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OF HAMPSHIRE COUINTV 



Vol. XII. 



NORTHAMPTON, MASS., MAY, 1927 



No. 5 



ANNUAL PICNIC-JUNE 9 



Dr. Hedger to be With Us 



June 9 is the date for the annual home- 

 makers picnic at Laurel Park. The day 

 is planned especially for the homemakers 

 of Hampshire County and their families, 

 and we hope every effort will be made to 

 come. 



Dr. Hedger to Speak 



So many people spoke so favorably of 

 Dr. Hedger's talk last June that we knew 

 it would be impossible to find anyone who 

 could take her place. So after great ef- 

 fort we are going to be able to have Dr. 

 Hedger with us again this year. 



She will speak at eleven o'clock in the 

 morning. This means, you will have to 

 get to the meeting on time, because it 

 would be a mistake to miss one word Dr. 

 Hedger said. Her topic will be "What 

 the Community Owes the Child". A sub- 

 ject that will be of interest to old and 

 young, men and women. 



If you heard Dr. Hedger last June I 

 know you will come this year. And if 

 you have not been fortunate enough to 

 hear her, you certainly will want to make 

 the effort. She inspires one with her 

 strength of mind and purpose and ideal 

 to make the world a better place for 

 children and adults to live in. 



Pageant to Be Given 



The afternoon program is going to be 

 very different from anything we have had 

 before. It is to consist of a pageant 

 written by Mrs. Clifton Johnson, a trustee 

 of the Hampshire County Extension Ser- 

 vice. The title is "The Problems of Adam 

 and Eve, and the Rest of the Hampshire 

 County Family." It consists of dancing, 

 singing, and costuming, and depicts the 

 project work of the home department for 

 the last four and a half years. We ex- 

 pect every town will have a share in the 

 pageant. You will want to see it. 



Children Cared For 



You may feel free to bring the children 

 and have them in care of experts. The 

 nursery is to be in charge of the people 

 who run the day nursery at Northampton. 

 Your child will be well cared for and you 

 need not worry about them or have the 

 care of them. Babies arc no excuse for 

 not attending. 



It will be the la.st time that I, as Home 

 Demonstration Agent of Hampshire 

 County will have the opportunity of meet- 



WANTED 



Every Farm Family to be rep- 

 resented at the Home Makers Pic- 

 nic. 



LAUREL PARK, NORTHAMPTON 



Thursday, June 9, 10.30 A. M. 



ing you. I hope every town will be re- 

 presented so that the fifth and last of the 

 June meetings I have had the plea.sure 

 of planning with you will be the biggest 

 and be.st. Pass the word along to your 

 friends and neighbors, prepare a basket 

 lunch, and be at Laurel Park, at 10.30 

 Thursday morning, June 9. 

 — Mildred Boice, 



Home Demonstration Agent. 



THREE TOWNS DRIVE FOR AREA TEST 



The State Legislature recently passed 

 a law which provides a method whereby 

 tuberculous cattle may be eliminated from 

 certain towns of the State. It states 

 "Whenever not less than eighty-five per 

 centum of the cattle permanently kept in 

 a town are, upon application of their 

 owners, being tested for bovine tubercul- 

 osis under the supervision of the Di- 

 rector (of Animal Industry) , the Director 

 may apply the same test to all other cattle 

 in such town. 



Huntington, Chesterfield and Cumming- 

 ton are three towns in the county that are 

 planning to take advantage of this law. 

 The 1926 figures of the cattle inspectors 

 show that Huntington had 508 cattle, 

 Chesterfield 518, and Cummington, 531. 

 A large part of the cows in the adjoining 

 town of Westhampton have either been 

 tested or their owners have applied for 

 the test. By having over 1500 T. B. free 

 cattle in these towns it will be possible 

 to attract buyers to a far greater extent 

 than would be 'the case with isolated 

 herds. It is hoped that the idea of this 

 area test will extend to Middlefield, 

 Worthington, Plainfield and Goshen be- 

 fore fall. 



This months' cow testing association 

 records show that several of the herds to 

 be tested are among the leaders in pro- 

 duction. High production combined with 

 freedom from tuberculosis will make 

 stock from herds worth a considerable 

 premium over stock that is neither tested 

 for production nor for freedom from 

 tuberculosis. 



HOLSTEIN CLUB DISCUSSES 



T. B. ERADICATION 



E. P. West Wins Silver Cnp 

 for High Production 



The regular spring meeting of the 

 Hampshii-e-Franklin Holstein Freisian 

 Breeders Club was held at Hotel North- 

 ampton, April 16, with over fifty members 

 and friends present. The club offered a 

 solid silver cup to the owner of the cow 

 making the best production record for the 

 year. The best record for the year was 

 made by a three year old heifer, Mid- 

 field Wayne, owned by E. P. West of 

 Hadley. Her 305 day semi-official re- 

 cord was 20603 lbs. of milk and 700 lbs. of 

 butterfat. The cup, when won three 

 times becomes the property of the winner. 



Director Frank B. Cummings of the 

 Division of Animal Industry was the 

 speaker of the meeting. He stated that 

 he was trying to give the Division of 

 Animal Industry a business administra- 

 tion. Additional legislation in the form 

 of tuberculin control bill which is aimed 

 to do away with the wrongful use of 

 tuberculin and the "area te.st" bill which 

 provides that when 85% of the cattle in a 

 town are under test that the reminder of 

 the cattle may be tested have been pre- 

 sented to the legislature. The latter bill 

 is requested as past experience has shown 

 that it is the economical way of eradicat- 

 ing the disease. 



"Anyone who doubts whether there is 

 need for the eradication of bovine tuber- 

 culosis should visit the Lakeville Sanitor- 

 ium. They have fifty-five youngsters 

 under ten years of age permantly crip- 

 pled by bovine tnberculosis. Dr. Mayo of 

 Rochester, Minnesota states that 55% of 

 this kind of tuberculosis comes from cows. 



"At a recent conference on T. B. era- 

 dication the federal agents presented a 

 map which showed the year that it was 

 expected that the different states would 

 be free from bovine tuberculosis. These 

 are the dates: Maine 1931, Vermont 1932, 

 New Hampshire and Connecticut 1933, 

 Rhode Island 1937 and Massachusetts, 

 the last state in the Union, 1941. We will 

 have to speed up our testing woi-k as con- 

 .sumers are apt to become prejudiced 

 against local milk. 



"It has been argued by opponents that 

 T. B. testing would condemn all of the 

 cows in the state. The following is the 

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