THE FARMERS' MONTHLY, NOVEMBER, 1928 



AROUND THE COUNTY 



There are two dairy club members who 

 should feel "rich" for a while at least. At 

 U. G. Groff's Jersey sale in South Am- 

 herst, October 22, his two grandsons, 

 George Simmons, Jr. and Chauncey Sim- 

 mons sold their animals that they had ex- 

 hibited at the Exposition for the past two 

 years. 



George's sold for $425.00 while Chaun- 

 cey received $210.00. Not a bad price for 

 either, although George's had made a sil- 

 ver medal last year and so of course had 

 the better qualifications for a good price. 



We hope that part of the money will be 

 used to buy some others as we don't want 

 to lose two good dairy club members. 



Middleficld will be on the 4-H map 

 again this year after an absence of one 

 year. 



Miss Esther E. Turner, the teacher in 

 the center school is much interested in 

 leading a handicraft club in her school 

 this winter. Miss Turner was formerly 

 a 4-H canning club member for three 

 years in Becket. 



Walter Thayer, .Jr., of Williamsburg 

 and a student at the Smith Agricultural 

 School, recently bought Robert Cutter's 

 first prize junior yearling Jersey heifer 

 which Robei't showed at the Exposition. 



South Hadley Center was not able to 

 hire a clothing instructor this Fall for 

 the grammar school. Rather than have 

 the girls go without this instruction. Miss 

 Gertrude Galusha, principal of the gram- 

 mar school, invited us to help out with 

 our clothing club programs. 



The girls in the eighth grade will form 

 a clothing club under Miss Galusha's 

 leadership, while Miss Helen D. Walsh 

 will conduct the seventh grade class. 



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Miss Gladys Sivert, a student at 

 M. A. C. is acting as local leader of the 

 Flying Fingers' 4-H clothing club of 

 North Amherst this year. At their or- 

 ganization meeting in October, the follow- 

 ing officers were elected: Emma Cumin- 

 sky, president; Victoria, Wysocki, vice- 

 president and trea.surer; Annie Rogers, 

 secretary; Marion Westcott, club report- 



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Forestry club work is being started in 

 Hampshire County for the first time this 

 Fall. A gi'oup of five boys in Plainfield 

 have started the club. 



The work which they have undertaken 

 is the collecting, identifying, and mount- 

 ing of a least 1-5 samples of different 

 kinds of wood. At their first meeting, 

 November -5, accompanied by the club 

 agent they took a hike to a nearby wood- 

 lot and collected specimens of five kinds 

 of trees. 



These samples are from one or two 

 MASS. j inches in diameter and four inches long. 

 They are cut to show a cross section, a 

 diagonal sectional and lengthwise section 

 of the grain of the wood. After cutting 

 they are allowed to dry and are then 

 polished, painted with white shellac anS 

 mounted on a suitable board and labelled. 



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Goshen is coming to the front this year 

 with a clothing club and a lunch box club 

 led by the teacher. Miss Doris Kenney. 

 In addition, a handicraft club in which 

 both boys and girls belong, is being led 

 by Miss Kenney and Robert Deals, a 

 former club member and county pig 

 champion in 1922. 



A few poultry club members and two 

 dairy club members will also be supei-s'ised 

 by Mr. Beals. To date there are 34 en- 

 rollments in the five projects as compared 

 with five last year. 



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 a good place for all of us to live in." 

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4-H BOY SELLS 



CALF TO EGYPT 



Thomas A. Rich, Middletown, N. Y. club 

 boy, has the proud distinction of introduc- 

 ing the fir.st purebred Jersey calf into 

 Egypt. 



The calf, Sophie Sons Viola, was pur- 

 chased by M: C. McFeetera, professor of 

 agriculture at Assint College, America 

 Mission, Assint, Egypt. The calf carried 

 off the first prize at the Hobart fair and 

 seventh at the State fair. A top notch 

 prize was offered and accepted. It is of 

 note that a special permit had to be issued 

 for the importation of stock into Egypt, 

 as formerly all stock was slaughtered at 

 the docks. 



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