HAMPSHIRE 

 FARMERS' MONTHLY 



Massachusetts 



VAY 3 - 1928 



ultural 

 'lege. 



Vol. XIII. 



NORTHAMPTON, MASS., APRIL, 1928 



No. 4 



4-H Club Exhibits 



To Begin May ii 



The "Bay Path" Clothing and Handi- 

 craft clubs of South Amherst will start 

 the series of spring exhibitions of 4-H 

 club work. This exhibit will take place 

 Friday afternoon, May 11 in the South 

 Amherst Grammar School under the 

 direction of Miss Cora Howlett, teacher 

 and leader of the two 

 4-H clubs. 



Public Is Invited 



During the month 

 following, 42 clubs will 

 put on exhibits of their 

 work, all of them public 

 and most of them com- 

 bined with a program. 

 In many communities 

 several clubs will co- 

 operate and put on a 

 joint program, thus 

 making it easier for all 

 concerned. 



At each of these 

 meetings a representa- 

 tive of the County Ex- 

 tension Service will be 

 present in order to award the 4-H club 

 pins to the members completing their 

 work as well as charters to the organized 

 clubs and a Gold Seal to those that com- 

 plete 100 per cent. 



Only a comparatively few of the clubs 

 had settled the date of the exhibits at the 

 time of this writing: 



"Bay Path" Clothing and Handicraft 

 club, Friday afternoon. May 11. 



"Busy Workers" club. West Chester- 

 field, Tuesday afternoon, May 22. 



Belchertown Sewing Club, Friday 

 afternoon, May 2.5. 



Franklin School Clubs, Bondsville, Fri- 

 day evening. May 25. 



Huntington Clothing Clubs, Thursday 

 evening, May .31. 



Russellville Clubs, Hadley, Friday 

 afternoon, .June 8. 



North Hadley Clothing and Handicraft 

 Clubs, Friday evening, .June 1. 



Granby Clothing and Handicraft Clubs, 

 Memorial Day. 



Russell School and Hopkins Academy, 

 Hadley, Friday afternoon, .June 1. 



West Hatfield Clothing and Handicraft 

 Clubs, at school Graduation. 



WHY NOT ATTEND 



Mav 4-5— High School Day at 



M. A. C. 



During May and early June Local 



Exhibits of 4-H clubs in your town. 



May 18— 4-H Dairy Club Banquet, 



James House, Northamoton. 



May 19 — 4-H Garden and Canning 



Leaders Conference at M. A. C. 



.June 14 — Home Makers' Summary 



Meeting at Laurel Park. 



June 20-24 — Home Makers' County 



Camp at Greenwich Lake. 



June 26-30— County 4-H Camp. 



County Fruit Growers 



Have Big Get-Togetlier 



KATV DEKOL BUKKE (ilSOlI 

 OWNED BY E. P. WEST, HADLEY 



HIGHEST PRODUCING COW IN 

 HAMPSHIRE-FRANKLIN CLUB 



E. P. West of Hadley has the honor, for 

 the second time, of winning the silver cup 

 offered by the Hampshire-Franklin Hol- 

 stein Breeders' Club to the breeder within 

 the club having the highest producing 

 cow. The cup is awarded on a basis of 

 total points, milk, butter fat and age 

 handicaps considered. 



The cow pictured above, whose record 

 enabled Mr. West to win the cup again, 

 is Katy De Kol Burke 618011 who made 

 a record of 21,864.2 pounds of milk and 

 880.64 pounds of butter fat at the age of 

 6 years 2 months and 26 days. In ad- 

 dition to winning the cup Mr. West was 

 elected vice president of the state Hol- 

 stein association. 



Other high producing cows on the honor 

 list were owned by Frank D. Steele of 

 Cummington, Osborn West of Hadley, 

 Pelissier Bros, of Hadley and C. J. Loud 

 of Northampton. All of these cows pro- 

 duced over 16,000 pounds of milk and 

 over 546 pounds of butter fat. 



Continued on page 9, column 1 



About eighty fi-uit growers from Hamp- 

 den, Hampshire and Franklin counties 

 spent a profitable day at the Ma.ssachu- 

 setts Agricultural College on Thursday. 

 It was the first time that this spring 

 meeting had been run as a three-county 

 proposition, and the meeting was so suc- 

 cessful that it will pro- 

 bably be continued as 

 an annual affair. 



The general subject 

 of what additional 

 fruits could be planted 

 in conjunction with 

 apple orcharding was 

 discussed at the morn- 

 ing session. This ses- 

 sion was in charge of 

 Prof. F. C. Sears. 

 Peaches and straw- 

 berries seemed most 

 popular in the minds of 

 the fruit growers as 

 crops which would fill 

 this need. Information 

 was given the growers 

 in regard to v/ork which 

 is being done at the college in an 

 effort to find a peach which will be hardy 

 in Massachusetts. It was brought out 

 peaches will generally stand temperatures 

 as low as 14 degrees below zero without 

 danger of winter-killing. Howard 17 was 

 considered the most profitable strawberry 

 to grow. County Agent Joseph Putnam 

 informed the group that a few men in 

 Franklin county are growing blueberries 

 commercially. 



Visit Orchards 



After luncheon at the college dining 

 hall, the growers visited the college or- 

 chards in charge of Prof. R. A. Van 

 Meter. Observations wei'e made of the 

 pruning done on apple and peach trees. 

 Apple trees should be pruned so that they 

 are uniformily open and yet should re- 

 tain ample bearing wood, according to 

 Mr. Van Meter. Top grafted trees were 

 noted and 0. C. Roberts gave a demon- 

 stration of how this top grafting should 

 be done. 



Fertilizing vs. mulching was discussed 

 by Dr. J. K. Shaw. The plots which were 

 Continued on pag^e 9, column 2 



