FARMERS' MONTHLY OF HAMPSHIRE COUNTY 



HOME MAKING 



Ilonie Milkers Meet 



Continued from page 1, column 1 



earn three square meals a day, to become 

 a parent, and to help run the government 

 and still have a surplus of energy left to 

 grow a soul. To do this a child has got 

 to be sound physically, mentally and so- 

 cially. 



"Building for participating citizenship 

 is a co-operative proposition between par- 

 ents, schools and community. Parents 

 are not allowed to educate their children, 

 they have got to go to school. The par- 

 ents must see that the child is healthy. 

 The skinny ones had better be "turned 

 out to pasture" till they get strong en- 

 ough to attend school. Few people know 

 how much it costs the community to teach 

 children who fail to pass each year. In 

 one town it costs $72.50 and 38% of the 

 children were "repeaters". Poor teeth, 

 improper nutrition and eye strain are the 

 main causes of children failing to make 

 the grade. 



Duties of Parents 



"The parents have a lot to do when the 

 child is put in school. It is their business 

 to give the child a good breakfast before 

 he is sent to school. No parent would try 

 to run a car without gas, yet they won- 

 der why their child does not make the 

 grade on an empty stomach. Parents 

 should be expected and made to put their 

 children to bed at night. Some say the 

 children won't go to bed. These parents 

 are lacking in back bone. It is a two man 

 job to put an unwilling child to bed but it 

 can be done if both parents work together. 

 Children under five years old should be in 

 bed at seven o'clock, children in the grade 

 school should be in bed by eight o'clock 

 and High school children should be in bed 

 by nine o'clock five nights a week. This is 

 an age of speedy education. There should 

 not be too many outside demands for the 

 child's time. Just because some other 

 child does a lot outside is no reason every 

 child should do them. 



Schools Should Not Injure Children 



"It should be insisted that the schools 

 should not injure the child. It has no 

 right to give children diseases. Every 

 year thousands of children are perma- 

 nently injured by measles caught in 

 school. School committees should insist 

 that every child who shows symptoms of 

 an acute cold should be kept at home. In 

 one community in Wisconsin this has re- 

 sulted in eliminating children's diseases 

 from the school. The desks and chairs 

 in school should be fitted to the child so 

 as not to injure him by improper posture. 

 Competitive athletics in school .should 

 only be for those who are properly fed 

 and then only under proper medical 

 supervision. 



"The community should organize stand- 

 ing to exploit the child, i.e., it should re- 



member that children are not given to us 

 as play things. They are all that we have 

 to give to the future. In .short the com- 

 munity owes the child the right to be 

 physically sound, nervously well balanced 

 and socially trained." 



The afternoon program of a pageant 

 summarying the four and a half years 

 work that Miss Boice has carried on as 

 Home Demonstration Agent. It stressed 

 the importance of local leaders and intro- 

 duced Mrs. Annette Herr, State Leader; 

 Miss Cooley, State Clothing Specialist; 

 Mrs. Harriet Haynes, Home Mangaement 

 Specialist; and Miss May Foley, State 

 Nutrition Specialist. 



Eve's Problem — Clothing 



The pageant represented "The pro- 

 blems of Adam and Eve and the Rest of 

 the Hampshire County Family." The first 

 scene showed Miss Boice in her oflice 

 planning the days work, making reports 

 and tending to the many things that take 

 up the agents time. The telephone rang 

 and she was informed that there was an 

 unenlightened family in South Amher.st 

 that needed her assistance. The part of 

 the unenlightened family was taken by 

 the S. R. Parkers' of Amherst. They 

 stated the common problems; father was 

 interested in food; mother in clothing 

 and the children in good times. Episode 

 one took up Eve's Problem, Clothing. The 

 South Hadley group showed how the 

 guide pattern was used and wore dresses 

 made with its asistance. The Hatfield 

 group showed the Old and the New ways 

 of sewing. The Old way was cleverly 

 presented by one of the members singing, 

 "The Song of the Shirt." The New was 

 the use of machine attachments so that 



' the time of sewing was reduced to a mini- 

 mum. The Easthanipton group presented 

 a clever sketch written by Mignon Quaw 

 in which "clothes" told of the abuse that 

 their owner gave them. The Westhamp- 



j ton group showed the fine work they had 



I been doing in making children's clothes. 



I The Hatfield millinery group showed that 



I hats do make a difference. 



Adams Problem— Food 



The second episode took up Adams pro- 

 blem — Food. The South Amherst group 

 assisted by children of the South Amherst 

 school showed the planting and care of 

 the home garden. The Ware group .show- 

 ed "Three generations in Food Preserva- 

 tion" — drying of fruits and vegetables, 

 canning, and finally canning with the pre- 

 sure cooker. The third scene by the South 

 Amherst group showed good and poor 

 lunch boxes, stressing the importance of 

 fruits, vegetables, and milk for lunches. 



The third Episode presented "The Pro- 

 blems of the Family — Money". The 

 Household Budget was explained by Mrs. 

 Harriet Haynes, Home Management 

 Specialist of M. A. C. with the assistance 



of the Belchertown group. The second 

 scene depicted the bride and groom ar- 

 ranging the kitchen as regards heights of 

 working surfaces and arrangement of 

 larger equipment. In this scene the Home 

 Management Specialist was assisted by 

 the Chesterfield and the Southampton 

 groups. The third scene showed the 

 Southampton group helping the bride and 

 gi-oom to make the living room all that 

 the name implies. 



The last scene was a living map in 

 which a representative from each town 

 stood in the position of her town on the 

 map. All but one town in the county w-as 

 "On the Map". At the close of the best 

 summary meeting ever held by the Home 

 Department, the women who have worked 

 with Miss Boice presented her with a 

 complete chest of sterling silver as a tok- 

 en of their appreciation of her faithful 

 service. 



HOME CANNING FOR GOOD NUTRITION 



Revised by Ruth Cessna 



The housewife who says she cannot 

 have variety in her meals thru out the 

 year is usually the one who has not taken 

 care of the surplus food in times of plenty. 



With an increasing knowledge of what 

 constitutes good nutrition conies an ap- 

 preciation of the necessity for more vege- 

 tables and fruits in the diet. A fruit 

 and green vegetable in each day's diet 

 .should be the aim thru out the year. This 

 will provide more minerals, vitamins and 

 roughage, all of which are insufficient in 

 most family dietaries. 



Having a supply of fruits and vege- 

 tables for each day in the year means 

 planning ahead and canning some of the 

 products of the garden. Most families do 

 not have access to a market which sup- 

 plies fresh products each day, nor can 

 they afford to buy hot house vegetables 

 and fruits. So a cellar well stocked with 

 canned products must help solve the pro- 

 blem of supplying them. 



In the winter, meat may be put into 

 jars to help in the summer menus. Most 

 butchering is done in the colder months, 

 providing a surplus of meat at that time 

 which may be "cold packed. ",At certain 

 times of the year chickens may be canned 

 to use in time of scai'city. "Can the Culls" 

 was the slogan adopted by one community 

 which canned the culled chickens in a sea- 

 son of low market prices. Then in the 

 hot summer months the housewife will 

 have upon her .shelves jars of meat com- 

 parable to the fresh product and she will 

 be independent of the markets. Thus by 

 canning, the supply of meat may be well 

 distributed, removing the necessity of us- 

 ing a large amount at certain seasons in 

 order to save it. 



With a thoro knowledge of modern 

 methods of canning, it is possible to keep 



