are 

 enrolled and apparently they mean busi- I 

 ness as they started by building a hen '■ 

 house. He says he has several boys of | 

 county champion caliber. 



Thirty girls in Northampton have 

 formed a clothing club led by Miss 

 Katherine Slayter of the People's Insti- 

 tute. Miss Slayter is assisted by two 

 Smith College Students, Miss Katherine 

 East and Miss Alice Seybolt. Twenty- 

 five of these girls are taking the fir.st 

 year program and five the second year 

 program in the clothing club. It is 

 certainly pleasing the interest these 

 young people are showing in their work 



and they certainly are to be congratu- 

 lated on having an organization like the 

 Institute to help them. 



Joel Dwight, a Dairy Club member in 

 West Hatfield, bought another pure-bred 

 Holstein from D. C. Randall of Belcher- 

 town. This is Joel's third pure bred and 

 will help to make up a "Herd" which he 

 intends to exhibit at the Eastern States 

 Exposition next fall. 



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