THE FARMERS' MONTHLY, FEBRUARY, 1928 



4H^CLUBJ3 



AMHERST BOY LEADS 



IN EGG LAYING CONTEST 



Competing with 45 other boys, Philip 

 Ives of Amherst carried off the blue rib- 

 bon for the month of December in the 

 Junior Egg Laying Contest. His flock 

 of 40 Rhode Island Red Pullets averaged 

 19.4 eggs per bird which is practically 

 three times the average for the 46 con- 

 testants and twice the accepted standard 

 of production for December, which is 10 

 eggs per bird. 



The contestants in this contest are 

 divided into two classes : small flocks of 5 

 to 40 birds and large flocks of 40 or more 

 birds. It is interesting to see that for 

 December the large flocks average much 

 higher than the smaller ones, the actual 

 production being 7.6 eggs per bird for the 

 former class and 5.3 eggs per bird for the 

 latter class. 



A total of 1749 birds were reported on 

 or an average of 38 birds per flock. There 

 were 16 flocks of over 40 birds and four 

 of over 100 birds. As far as we know 

 this is the first year, since poultry club 

 work started in Hampshire County, that 

 any poultry club members has owned over 

 100 laying birds. But this year there are 

 four of them. They are: Walter Sullivan, 

 Hatfield; Hervier Bernier, Granby. Stan- 

 ley Kizior, Granby and Judd Brothers, 

 Goshen. 



The Leaders for December are as fol- 

 lows: 



Large Flocks 



No. 



bii'ds 

 Phillip Ives, Amherst 40 

 Benton Cummings, Ware 62 

 Robert Barr, Huntington 42 

 J. Arthur Gould, Ware 78 



Total Avg. 



ejjgs per bird 



755 19.4 



888 14.3 



600 14.2 



956 12.2 



-Judd Brothers, Goshen '135 1317 9.8 



Small Flocks 



Lawrence Kyle, Huntington 6 105 17.9 



John Jackowski, Hatfield 24 309 12.9 



Mutter Bros., Easthampton 17 169 10.0 



J. G. Cook, Jr., Hadley 23 224 9.7 



Philip Ives, Amherst 25 225 9.0 



NEWS WRITING CONTEST 



STARTED AMONG 4-H CLUBS 



With the grand prize of a free trip to 

 the State 4-H Camp (Camp Gilbert) at 

 the Massachusetts Agricultural College 



next July, as the first prize, a news writ- 

 ing contest is being started among the 

 4-H clubs in Hampshire County. 



The objects of this contest are to teach 

 better news writing to club members and 

 by so doing to bring the work of the 4-H 

 Clubs to the attention of other boys and 

 girls and grown folks as well. 



The rules of the contest are as follows : 

 1. Only members of Massachusetts 

 4-H clubs are eligible for the contest. 



2. Only one reporter from each club is 

 allowed for each local paper. (Each club 

 should appoint one reporter to be responsi- 

 ble for reporting all club meetings, club 

 activities, tours and other things pertain- 

 ing to club work to the local paper as- 

 signed to this particular reported.) 



3. Club members who are not regular 

 reporters for a local paper and who wish 

 to enter the contest may do so by report- 

 ing each meeting and sending a copy of 

 their reports to the County Club Agent. 



4. Each reporter sending news stories 

 to the club agent must report at least nine 

 meetings. Club members reporting to 

 local papers must secure clippings of the 

 stories they have had accepted and print- 

 ed by the local paper and send at least six 

 such clippings to the County Club Agent. 



5. All sets of clippings from the papers 

 or news stories sent direct to the club 

 agent must be in the hands of the club 

 agent by June 1, 1928. 



6. As soon as reporters are appointed 

 by their clubs they are requested to learn 

 the name of the editor of their paper and 

 to address all stories to that person. 

 When they have done this they must send 

 at once their name, the name of their 

 paper, and the name of the editor of that 

 paper to the following address : Extension 

 Editor, M. A. C, Amherst, Mass., and al- 

 so to the County Club Agent, Northamp- 

 ton, Mass. 



7. The winners will be chosen on the 

 quality, number, neatness and promptness 

 of their news stories. 



SEVENTEEN LEADERS 



ATTEND CONFERENCES 



Boynton is Dairy Champion 



t'ontimifd from pag^e 1, colimui 2 

 the first fall was second in its class at 

 Northampton. Since that time he has 

 owned 13 head of pure-bred Holsteins 

 and after selling six at various times now 

 has seven left, three cows, two yearling 

 heifers, one heifer calf, and one bull calf. 

 The original cow is still in the herd and 

 produced during her second lactation 

 period, which ended about the first of the 

 year, more than 16,000 pounds of milk. 



Seventeen club leaders, representing 22 

 of the 29 clothing clubs in Hampshire 

 County, were in attendance at one or 

 more of the three training meetings held 

 in the county last month. 



These leaders represented a total of 214 

 clothing club members, a number that 

 could not have been reached in any other 

 way. 



The best meeting as far as attendance 

 and spirit is concerned was held in North- 

 ampton January 28 with 9 leaders. 3 club 

 members and 2 visitors present. These 

 were from the towns of Hatfield, Hadley, 

 Amherst, West Chesterfield and Granby. 

 Miss Esther Cooley, State Clothing 

 Specialist and Marion Forbes, Ass't State 

 Club Leader, gave them help in their 

 clothing club problems. 



The other two meetings, although 

 smaller, were quite successful. The Hunt- 

 ington and Worthington leaders met in 

 Huntington, January 17, with an attend- 

 ance of lOO'r of the leaders in that sec- 

 tion, while in Belchertown, January 7, 

 only two were present. At the Hunting- 

 ton meeting Miss Forbes gave the leaders 

 many suggestions as to their club troubles 

 while Miss Pozzi, Home Demonstration 

 Agent, carried on the same type of meet- 

 ing in Belchertown. 



The young bull, which Hilton has secured 

 to head his herd in the future, is half- 

 brother to the Hurlwood bull which was 

 All-American Holstein calf in 1926. Early 

 this fall his herd passed clean through its 

 first state and federal T. B. test. For 

 some time Hilton has been selling milk at 

 the door at retail prices and has built up 

 a good business. His greatest difficulty 

 now is being able to supply the demand. 



Awarded County Championship 



In 1924 due to his activities in dairy 

 club, Hilton was chosen as county dairy 

 champion and attended with other cham- 

 pions Camp Gilbert at Massachusetts 

 Agricultural college. Due to the interest 

 aroused by his trip to Camp Gilbert, Hil- 

 ton organized in January, 1925, the first 

 dairy club in Hampshire County. This 

 club is still going and its members own 

 nine pure-bred Holsteins and three 

 grades. The club also has the distinction 

 of having been the first local 4-H club in 

 the state of Massachusetts. 



