HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARMERS' MONTHLY 



CLUB WORK 



WILLIAMSBURG ROOM CLUB AROUND THE COUNTY 



They are testing the milk once a month 

 at the school. 



SWELLS ITS TREASURY 



Clear $51.00 At Sale 



The Gills' Room Club at Williamsburg 

 is prospering. We are glad to report 

 that with the Grange they are having 

 fine cooperation. Twelve girls with Mrs. 

 Murray Graves as Leader have been 

 learning the art of making reed articles. 

 Many things have been made for their 

 rooms and homes and the surplus they 

 had on sale on Saturday, February 2nd, 

 at the Grange Hall. Quite a variety was 

 exhibited including pin trays, bon bon 

 dishes, etc. At the sale they took in 

 $51.00 and cleared about $34.00. This 

 money will be used to buy reed and bases 

 for future work. They are now planning 

 for a big sale at the fairs next Fall. 



This club has been running for two 

 years. Last winter they made table run- 

 ners and curtains for their rooms. They 

 put on an exhibit at the Eastern States 

 Exposition last fall and this year have 

 all the enthusiasm necessary for .success. 



With Club H«ilks 



The Thrift Club at Belchertown Cen- 

 ter, which is doing handicraft work this 

 winter, have built a bench in the base- 

 ment of the Grammar School. 



WINTER ENROLLMENT 575 



Will they all complete the job? To 

 enroll you simply have to sign a card. 

 To complete you have to do a certain piece 

 of work that has been outlined. In en- 

 rolling you don't learn anything. Any- 

 body can start. When you complete the 

 job you have 99.9 chances out of 100 of 

 getting something out of it. The 575 

 members are taking the following pro- 

 jects: 



Poultry 85 



Own-Your-Own-Room 20 



Handicraft 196 



Clothing 242 



Dairy 18 



Bread 2 



Rabbit 2 



Baby Beef 5 



Pig 5 



What we want to urge upon you, .')75 

 members is this, "Finish the Job." 



OSBORNE WEST WINS 



Osborne West of Hadley has recently 

 been awarded the gold medal by the De- 

 partment of Agriculture of Massachu- 

 setts for being the outstanding boy in 

 the state in Agricultural Work. 



This makes one more accomplishment 

 to be added to Osborne's list. The get- 

 ting of the medal isn't anything compared 

 to what he did to win it. The December 

 issue of this paper tells of his work. 



Club work stands for everything that's 

 right. 



The boys at Granby who are doing- 

 handicraft work this winter were pre- 

 sented with lumber for a bench by Mrs. 

 Haines, their teacher and leader, and they 

 are to build the bench themselves 



In talking with a group of boys at 

 Cummington we find them somewhat in- 

 terested in potato work for next summer. 

 -A. meeting is to be held on February 7th 

 to talk more of the project and to find 

 out about their using certified seed and 

 also about their facilities for spraying. 



Belchertown mothers will help. While 

 Mrs. Louise Elliott, club leader, is help- 

 ing boys in handicraft work in the base- 

 ment of the Grammar School, some 

 mother of a club member has agreed to 

 take charge of the class room. This plan 

 was talked over at the Parent Teachers' 

 Meeting on Saturday evening, February 

 2nd, and it was the sentiment of the 

 meeting that the help and tiaining the 

 boys would probably get warranted a 

 little time spent by the mothers. 



The boys' and girls' club of Worthing- 

 ton are planning to give an entertain- 

 ment soon to interest the parents and 

 others in their work. One of the plays 

 is "Clubs Are Trumps". 



Groups of girls in the Kellogg Avenue 

 and North Amherst schools will meet at 

 the Girls' Dormitory at M. A. C, Monday, 

 -January 7th to be organized into clubs 

 which four or five college girls have 

 agreed to lead. 



At West Pelham a group of girls under 

 the leadership of Mrs. Kimball and Mrs. 

 Martin have begun work. The boys are 

 also interested and are waiting for a 

 leader. 



D. W. Belcher, instructor in agriculture 

 at Smith Academy in Hatfield, will have 

 charge of the gardens cared for by the 

 boys and girls next summer in that town. 

 Mr. Belcher is developing a plan to be 

 started soon. The Extension Service is 

 to cooperate with Mr. Belcher in interest- 

 ing the boys and girls in useful tasks. 



The boys of the West Hatfield School 

 are to have a bench. They will get the 

 lumber with money earned by selling 

 candy, etc., and then build it themselves. 

 Mrs. Jordan and their teacher and leader 

 is now helping them with making of reed 

 baskets. They will make articles out of 

 wood later. 



The bench taken out of the South .Am- 

 herst School to be taken to its home in 

 Packardville is to be replaced by Supt. 

 Cook with another of the same type. 

 Miss Cora Howlett will take up the club 

 work in January with the boys and girls. 



The poultry boys under Mr. William 

 Loring, instructor in agriculture at Hop- 

 kins Academy, Hadley, and Club Lead- 

 er, are to visit Miss B. A. Ryan's home 

 in North Hadley, where they will cull 

 her flock. Those taken out will be kept 

 separate for a time and a record of them 

 kept, as well as a record of the ones they 

 think are layers. 



Mr. William Howe, Assistant State 

 Club Leader, is to lead a group of boys 

 in his community in handicraft work. 



Eight or ten boys of Easthampton are 

 to meet on Wednesday, February 1.3th. 

 to form a poultry club. 



GOLD MEDAL 



Leonard White and Hilton Boynton of 

 South Hadley both have fine looking six 

 months old Holstein Heifers bought at 

 Mt. Hermon School Farm. 



The Dairy Record Keeping Club run by 

 Mr. W. I. Mayo of Smith .Agricultural 

 School with his students and a few from 

 Hopkins Academy is i-eceiving valuable 

 talks from men at M. A. C. Professor 

 Victor Rice has talked to them twice on 

 the balancing of rations and on Januai"y 

 18th some one from the Dairy Depart- 

 ment will talk on milk sanitation. The 

 boys are keeping records of the farm 

 herds on milk production and feeds. 



Eight girls of Cummington who were 

 some time ago organized into a room 

 club under the leadership of Miss Olive 

 Morey are well under way. Pictures are 

 to be taken of the looms as they now are 

 and a second picture at the close of the 

 year. 



The 59 boys and girls who reported this 

 year in canning put up 2,2C8J quarts of 

 canned products and 510 glasses of jellies 

 and jams and 218 pints of pickles, all 

 of which was valued at $1,627.36. 



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