HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARMERS' MONTHLY 



CLUB WORK 



OSBORNE WEST 

 COMPLETES 11 PROJECTS 

 IN CLUB WORK 



Judges and Wins at All Fairs in 

 This Section 



We are able to write things about 

 Osborne West wliich may make other boys 

 and girls envious. Since 1919 he has been 

 enrolled as a club member of Hampshire 

 County. Miss Bena G. Erhard helped 

 c|uicken Osborne West's interest when she 

 talked to a group of agricultural boys at 

 Hopkins Academy in the fall of 1919. As 

 a result, he started a poultry project with 

 ten White Wyandotte pullets and since 

 that time has kept the same strain and 

 has increased his flock each year until he 

 now has over a hundred. He was quick 

 to take advantage of the poultry shows 

 and at the Holyoke, Northampton and 

 Amherst shows took 3 Firsts, 2 Seconds, 

 and 3 Thirds, that fall. Since his first 

 year he has been a persistent exhibitor 

 at not only Hampshire County Fairs but 

 at Boston, Greenfield, Worcester and 

 Springfield. His trips to Boston included 

 judging work in which he has proven 

 himself a winner. In the winter of 1920- 

 1921 he, Charles Martin and Harold 

 Pelissier, all of Hadley, were beaten for 

 the first place in the Boston Poultry Show 

 judging contest by only two points and 

 took second place. 



The following year he was on the team 

 to go to Boston which again failed to be 

 winner and took 3rd place. But last 

 winter Osborne, his brother Roger, and 

 James Parnell of Amherst, went to the 

 Boston Poultry Show to judge and won 

 first place which not only meant honors 

 for them at that Fair but gave them a 

 trip to the Madison Sc]uare Gardens in 

 New York City. Here they judged 

 against the teams from other paits of 

 the country and again won the highest 

 honors. 



Osborne has not stopped with poultry 

 work and with the building of poultry 

 houses and mixing mash and scratch 

 feeds but in the spring of 1920 attempted 

 the corn project and put in one-half acre 

 of yellow Dent using native seed. He 

 got a yield per acre of 80 bushels and 

 the name of the second best coin grower 

 in the county. And in 1921 he increased his 

 corn acreage putting in an acre and also 

 his production by raising 97 bushels. He 

 was made the county and state champion 

 that year. Then came his first ti-ip to 

 the Eastern States Exposition where he 

 went as corn judge and to give a dem- 

 onstration with two others on "Selection 

 and Storing of Seed Corn". At the Ex- 

 position he stayed a week and met many 

 boys and girls from all New England. 

 Continued on page 7. i-olnnni I 



CHRISTINE OSLEY TALKS AROUND THE COUNTY 



At Annual Meeting 



Christine Osley of Hatfield told the 

 people at the Annual Meeting some of her 

 experiences in Club Work. On account 

 of her failure to win out at Hamp Fair 

 with her grade Jersey in 1922 she pur- 

 chased a purebred from Mr. E. C. Hai'- 

 low of Amherst. With this heifer she 

 won a trip to the Eastern States and also 

 exhibited at Northampton. Her tobacco 

 plot has netted her toward $1,000. With 

 her earnings she plans to enter Massa- 

 chusetts Agricultural College. 



HORACE BABB AND 

 ROGER WEST 



DEMONSTRATE 



A demonstration to show how to pick 

 out a good utility and a good show hen 

 was staged by two boys from Hopkins 

 Academy at the Annual Meeting. They 

 gave the points to consider in picking- 

 out the hen that will lay and with the 

 good and poor hens before them, showed 

 the actual method. Their idea of per- 

 fection in poultry is to have good laying- 

 stock and reasonably good show (jualities. 



ALFRED MOREY OF 

 CUMMINGTON IS 



PERSISTENT 



How often do we hear of a boy, who, 

 after poor success for a time, quits, gets 

 disinterested, won't try any more. When 

 we see a boy with no great success con- 

 tinue, we are looking- at some one with 

 real stuff in him. Alfred Morey is no 

 quitter. His father sold him a Jersey last 

 winter which seemed to be a winner at the 

 calf age. As it developed it went the 

 wrong way and hasn't turned out to be 

 much of a winner against the animals of 

 her class owned by the other members. 

 Alfred, however, isn't discouraged, but 

 is getting rid of his calf and trying again. 



With Club Folks 



Leonard White of South Hadley has 

 bought a Holstein heifer calf at Mount 

 Hermon School Farm. The heifer was 

 delivered November 20th and for a time 

 was tied up in Boynton's barn until Leon- 

 ard had his place improved. The calf 

 is about three months old and in fine 

 shape. 



Think about your spring chickens. 

 The safest way is to get artificial hatched 

 chicks. The old hen is out of date. She 

 ■won't work when you want her to. To be 

 successful with poultry you must get 

 early chickens. Either buy them as day 

 old chicks or use your incubator. If you 

 buy them get your order in now. The 

 good chicks go fast. Order before they 

 are gone. Get stock tested and found 

 free from white diarrhea. Think about 

 your spiing chickens. 



Two clubs at Russellville School in 

 Hadley were organized on November 21gt. 

 The boys are to do Handicraft Work and 

 call themselves the Russellville Handi- 

 craft Club. Their officers are as follows : 



President — John Dwier. 



Vice-president — Zigmund Mushenski. 



Secretary — Charles Sudleski. 



Treasurei' — Edward Waskiewicz. 



The girls are to take sewing work and 

 call themselves the Russellville Sewing- 

 Club. 



President — Marion Day. 



Vice-president — Evelyn Day. 



Secretary — Stella Mushenski. 



Treasurer — Helen Kobyera. 



There are eight members in the boys' 

 club and eight in the girls' club. Miss 

 B. A. Ryan is to be the local leader of 

 both clubs. They .selected the following- 

 as their goals: 



To be a banner club (that is, every 

 member completing). 



To have a parents' meeting. 



To have a demonstration team. 



To do some judging. 



To have a club exhibit. 



To have a picnic. 



To have a club song. 



Eight girls of Worthington Center met 

 at Mrs. Harry MoUison's on November 

 26th to organize a sewing club. They 

 elected the following- officers : 



President — Imogene S. Cole. 



Vice-president — Marguerite Johnson. 



Secretary-Treasurer — Marjorie Bart- 

 lett. 



They plan to meet every week this 

 winter. Mrs. Mollison, the local leader, 

 asked them to bring with them to the 

 next meeting- their sewing equipment and 

 a piece of cotton cloth on which stitches 

 will be practiced. They are to continue 

 with the first year work. 



The agent talked over club work with 

 the Center and South Plainfield school 

 boys and girls on November 26th and 

 feels that an interesting club could be 

 organized among the pupils of these 

 schools. Mrs. Ruth Packard is interested 

 to further the work and Miss Ball, 

 teacher at the Center School, we are hop- 

 ing will be the active leader. Poultry 

 handicraft and sewing seem to be the 

 projects of interest this winter. 



