HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARMERS' MONTHLY 



CLUB WORK 



20 Dairy ('lub Members 'Went to Mt. 

 HeriiiMn from Hnmpshire 



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 Howe's car and the County Car. Those 

 who weren't there missed it. We first 

 went to one of the school halls and ate 

 our dinners. Mr. Tom Elder brought 

 around plenty of cool milk and everybody 

 seemed to take advantage of it. It went 

 well with our sandwiches. After our 

 lunch Mr. Howe asked Mr. Peabody, Field 

 Agent for the Holstein Friesian Asso- 

 ciation in New England to speak to the 

 boys. Mr. Farley had something to say 

 and Mr. Elder told of his love for both 

 boys and cows and that he preferred boys. 



Mr. Cutter then talks about boy 

 at school 



Then Mr. Howe called on Mr. Cutter, 

 the principal of Mt. Herman School, who 

 told of the method of running it. It 

 seems that each boy who enters is given 

 a particular job on the farm. The stand- 

 ard of making good is held before him. 

 If he does make good as an individual 

 worker he is advanced and takes charge 

 of two or three other boys. If he still 

 is aggressive, in earnest, a sticker, a 

 thinker, interested, he is given charge of 

 a large group and so on until he may 

 have 50 boys under him to look after and 

 manage in his last years of school. This 

 method does not only develop a knowledge 

 of Agriculture but much nbilitii in leader- 

 ship. Mr. Cutter and the school heads 

 have noticed that the boys who were 

 steady, interested, dependable workers 

 while in school tuined out to be men 

 with success — the man that every boy 

 ought to aim to be. 



All visit dairy barns 



The dairy stock was a surprise to all 

 those who had not seen them before and 

 an interesting .study and les.son for those 

 who had seen them previously. A few 

 of the younger boys had been looking at 

 the bulls and some one overheard them 

 discussing their size: "Say, Peter, they 

 must be raising them for beef." "They 

 must weigh a ton." "Aren't they whop- 

 pers?" They are whoppers but not for 

 beef and the boys fully understood we 

 think befoie leaving that the.se well bred, 

 well grown animals were u.sed for breed- 

 ing and a big asset to the upbuilding of 

 such high producing cows. Mr. Peabody 

 selected one of the high producing cows 

 of near perfect Holstein type and went 

 over the points with the members. 



Mr. Elder shows his best Animals 



Mr. Elder lead the well known Colantha 

 bull, who has over 80 advanced regis- 

 tered daughters, out into the yard so all 

 could look him over clo.sely. The mem- 

 bers examined many 20,000 lb. cows and 

 four in particular, all of which produced 



over 26,000 in a year. In this group 

 was one 30,000 lbs. cow. 



We think the boys and girls with open 

 eyes got a good idea of a good type cow. 

 We think they saw the value of mating 

 them with good sires. And we hope that 

 their mind is set on good high producing 

 stock more than ever before. 



Miss Fitzgerald is helping her girls 

 can at Cold Sprinii. 



Mr. Mayo met with the Bai/ State gar- 

 den club on -July 1st. Besides the dis- 

 cussions on garden work the picnic to be 

 held August 1st was taken up. 



THE COUNTY CHAMPIONS 



All Go to Camp (iilbert 



The last week in July will see all the 

 county champions and state champions at 

 M. A. C. attending Camp Gilbert. Need- 

 less to say this camp will be made up of 

 real boys and girls, those who "have been 

 sticking to the job" and have done things. 

 We have eight going from Hampshire 

 County. Here they are: 

 Osborne West, Hadley — Dairy Champion. 

 Ruby Delisle, Westhampton — 



Canning Champion. 

 Lewis West, Hadley — Garden Champion. 

 Eva Alfleri, South Amherst — 



Clothing Champion. 

 Stanley Pavlica, Huntington — 



Handicraft Champion. 

 To be picked — Poultry Champion. 

 Rachel Randall, Belchertown — 



State Club Garden Champion. 

 Wallace Taylor, Williamsburg — 



State Club Handicraft Champion. 



Hatfield young people are gardening- 

 this summer. Mr. D. W. Belcher has a 

 list of 60 boys and girls in garden work. 

 There are members in Bradstreet, West 

 Hatfield, North Hatfield and in the Cen- 

 ter. Meetings are held every two weeks 

 with the various clubs. Big plans are 

 being made for the Fair. 



The Wort)iington girls are to do Room 

 club work with Mrs. Lucy Mollison as a 

 leader. Soon pictures will be taken of 

 each room so we will be able to see the 

 improvement later on. 



The Ware Poultry Club met at Mr. 

 Howard Tucker's on July 1st for a capo- 

 nizing demonstration. Fifty-six birds 

 were caponized. Mr. Nodine was present. 

 The boys took right hold and did some 

 of the work themselves. 



The Huntington poultry club will go 

 to Max Axelrod's farm in Westfield on 

 July 8th to see his methods and poultry- 

 plant. There will be ten boys on the trip. 



AROUND THE COUNTY 



The poultry club of Granbij led by Mr. 

 Ashley Randall visited four poultry 

 farms in Belchertown, Enfield and 

 Greenwich on June 14th. There were six 

 boys in the group and they picked up 

 many points in looking over Schmidt's 

 in Belchertown, Scotts in Belchertown, 

 Bartlett's in Enfield, and Hillside School 

 in Greenwich. 



The Cnmmington potato members were 

 fortunate to have Mr. John Abbot dem- 

 onstiate the mixing and application of 

 Bordeaux. The meeting was at Darwin 

 Well's Farm on July 9th. 



The Xorwich Hill potato members 

 met for a spraying demonstration on 

 Julv 10th. 



Elizabeth Zumbr.uski of Russellville 

 was picked as second best clothing club 

 member in this county for last winter. 



The Bay Path Clothing club of South 

 .Amherst put on a clothing exhibit at the 

 Women's Summary Meeting at Laurel 

 Park on June 1st. 



Howard Atkins of Soidh Amherst was 

 picked as second best handicraft boy in 

 this county. 



A group of girls at Pine Grove and 

 West FarviJi under the leadership of i 

 Elizabeth Buczala are sewing this sum- 1 

 mer. Miss Boice will meet them the last 

 of the month for a talk on styles and 

 colors. 



The En.^thampton poultry club had a 

 caponizing demonstration on July 10th. 



Osborne West has eight fine head of 

 Holsteins now. 



Mrs. Harry Putnam is to lead a group 

 of girls in canning at Belchertoivn Center 

 this summer. Mr. Lewis, the Superin- 

 tendent, has offered the domestic science 

 room of the High School as a place of 

 meeting. 



The dairy members are waiting to find 

 out who will go to the Eastern States 

 week calf club camp. 



The Cummington Room Club gave a 

 dramatization of a club meeting at Laurel 

 Park on June 18th. 



A poultry club has started in Hunting- 

 ton with eight members. Russell Burr 

 was elected President and Leslie How- 

 land, secretary. 



It is not too early to plan for the Tri- 

 County Fair. The winners are getting 

 ready for it now. 



