HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARMERS' MONTHLY 



HAM PSHI R 



COUNTY CLUB WORK 



CALF CLUB DAY MARCH 31 STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS AWARDED POULTRY LEADERS' CONTEST 



Especially for Holstein Enthusiasts 



Plans are under way for a calf club 

 day to be held March 31 at Mt. Hermon. 

 This date is set due to the fact that Mr. 

 Earl Cooper, the calf club man of the 

 National Holstein-Friesian Association, 

 will be in the state at that time. He 

 was present at our calf club day last 

 June and gave mighty fine material 

 especially on showing calves. As he is a 

 Holstein man this is to be a day 

 particularly for the Holstein calf club 

 members. All other calf club members 

 will be welcome and of course would get 

 much good from attending this meeting. 



Other speakei's will be Profes.soi- 

 Fawcett of the Agricultural College and 

 Professor Elder of Mt. Hermon. 



Franklin County and Hampshire Coun- 

 ty are combining for this meeting. It 

 may be possible for club members from 

 Worcester and Berkshire to attend. 



It is hoped that every calf club mem- 

 ber in the county will make every effort 

 to attend this meeting. We hope the 

 Mothers and Fathers will also attend. 



FIVE YEARS IN CLUB WORK 



Dennett Howe of Amherst gave a very 

 interesting report at the annual meeting 

 of his experiences in club work. The fol- 

 lowing is a summary of what he has done 

 though not told as interestingly as the boy 

 himself told it. 



In 1917, before he was old enough to do 

 club woi'k according to age requiiements, 

 he started to keep hens as a poultry club 

 member. In 1918 he was in the pig club 

 and poultiy again. In 1919 he had a 

 garden, another pig which in the fall he 

 entered in the sow and litter contest and 

 kept on with poultry. In 1920 he had a 

 garden and his poultry. In 1921 he had 

 these two and also entered the potato 

 club. This past year he was in the 

 handicraft and poultry clubs and in the 

 summer in the calf club. He is in the 

 poultry club and is president of the Am- 

 herst club. 



At pi'esent he owns the following, due 

 to club woik: one purebred Gurn.sey, one 

 purebred Holstein, twenty purebred leg- 

 horn pullets, ten hens and fifteen male 

 birds which he is selling off. He has 

 bought a saddle horse, a liberty bond, and 

 has a savings account. In order to keep 

 his horse he does chores for neighbors. 



This boy is a real honest to goodness 

 club member of the finest type. He has 

 never in all these yeais been a champion 

 though he has always done good work. 

 We feel he should be awarded a stick-to-it 

 championship. 



Hampshire Wins Four out of I leven 



Each year when a club project is com- 

 pleted we first of all pick out our county 

 champions. Next we pick in each 

 county our candidate for state champion- 

 ship. This club member may sometimes 

 be the county champion and sometimes be 

 an ex-county champion. At any rate he 

 must have completed two years of work 

 in that project. 



Word has just been received of the 

 awarding of the state winnings. Of the 

 twenty projects carried on in the state, 

 state champions were picked in eleven. 

 Of these four came from Hampshire 

 County. P'ollowing is the list of the 1922 

 winners: 



Handicraft — Ernest King, Hampshire 

 County. 



Garden — John Jennings, Norfolk Coun- 

 ty. 



Corn — living Johnson, Hampshire 

 County. 



Potato — Alfred Morey, Hampshire 

 County. 



Calf — Harvey Wilder, Middlesex Coun- 

 ty. 



Poultry — Philip Dimlick, Essex Coun- 

 ty- 

 Pig — Kenneth Leighton, Essex Coun- 

 ty. 



Canning — tie, Blanche Bishop, Worces- 

 ter County. Kathai'ine Elmes, Norfolk 

 County. 



Sewing — Doris Higginbottom, Bristol 

 County. 



Food — Francis Day, Barnstable Coun- 

 ty. 



These club champions will attend the 

 championship camp at Amherst in July. 

 One exception is made to this. Ernest 

 King, handicraft champion was at the 

 1922 camp. 



CLOVER LEAVES 



A few boys in Hadley and a few at the 

 Smith School are doing farm manage- 

 ment club work in coiiperation with 

 Professor A. F. MacDougall, the exten- 

 sion specialist in Farm Management. 

 The boys are keeping the complete ac- 

 count for their respective farms. Once a 

 month there is a meeting to talk over 

 their problems and to study various 

 phases of farm business. 



Mr. Howe, state handicraft leader, was 

 in this county a few days the past month 

 meeting handicraft clubs. He was par- 

 ticularly pleased with the work being 

 done by the "Target Club" of Go-shen. 

 This club lead by Mrs. Marjorie Brooks, 

 consists of four boys and two girls. They 

 were all making worthwhile articles. 



For February, 1923 



H.^MPSHiKE County Local Le.aders. 

 W. R. Loring. Hadley, 



141 eggs from 11 birds. 

 F. C. Graves, Southampton, 



61 eggs from 12 birds. 

 W. I. Mayo, Northampton. 



.584 eggs from 103 birds. 



E. H. Nodine, Amheist, 

 1-57 eggs from 9 birds. 



Alice Bai'tlett, Worthington, 

 ■533 eggs from 19 birds. 



i Bristol County. 

 Edward Simon, 



276 eggs from 19 birds. 

 Theodore Glover, 



300 eggs from 22 birds. 

 Walter Vile, 



13.52 eggs from 100 birds. 



H.4.MPDEN County. 



Otis Hall, County Leader, 

 81 eggs from 5 birds. 



Dukes County. 

 W. R. Martin, 



9 eggs from 7 birds. 



Middlesex County. 



Geo. Erickson — County Leader, 

 1020 eggs from 135 birds. 



F. C. Johnson, 



117 eggs from 10 birds. 



Leading pens for February: 



1. E. H. Nodine, Hampshire County. 



2. Otis Hall, Hampden County. 



:',. Edward Simon, Bristol County. 



Leading pen to date : 



Otis Hall, Hampden County. 



One of the largest home economics clubs 

 in the county is at Belchertown Center. 

 Two troops of scouts have combined and 

 are taking up sewing club work. They 

 are making their scout uniforms. 



Eail Martin, a calf club member of 

 Pelham, has just bought a new cow. He 

 was particularly anxious to obtain this 

 cow, because it was the dam of a heifer 

 he bought last year. He hopes she'll 

 give him a heifer this year. 



Miss Murdock spent a day in the county 

 last month and visited a few home eco- 

 nomics clubs. 



We happen to know Uie Woitliington 

 Room club placed an order for nineteen 

 yards of linen the other day to make 

 covers for the rooms they are refinishing 

 this year. This surely looks as though 

 they are "carrying on". 



Recently the three boys in the county 

 poultry judging team which won at the 

 Boston and New York Shows received 

 bronze medals from the State Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture in recognition of 

 their good work. 



