THE FARMERS' MONTHLY, NOVEMBER, 1928 



Local 4-H Club Leaders 



To Hold Party December 7 



Thirty-five 4-H club leaders are expect- 

 ed at a "Party" which is being held Fri- 

 day, December 7 in Northampton from 

 5 to 8 P. M. 



This get-together is purely and simply 

 a good time and get acquainted gathering 

 at which the leaders will eat together, 

 play together, compare notes and ex- 

 periences together and in general give the 

 new leaders a chance to absorb a little of 

 the knowledge and skill which the older 

 leaders have learned through experience. 



The outstanding feature of the program 

 is the fact that three of the speakers are 

 local leaders who have been leading clubs 

 continuously in this county since the work 

 started in 1915. On top of this put in 

 the fact that Miss Doane and Mr. Farley 

 from the state office and Mrs. Clifton 

 Johnson of Hadley, vice-president of the 

 Trustees of the Hampshire County Exten- 

 sion Service and a mother of former 4-H 

 members, and last but not least, Miss 

 Mary Pozzi to lead the singing, and we 

 have a program that should be not only 

 entertaining but very instructice to all 

 4-H leaders. 



Here's a sample of the program 



5:00 P.M. Songs and get acquainted 

 games 



6:00 P.M. Supper 



7:00 P.M. Program 



1. Club songs led by Mary Pozzi, Home 

 Demonstration Agent. 



2. The joys of a local leader attending 

 Camp Gilbert, Miss Alice Collis — 

 Camp Gilbert, 1928. 



3. Why the Bondsville "Busy Bees" be- 

 lieve in Camp Howe, Miss Nellie Shea, 

 Camp Howe Leader, 1928. 



4. "Pep" for 4-H club meetings 



Miss Helen E. Doane, Ass't State Club 

 Leader. 



5. How I organize my 4-H clubs 



Miss Cora Hewlett, South Amherst. 



6. What a parent thinks of the work of 

 a 4-H club leader 



Mrs. Clifton Johnson, Hadley. 



7. Local Leadership has its rewards, 

 George L. Farley, State Club Leader. 



slightly from the previous contests in that 

 it will be part of a state contest with both 

 county and state prizes to compete for. 



The records kept by the boys will be 

 very similar to those kept by the members 

 of the cow testing association and each 

 boy will have a record book in order that 

 they may keep a record to date of the pro- 

 gress of each animal. 



Each contestant will weigh the milk for 

 the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth 

 days of each month and take a sample to 

 send in to be tested. In addition they will 

 compute from this the production per 

 month. The feed will be weighed one day 

 per month and the cost figured from these 

 weighings. 



It is expected that nearly 20 boys will 

 take part in the contest as there are that 

 number of dairy members who own milk- 

 ing animals. As several boys own more 

 than one cow, the total will be nearly 35 

 animals eligible to compete. 



DAIRY CLUB STARTS 



FOURTH MILK CONTEST 



November 1, the Hampshire County 4-H 

 dairy club started its fourth milk produc- 

 tion contest. This contest will differ 



Club Work Booms in 



Huntington This Year 



With seven 4-H clothing clubs and two 

 4-H handicraft clubs led by nine leaders, 

 Huntington comes to the front in Hamp- 

 shire county this year as having the 

 largest number of organized clubs. 

 The girl's organization is rather unique, 

 although cjuite similar to that used last 

 year. Six of the seven girl leaders are 

 "junior" leaders, that is, they are mem- 

 bers as well as leaders. Five of them are 

 high school girls who are leading gram- 

 mar school groups. The sixth is Cather- 

 ine Donahue, a student at Westfield Nor- 

 mal School who is leading a group of 

 high school girls. These six junior lead- 

 ers in turn form a club which is led by 

 Miss Catherine Sullivan, the Household 

 Arts Instructor. 



The names of the five high school pupils 

 who are junior leaders are: Ruth Besaw, 

 Elizabeth Oliver, Elizabeth Kirby, Gwen- 

 dolyn Williams and Diana Becker. 



Mr. Charles Taylor the principal of the 

 high school is to act as leader of a handi- 

 craft club made up of eighth grade and 

 freshman boys, while a second club has 

 been formed among- the seventh graders 

 under the leadership of Mr. Edward 

 Caron. This club was organized Novem- 

 ber 5 with the following officers elected: 

 Leonard Knox, Jr., president; Adelore 

 Duga, vice-president ; Robert Tufts, secre- 

 tary. 



4-H Poultry Egg Laying 



C ontest St arted Nov. 1 



Nine poultry clubs with an enrollment 

 of over 100 boys and girls got started in 

 our annual egg laying contest, November 

 jl. 



j Not for several years has there been 

 I such interest shown in this contest as is 

 ' proven by the eagerness with which the 

 clubs started off. The Manhan club in 

 \ Easthampton was the first to get under 

 1 way last September. Every one of their 

 10 members of last year enrolled again 

 this year. At their first meeting the fol- 

 lowing officers were elected : President, 

 Francis Leitl; vice-president, Adolf Wil- 

 ier; secretary, Julian Kielisczek; treasur- 

 er, Francis Mutter ; news reporter, Albert 

 Czajkowski. 



Poultry club members in both South 



: Hadley and South Hadley Falls have com- 



I bined into one large club with 16 mem- 



I bers with C. Hilton Boynton as leader. 



Other officers are Howard Ittner, pres ; 



and Elmer Ittner, sec'y. 



In Williamsburg a new poultry club 

 was organized with G. Lawson Clark as 

 both local leader and president; Philip 

 Cook; vice-president; Charles Warner, 

 secretary; Robert Otis, treasurer. 



Other clubs will be in Cummington with 

 Milton A. Howes, leader; Smith Agricul- 

 tural School, Noel Smith, leader; Smith 

 Academy and Hatfield Grammar School, 

 E. J. Bui-ke, leader; Bondsville, Miss 

 Nellie Shea, leader; and Ware, J. Arthur 

 Gould, leader. 



C. HILTON BOYNTON 



WINS TRIP TO CHICAGO 



George Farley of Massachusetts agri- 

 cultural college announced yesterday that 

 C. Hilton Boynton of South Hadley was 

 one of the two boys from Massachusetts 

 who have won a trip to the National club 

 congress to be held in connection with the 

 international livestock show in Chicago 

 the first week in December. This distinc- 

 tion was awarded Mr. Boynton because 

 of outstanding 4-H club work in the last 

 seven years. Hilton was state champion 

 of the 4-H dairy clubs during the past 

 year and had Holstein cattle exhibited in 

 the Three County and Eastern States 

 fairs, every year since 1922. The trip 

 will be financed by Massachusetts State 

 Bankers' association and the 1200 boys 

 and girls at the congress, from 44 differ- 

 ent states, will be entertained by the lead- 

 ing stores of Chicago. 



