THE FARMERS' MONTHLY, MARCH, 1928 



HATFIELD AND WARE BIRDS 

 WIN EGG LAYING CONTEST 



George Rogalewski of Hatfield and 

 Benton Cummings of Ware won the two 

 prizes offered in the Hampshire County 

 4-H Egg Laying Contest for January. 



They won these prizes in the small and 

 large flock classes, respectively. Rogalew- 

 ski went in front with an average produc- 

 tion of 20 eggs from each of his 12 birds 

 while young Cummings led his class with 

 18.5 eggs from each of his 60 Rhode Is- 

 land Red pullets. 



Sixty- five flocks containing 2,064 birds 

 were reported in the January Contest. 

 These flocks had an average Of nine eggs 

 per bird. 



iManhan Club Again Leads 



For the third consecutive month the 

 Manhan club of Easthampton won the 

 4-H Banner for the organized club with 

 the highest average production per bird 

 for all flocks owned by members of the 

 club. 



There standing is as follows : 



No. No. Avg. 

 of of per 



Name of Club flocks birds bird 

 Manhan Club, 



Easthampton, 9 1.58 9.1 



Hatfield Poultry 



Club, 21 533 8.8 



Ware Center Club, 8 262 8.4 

 Smith School Club, 



Northampton, 7 321 7.8 



Wirthmore Club, 



South Hadley Falls, 7 211 5.7 



The five leaders in each of the two 

 classes are as follows : 



Small flocks (5 to iO birds) 



No. Total Avg. 

 birds eggs per l)ird 



G. Rogalewski, Hatfield, 12 240 20.0 



Howe Bros., No. Amherst, 5 99 19.8 



Philip Reed, Hadley, 7 134 19.1 



E. Slowikowski, Hatfield, 17 239 14.0 



R. George, Belchertowni, 23 319 13.9 



Large flocks (iO or more birds) 



B. Cummings, Ware, 60 1111 18.5 



Philip Ives, Amherst, 62 1146 18.4 



Judd Bros., Goshen, 135 2077 15.4 



J. Sena, Easthampton, 48 727 15.2 



R. Barr, Huntington, 48 693 14.1 



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Gordon Cook is Cliampion 



Continued floni Yinga 1. column 1 



21st of March, we tested our herd, and 

 lost this one and the one I had the year 

 before. That was two, both pure breds. 

 The third one is my cow that is in the 

 milk production contest at the present 

 time. She was born the 14th day of July, 

 1924, so that just about took her out of 

 the Calf class at Eastern States. She is 

 out of some of our old foundation stock. 

 I showed her in the .Junior yearling class 

 at Eastern States Exposition in 1925 and 

 won third place. 



The next year I showed a calf in the 

 calf class and won third place, but was 

 better in proportion than the one the year 

 before. There were four in the Junior 

 Yearling class and twenty in the Calf 

 class. 



Showed Three in 1927 



This last fall I .showed my cow, my 

 senior yearling and the calf that I bought 

 at Eastern States in 1926. The cow won 

 third place, the senior yearling won third 

 and the calf won second. 



The 24th of October, 1927, my cow 

 freshened with a heifer calf, so that will 

 make a calf for next year. All the ani- 

 mals I have owned .so far have been pure- 

 bred Holsteins. 



My experiences in the Milk contest 

 have been good so far. The first year in 

 it, my cow was a first calf heifer and she 

 produced over eleven thousand pounds of 

 milk. This year she gave over seventy 

 pounds of milk a day, milking three times 

 a day. The month of November she gave 

 almost 2200 lbs. of milk and 67.9 lbs. but- 

 ter fat. The month of December she gave 

 2100 lbs. milk and 64.7 lbs. fat. In Janu- 

 ary she gave 1998.5 lbs. milk and 54.5 lbs. 

 butter fat. I have fed her 15 lbs. grain, 

 3 lbs. beetpulp, 40 lbs. ensilage and 15 lbs. 

 hay a day. 



The mixture of grain we feed our cows 

 consists of 400 bran, 100 molasses, 300 

 gluten feed, 200 corn distillers grain 200 

 Beet pulp, 140 ground oats, 100 oil meal, 

 100 cotton seed meal 439?-, 400 corn meal, 

 60 lbs. minerals. The minerals are : 20 lbs. 

 salt, 20 lbs. of ground lime stone and 20 

 lbs. ground bone. Our calf mixture is 

 500 bran, 300 alfalfa, 800 corn meal, 140 ! 

 molasses, 60 lbs. minerals. 



My plans for the next few years in the 

 calf club are, to increase my herd, keep 

 as good animals as possible, and show a 

 herd at Eastern States." 



Gordon Cook. 



THOMAS ELDER SPEAKS 

 TO DAIRY CLUB MEMBERS 



"Learn to be a good sport, to lose with- 

 out squealing and to win without brag- 

 ging. Also to accept without question or 

 argument the decision of the judge 

 whether right or wrong." 



This was the keynote of Mr. Elder's 

 talk to the 35 4-H Dairy Club members 

 with their parents who held their third 

 Annual Meeting, Saturday, February 18 

 in Odd Fellows Hall, Northampton. 



Two towns had the honor of 100 per 

 cent attendance in spite of a howling- 

 snowstorm, Hatfield and South Hadley. 

 Hatfield made an especially good showing, 

 thanks to Mr. E. J. Burke, Agricultural 

 Instructor in Smith Academy, who 

 brought in at least six dairy club mem- 

 bers, four of them being new ones. South 

 Hadley was represented by every one of 

 their five members accompanied by C. 

 Hilton Boynton, their leader and who was 

 also secretary of the County Club. 



New Officers Elected 



Gordon (Bud) Cook of Hadley was 

 elected president of the club for 1928 

 when the annual election of. officers took 

 place just before noon. "Steve" Brusco 

 of West Hatfield became vice-president 

 while Helen Sena of Easthampton won 

 the most votes in the contest for secre- 

 tary. 



The meeting was called to order by the 

 president, Erick Moberg of South Am- 

 herst, who gave a report of the many 

 activities in which the County Club took 

 part during the past year. 



When the roll was called it was found 

 that the members present owned 64 dairy 

 animals, 55 of them being purebreds and 

 registered in the names of their youthful 

 owners. 



Members Tell Experience 



Gordon Cook of Hadley and Joseph 

 Sena of Easthampton gave very interest- 

 ing reports of their experience in the 

 Dairy Club work. Gordon's story as told 

 at the meeting is printed elsewhere in 

 this issue. 



J. C. Archibald of the Massachusetts 

 Agricultural College gave a talk on Feed- 

 ing Calves that dealt chiefly on Milk Sub- 

 .stitutes and how to feed them. 



The table which is given below sums up 

 briefly the experiments which he has been 

 carrying on at the college for a good 



