HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARMERS' MONTHLY 



CLUB WORK 



BOY'S BABY BEEF 



TAKES TO TALL TIMBERS, 



Quite a little excitement was caused 

 Raymond Granger of Norwich Hill, Hunt- 

 ing-ton, when his newly bought steer broke 

 loose before it was tied up in the barn, 

 and struck for the woods. It jumped 

 fences as they tried to obstruct his full 

 speed ahead. At the time of writing, five 

 days after the escape, it was still running 

 wild, but has been located with a herd of 

 cows and the chances of its going to the 

 barn with them seems good. 



SUPERINTENDENT 

 0. W. MORTON 

 BACKS CLUB WORK 



The agent had the opportunity to visit 

 the schools of Hadley and Hatfield with 

 the Superintendent, Mr. Morton. Mr. 

 Morton, the first state club leader of 

 Massachusetts, still enjoys work with the 

 boys and girls. The organization will 

 start as soon as the members enroll. 



CONFERENCE OF CLOTHING 

 CLUB LEADERS 



December 8, 1923 



The date is set for a get-together of 

 clothing club leaders of this county on 

 Saturday, December 8, at the Extension 

 Oflice in Northampton. Other than ful- 

 filling the big purpo.se of the meeting — 

 giving instructions to the leaders con- 

 cerning the girls' sewing program — we 

 hope to a.ssist the leaders in the carrying 

 on of the other phases of the work. Miss 

 Tucker, the State Clothing Specialist, will 

 be with us for the clothing work and Miss 

 Dorothy Murdock will help on organiza- 

 tion and other problems. There will be 

 a time for a general discussion and an 

 opportunity to get acquainted with other 

 club leaders. 



NORWICH HILL 



At Norwich Hill Mrs. S. E. Granger 

 will lead a group of girls in first year 

 sewing and her son, Edward, who is a 

 boy scout, will introduce handicraft work 

 with the bovs. 



SOUTH CHESTERFIELD 



HAS CLOTHING CLUB 



Under the direction of Mrs. E. S. Pom- 

 eroy the girls of the South Chesterfield 

 school are sewing. 



Never shrink from doing any- 

 thing which your business calls you 

 to do. He who is aboi'e his busi- 

 ness may one dai/ find his business 

 above him. 



WILLIAMSBURG TO 



COMMENCE SOON 



The room club of Mrs. Murray Graves 

 in Williamsburg will continue their work 

 this winter. This year they are to take 

 up reed work and plan to make many 

 articles for their dressers. There will 

 also be one and probably two other sew- 

 ing groups and a handicraft club in this 

 community. 



HADLEY BOYS TO 

 DEMONSTRATE AT 



ANNUAL MEETING 



GOSHEN 



The boys' club at Goshen is planning 

 to do some reed work along with their 

 wood work. They have been given a 

 bench by the .selectmen, which has been 

 placed in the basement of the schoolhouse 

 and makes a fine place for the boys to 

 carry out their plans. 



RETURNS AND BENEFITS 



"Complete- records are kept of money 

 returns from the phase of extension work 

 termed "boys and girls club work." Ac- 

 cordingly, we point out this example to 

 show the monetary returns as the result 

 of extension work. 600,000 boys and 

 girls in club work produced products in 

 1922, the market value of which was 

 $8,648,224; the actual cost of production 

 I (for rent, labor, feed and seed) was 

 $4,626,4.55; the cost of the leadership to 

 carry on the work was $2,587,082. De- 

 ducting all costs from the market value 

 of the products produced there is left a 

 net profit of $1,424,687, or a profit of 19.7 

 per cent on the investment." 



The financial gain is by no means the 

 only advantage in Club Work. The Ed- 

 ucational part, the -Judging, the Demon- 

 stration, the social side and the American 

 ideals cannot be forgotten. 



Horace Babb and Roger West, poultry 

 club members, will give a demonstration 

 at the Annual Meeting on Poultry Cull- 



ing. With birds and charts they will ex SUPPORT FROM 

 plain how to pick out the layers and fancy 

 stock. 



SOUTHAMPTON GIRLS 

 CONSIDER CLOTHING WORK 



Through the help of Mrs. Clayton E. 

 Hannum in charge of the Home Eco- 

 nomics side of the Southampton Women's 

 Club and Mrs. Judd, a member of the 

 club, the High School girls are consider- 

 ing the taking up of advanced sewing 

 work. Miss Ward of Southampton is to 

 be their leader and a meeting is to be 

 held at the high school in Easthampton, 

 where the girls all attend to discuss the 

 plans on Monday afternoon, November ; 

 19th. Miss Dorothy Murdock, State Club 

 Leader for girls' work, will be present. 



CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 



"The Burlington, Vermont, Chamber of 

 Commerce has guaranteed a thousand dol- 

 lars toward Boys' and Girls' Club Work 

 for the Current Year," writes E. L. In- 

 galls, State Club Leader of Vermont. 

 This is to be used in connection with the 

 office of activities of their County Club 

 Agent. They are raising this fund by 

 popular contributions from the bankers 

 and business men of the city. "This is only 

 one example of many of such activities 

 now being carried on the country over. 

 Business men everywhere are aware of 

 the source of the primary income of the 

 nation which creates a business turnover 

 far in excess of the original created 

 wealth." 



To Readers of The Modern Priscilla : 



Miss Harriet Ain.sworth, head of the 

 Clothing Information Bureau of one of 

 the biggest stores in the country, will 

 write a series of articles on clothes for 

 the Modern Priscilla. 



Miss Ainsworth knows more about 

 ready-made clothes than almost any other 

 woman in America and is going to tell 

 what she knows about buying suits, hats, 

 shoes, underwear, coats — everything. 

 How to choose, how to get good value, how 

 not to waste money on making wTong 

 purchases. This series of articles will 

 tell pretty clearly all there is to know 

 about buying clothes to advantage. 



This is as important a part of the 

 clothing program as how to make your 

 own clothes. Be sui-e to read these 

 articles. They will be very valuable and 

 helpful to you. 



At Smith Academy in Hatfield, on Nov. 

 11, was organized the Hatfield Poultry 

 Club, with Chas. Powers as President; 

 Stearns Belden, V-Pres. and Fred Wickles 

 as Secretary-Treas. 



