FARMERS' MONTHLY OF HAMPSHIRE COUNTY 



HOME MAKING 



NORWICH HILL GOES 



OVER THE TOP 



Reports Show Many Changes 



Practically every family on Norwich 

 Hill, Huntington is having better meals 

 as a result of the food selection project 

 virhich twenty five of the women have 

 been studying this winter. 



To have the whole community enter in- 

 to the spirit of the work is one reason 

 why we can say they went over the top. 

 Another reason is because we had the co- 

 operation of all the members of the fami- 

 ly. We find that thirteen families are 

 using more milk, nineteen using more 

 vegetables, eleven more fruits, fifteen 

 more whole cereals and eighteen more 

 water. This could not have been accom- 

 plished if the fathers and children had 

 not entered into the game and been will- 

 ing to change their food practices. 



The truth is we have several men up 

 there who are mighty glad we had those 

 meetings, because now their wives are 

 convinced that dark bread is the thing to 

 have and they can have it as often as 

 they wish. 



The call for whole grain cereals has 

 also made the merchants sit up and take 

 notice. Entire wheat was a scarcity and 

 brown rice was unheard of, but the de- 

 mand for these has been so great that 

 they have promised to include them in 

 their stock. 



The last reason why this community 

 has gone over the top is, they are going 

 to have community meals in which there 

 will be no flaw. At each meeting of the 

 class a luncheon committee, appointed at 

 the previous meeting served a luncheon 

 that was O. K. It not only tasted good, 

 but it had all the requirements of a bal- 

 anced meal. They always served one or 

 more new dishes, and it is probably be- 

 cause of the good work that these com- 

 mittees did that the attendance kept in- 

 creasing. But the be.st part of it all 

 these women are going to keep up the 

 good work and carry out the same ideas 

 in planning their community meals. When 

 we have a whole community serving fami- 

 ly and community meals that will score 

 perfection we have an ideal condition and 

 are glad to give them their due credit. 



The Spring Fever always gets hold of 

 the women this time of year in the form 

 of a desire to renovate their furniture. 

 Easthampton, South Hadley and West 

 Chesterfield women have all done a fine 

 piece of work in this project. Besides the 

 refinishing these women have reseated 

 chairs with cane, splint. Hong Kong 

 grass (imitation rush) and oval pith. 

 The oval pith mends the piazza and sew- 

 ing chairs very satisfactorily and some of 

 the splint and rush seats have been per- 

 fect. 



FORMER MASSACHUSETTS GIRL 



CHOSEN CLOTHING SPECIALIST 



Miss Esther Belle Cooley, a native of 

 Massachusetts and for the past six years 

 clothing specialist in the .state of Oregon, 

 has been appointed clothing specialist for 

 Massachusetts. 



Announcement of the appointment was 

 made recently by W. A. Mun.son, director 

 of the Extension Sei-vice, M. A. C. Miss 

 Cooley, who is to fill the position left va- 

 cant by the accidental death last Sept- 

 ember of Miss Bertha Knight, will take 

 up her duties early in April. 



Miss Cooley was born in the town of 

 Amherst, Mass. She received her B. S. 

 degree in Home Economics from the State 

 College of Montana in- 1916. Since that 

 time her experience along clothing lines 

 has been quite extensive and varied. 



She taught Home Economics ibv a year 

 in Thompson Falls High School, Mont- 

 ana; for two years .she was instructor at 

 Winona (Minn.) State Normal School; 

 studied clothing at Columbia University, 

 New York, for a year ; for 14 months was 

 clothing specialist at Minnesota Univer- 

 sity Farm; and since 1921 has been in 

 her present position. 



Massachusetts is very fortunate in se- 

 curing a specialist of Miss Cooley's quali- 

 fications, state leaders at M. A. C. de- 

 clare. She comes very highly recom- 

 mended by leaders in Oregon and Minne- 

 sota and by others who have been in con- 

 tact with her work. County extension 

 folks in Oregon, when they heard she was 

 leaving, got up a petition asking her to 

 stay in Oregon. 



HOME EC. DEPT, OFFERS 



SUMMER SCHOOL COURSES 



The Department of Home Economics is 

 off'ering this summer, July 5 — August 13, 

 courses in Clothing, Foods, Home Fur- 

 nishing, and Millinery. These are plann- 

 ed to meet the needs of teachers, home 

 demonstration agents, local extension 

 leaders, junior club leaders, nutrition and 

 health workers, homemakers, and any 

 others desiring Home Economics training. 



Those who attended the session of 1926 

 will be glad to know that two of the in- 

 structors are to return, — Mrs. Helen Gas- 

 ton Fish, of the Metropolitan Art Muse- 

 um of New York, for Home Furnishing, 

 and Mrs. Bina Preble, of Teachers' Col- 

 lege, New York, for Millinery. The 

 Foods and Nutrition will be taught by 

 Miss Bertha Titsworth, formerly State 

 Home Demonstration Leader in New 

 Hampshire, and now head of the Home 

 Economics Department at Ohio Wesleyan. 

 Miss Catherine E. Cleveland, of the Ho- 

 race Mann School, Teachers' College, will 

 give the work in Textiles and Clothing. 



HAVE YOU HAD YOUR 



SPRING TONIC? 



At this time of the year the average 

 person feels the need of a spring tonic. 

 He rushes off" to the doctor or nearest 

 drug store, little realizing that nature 

 provides an exellent tonic in his back- 

 yard or some place nearby. Dandilions, 

 cowslips, dock, parsley, mustard, and 

 even the young milkweed shoots, are 

 among the wild greens that furnish iron 

 for the blood, and other minerals and 

 vitamins so necessary for health. Let- 

 tuce, spinach, cabbage, beet greens, and 

 endive are valuable too, and may be 

 bought in the market at reasonable 

 prices. 



The person who has been eating vege- 

 tables all winter is not so likely to find 

 himself with that tired feeling as the per- 

 son who has neglected these most impor- 

 tant foods. 



Three vegetables every day — one of 

 which may be potatoes — is a good rule to 

 follow the year around. An extra pre- 

 caution, which is most important, is that 

 one of these vegetables each day shall be 

 green or raw. To insure plenty of vege- 

 tables all year around, the family garden 

 is a great help. Don't forget — in plan- 

 ning your garden— to plant a few extra 

 rows for storing and canning in the fall. 

 Greens of all kinds, green beans, and 

 tomatoes are among the vegetables which 

 are easily canned, and which give many- 

 fold returns in good health. They may 

 be eaten by all members of the family, 

 and greatly swell the sum total of miner- 

 als and vitamins in the winter dietary. 



The extension service will gladly fur- 

 nish you . with seed varieties, and direc- 

 tions for planting and caring for your 

 garden — and later with instructions for 

 canning. 



If you wish this material send a card 

 to Mildred Boice, Home Demonstration 

 Agent, Northampton, Mass. 



DRINK MORE MILK 



The school children of Massachusetts 

 are not drinking enough milk. "Of the 

 8,000 children interviewed last year at 

 the State Tuberculosis clinics nearly 

 7,000 were not drinking even two glasses 

 of milk a day," states Dr. Henry D. Chad- 

 wick director. Division of Tuberculosis, 

 State Department of Public Health, in his 

 report of the food habits found among the 

 under-weight school children. 



This rather startling condition is not 

 due to economic circumstances but to lack 

 of interest on the part of the children and 

 improper home control. In spite of all 

 the health teaching in the schools of to- 

 day the children are not taking hold of 



