HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARMERS' MONTHLY 



HAMPSHIRE: COUNTY CLUB WORK 



CUMMINGTON BOY 



POTATO CHAMPION 



Makes Demonstration as well as Profit 



Alfred Morey, age 13, of Cumming- 

 ton was picked for Hampshire 

 County potato champion by Assistant 

 State Club Leader, W. F. Howe. As 

 will be seen by the following story he 

 raised two varieties to see which did the 

 better. He had 1/8 acre of potatoes on 

 which he raised 42h bushels at a cost of 

 $25.90. This is a cost of sixty cents per 

 bushel. His net profit was $.30.98 Fol- 

 lowing is his story: 



"WHY I JOINED THE POTATO CLUB" 



Miss Erhard came into our school and 

 asked if any of the boys or girls would 

 like to join the club. As nearly all of 

 the boys and girls about here who have 

 belonged to the club have raised a pig, I 

 thought I would rather grow potatoes so 

 I joined the potato club. My father 

 thought it would be a good plan to grow 

 two varieties and so 1 planted part of 

 the field to Sir Walter Raleigh's and the 

 rest to Green Mountains. The Green 

 Mountains were certified seed and the Sir 

 Walter Raleigh's were home grown 

 selected seed. These yielded rather more 

 than Green Mountains. I think I would 

 like to try again next year. I would 

 treat the seed with corrosive sublimate as 

 my yield was cut down by potato diseases. 

 I only sprayed once for blight and twice 

 for bugs. There were no rotten potatoes. 

 The outside row next to the grass suffered 

 from drought. So next time would try 

 not to have a long row next to the turf. 

 I think I would use just the Sir Walter 

 Raleigh's for seed next year and plan to 

 sell the larger part of the crop for seed. 



.Joseph Russell of Ware 7 won second 

 place in the county. 



Milton Howes of Cummington won 

 honorable mention for placing third in the 

 county. 



POULTRY CLUB NOTES 



The Smith Agricultural School poultry 

 club and the Hadley poultry club held a 

 joint meeting at the former school. The 

 meeting was in charge of Thomas Oliver, 

 president of the home club. Mr. Nodine 

 was the main speaker. A lively game of 

 basket ball followed, won by the Smith 

 Agricultural School club. 



The silver loving cup offered by Am- 

 herst Poult)y Association was won by 

 Bronislaw Lebiecki of Florence. 



The Huntington poultry club, though 

 having only two members, is doing very 

 good work. 



1922 BABY BEEF CLUB STARTS 



Hamp.shire County is again set to make 

 a success of baby beef work. This year 

 there are five Hatfield boys caring for 

 eight steers. There are Hereford and 

 Shorthorns entered this year. 



All the club members and their fathers 

 attended the Hampden County Baby 

 Beef Day to view the steers our neigh- 

 bors are to work with. 



Hampshire County is using all native 

 grown steers, believing they do not have 

 to become acclimated. Mr. George Bel- 

 den of Hatfield and his farm manager, 

 Mr. Cornell Greene, have taken charge of 

 obtaining principally all our steers. 



All eyes are set toward Eastern States, 

 the wind-up of the project. There will be 

 competition from Maine, Connecticut and 

 Massachusetts. This year the three 

 leading beef breeds are competing. Mr. 

 Simpson, General Manager of Eastern 

 States, has announced that the class will 

 be made this year according to weight, 

 not locality as last year. 



CORN CHAMPION HARD TO PICK 



After a long conference between Mr. 

 Howe and Miss Erhard in regard to corn 

 champion, it was decided to call in Mr. 

 Farley, State Club Leader, and Professor 

 .John Abbott. This is due to the fact 

 there is such close competition between 

 Osborne West and Ii'ving Johnson, both 

 of Hadley. One boy had the highest yield 

 and the other the highest profit. The 

 champion will be announced next month. 



Dear Garment Club Members: 



By the correct application of the things 

 which you will learn in this club, you can 

 most easily reflect your character; for 

 the neatness of your clothing, tne cleanli- 

 ness of your person and the tidiness of 

 your hair will tell other people just what 

 kind of a girl you are. The first purpose 

 of the Garment Club is to teach you to 

 make your own clothes, but the value of 

 it would all be lost if you knew only how 

 to construct your garments with no idea 

 of how to choose them, how to wear them, 

 or how to care for them. 



If you will read carefully in your Home 

 Economics Bulletins the "Daily Care of 

 Clothing", you will find suggestions which 

 are well worth while heeding, and if 

 properly followed will give a much longer 

 life to your clothing. 



Please accept my best wishes for a hap- 

 py winter in club work. 



Cordially yours, 



Dorothy W. Murdock. 

 Assitant State Club Leader. 



FOOD AND GARMENT CLUB 



Extracts from Miss Murdock's Letter 



Following are two paragraphs from the 

 letter written by Miss Murdock, Asst. 

 State Club leader to the girls in her club: 

 Dear Food Club Members : 



In joining the Food Club you have 

 signified a desire to learn how to prepare 

 food for your family. There are many 

 ways of doing this, but there are a few 

 general rules which apply to all kinds of 

 cooking. If you are to be demonstrators 

 of the cori-ect methods in home-making, 

 you must begin right. 



I have seen girls who enjoy cooking 

 immensely, but who never once bothered 

 to clean up after they had finished. Do 

 you wonder their mothers said that they 

 didn't want them to be "messing around 

 the kitchen"? This then is one of the first 

 tests of a good club member — that she 

 cairies the things which she starts 

 through to completion, even removing the 

 last crumb from the floor. Please do not 

 forget. 



FINE SHOW IN BOSTON 



County Makes Fair Record 



The Boston Poultry Show was the 

 finest and best ever. The competition in 

 all departments was of the keenest. 



The whole stage of the hall was given, 

 over to boys' and girls' department. 

 There were birds from practically all the 

 counties. Seven club members from 

 Hampshire County sent birds in. The 

 prizes won were as follows: 



Osborne West of Hadley — one 1st and 

 one 3rd. 



Lewis Whittaker, Hadley — one 1st, one 

 4th and one .5th. 



.James Parnell, Amherst — two 2nds and 

 one 3rd. 



Lewell Walker, Amherst — one 2nd. 



Dennett Howe, Amherst — one 1st and 

 one 2nd. 



Viola Albe, Amherst — four Ists, three 

 2nds, and one 3rd. 



These netted $24.20 to the boys and 

 girls. 



Friday, the last day of the Show, was 

 Boys' and Girls' Day. There were jud- 

 ging contests by all the county teams. 

 There was also a Connecticut team en- 

 tered. The boys on the Hampshire 

 County team were Osborne West of Had- 

 ley, Lewis Whilttaker of Hadley and 

 Bronislaw Lebiecki of Florence. These 

 boys won their places in competition at 

 the judging contests at Amherst, North- 

 ampton and Greenfield poultry shows. 

 The classes judged were: Leghorn pul- 

 lets, Wyandotte pullets, Rhode Island Red 

 cockerels and a class of Rhode Island Red 

 utility hens. 



