HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARMERS' MONTHLY 



CUMMINGTON GIRLS 



TO HAVE ROOM CLUB 



Miss Olive Morey lias consented to lead 

 a group of girls in a Room Club, in which 

 each tries to make impj'ovement in her 

 own room. The suggestions include prop- 

 er floor painting, refinishing- of furni- 

 ture, proper colors for curtains, bureau 

 scarfs, arrangement of furniture and 

 many inexpensive improvements. Rather 

 than insist on new articles for the room, 

 the purpcse of the room club is to inform 

 how to make the most of what they 

 have. 



Ruby Delisle of Westhampton canned 

 220?. quarts of products this year. It 

 consisted of the following: 



79 quarts of fruits. 



71 quarts of vegetables. 

 9 quarts of meats and soups. 



61 2 quarts of pickled products. 



Total 220J quarts. 



Besides these she made 60 jars of jel- 

 lies and jams. 



Packardville school in Pelham has got- 

 ten back its sloyd bench which has for 

 the past two or three years been in the 

 South Amherst School. Miss Alice Col- 

 lis, the teacher and local leader of Pack- 

 ardville, seems pleased with the better op- 

 portunities for her handicraft work for 

 this winter. They will start their work 

 in January. 



ONhorne W'e.st Coiiipletes 11 Projects 

 in 4'llll> AVork 



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In 1921 he also raised a pig, keeping 

 records on it as a club member always 

 must. He reported a gain of 216 pounds 

 from -June 1st to December 1st or 1.2 

 pounds per day for the feeding period. 

 He was made the County Champion pig 

 grower that year and took first prize at 

 the Northampton Fair for a fat hog. 



In 1922 he started calf club work. He 

 had raised calves before but when the in- 

 terest was rising for this project amongst 

 the club members he decided to enter with 

 a calf gotten from his father's herd and 

 one he bought from the Bridgeport City 

 Farms in Connecticut. Both of these 

 were purebred Holsteins. He took one 

 to the Eastern States Dairy Calf Show 

 and won 6th place. He won 1st in the 

 club class at Northampton and took 1st 

 place in the open class. His calf was 

 also the Junior Champion. In 192.3 he 

 entered four calves in club work having 

 also two others which he didn't keep the 

 feed record on. He bought a young 

 heifer at Mount Hermon which he hopes 

 will prove a good foundation cow. The 

 dairy stock he owns now is easily worth 

 $1,000.00. His success in exhibiting this 

 fall surpassed any previous year. At 

 the Eastern States where he entered two 

 head including the Mount Hermon calf, 



he took 1st place with his Junior year- 

 ling and 4th with his Mount Hermon calf 

 in the calf class. At the Northampton 

 Fair he took two thirds in the open class, 

 two firsts in the club class and a first 

 and second in the Holstein Friesian 

 Special Class. His prize money this year 

 totaled $129.75. 



In summing up the club projects for 

 the past four years which he has carried 

 through we find that he has completed 

 three years of corn club work ; four years 

 of poultry work; two years of pig club 

 work; two years of calf club work. 



For winning the state and county 

 championship in corn club work and the 

 county championship in pig club work in 

 1921 he won a trip to Ainherst to attend 

 Camp Gilbert where he stayed a week 

 with the other champions of Massachu- 

 setts. 



Since 1919, when he became a club 

 member, Osborne has judged dairy cows, 

 vegetables, potatoes, corn, and poultry at 

 many fairs: Worcester, Springfield, 

 Greenfield, Northampton, Amherst, Cum- 

 mington and New York City. He has 

 met many club members and made good 

 use of the advantages of club work. His 

 big success as a club member is due more 

 than anything el.se to his interest in Agri- 

 culture and his willingness to follow good 

 tried practices and in the two more years 

 that he will be of club age we feel sure he 

 will uphold his reputation. 



(SaEctti' |lrtittiug CHu. 

 ZCmiluimptmi, fHaas. 



H, D. SMITH 



Hatfield, Mass. 



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