HAMPSHIRE 

 FARMERS' MONTHLY 



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 Coliege, 



Vol. XII. 



NORTHAMPTON, MASS., OCTOBER, 1927 



No. 10 



ATTENTION FRIENDS I 



The Annual Meeting of the 

 Hampshire County Extension is to 

 be held Friday, Dec. 9, in the Odd 

 Fellows Hall on Center Street. 



Agents will report. Dinner by 

 the Northampton Grange. Pres. 

 Thatcher, of M. A. C. will address 

 the group in the afternoon. 



THREE TOWNS QUALIFY 



FOR THE AREA TEST 



That daii-ymen are realizing the value 

 of T. B. tested herds is shown in the fact 

 that three towns in the county have over 

 85% of the cattle under test at the pre- 

 sent time. The three towns are Goshen, 

 Chesterfield and Cummington. Below is 

 the table showing the results of the work 

 to date, and the credit for this fine show 

 ing, in a large measure, goes to Roland 

 A. Payne. 



Herds Tested Total OitHe 

 Total or awaiting Tested or 

 awaiting test 



93% 



89% 



87% 



72%. 



60% 

 A section qualifies for the area te.st 

 when 85%^ of the cattle are tested. The 

 fact that less than 85% of the herds are 

 tested in some of these towns merely 

 shows that the herds which are tested 

 have a large number of cattle per herd. 

 Director Cummings has no intention of 

 forcing an entire section to be tested as 

 soon as it qualifies for an area test, but 

 he will very gladly clean up an entire sec- 

 tion if it is demanded by the owners of 

 the tested cattle. Sporadic testing allows 

 for only slow progress but an area test in 

 towns would be the entering wedge for a 

 county free of T. B. This disease has 

 made its inroads into the health of ani- 

 mals and people for too long a time. 

 Fair Exhibit Attracts Attention 

 The county agent was fortunate to get 

 a government exhibit at the Three County 

 Fair which showed the steps in the eradi- 

 cation of T. B. Crowds of people stopped ppPCTnp'MfP THiTrHFl? 

 to look at this exhibit and pamphlets werej lIllJOlULll 1 1 HA 1 \jnhli 



CoiUiimed on pase 3. column 1 



GREETS FACULTY AND 

 FRIENDS OF M. A. C. 



BONDSVILLE WOMEN MEET 



FOR DEMONSTRATION 



Twenty-five women of Bondsville met: To those of you whose acquaintance and 

 at the Franklin School for a denionstra-i friend.ship I already have, I welcome this 

 tion on the making of hats, scarfs and, opportunity to express my happy antici- 

 flowers. Every one in the group worked pation of closer relationships in our com- 

 with the agent so that they would be bet- mon bond of interest in the future wel- 

 ter able to go home and practice what fare of MassachusettsAgricultural Col- 

 they had learned. This group is to make lege. To those of you whom I have not 

 their hats and then have a meeting for yet met, I wish to express my sincere hope 

 helpful criticism. that this new relationship will be the be- 



Two of the Belchertown leaders were ginning of a long and mutually happy and 

 present so that they might hold classes in profitable association and interchange of • 

 their community. I Continued on page 2, column 3 i 



500 YOUNG PEOPLE 

 EXHIBIT AT 3 COUNTY FAIR 



Nearly twice as many young people 

 made e.xhibits at the Three County Fair 

 this year as there were in 1926. For this 

 reason the Youths' Building was better 

 filled and better arranged than was the 

 case last year. 



It would be hard to pick out the most 

 outstanding exhibit in the hall. No mat- 

 ter what was chosen someone would think 

 we were wrong. 



The Canning attracted a great deal of 

 interest as there were about 800 jars in 

 the building and as they were arranged 

 attractively and all had the same kind of 

 labels on them they certainly looked good. 



School Exhibits Unusually Good 



Hatfield, Hadley and Amhenst put on 

 Town exhibits of vegetables, canned pro- 

 ducts and flowers to make up one of the 

 most talked of and attractive parts of the 

 show. A great deal of work was put in 

 by the people in charge of the three ex 

 hibits and nearly all deserved the blue 

 ribbon. The judges finally decided to 

 place the prizes in the order named above. 

 Clarke School and the Easthampton 

 Continuation School put on a Handicraft 

 exhibit that would do credit to a cabinet 

 maker. Just how close the two were can 

 be better realized when it is known that 

 the judge worked nearly two hours before 

 giving the Clarke School first prize. 



Smith School Shows Work 



; The Smith Agricultural School put on 

 a non-competitive exhibit showing the 

 various departments in the school, such 

 as ; Home economics, Agricultural, Wood- 

 work, Sheet metal and Auto mechanics. 

 Continued on p.ige G, column 1 



MY WEEK AT CAMP FIELD 



by 



Jean McTurk of Easthampton 



On Monday morning, October third, I 

 left Easthampton at 7.30 arriving at Am- 

 herst at 8.30 where I met Mr. E. H. No- 

 dine with whom I went to Brockton. We 

 stopped for Arthur Gould at Ware and 

 then resumed our journey. 



We reached the Fair Grounds late in 

 the afternoon. We went to the 4-H Club 

 building where we met Miss Marion 

 Continued on pag-e 6, column 3 



