HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARMERS' MONTHLY 



They also had a splendid collection of 

 children's clothes, baby dresses and made 

 over clothes. A most unusual incident 

 was the whole club wearing dresses 

 wrong side out. These were so skillfully 

 finished on the wrong side that from a 

 seat half way down the hall where the 

 writer sat one would not have known that 

 the dresses were wrong side out unless 

 they had been told. 



Kept House for Mother 



A visit to Lillian Cahoon, No. Dart- 

 mouth was one of the most inspiring 

 things seen on the trip. This girl is a 

 clothing club member only 11 years old. 

 Her mother has not been well and recent- 

 ly has been in the hospital for over two 

 months. During this time, Lillian has 

 kept house, gone to school, made all her 

 own clothes and clothes for smaller child- 

 ren in the family and the clothes were a 

 perfect marvel of workmanship and the 

 house was as neat as wax. This girl ap 

 parently enjoys such work and has re- 

 markable talent. She showed us some 

 embroidery that she did when she was five 

 years old which would do credit to an 

 average per.son of 15 years. During part 

 of the time that her mother was in the 

 hospital her father was working only part 

 time and this girl made $12 a week pay 

 the family expenses. 



Visits Plymouth County 



The third day of the tour started at 

 Whitman, in Plymouth County. Here we 

 found Fred Watts raising 2000 chickens 

 under circumstances that would have dis- 

 couraged most optimistic poultrymen. 

 This boy had practically nothing to start 

 with and his chickens lived in the attic of 

 his house for the first six weeks while he 

 was building shelters in a field back of the 

 house. These shelters were 12 ft. x 10 ft. 

 consisting of 2 x 3 studs, there being one 

 on each corner and one-half v;ay between, 

 a rough board roof covered with tar 

 paper and grain sack siding. The boy 

 informed us that the birds were put into 

 these shelters about the middle of May 

 and that the only ones he had lost were 

 those left in the shacks where he kept the 

 cloth curtains on too long and the chick- 

 ens over heated. He has an old barn 

 which he is fixing up for his laying stock 

 this winter. This was a most illustrious 

 example of what a boy with practically no 

 equipment and no money could do. 



Enjoys Play 

 At East Bridgewater a lunch box club 

 of -37 members gave a play entitled "The 

 Quest for the Fountain of Health". So 

 interested were these club members to 

 give this play for the benefit of the Club 

 agents and so loyal were they to their 

 club that every member taking part in the 

 play was present. Many of them came 

 from long distances where they had gone 

 on vacations and some even gave up the 

 pleasure of summer camps to come back 

 for the occasion. 



Ralph Sturtevant, one of the most pro- 

 minent poultry club members in the state 

 entertained the club agents at his farm. 

 Here we found that six years ago he had 

 started with a small flock of mongrel hens 

 about 15 in number. He increased the 

 number and quality of his hens each year 

 doing well until a year ago when a fire 

 burned his laying house holding 400 hens. 

 Instead of being discouraged, he immedi- 

 ately built another laying house just 

 twice as large. This spring Ralph pur- 

 chased a 4,200-egg incubator and the 

 chicks he has sold this year nearly paid 

 for it. In addition to those sold he has 

 3,000 chickens on range now. 



The next stop was made to Howard 

 Waterman in Halifax who carried 

 through the last winter 800 laying birds. 

 j These birds averaged 108 eggs for the 

 seven months from November 1st to .June 

 1st. This boy has a house for 800 birds, 

 just built a new feeding room and incu- 

 bator cellar this last winter. 



DATES THAT WILL 



INTEREST YOU 



Sept. 14 Granby Grange Fair 

 Sept. 14 So. Hadley Exhibit (Coopera- 

 tion with church Supper.) 

 Sept. 16 Hatfield Garden and Canning 

 Exhibit 



Sept. 18-24 Eastern States Exposition 

 Sept. 20 Worthington Grange Exhibit 

 Sept. 27-28 Cummington Fair 

 Sept. 27-Oct. 1 New England Fair at 

 Worcester. 



Sept. 29 Hadley, No. Hadley, Russell- 

 ville and Roo.sevelt Grammar School Ex- 

 hibits 



Oct. 4-6 Three County Fair at North- 

 ampton 



Oct. 4-8 Brockton Fair 

 Oct. 12 Belchertown Fair 

 Oct. 12 Hampshire-Franklin Holstein 

 Club Tour in Western Hampshire County 



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