HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARMERS' MONTHLY 



CLUB WORK 



WHAT NEXT! YOUNG FOLKS THE SCHOLARSHIP 



"Success comes as a result of continu- 

 ous hard work," thus said Mr. Horace A. 

 Moses to members of Camp Vail at 

 Springfield this fall. "Once a club mem- 

 ber always a club member," say Mr. 

 George L. Farley, State Club Leader. 

 There are gi-eat things in club work if 

 you go after them. The 4 leaf clover 

 and its 4-H's represent an organization 

 reaching toward 1,000,000 young people 

 who each take a definite job to do. Over 

 900 club members in this county followed 

 the 4-H's last year. 



The young folks in many of the towns 

 have already got in motion and have 

 ideas of their winter club job. To mem- 

 bers who have been in for a year or more 

 we want to say "Stick with it. Don't 

 quit." You haven't begun to get it all 

 yet. If you are really sick of sewing or 

 cooking try .something else. Some mem- 

 bers keep going for eight years. The 

 first year you just get started. You must 

 keep on to really benefit by it. Don't de- 

 pend too much on your leader but get 

 ahead yourself. 



If you have chickens, keep them and 

 keep your egg records and feed record 

 during- the winter. We have card board 

 egg- record sheets to send you and record 

 books. If you have been a poultry mem- 

 ber since spring you will get these. If 

 you want to be among the list let us 

 know. If there is a club in your town, 

 join it. If there i.sn't, make one. Poul- 

 try work is something you can start right 

 now. 



The clothing work will continue. If 

 you have finished the first year work take 

 the second, etc. 



The handicraft work can be taken up. 

 With a few tools you can make many 

 useful articles for the farm or home. 



Dairy work can be started at any time. 

 If you want a calf we can help you find 

 one. 



A supper club or a lunch box or bread 

 club may interest you. You can work 

 by yourself as a club member but the best 

 way to go at it is to get a group of young 

 people together and form a club which 

 you will get some older person in the 

 community to be the leader of. Be a club 

 member. If you don't get what you 

 want, ask for it. 



At the Eastern States Exposition the 

 Hampshire County dairy club had 17 

 head which took over $.300.00 in prizes. 

 The 200 chickens exhibited took nearly 

 $100.00 more. The value of the informa- 

 tion and pleasure received we cannot 

 estimate. It mu.st be tremendous. 



The 4-H's on the 4-leaf clover stand 

 for Head, Heart, Hand and Health. The 

 4 leaf clover is the National Emblem of 

 Club Work. 



I CONTEST AT BROCKTON 



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Hampshire County Wins 



A scholarship judging contest in Farm 

 Products and Livestock was run oif at 

 : the Brockton Fair this year. The pre- 

 miums were so good that we encouraged 

 t some of our better judges from Hamp- 

 shire County to enter. Through the co- 

 operation of Mr. W. I. Mayo of Smith 

 Agricultural School, and Mr. Paul Bi-own 

 of Hopkins Academy, nine of our boys 

 entered the contest and were taken to 

 Brockton. They were Roger West, ' 

 Horace Babb, James Coffey and .lohn 

 Bak of Hopkins Academy and Bronislaw 

 Lebiecki, Herman Andrews, Irving Clapp, 

 Walter Kellogg and Steven Adams of 

 Smith Agricultural School. 



One hundred and thirty-seven boys 

 from all over Massachusetts competed. 

 They judged three classes of dairy ani- 

 mals, four classes of poultry and four 

 classes of vegetables. 



After totaling up the results it was 

 found that our Hampshire County team 

 of three, namely Roger West of Hadley, 

 Bronislaw Lebiecki of Florence and Hor- 

 ace Babb of Hadley, won the state cham- 

 pionship. A silver cup goes to each 

 member of the team. In the individual ! 

 judging Roger West won first and Irving t 

 Clapp of Westhampton won third. 



The prize for first place was $100.00 

 and for third place $50.00. This money 

 must be used for education in college. 



ABOUT FAIR EXHIBITS 



The Fair is over. Memories of it re- 

 main. There were over 1000 young peo- 

 ple's exhibits. All the exhibits except 

 Dairy stock were in the Youths' building. 

 The 24 head of the Dairy Members' stock 

 were quartered in the cattle sheds. 225 

 birds made up the best club poultry show 

 ever set up at the Tri-County Fair. This 

 year a beginning was made with a cloth- 

 ing exhibit, 240 articles being shown. 

 There were at least 60 dresses. A little 

 more handicraft work was exhibited this 

 year. 150 articles ranging from a tooth 

 brush holder to a stepladder were sent in 

 by the boys. 250 jars of fine canning 

 were shown. There were at least 100 

 exhibits of vegetables. We hope many 

 got a look at the potato exhibits, 20 in 

 a pile. The club group exhibit of which 

 there were six, was a new feature. They 

 were set up to show the work of a club 

 organization. And the special exhibits of 

 Henry Randall of Granby, Bronislaw 

 Lebiecki of Flornece, Paul Vachula of 

 Hatfield and Stanley Pavlica of Hunting- 

 ton showed the job being done by inany 

 of our club members. 



WILLIAMSBURG GIRLS MAKE 

 INTERESTING PROGRAM 



The Williamsburg Room club which 

 has run successfully for two years is to 

 continue its membership but to take a 

 new line of work. Until Christmas they 

 are to call themselves a Gift Club and 

 plan to make Christmas presents out of 

 reed, painted bottles, stenciled sanitos, 

 sealing wax work, etc. After Christmas 

 they are to form a Girl's Spring Ward- 

 robe Club in which they plan to make 

 two outer and two under garments and 

 a hat if desired. Along with this they 

 will have a supper club which consists of 

 the study of proper supper dishes and 

 menus plus the doing of the same. 



Mrs. Murray Graves is still the en- 

 thusiastic leader of the above club and 

 also of the younger girls' clothing club 

 which is to continue the next year's work. 



JUDGING CONTEST AT 



TRI-COUNTY FAIR 



The judging contests were a grand 

 success. Over 50 boys entered the stock 

 judging in which Stroheker Nuel of Shel- 

 burne Falls was first; Bronislaw Lebiecki 

 of Florence was second; Roger Ward of 

 Shelburne Falls third and Kenneth Rip- 

 ley of Smith School was fourth. 



In the preserve judging contest for the 

 girls Lillian Morton of Smith School was 

 first; Gladys Murray of Hopkins Aca- 

 demy was second and Sabrina Suleski of 

 Hopkins Academy was third. 



In poultry judging Roger West was 

 1st, Gordon Cook 2nd, John Delraynioi 

 3rd, Herman Andrews 4th. 



Herman Andrews is joining the Dairy 

 Club with a fine Guernsey from Alvan 

 T. Fuller's fai-m in North Hampton, N. 

 H. 



A CLUB BANNER 



Hampshire County ought to have one. 

 For our public meetings, picnics and 

 other get-togethers we ought to have a 

 county banner. The basis of it would be 

 the four leaf clover. And it ought to be 

 simple enough to make so that any girl 

 can put one together. At the Fair we 

 had a four clover leaf banner which we 

 may make a county banner. This is how 

 to make it. A background of white cloth ; 

 a green clover leaf in the center; an H on 

 each clover leaf; a green stripe running 

 from each clover leaf to the nearest cor- 

 ner. This stripe tapers to a point near 

 the corner. 



