THE FARMERS' MONTHLY, JANUARY, 1928 



FARMERS' ^MONTHLY 



PUBLISHED BY THE 



Hampshire County Trustees for Aid to 

 Agriculture 



STAFF 



Allen S. Leland, County Agent 



Mary Pozzi, Home Demonstration Agent 



Harold W. Eastman, County Club Agent 



Nora Foley, Clerk 



Helen Clarjc, Asst. Clerk 



Office at 184 Main St., 

 Northampton, Mass. 



Entered a.s second class matter Nov. 9, 

 1915. at the Post Office at Northampton, 

 Massachusetts, under the Act of March 

 8, 1879. 



"Notice of Entry" 



"Acceptance for mailing at special rates 

 of postage provided for in section 1103, 

 Act of October 3, 1917. Authorized Oc- 

 tober 31, 1917. 



Price, 50 cents a year 



Officers of the Trustees 



Charles W. Wade, President 

 Mrs. Clifton Johnson, Vice-President 

 Warren M. King, Treasurer 

 Allen S. Leland, Secretary 



Trustees for County Aid 

 to Agricultui'e 



Charles W. Wade, Hatfield 

 Mrs. Clifton Johnson, Hadley 

 Warren M. King, Northampton 

 Edwin B. Clapp, Easthampton 

 Clarence E. Hodgkins, Northampton 

 Milton S. Howes, Cummington 

 W. H. Atkins, Amherst 

 L. L. Campbell, Northampton 



less adequate the supervision of the milk 

 supply the higher the proportion of in- 

 fected children. 



"Twenty-four cities and towns in the 

 state now have such local regulations. 

 About SOVr of the population are protect- 

 ed against tuberculosis from milk. But 

 varying regulations in adjoining com- 

 munities are a hardship on the producer. 

 Uniformity is needed, as is protection for 

 the other 409f of our people, particularly 

 the heavy milk consumers, the children." 



MASSACHUSETTS MILK IN 

 1931 TO BE PASTUERIZED 



OR TB TESTED 



By 1931 all milk .sold in Massachusetts 

 should be either pasteurized or from non- 

 tuberculin cattle, except in towns of less 

 than .5,000 population where acceptance 

 of a plan to bring this about would be 

 optional. 



This plan is provided in a bill filed with 

 the Legislature by Dr. George H. Bigelow, 

 state health commissioner. In a state- 

 ment accompanying the bill Dr. Bigelow 

 said it would protect the people of the 

 state from bovine tuberculosis. 



Referring to the option given towns of 

 less than 5,000 population, Dr. Bigelow 

 stated that this doesn't mean that there 

 is no menace in these small towns. "Quite 

 the contrary," he .states. "Nor does it 

 mean that their health is of less import- 

 ance. But it does mean that the small 

 town has been the principal rallying point 

 of the opposition, and the exemption is, 

 therefore expedient rather than rational." 



'Bovine tuberculosis is an important 

 factor in the non-pulmonary forms of the 

 disease in man. Milk from infected cattle 

 has been repeatedly found infected. The 



THE FUTURE OF BOYS' AND 



GIRLS' 4-H CLUB WORK 



For an editorial this month, we ffer the 

 remarks made by Dr. C. B. Smith, Chief, 

 Office of Extension Work, U. S. D. A., at 

 the annual banquet and rally of 4-H club 

 members in Chicago, November 29, dur- 

 ing the Sixth National 4-H Club Congress. 

 —The Editor. 



Forty-eight extension directors in 48 

 States recently voted, without a dissent- 

 ing voice, that 4-H club work was of suf- 

 ficient impoi-tance in the United States to 

 warrant its further sub.stantial develop- 

 ment. It is now seen that club work 

 builds men and women. It is a vitalizing 

 factor in agriculture and the rural home. 

 It sends back into the schools and on to 

 college many boys and girls who are 

 drifting. It trains in that great human 

 needs of all people, and especially farm- 

 ing people, the art of cooperation, while 

 they are young. It is a great new leaven 

 and vitalizing agency in rural American 

 life. 



And now that is has been found good for 

 the boy and girl who takes part in it,, good 

 for agriculture and the home, good for the 

 nation, plans to expand it greatly are now 

 on the way, backed by more than twenty 

 farmers' organizations without one or- 

 ganization, so far as we know, opposing 

 it. This provides that club work be ex- 

 panded so that at the end of about 12 

 years we would have over 1,800,000 boys 

 and girls enrolled each year in 4-H clubs. 

 That is just about three times as many as 

 we now have enrolled. If we could enroll 

 that number annually, it would enable 

 every boy and girl who reaches maturity 

 and takes up farming to have come up 

 through the club system. 



It is difficult to realize how big such an 

 army of 1,500,000 boys and girls is, but 

 you can get some notion of the number 

 when I tell you that if they were on the 

 march, 24 abreast, with lines 165 feet 

 apart, walking ten hours a day, it would 

 take them six days to walk past the Presi- 

 dent's reviewing .stand once and the group 

 would stretch out from Chicago clear 

 across the State of Illinois to the Missi- 

 ssippi River and beyond. 



Pride of occupation, efficiency in per- 

 formance, high standards of living, a rich 

 social and intellectual life are all an in- 



evitable part of future rural America, due 

 in no small degree to the high ideals and 

 the inspiration of 4-H club work. All 

 honor to the 4-H clubs that labor in this 

 field. 



M. A. C. FARM AND 



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HOME FORUM SPEAKERS 



6 Mi.ss E. B. Cooley Clothing 



13 Mrs. A. H. Herr Child Training 



20 Miss M. E. Forbes 4-H Club Work 



27 Mrs. H. J. Haynes 



Home Management 



MARCH 



5 L. S. Dickinson Lawns 



12 C. I. Gunness Home Repairs 



19 Miss M. E. Foley Nutrition 



26 C. L. Thayer Flowers 



2 L. S. Dickinson 



9 C. I. Gunness 



16 Mrs. A. T. Herr 



23 Miss M. E. Forbes 



30 C. L. Thayer 



Lawns 



Home Repairs 



Child Training 



4-H Club Work 



Flowers 



FARM FORUM SPEAKERS 



FEBRUARY 



6 F. H. Branch Farm Accounts 



13 C. J. Fawcett Animal Husbandry 



20 J. P. Helyar Crops 



27 W. C. Monahan Poultry 



MARCH 



5 R. M. Koon Marget Gardening 



12 L. S. Dickinson Lawns 



19 W. C. Monahan Poultry 



26 L. S. Dickinson Lawns 



APRIL 



2 F. H. Branch 



9 J. P. Helyar 



16 W. H. Thies 



23 C. J. Fawcett 



30 R. M. Koon 



Farm Accounts 



Citips 



Fruit Grovdng 



Animal Husbandry 



Market Gardening 



MAY 



7 S. C. Hubbard 



14 J. P. Helyar 



21 C. L. Thayer 



28 J. P. Helyar 



Floriculture 

 Crops 



Floriculture 

 Crops 



.JUNE 



4 R. M. Koon Market Gardening 



11 L. S. Dickinson Lawns 



18 W. H. Thies Fruit Growing 



25 W. R. Cole Announcement 



Address all communicattions to W. R. 

 Cole, French Hall, M. A. C, Amherst 

 Mass. Questions will be answered by 

 personal letter or through the radio. 



Now is the time for poultrymen to 

 think about winter eggs if they expect to 

 have any. Proper care now means eggs 

 this winter. Write your county agent for 

 suggestions. 



