FARMERS' MONTHLY OF HAMPSHIRE COUNTY 



ners were the Granby Club, Miss Emma 

 Haines and Mr. Rust, leaders; Bondsville 

 Handicraft club. Miss Nellie Shea and 

 Gertrude Makepeace, leaders; and the 

 West Hatfield club, Mr. Harold Ford 

 leader. 



HATFIELD 4-H CLUB BOYS 

 LEAD EGG LAYING CONTEST 



Adolf Wilier of Easthampton also 

 has Good Record for Month 



Edward Wesolowski, Edward Dugal 

 and Chester Sawicki, all members of the 

 Hatfield 4-H Poultry Club, have placed 

 among the leading five boys in the egg 

 laying contest for April, their placings 

 being first, third and fifth, respectively in 

 the order named. 



Adolf Wilier of Easthampton and Mil- 

 tonDietz of So. Hadley took the second 

 and fourth placings in the contest that in- 

 cluded 43 flocks containing 904 birds. 

 This is a smaller number of contestants 

 than the preceding month, but much 

 higher records were made. The whole 43 

 flocks averaged 19.5 eggs per bird for the 

 month, which is the highest average 

 reached since the contest started last 

 November. 



The leaders in the two classes and their 

 records are as follows: 



Small Floekii of .', to 40 birds 

 E. Wesolowski, Hatfield, 20 .5.59 27.9 

 Adolf Wilier, E'th'pt'n, 12 326 27.2 

 E. Dugal, Hatfield, 16 425 26.6 



Milton Dietz, So. Hadley, 33 814 24.7 

 C. Sawicki, Hatfield, 37 909 24.6 



Larfje Flockft of iO or more birds 

 S. Kizior, Granby, 40 719 18.0 



W. Pearson, N'th'pt'n 41 752 18.3 

 R. George, B'ch'town, 57 1006 17.7 

 J. A. Gould, Ware, 78 1329 17.1 



SIXTY DAIRY CLUB FOLKS 

 ATTEND FIRST BANQUET 



Supper, Speaking and Motion Pictures 

 make Interesting Program 



About sixty Dairy Club members, 

 parents and friends sat down to a Baked 

 bean supper in the James House, Friday 

 night. May 27, at the first evening meet- 

 ing program ever held by the Hampshire 

 County Dairy Club. 



Promptly at 8.00 o'clock, Erick Moberg, 

 President of the Dairy Club, introduced 

 the Toastmaster, M. W. F. Howe of No. 

 Amherst, who had his usual supply of 

 stories. Mr. C. J. Fawcett of M. A. C. 

 was the first speaker introduced, followed 

 by J. W. Putnam of Greenfield, Franklin 

 County Agent. 



The Club agent announced the winners 

 of the Milk Production contest which are 

 printed elsewhere in this issue. Osborne 

 West of Hadley gave an interesting and 

 instructive talk on Preparing an animal 

 for the fairs while R. A. Payne, Countv 



Agent, gave a short talk on the tubercu- 

 osis eradication work going on in the 

 County. Mr. Putnam brought his motion 

 picture machine with him and showed a 

 two reel picture sent us by the American 

 •Jersey Cattle Club, entitled "A Cow 

 ■Judging Demorstration" by Prof. Hugh 

 G. VanPelt. 



This meeting was unusual from any we 

 have ever held in that the food for the 

 supper was brought in by the club mem- 

 bers and their paTents. As can be readily 

 imagined, there was a great plenty and if 

 any one went away hungry it most 

 certainly was their own fault. 



It is interesting to note that of the 

 fifteen towns in the county in which there 

 are Dairy Club members, eleven of them 

 were represented at the meeting and two 

 of those, Middlefield and Huntington, are 

 really too far away to expect any one to 

 drive that distance for an evening meet- 

 ing. 



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