HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARMERS' MONTHLY 



4-H CLUB NEWS 



NINE SHOWMAN'S PRIZES 

 WON BY CLUB MEMBERS 



Hampshire County Dairy Club Mem- 

 bers competed for and won nine prizes 

 given in showman's contests held at six 

 different fairs this fall. This is a perfect 

 score as those were the only prizes award- 

 ed at these fairs in this kind of a contest. 

 Six of the prizes were Showman's Halters 

 given by the State Dairymens' Associa- 

 tion, one a Holstein trophy given by the 

 Holstein-Fresian Association of Ameri- 

 ca and two were milk pails given by 

 Northampton Merchants and awarded at 

 the Three County Fair. 



The contest consists of a club member 

 taking any animal and showing it in the 

 show ring to the best advantage. In a 

 close contest the boys are asked to change 

 animals, thus making sure that every one 

 has a strange animal to show off. Many 

 of the contests are very close as a large 

 number of boys take part — for example, 

 at the Three County Fair thirty boys 

 competed, while at the Eastern States 

 Exposition fifty took part. 



Starting at Greenfield Fair, Robert 

 Cutter of West Hatfield was the winner 

 and repeated the win at the Brockton 

 Fair. 



Stephen Brusco, also of West Hatfield 

 won the contest at Eastern States while 

 Walter Granger of So. Worthington won 

 the Holstein Trophy for best Holstein 

 Showman. At Cummington Gordon Cook 

 of Hadley carried off the halter; at Wor- 

 cester Joseph Sena of Easthampton won 

 while at Northampton C. Hilton Boynton 

 of So. Hadley was awarded the halter, 

 Walter Granger, a pail for showing Hoi 

 steins and Lawson Clark of Williamsburg 

 a pail for being the best Jersey Showman. 



500 Exhibit at Fair 



Continued from page 1. column 3 

 The prizes on 4-H booth exhibits were 

 awarded as follows: Amy Oberempt's 

 Canning exhibit, first; No. Hadley Sew- 

 ing Club, second; and the Manhan Poul- 

 try Club's Model Poultry Farm, third. 



Rachel and Alice Randall of Belcher- 

 town had the various ribbons, medals and 

 cups on exhibition that they have won 

 during the past seven years. There were 

 two silver cups won for being State 

 Champions in Dairy and Garden; two 

 medals and 110 ribbons won on exhibits 

 of Canning, Food, Vegetables, Pigs, Baby 

 Beef, Poultry and Dairy animals, and 

 won at most of the fairs in Western 

 Massachusetts. 



Over 200 Birds Shown 

 Over 200 birds made .some very keen 

 competition in the Poultry exhibit. The 

 capacity of the coops was overrun about 

 50 birds, but as every one was good 

 natured and allowed theirs to be doubled 

 up, things run quite smoothly. Two Smith 



School boys, Wayne Smith of Northamp- 

 ton and John Bartschi of Leeds, handled 

 this part of the exhibit and did a very ex- 

 cellent piece of work. 



Thirty-five animals were shown in the 

 junior live stock show which were of even 

 better quality than in previous years. 

 This is proven by the fact that in the open 

 classes the boys won practically every 

 first prize they competed for and carried 

 off four junior championships and two 

 Grand Championships in four classes of 

 Holstein heifers and bull calves, Jersey 

 and Guernsey heifers. They had no older 

 animals, so could not compete for Senior 

 Championships. In other words they won 

 every junior and half of the Grand 

 Championships in the classes they could 

 enter. 



ROBERT CUTTER WINS 



$60 SCHOLARSHIP 



Robert Cutter of West Hatfield, a senior 

 at Smith Academy of that town and a 4- 

 H club member for the past six years, 

 won the Wirthmore Scholarship of $60 

 which was given as second prize in the 

 Dairy Judgiijg Contest held at Brockton 

 Fair this year. 



This Scholarship is given by the 

 Charles M. Cox Company of Boston and 

 has been deposited at the Massachusetts 

 Agricultural College to Robert's credit. 

 This is one big step toward a college edu- 

 cation as it will pay his tuition for one 

 year. 



Other Hampshire County Club Mem- 

 bers who entered the judging contest at 

 Brockton were Joel Dwight of West Hat- 

 field, who placed fourth in the live stock 

 contest, Joseph Donnis and John Cernak 

 of Hatfield, Robert Beals of Goshen and 

 Daniel Cernak of Northampton competed 

 in the poultry judging contest while both 

 Donnis and John Cernak entered the 

 vegetable judging contest. 



THIRTY ENTER CONTEST 



AT GREENFIELD FAIR 



Eleven out of seventeen cash prizes 

 given in the Agricultural judging con- 

 tests at Greenfield Fair were won by boys 

 from Hampshire County, most of them 

 being from the agricultural departments 

 of Smith School, Northampton ; Smith 

 Academy, Hatfield; and Hopkins Acade- 

 my, Hadley. 



The conte.sts were in Live Stock, Poul- 

 try, Corn, Potatoes, and Vegetables. In 

 these five contests our boys captured four 

 firsts, four seconds, and three thirds. 



The winners wei-e as follows : 



Live stock: Herman Andrews, South- 

 ampton, first. 



Poultry : Gordon Cook, Hopkins Acade- 

 my, first. Roger West, Hadley, second. 



Corn: Eddie Baj, Hopkins Academy, 

 ! first. Edward Tobacco, Smith Academy, 

 second. Henry Sadlowski, Hopkins Ac- 

 ademy, third. 



Potato : Roger West, Hadley, first. 

 Eddie Baj, Hopkins Academy, second. 

 Stephen Brusco, Smith Academy, third. 

 1 Vegetables: James Newman, Smith 

 I Academy, second. Henry Sadlowski, Hop- 

 kins Academy, third. 



My Trip to Camp Field 



Coniinuefl Ijnm i*;ik(' I. column ^ 

 Forbes, Mr. G. L. Farley, Mr. Stanley 



Freeman and some of the boys and girls 



from other counties. 



We registered and were given 4-H 

 Club caps which we wore. At 5.30 P. M. 

 we had supper at a tent called the "Earn- 

 est Workers." We were very hungry and 

 enjoyed our first meal at Camp Field 

 tremendously. After finishing our supper 

 we went back to the Camp and from there 

 we were taken in a bus to the Y. W. C. A. 

 and the Y. M. C. A. respectively. 



The next morning we had breakfast at 

 7.30 and at 8.00 were taken to the Fair 

 Grounds in the bus. When we reached 

 the 4-H building, we all rushed to the 

 office door where a schedule was posted 

 to find out what our work for the day 

 was. We started at 9.00 A. M. and work- 

 ed on our booths usually one hour each. 

 When we didn't have anything to do, we 

 would usually walk around the grounds. 

 We always had one half hour off for din- 

 ner. 



In our building there were booths, a 

 lunch counter, and a house model. 



The first booth was called Head. In 

 this was a large green heart with Head 

 painted on it in white. Beside this were 

 some steps with canning attractively ar- 

 ranged on them. This canning had been 

 sent by girls who were trying for a fifty 

 dollar scholarship. These girls also had 

 to judge canning. 



The next booth was heart. In it were 

 two rows of aprons hanging one above the 

 other. These aprons were made by girls 



