HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARMERS' MONTHLY 



CLUB WORK 



POULTRY CHAMPIONS PICKED COUNTY POULTRY 



WINTER CLUB FACTS 



Roger West of Hadley Wins 



After completing three years of good 

 poultry club work Roger West of Hadley 

 is announced as poultry champion for the 

 county. All Hampshire County has come 

 to associate this boy's name with the 

 poultry work in the county. Last fall he 

 was one of the boys who made the county 

 judging team which won state champion- 

 ship and later the national contest. He 

 always makes good showings with his 

 birds at all the poultry shows. For three 

 years he has been building up a flock 

 which is a credit to him. This year with 

 a flock of twenty-four females he got 

 seventy-four eggs per bird for the seven 

 months contest and made a net profit of 

 $1..57 per bird. In addition, he has done 

 a good deal of hatching. He has carried 

 out the best of poultry practices as will 

 be seen by his story which follows: 



"After being in the poultry club work 

 for two successful years raising Rhode 

 Island Reds, I decided to keep on and 

 have increased my flock. 



Last fall I culled out the non-producers 

 finding twelve culls out of twenty-four 

 birds, the culls sold for thirty cents a 

 pound live weight and the others were 

 kept through the winter with thirty-five 

 pullets. 



The expenses from the forty-five birds 

 were $337.71 and the receipts .$407.G2 

 .showing a profit of $69.91. 



The houses were whitewa.shed in the 

 fall before putting them in for the winter 

 and so as to keep them free from disease, 

 the houses were cleaned and sprayed once 

 a week after that. 



I fed them a ration of two parts corn, 

 1 part oats and 1 part barley thoroughly 

 mixed together and fed twice daily at 

 the rate of a quart to twelve birds feed- 

 ing one-third in the morning, and two- 

 thirds at night. Mash was made up of 

 equal parts bran, gluten, cornmeal or 

 hominy, ground oats and beef scraps fed 

 dry in self feeding hoppers and kept be- 

 fore birds at all times. Oyster shells 

 grit, charcoal and fresh water was also 

 kept before the birds at all times. Fed j 

 milk when I could get it. 



I selected my own breeding pen in .Jan- 

 uary picking out of the flock seven pul- 

 lets. Only strong, vigorous and healthy 

 stock was picked out and these were 

 mated with a cockerel that wasn't beaten ! 

 at the six shows and fairs where I ex- 

 hibited at last fall and winter and I put 

 them in a separate house. 



Hatching was started in February with 

 an incubator but the hatches weren't very 

 successful so I bought fifty chicks from 

 a hatchery in Springfield and laised most 

 all of them. Hatching with hens was 



Curttinued on column .'J 



STATISTICS! 



AND FIGURES 



Three Banner Clubs 



The poultry records of the county have 

 I been compiled and reported under five 

 [heads; the four main clubs and all the 

 others under a main heading. The clubs 

 getting the highest average of eggs per 

 ird is Hadley with 66, the county average 

 being .58. Amhei-st made the greatest 

 profit as a club with an average of $1..50 

 per bird and Hadley raised the most 

 chicks. 



Hadley, Amherst and Smith School 

 won their gold seals as banner clubs. 

 To date many of the individual records 

 around the county are not in but of the 

 thirty reporting the following figures are 

 shown: 667 laying birds; 38,926 eggs 

 valued at $1,690.0.5; average number of 

 eggs per bird 58; feed costs $880.12; 

 profit above feed costs $809.93; total re- 

 ceipts $5,114.94; total expense $4,498.34; 

 profit .$616.60; eggs set 1,.538; chicks 

 hatched 860; chicks raised 673 valued at 

 $513.09; average profit per bird $.85. 



From the ciuestionnaires we found 

 seven members practicing culling, five 

 purchasing hatching eggs, thirteen pur- 

 chasing day old chicks, six selecting their 

 own breeding pens. 



Twelve report disease. The following 

 practices were carried on to prevent dis- 

 ease; disinfecting of houses and yards, 

 using permanganate in water, treatment 

 with tobacco, using corrosive sublimate on 

 yards. 



Two have built new poultry houses and 

 eleven repaired their houses. Twenty ex- 

 press intentions of increasing their flocks. 

 One is using electric lights, two caponiz- 

 ing and six fattening and killing. 



POULTRY LEADERS' CONTEST 



W. I. Mayo Leads the County 



The seven months contest carried on 

 between the poultry leaders with their 

 flocks ended with Walter Viles of Bristol 

 County the champion with a sum of 

 averages for the seven months of 105.6. 

 The other leaders who finished rate as 

 follows — the figure being the sum of the 

 averages : 



T. W. Glover, Bristol 101.6 



Edward Sisson, Bristol 100 



W. I. Mayo, Hampshire 91.2 



O. E. Hail, Hampden 90.4 



W. R. Loring, Hamp.shire 87.1 



E. H. Nodine, Hamp.shire 86.6 



Alice Bartlett, Hampshire 64.2 



A. W. Martin, Dukes 59.1 



We can't help but notice oui' own coun- 

 ty has the largest number of leaders in 

 the contest. 



Banner Food Club 



During the past winter there have been 

 in the county 209 sewing club members, 

 197 of whom finished up in 19 banner 

 clubs. These girls made 452 garments, 

 valued at $946.61 at a cost of $295.27 

 leaving a profit of $551.34. And we say 

 profit becau.se we believe in the old adage 

 "A penny saved is a penny earned". 

 These girls did 20,826 hours of housework 

 and darned 4,389 stockings. Of the 197 

 girls, 128 learned to use the sewing ma- 

 chine through club work and 24 are doing 

 all the family mending. 



Now from this group of busy ladies a 

 champion was hard to pick, but finally 

 the deci.sion was made on Eva Parent of 

 Granby, a second year member. Evelyn 

 Kimball and Hazel Martin of Pelham 

 tied for second; and Olgo Kisielewski of 

 Dwight and Catherine Marco of South 

 Amherst tied for third. 

 I In the food club Hampshire was a ban- 

 ner county. There were six boys and 

 twenty-nine girls, a total of thirty-five 

 who started and finished. They made 

 products valued at $457.25 at an actual 

 cost of $202.15 besides giving their fami- 

 lies home made bread. In addition they 

 did 3,582 hours of housework. 



The champion in the food club is Doris 

 Cadrett of Pelham Hill who has completed 

 two years work. She and her sister were 

 the only club membeis this year working 

 alone — not in a club. They have real 

 club spirit though and surely carried on 

 excellent work. The second place in the 

 county was won by Ruth Besaw of Hun- 

 tington, third by Clementina Ggayczik of 

 Hadley. 



The handicraft club had enrolled three 

 girls and eighty-three boys a total of 86 

 of which 84 completed their work. They 

 made 54 toys, 159 household articles, 109 

 farm articles and did 140 repair jobs. 

 In addition they report 11,657 hours of 

 chores. These articles were made at a 

 cost of $110.35, and were valued at 

 $248.10. 



Continued from column 1 

 more successful, very few eggs not hatch- 

 ing. 



The early chicks were brooded by a 

 blue-flame brooder and the later ones by 

 hens." 



A ribbon was awarded to the club mem- 

 ber getting the biggest production from 

 birds. This was won by Herman An- 

 drews of Southampton, a member of 

 Smith Agricultural School club, who got 

 104 eggs per bird. Herman placed in 

 second in the county, with Howard Par- 

 sons of North Amherst third, and Osborne 

 West of Hadley fourth. 



