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OF HAMPSHIRE COUINTV 



Vol. XII. 



NORTHAMPTON, MASS., MARCH, 1927 



NUTRITION IN A NUT SHELL 



Subject Discussed at Extension Schools 



"If I might be born again and could 

 choose my own mother I would certainly 

 pick some one who knew how to feed her- 

 self and me. To have me for a child she 

 would have to be partial to milk, be fav- 

 orable to green vegetables, enjoy fruit, 

 eat eggs, choose the coarser grain pro- 

 ducts and be willing to take cod liver oil 

 when needed. I'd hate to be saddled 

 again with a second or third-rate body." 



The woman speaking had just returned 

 from a hard morning in the dentist's 

 chair, getting repairs made on her teeth 

 marred in the making. She was giving 

 voice to the belief that the day's food 

 plays a big part in our welfare. If our 

 mothers had known more about diet many 

 of us would not now need to spend so 

 much energy, time and money keeping 

 poorly made bodies in repair. 



This, mind you, is no reflection on the 

 mothers of the past. They did the best 

 they could with the knowledge they had. 

 But times have changed. In these days 

 information about diet is simple, practi- 

 cal and easy to get. It is, therefore, rath- 

 er hard luck to be a baby and fall to the 

 lot of a mother who doesn't know about 

 diet and who has bad food habits. It 

 isn't fair for a baby of this generation to 

 find himself necessarily marked "dam- 

 aged goods" on the day he is born and to 

 be relegated to the class of "seconds" and 

 put on life's bargain counter. 



Mothers Diet Important 



The daily diet of mothers plays a star 

 part in creating healthy bodies for their 

 babies. To have failed to form the habit 

 of eating such foods as milk or vegetables 

 or fruits and of making a sacrifice to 

 take a daily teaspoonful of cod liver oil 

 when it is needed may bo bad enough for 

 the health of any grown person, but it is 

 particularly hard on a baby to have such 

 a person for a mother. How could it be 

 otherwise? Just reflect for a minute 

 what food is required to do for human 

 bodies. Build them and keep them in 

 repair. Muscles, nerves, bones, blood — 

 all need special building materials and 

 get them only from food. Regulate all 

 the activities of the body and keep them 

 running .smoothly. Growth, development, 

 the beating of the heart, the ability to 

 breathe, and a thousand and one other 

 activities of the human body must be reg- 

 Continufd on page 4, column 1 



SPRING MEETING 

 of the 



HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FRUIT 

 GROWERS' ASSOCIATION 



March 24, 1927 

 at Massachusetts Agricultural College 



10.30. Fernald Hall. 



Insect and disease control 



campaign for 1927. 

 Prof. Bourne and Prof. 



Doran. 



12.00. Dinner— Dining Hall. 



1.30. French Hall. 



The elimination of the little 



green apple. 

 Prof. R. A. Van Meter. 



3.00. Open discussion, everyone 

 present their problems. 



Every Fruit Grower in Hamp- 

 shire County is urged to attend this 

 meeting. 



COUNTY DAIRY CHAMPION 



Walter Granger of So. Worthington 

 Wins Honor 



For four years one of the most out- 

 standing Dairy club members in the coun- 

 ty; for four years a consistent exhibitor 

 and winner of Holstein animals at Cum- 

 mington Fair, Three County Fair and 

 Eastern States E.xposition; the owner of 

 five pure-bred Holsteins, one of the larg- 

 est herds of animals owned by a club 

 member in this county, it is only natural 

 that Walter Granger of South Worthing- 

 ton should be selected as County Dairy 

 Champion for 1926. 



Starting in 1923, when only ten years 

 old, Walter bought a pure-bred calf from 

 the Mt. Herman School in Northfield and 

 thus gained his start in the Dairy project. 

 Since then he has bought a bull calf and 

 a heifer and is raising two heifers from 

 his original purchase from Mt. Herman, 

 making five head in his herd. 



Walter lives in West Chesterfield far 

 from any other Dairy member. In spite 

 of this natural handicap he is one of the 

 most active in all Dairy club activities 

 such as exhibiting, attending couny dairy 

 meetings and tours, etc., and has always 

 taken part in all contests. While he has 

 never won first prize at the Eastern 

 States, Walter has never been far from 



Continued on p:ige 7. column 1 



YANKEE BILL LOSES 



Progress Acquitted of Slander at Mock 

 Trial 



Yankee Bill lost his slander suit 

 against Peter Progress at the Mock Trial 

 held in the Extension Service Rooms, 

 Thursday, February 17. One hundred 

 fifty dairy farmers and their wives filled 

 the court room so full that one-third of 

 the audience had standing room only for 

 the two hours that the trial was taking 

 place. Yankee Bill claimed that Peter Pro- 

 gress had slandered him by publicly stat- 

 ing that he kept awfully poor cows ; that 

 he only fed them enough to keep them 

 alive; that he did not keep any records so 

 that he did not know whether his cows 

 paid or not ; and his cows were tubercular. 

 S. R. Parker of M. A. C. as Peter Progress 

 agreed that he had made these statements 

 and that they were the truth. His de- 

 fense was that the truth is not slander. 

 The judge, G. Fred Pelissier, of Hadley, 

 decided that since the jury was asleep 

 half of the time he would decide the case 

 against Yankee Bill. 



Yankee Bill's Case 



C. J. Fawcett of M. A. C. taking the 

 part of Yankee Bill was ably represented 

 by J. G. Watson of the New England 

 Homestead. Bill stated that the stories 

 that Progress had made about him had 

 made it impossible for him to sleep, even 

 day times. He claimed that there were 

 lots of farmers in this county whose cows 

 were no better than his, that they were 

 fed just the same as he was feeding, that 

 very few farmers kept any records of the 

 production of their cows and as for T. B. 

 testing he had no use for it. He had seen 

 cows te.sted with tuberculin and they did 

 not like it as it made lumps on their tails. 



Bill called on E. Thornton Clark of 

 Granby to testify for him. Mr. Clark 

 said he was a neighbor of Bill's. He had 

 seen Bill's cows because Bill always 

 started his haying late and borrowed his 

 mowing machine to do the work. When 

 he wanted it back he had to go to Bill's 

 to get it. He said that Bill claimed to 

 work over fifteen hours a day so did not 

 have time to weigh his milk. He thought 

 that Bill's cows were just right for the 

 kind of feed that he was raising. L. P. 

 Townsend of the Hampden County Im- 

 provement League, attorney for Progress, 

 showed that Mr. Clark keeps better cows 

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