HAMPSHIRE COUlv'TY FARMERS' MONTHLY 



HAMPSHIRE: COUN"rY CLUB \A/ O R K 



POULTRY CLUB STARTS 



Leaders' Contest 



Poultry club work in the county has 

 started off in real earnest. The old clubs 

 are all carrying on with many new ones 

 added. 



The aim of all poultry members for the 

 year is to better stock. We find practi- 

 cally all our old members with standard 

 bred stock. All new members not having 

 it should aim to improve their stock in the 

 .spring. 



Much interest is being shown through- 

 out the county in the local leaders poultry 

 contest. This contest is open to all 

 state, county, and local leaders in Massa- 

 chusetts. They must keep at least ten 

 birds. Reports will be sent to the county 

 leader each month. Summary of these 

 reports will be published in the paper 

 each month. Watch for the leader in 

 your town! Can you beat his of her 

 record? 



HAMPSHIRE COUNTY BABY BEEVES 



Poultry Show Dates 



M. A. C. Dressed Poultry Show — Nov. 

 24-25. 



Amherst Poultry Show — Dec. .5-6. 



.Judging Contest .3.00 P. M., Dec. 6. 

 Northampton Poultry Show — Dec. 7-8- 

 9. 



.Judging Conte.st 10.00 A. M., Dec 9. 

 Boston Poultry Show— .Jan 1-5, 1923. 



HOME ECONOMICS PLANS 



Timely Slogans 



"The Wel!-Fed Family" for the food 

 club and "The Weil-Dressed Girl" for the 

 sewing club is the aim for Massachu- 

 setts home economics members and 

 leaders. Are not these mottoes worth 

 while living up to? 



The home economics club requirements 

 are much the same as last year. The 

 club runs for any four months between 

 November 1st and May 1st. As in pre- 

 vious years there will undoubtedly be 

 many clubs in Hampshire County com- 

 bining home economics and handicraft 

 work. 



The handicraft requirements have been 

 changed from "a toy and useful article" 

 to "two articles". One of these may be 

 a toy if desired. We have found how- 

 ever that the majority of our handicraft 

 club members are rathei' inclined to dis- 

 like the idea of a toy. We are recom- 

 mending for this county that handicraft 

 club members make one household and one 

 farm article where practical. 



Poultry Judging Team 



County team to be picked, based on re- 

 sults of contests at Amherst and North- 

 ampton. Who wns? 



CLOVER LEAVES 



The Goshen canning girls finished with 

 a banner. Their exhibit was excellent. 

 A very good program was put on by the 

 club members. 



Club members in vaiious projects made 

 a good showing at the Plainfield Grange 

 boys' and giils' exhibit. The canning- 

 was particularly good. 



The Hadley poultry club is collecting 

 a box of candy from Mr. Reed. If you 

 are interested in particulars a.sk any of 

 the members. 



Miss Bessie Rowe, editor of the "Far- 

 mer's Wife" was the visitor of the 

 Worthington Room Club. She is writing 



I a story of the club for publication. 



Club members made a good showing at 



' Belchertown Fair. The canning exhibit 

 was especially good. Three clubs were 



I represented. 



j Huntington girls with the help of Miss 



I Cady, their leader, brought through a 

 banner canning club. As far as we know 

 this is the first banner club of its kind 

 this town has ever had. 



DOES YOUR MONEY HOLD OUT? 



Are you keeping household accounts? 

 If so, do they tell you what you need to 

 know or are they just a collection of 

 figures? If you are not keeping accounts 

 don't you often wonder where the money 

 goes and why you have not more to show 

 for what you have spent? 



If you would like a household account 



book to start the New Year with, write 



to Miss Mildred Boice, Home Demon- 



;stration Agent at this oflfice. The price of 



j these account books is fifteen cents. 



Poultry Notice 



As the paper goes to press we are able 

 to announce the Board of Trustees of 

 this organization have voted to .send a 

 judging team, expen.ses paid to the Boston 

 Poultry Show. 



BABY BEEF 



Finishes Successful Year 



All things considered Hampshire Coun- 

 ty beef club members came out the large 

 end of the horn for 1922. We are glad to 

 say they all woiked on a business basis 

 thi ; year. Although we would like to 

 win grand champion each year, we are 

 not sorry to say that without the pub- 

 licity that brings and big prices our boys 

 made good. The five boys in the club 

 were Luther Belden, Willard Belden, 

 Theodore Belden of Bradstreet, Robert 

 Cuter of West Hatfield and Sidney Carl 

 of Hatfield. They all took native steers. 

 There were Herefords, Shorthorns and 

 one cross between the two. 



Together the boys started with 2823 

 pounds live weight and ended with 

 7,57fi pounds, a gain of 4,753 pounds. The 

 average daily gain of the steers was 2.15 

 pounds. Robert Cutter put on the larg- 

 est daily gain of all in the county, 2.6 

 pounds per day. This was done with a 

 Shorthorn steer. 



Counting in prize money as profit, the 

 boys made $753.44 on their seven steers. 

 Luther Belden made the largest individ- 

 ual profit .$165.52. This was done with a 

 Hereford. 



The above picture shows the steers as 

 they looked the last day of the Eastern 

 States Exposition. 



HAVE YOU FINISHED YOUR JOB? 



It's easy to let the last end of a job 

 slip. Have you let your story slip? Or 

 have you sent it with your record to Miss 

 Erhard? If you have you have received 

 your club pin. If you have not received 

 your club pin you have something to do at 

 once. Be a sport and stay with your job 

 til it is done! 



