FARMERS' MONTHLY OF HAMPSHIRE COUNTY 



CLUB WORK 



4-H MEMBERS NOW WORKING 

 ON LOCAL CLUB EXHIBITS 



43 Clubs to Display Work 



Public is Cordially 



Invited 



Starting with the So. Amherst Handi- 

 craft and Clothing Clubs on May 13, 

 forty-three Handicraft, Clothing, Food 

 and Poultry Clubs will stage exhibits in 

 their local communities to show the public 

 what they have accomplished since last 

 November. 



The majority of these clubs will put on 

 a program in conjunction with their ex- 

 hibit to help draw a larger crowd and in 

 every case they have planned to have the 

 County Club Agent present to award the 

 club pins, charters, seals, etc., that the 

 club and it's members receive for their 

 season's work. 



Parents, brothers and sisters, in fact, 

 everyone that is at all interested in what 

 the young people are doing should plan to 

 attend and find out at first hand what the 

 young folks learn to do in their 4-H club 

 work. 



The clubs and their leaders that have 

 their exhibits scheduled are as follows: 

 Amherst 4-H Food Club, Mrs. E. H. No- 

 dine, Leader, Tuesday, May 24. North- 

 ampton Sewing Club, Miss Catherine 

 Slayter, Leader, Saturday, May 7. So. 

 Amherst Handicraft and Sewing, Miss 

 Cora Hewlett, Leader, Friday, May 13. 

 Three Sewing Clubs in No. Hadley, Mrs. 

 Caroline Scott, Leader, Friday, -June 3. 

 Cushman Handicraft and Home Decora- 

 tion Clubs, Mrs. L. E. Walsh, Leader, 

 Wednesday, May 18. 



Three clothing clubs in Huntington, 

 Miss Mildred Gillette, Leader, Wednes- 

 day, Mayl8. West Chesterfield Handi- 

 craft and Clothing, Miss Marion Temple, 

 Leader, Wednesday, May 25. Cold 

 Springs Handicraft and Clothing, Miss 

 Bridget Fitzgerald, Leader, Thursday, 

 May 26. Bondsville Handicraft and 

 Clothing, Miss Nellie Shea and Miss 

 Helen Keyes, Leaders, Thursday, May 26. 



Russellville Handicraft and Clothing, 

 Miss B. A. Ryan, Leader, Friday, May 27. 

 Wirthmore Poultry Club, So. Hadley, Mr. 

 Paul Ittner, Leader, Saturday, May 28. 

 Granby Handicraft Club, Miss Emma 

 Haines, Leader, Monday, May 30. Granby 

 Clothing Club, Mrs. Ashley Randall, 

 Leader, Monday, May 30. Needlecraft 

 Club, Worthington, Miss Helen Dennis, 

 Leader, Tuesday, May 31. Worthington 

 Handicraft Club, Mr. J. H. Burckes, 

 Leader, Tuesday, May 31. Pelham City 

 Clothing Club, Miss Sally Fillibrown, 

 Leader, Wednesday, .June 1. Packard- 

 ville 4-H Club, Miss Alice Corliss, Leader, 

 Wednesday, June 1. Hatfield Center 

 Clothing Club, Mrs. F. M., Gilford, Leader 

 Friday, June 3. Middlefield Handicraft 



Club, Donald Pease, Leader, Monday, 

 June 6. Middlefield Clothing Club, Mrs. 

 Lewis Hendrick, Leader, Monday, June 6. 

 Liberty School Clothing Club, Miss Lucia 

 DeSilvio, Leader, Tuesday, June 7. En- 

 field Clothing Club, Mrs. Robert Dyer, 

 Leader, Tuesday, June 7. Belchertown 

 4-H Food Club, Miss Martha Conklin, 

 Leader, Monday, June 15. Belchertown 

 4-H Clothing Club, Stephania Senvatka, 

 Leader, Monday, June 15. West Hatfield 

 Handicraft Club, Harold Ford, Leader, 

 Friday, June 17. West Hatfield Clothing 

 Club, Mrs, M. H. Dwight, Leader, Friday, 

 June 17. 



DAIRY CLUB TO HOLD BANQUET 



To Take Place Friday, May 27 



At 7.00 o'clock, Friday evening, May 

 27, the Hampshire County 4-H Dairy 

 Club will hold its first Banquet and even- 

 ing- program at the James House, North- 

 ampton. The James House is next door 

 tq the Peoples Institute on Gothic Street. 



Motion Pictures and talks will make up 

 a very interesting Program after the sup- 

 per to which every Dairy Club Member 

 in the county and his parents are 

 cordially invited to attend. 



The novel part of the banquet is that 

 the food for a baked bean supper will be 

 solicited from the parents of Dairy Club 

 members and in addition a collection taken 

 up to pay for the room in which it will be 

 held. 



Motion Pictures to pe part of Program 



Starting promptly at 7.00 P. M. the 

 supper should be over by 7.45 at which 

 time the program will begin. The pro- 

 gram is as follows: Announcement of 

 winners in Production Contest which end- 

 ed May 1st. by — County Club Agent 



Discussion: — 



Plans for our next production contest. 



Hints to alfalfa growers, by — R. A. 

 Payne, County Agent 



How to prepare an animal for the fall 

 shows, by — Osborne West of Hadley 

 Motion Pictures: — 



1. Cow Judging Demonstration by Prof. 

 Hugh G. VanPelt. 



A demonstration on how to select a 

 good dairy animal. Prof. VanPelt 

 uses as his model. Darling's Jolly 

 Lassie, the world's Champion Junior 

 Four-year old, all breds. 



2. Jonathon Barr's Conversion. 



This is a two real dairy picture show- 

 ing how a cow test association can help a 

 farmer as well as how the tester can fit 

 into the family circle. 



Turning the cows out on pasture too 

 early is doubly wasteful. It hurts the 

 pasture by preventing a good start and 

 the cows get but little nourishment from 

 the watery grass. 



4-H POULTRY CLUB MEMBERS 

 TO HOLD COUNTY TOUR 



Five Large Poultry Plants to be Visited 



Saturday, May 21, is to be an all im- 

 portant day for the Poultry Club Mem- 

 bers of Hampshire County, when they 

 meet at H. F. Cook's Poultry Plant in 

 So. Amherst to start their annual tour. 

 Starting at Mr. Cook's up-to-date farm at 

 10.30 A. M. they will go to see five of the 

 best equipped and managed poultry 

 plants in the country. The other stops 

 are at Robert Schoonmaker's and P. L. 

 Wheelock's of So. Amherst, then to 

 Belchertown to look over the farms of 

 Henry Witt and E. L. Schmidt. 



A picnic lunch will be eaten at Mr. 

 Wheelock's where Roland A. Payne, 

 County Agricultural Agent, will give a 

 talk on "Poultry Disease Control." 



Parents Invited to Qo 



As in all our junior tours we not only 

 hope but sincerely wish that all parents 

 could and would go along with the club 

 members. The young chicks will be on 

 the range at all five plants that we are to 

 visit, and with the modern methods used 

 in caring for their birds, these poultry- 

 men should be and are able to give many 

 helpful hints to the club folks. Plan to 

 go and enjoy a day which will be well 

 spent in learning something as well as 

 in meeting other club members from other 

 parts of the county. 



MY DAIRY CLUB WORK 



by 



Walter Granger, South Worthington 



County Dairy Champion 1926 



I started my calf club work in April 

 1923 by purchasing a pure bred Holstein 

 heifer calf from the Mount Herman 

 School. This calf I showed at the East- 

 ern States Exposition, being awarded 8th 

 prize. At the Cummington Fair I re- 

 ceived first prize in both open and junior 

 classes. 



In 1924 I purchased a pure bred bull 

 from M. A. C. Owing to a ruling I was 

 unable to show him at the Eastern States, 

 but at Cummington he was awarded first 

 prize in both open and junior calf classes. 



In 1925 I purchased from Frank Lyman 

 of Florence a pure bred heifer and also 

 one from "Bonny Rigg" Farm. The 

 "Bonny Rigg" heifer was awarded 2nd 

 prize at the Ea.stern States, 1st prize at 

 Cummington and 2nd prize at Northamp- 

 ton. At the Northampton Fair that year 

 I purchased from Lombello Bros, a pure 

 bred Heifer Calf. 



In 1926 I showed the "Bonny Rigg" 

 heifer and the Lombello heifer, at East- 

 ern States being awarded 2nd prize, at 



