THE FARMERS' MONTHLY, OCTOBER, 1928 



Junior Poultry Awards at 



Eastern States Exposition 



Eighteen boys in Hampshire County, 

 members of the 4-H Poultry clubs, visited 

 the Exposition Wednesday and Thursday, 

 Sept. 19 and 20, and received their prize 

 money from Walter L. Baylis of Boston 

 representing the Massachusetts Society 

 for Promotion of Agi-iculture. This society 

 supplies the prize money and entertains 

 for two days, the exhibitors in the junior 

 poultry show, where more than COO birds 

 were shown this year, with 131 of them 

 coming from Hampshire County. 



At the meeting called for presenting 

 the prizes, other speakers were Prof. W. 

 H. Monahon of M. A. C. and Ralph Stur- 

 tevant, formerly a state club champion 

 from Halifax. 



Prizes were awarded to Hampshire 

 County exhibitors as follows : 



ItARUKD I'mHIOlITH ROCKS 



Pullet — First, second and fourth, Roger 

 West, Hadley. 



WVANDOTTRS 



Cock — First, C. Hilton Boynton, South 

 Hadley. 



Hen — First, Stephen Brusco, West Hat- 

 field. 



Cockerel— First Stephen Brusco, West 

 Hatfield; Second and third, C. Hilton 

 Boynton, South Hadley. 



Pullet — First, second and third, C. Hil- 

 ton Boynton, South Hadley. 



RIIODR ISLAND RED 



Cock — First, C. Hilton Boynton; fourth, 

 Dennett Howe, North Amherst. 



Hen — First, Dennett Howe, North Am- 

 herst; Fourth, Ittner Bros., South Hadley 

 Falls. 



WHITE LEGHORN 



Hen — Second, Roger West. 

 Cockerel— First, third and fourth, 

 Roger West. 



Pullet — Fourth, Roger West. 



LIGHT BRAHMA 



Cock — First, Albert Czajkowski, East- 

 hampton. 



ORPINGTON 



Cockerel — Second, Dennett Howe. 

 Pullet — Third, Dennett Howe. 

 Utility Classes 



BARRED I'LYMOUTH ROCK 



Hen— Third, Roger West. 



WYANDOTTE 



Hen— Fourth, C. Hilton Boynton. 



ANCONA 



Hen — First and second, Roger West 

 Standard Utility Pens 



^VVANDOTTE 



First and second, C. Hilton Boynton. 



RHODE ISLAND HEDS 



Second, Paul E. Clark, Williamsburg. 



WHITE LEGHORNS 



Third, Roger West. 



Other exhibitors were the following: 

 •Joseph Sena, Walter Pomper, Julian 

 Kieliszck, Francis Mutter and Adolf Wil- 

 ier, all of Easthampton; Milton and 

 Frank Dietz, South Hadley Falls and 

 Benton Cummings of Ware. 



Training School Visits County 



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 from 30 diff'erent states and four pro- 

 vinces of Canada, who come to the ex- 

 position grounds for a two weeks' training 

 course in psychology, recreation and 

 leadership problems. The expenses of 

 this school are met by a wealthy man in 

 Springfield who is interested in 4-H club 

 work. 



As part of their training, they are sent 

 out into various towns in Hampshire and 

 Hampden counties, visit the schools and 

 parents and put on a program at a com- 

 munity meeting in each town in the even- 

 ing, in an effort to interest more young 

 people in the work that has meant so 

 much to them. 



In these four towns, they visited 13 

 school rooms in the forenoon telling the 

 young people about 4-H club work and in 

 the afternoon visited about 125 parents 

 explaining to them what the work is and 

 what they hoped the boys and girls would 

 get out of it. 



In three towns, Southampton, West- 

 hampton and Goshen, some local ladies' 

 organization put on a community supper 

 at night and after the supper the training 

 school members put on a program. 



Much credit for the success of "4-H 

 Club Day" in these four towns is due to 

 the hard work in advance by the local 

 committees in each town. They planned 

 for drivers for these young people so that 

 they might visit the homes of the parents, 

 also arranged for a supper in three of the 

 towns and acted as chairman of the com- 

 munity meetings. 



The chairmen of these local committees 

 are as follows: — Southampton, Mrs. Earl 

 Hewlett; Wcsthampton, Mr. Wm. Fiske; 

 Go-shen, Mr. Henry Packard and Cum- 

 mington, Mr. Leon Thayer. 



Stanley Misterka Wins 



The Planet Jr. Seeder 



By winning enough prizes on his in- 

 dividual exhibits to reach a total of 44 

 points, Stanley Misterka, of Pine Grove, 

 Northampton, was declared the winner of 

 the $18.00 Planet Jr. seeder, cultivator, 

 plow and wheel hoe given by the S. L. 

 Allen & Co., Inc., of Philadelphia. 



This prize, which was without a doubt, 

 the most valuable one given in the Youths' 

 dept. of the Three County Fair, was 

 awarded to the 4-H Garden Club Member 

 who won the largest number of points on 

 his individual exhibits, the points count- 

 ing as follows: first prize, 5 points; se- 

 cond prize, 3 points; third prize, 1 point, 

 with prizes on collection of vegetables 

 counting double. 



It seems particularly fitting that Stan- 

 ley should win this prize, since last year 

 he was awarded the county garden cham- 

 pionship for having done the best piece 

 of garden work in Hampshire County. 



Joseph Misterka, Stanley's younger 

 brother, captured second place with 34 

 points, while Joseph Sena of Easthamp- 

 ton was third with 29 points. 



Other Vegetable Special Prizes 



Two Biggie vegetable books given by 

 the Farm Journal were won by Stanley 

 Misterka, Pine Grove and Rupert Harru- 

 bin of Bradstreet. Three subscriptions 

 to the New England Homestead were won 

 by Verol Click, Amherst; Kazimer Mit- 

 chell, Amherst and Vernon Russell, 

 Southampton. 



Dairy Special Prize Winners 



Grife's Department Store's strainer 

 milk pail was won by Joseph Sena, East- 

 hampton. , 



Foster-Farrar's milk pail was won by 

 Lawson Clark, Williamsburg. 



Biggie cow books, given by the Farm 

 Journal were won by Gordon Cook, Had- 

 ley; Lyman Pratt, Hadley; Joseph Sena, 

 Easthampton; Frank Czabon, Enfield. 



A 60 pound milk scale given by the 

 Creamery Package Co. of Boston was won 

 by Gordon Cook, Hadley. 



Prizes given by the Hampshire-Frank- 

 lin Holstein Club were won as follows: 



Under two years of age 



First — Gordon Cook, Hadley 

 Second — Gordon Cook, Hadley 

 Third — Roger West, Hadley 



