THE FARMERS' MONTHLY, DECEMBER, 1927 



CLUB WORK BOOMS 



IN HUNTINGTON 



With five sewing clubs and an enroll- 

 ment of over 50 girls enrolled in them, 

 club work is certainly coming to the front 

 in Huntington this winter. 



Four of the clubs are being led by four 

 older club girls,, who are fifth or sixth 

 year sewing club members. These four 

 girls, in turn, have made up a club of 

 their own and are being led by Miss 

 Myrtle Files, Domestic Science Instruc- 

 tor. 



Of these girls, Olena Besaw is leading 

 a club of sixth grade girls, Catherine 

 Donahue has seventh grade girls, Eliza- 

 beth Brown's club is made up of eighth 

 grade pupils while Oranier Diamant has 

 a club of Freshman and Sophomore High 

 School pupils. 



This situation is as near ideal as one 

 could wish as far as the girls are con- 

 cerned. These four girls have, through 

 their Domestic Science Course and club 

 work, gained a great deal of knowledge of 

 sewing and in addition to helping out the 

 younger girls, are doing themselves a 

 great deal of good by their experience in 

 leading a club. 



Two of these girls won honors last year 

 because of their club work. Catherine 

 Donahue was the County Champion in 

 sewing and won a free trip to the State 

 Club Camp (Camp Gilbert) which is held 

 each year at the Massachusetts Agri- 

 cultural College. Olena Besaw, in turn, 

 won a trip to Camp Vail, Eastern States 

 Exposition as the only delegate from 

 Hampshire County. Both of these honors 

 were won last year and wholly because of 

 the excellent work they had done during 

 their club career. 



The task of choosing a champion for 

 this year appears more diflicult than ever 

 with these three girls, who have not won 

 the championship, and the wealth of 

 material that is in many other parts of 

 the county, to choose from. 



The spirit with which these girls carry 

 on their club work is very clearly describ- 

 ed by quoting a paragraph from a letter 

 received from one of the g^rls recently. 

 "Could I take two years work, the fifth 

 and sixth together, this winter? I love 

 4-H club work so well that I want to con- 

 tinue it after I am out of High School. 

 Can I still belong to the club and also 

 lead a club next year even if I do go to 

 Normal School?" 



Gives Prizes 



The Charles M. Cox Company of Bos- 

 ton, maker of Wirthmore feeds, has come 

 forward with an offer of 200 pounds of 

 grain each month as a prize in the 4-H 

 Dairy Club Milk Production Contest. 



They wish these prizes given as follows : 

 100 pounds each month to the owner of 

 the Cow producing the largest amount of 

 milk and the same amount for the owner 

 of the cow having the highest butter fat 

 test. 



This will be welcome news to the nine- 

 teen boys in the county who are compet- 

 ing in the Milk production contest run by 

 the Extension Service for the Dairy club 

 members who own milking cows. 



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 winning most priy.cs on .liinior liiril.s at 

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At the present time there are thirteen 

 boys who weigh their milk and send in 

 samples each month to be tested for but- 

 ter fat. The winners have been based on 

 the production of 49r milk together with 

 the cost of production. This contest is 

 of one years duration and ends next May 

 first. 



These prizes will be awarded the first 

 time to the winners in December. Had it 

 been given in October, Walter Granger of 

 South Worthington would have won one 

 as his cow placed highest in milk produc- 

 tion with 1,212 pounds of milk. Robert 

 Cole of Huntington \vith his P. B. Guern- 

 sey would have won the other as his cow 

 won the higest test with 5.4% butterfat. 



TELLS OF SON'S EXPERIENCES 

 IN 4-H CLUB WORK 



Mrs. John Boynton of South Hadley 

 told of the many activities and experiences 

 which her 16 year old son, Hilton, has had 

 in his four years of club work, at the 

 Annual Meeting of the Hampshire County 

 Extension Service held in Noi'thampton 

 December 9. 



Hilton started his club work in 1923 by 

 selling his two goats in order to get 

 money enough to buy a pure bred Hol- 

 stein Calf. Since that time he has owned 

 13 head of pure breds, and after selling- 

 six at various times, now has seven left, 

 three cows, two yearling heifers, one 

 heifer calf and a bull calf. Early this fall 

 his herd passed clean through its first 

 State and Federal T. B. Test. 



Some time ago Hilton started selling 

 milk at the door at retail prices and has 

 built up such a good buisness that his 

 greatest difficuly is not to keep customers, 

 but to supply them with milk. 



For four years he has been showing his 

 heifers at the .Junior Dairy Exhibit at the 

 Eastern States Exposition and this year 

 won a much coveted honor, the Grand 

 Champion Holstein in the Junior Class 

 as well as the Junior Championship in the 

 open class at the Three County Fair. 

 This was won on a Senior yearling heifer. 



In 1924 he was awarded the County 

 Championship in the Dairy Club and at- 

 tended the Champions Camp at M. A. C. 

 (Camp Gilbert). 



In January of the next year he interest- 

 ed five other boys in South Hadley in the 

 Dairy Club and organized the first Dairy 

 club in Hampshire County. This club is 

 still going and its members own nine pure 

 bred Holsteins and three grades. 



This past summer he lead 15 boys in a 

 garden club and this club put on an exhi- 

 bit in September at a church supper that 

 was one of the best in the county. 



Nor did his activities end here. He has 

 been interested in Poultry for some time 

 and has some of the best White Wyan- 

 dottes in the state. These he has shown 

 at the Eastern States, Three County Fair 

 and Greenfield and Northampton Poultry 

 Shows where he won many blue ribbons. 



Last spring his father turned over to 

 him the manageing of the whole farm 

 business, buying grain for not only his 

 animals but the horses, hens, etc., buying 

 fertilizer and seeds and paying for these 

 under his own name as well as collecting 

 for his milk and egg trade. 



