FARMERS' MONTHLY OF HAMPSHIRE COUNTY 



CLUB WORK 



COUNTY 4-H DAIRY CLUB 

 TO HOLD TOUR JUNE 16 



Will Visit Farms in Hadley 

 and South Amherst 



At 10.00 o'clock Saturday morning, 

 June 18, the membei's of the Hamp.'ihire 

 County Dairy Club will meet at Fred 

 Pelissier's Farm in Hadley to start their 

 second Dairy tour. 



After looking over the small butex- 

 ceptionally high producing Holstein Herd 

 of Mr. Pelissier, stops will be made at E. 

 P. Wests', -J. G. Cooks', also in Hadley 

 and flrnish up by going to see Mr. U. G. 

 Groff's large .Jersey Herd in South Am- 

 herst. 



Not only will we see four exceptionally 

 good Dairy Herds, but also wil have a 

 chance to look over their fields, etc. All 

 of these men are firm believers in grow- 

 ing good roughage and have fields of 

 Alfalfa that will be very interesting for 

 the Dairy members to look over. 



At two of the four stops we will pick 

 out classes of four animals to judge, as 

 the judging contests are one of the most 

 popular parts to any tour that Dairy 

 members go on. 



A picnic lunch will be eaten at noon at 

 Mr Wests' farm. 



One very pleasing part of this tour is 

 that all but one of the farms are the 

 homes of members of our Dairy club. At 

 Wests' there were Lewis, Roger and Os- 

 Bourne, a former member, Gordon Cook 

 lives at the next stop while Mr. Groff has 

 two grandsons, George and Chauncey 

 Simmons, that are Dairy members. 



A new feature to the tour will be added 

 to the annual program this year. After 

 the judging contest at the farm of Mr. 

 Groff' there is a wait while the judges are 

 correcting the papers in order to find the 

 winner. During that wait we are plan- 

 ning to have a basebal game of a few inn- 

 ings between members living on the East 

 side of the River against those on the 

 West side. If any Dairy member believes 

 he can play ball, let him bring his glove, 

 etc., and prove it. 



STEPHEN BRUSCO OF HATFIELD WINS PRODUCTION CONTEST 



His Pure Bred Holstein Produces 7,505.4 of 4 Per Cent Milk in Six Months 



WINNERS ARE PICKED FOR 

 HANDICRAFT PRIZE TRIP 



South Amherst Club Chosen 

 as Best in County 



Because of their all round club spirit, 

 size of club, (juantity and quality of work 

 done the Bay Path Handicraft club of 

 South Amherst, Miss Cora Hewlett, lead- 

 er, has been awarded the honor of being 

 the best Handicraft club in the county as 

 well as the winner of a prize trip to the 

 Miller's Falls Tool Co. of Millers Falls. 



With 17 boys doing Handicraft work, 



"Kolrain Cornicoupia Colantha", a 

 three and one half year old Holstein, own- 

 ed by Stephen Brusco of West Hatfield 

 won first place in the 4-H Dairy Club 

 Milk production contest which closed May 

 first. 



By producing 7,505.4 pounds of 49!- 

 milk in six months and doing it at a cost 

 of less than a dollar per hundred pounds, 

 "Colantha" wins for her owner the first 

 prize of 400 pounds of grain given by the 

 Eastern States Farmers' Exchange. 



The other prize winners were : Second 

 prize of 300 pounds of grain, .Joel H. 

 Dwight of West Hatfield with a nine year 

 old Holstein; third prize of 200 pounds of 

 grain, Gordon Cook of Hadley with a two 

 year old Hotstein ; and fourth prize of 100 

 pounds of grain, won by George Simmons, 

 Jr. of South Amherst on his two year old 

 Jersey. 



Other boys in the contest during the six 

 months period were: Robert Cole of 

 Huntington, Lyman Pratt of Hadley, 



Lewis West of Hadley, C. Hilton Boynton 

 of South Hadley, Stanley Misterka of 

 Northampton and Walter Granger of So. 

 Worthington. 



The winners were not picked on milk 

 production alone, but, in order to make it 

 equally fair for a Jersey to compete with 

 a Holstein, the milk was figured on a 

 basis of 4%, this giving the higher testing- 

 cow a handicap over the low tester. 



The following score card was used to 

 pick the winner: 



Number of pounds of 4% milk 45% 



Cost of Producing 100 lbs of 4% 



milk 45% 



Promptness and accuracy of records 



sent in 10% 



Name 



Town 



Stephen Brusco, W. Hatfield, 



Joel Dwight, W. Hatfield. 



Gordon Cook, Hadley, 



Geo. Simmons, Jr., So. Amherst, 



Hilton Boynton, So. Hadley, 



Lewis West, Hadley, 



Walter Granger, So. Worthington 



Stanley Misterka, Northampton, 



Lyman Pratt, Hadley, 



Lyman Pratt, Hadley, 



Robert Cole, Huntington,, 



Breed 

 P.B.H. 

 P.B.H. 

 P.B.H. 



P.B.J. 

 P.B.H. 

 P.B.H. 

 P.B.H. 

 P.B.H. 



P.B.J. 



P.B.J. 

 P.B.G. 



Age lbs. milk Test 



Total 100% 



As it may be of interest to know the exact 

 production of the various contestants, the 

 following gives the pounds of milk, test, 

 pounds of fat and pounds of 4% milk of 

 each cow : 



lbs. 4% 

 lbs. fat milk 

 7,505.4 

 6,314.6 

 6,405.5 

 5,736.5 

 5,591.6 

 5,883.4 

 2,605.6 

 2,.507.1 

 4,643.7 

 3,849.4 

 1,734.9 



and finishing 100%, making 54 "useful 

 articles, 4 toys and 23 repair jobs as well 

 as doing 850 hours of chores, they put up 

 a record hard to beat. 



While all of the boys are Grammar 

 School pupils, most of them have been in 

 the club for some time. They grade up 

 as follows: first year 3; second year 4; 

 third year 4; fourth year and fifth year 



1, making an average of nearly 3 years 

 for each member. 



Miss Howlett, the leader, certainly de- 

 serves a lot of credit for bringing a club 

 of this size through the sea.son with such 

 a good record especially as she leads a 

 sewing club of 25 girls in addition to the 

 Handicraft club. 



Other clubs that were close to the win- 



