HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARMERS' MONTHLY 



CLUB WORK 



WINTER CLUB WORK CLOTHING CLUB LEADERS 



Last winter over six bundled young- 

 people of Hampshire County did sewing, 

 handicraft, cooking and poultry work. 

 Now is the time to start similar work for 

 this winter. The work you select should 

 be useful — useful to you, for the farm 

 or for the home. It is not difficult to 

 find a type of club work which will be 

 useful. 



In the poultry work what is more 

 necessary, if you want to improve, than 

 keeping an egg and feed record. We have 

 card boai-d cards to tack on the inside of 

 the hen house door on which it is very, 

 very easy to keep the egg and feed record. 

 The monthly letters and the club meet- 

 ings, are encouraged to make the work 

 mean its most. Every boy or girl with 

 chickens wants to take advantage of 

 what we have in poultry help. 



The clothing or sewing work is u.seful. 

 Every girls knows that. When you leave 

 home consider your expense for clothes. 

 An interesting incident happened last 

 winter with one of the .sewing club mem- 

 bers near Boston. She had made a voile 

 dress. When in one of the department 

 stores in Boston one day she met the 

 manager who also was an acquaintance 

 of hers. He was looking at her new 

 dress and when she noticed it she asked 

 him how he liked it and how much it 

 would be worth if he had the dress to 

 sell. He took her to a show case and 

 said, "That's where I would put it." 

 The price on the dresses was marked 

 thirty dollars. The dress cost her less 

 than fifteen dollars. Decide for your- 

 self whether or not it is useful to learn 

 about sewing. 



Boys, the handicraft work is a useful 

 thing to know about. If you are to live 

 on a farm you cannot be without such [ 

 knowledge. The using of tools on the 

 farm is an every day occurance. The j 

 home demands the use of tools also. The j 

 ironing board, the wash bench, the knife 

 rack, the .screen door, the wood box, and 

 a thousand other things get out of order 

 sooner or later. It takes tools and an 

 idea of how to use them to repair such 

 troubles. There are also many things 

 desired such as a fireless cooker, a grain 

 box, tooth brush racks, picture frames, 

 rose trellis, pig feeders, etc., which any 

 one handy with tools can make while the 

 hired carpenter is getting there. In this 

 year's handicraft woik let's make useful 

 articles. 



Is cooking important? Is eating im- ^ 

 portant? What girl is there who shouldn't 

 learn something about foods and how to 

 prepare them? The bread club may in- 

 terest you. The supper club in which a 

 group of girls learn how to prepare and 

 .serve a supper by getting together for 

 meetings when they actually cari-y on the I 



TO MEET 



Miss Tucker to Demonstrate 



On Saturday, December 6th, a clothing- 

 club leaders' conference is planned for 

 Hampshire County. With the help of 

 Miss Harriet Woodward, Girls' State 

 Club Leader, and Miss Marion Tucker, 

 State Clothing Specialist, we hope to not 

 only touch on the clothing problems but 

 on the club idea as well. The meeting- 

 will be at the E.xtension Office in North- 

 ampton. 



CONFERENCE OF 4-H 



WORKERS AT M. A. C. 



Mr. Farley announces a conference at 

 Massachusetts Agricultural College to be 

 held Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 

 21, 22 and 23rd. The purpose of the 

 get-together is to discuss club problems 

 and learn new ways to make the work 

 still more popular. Four leaders are re- 

 quested from each county. On Friday 

 afteinoon will be discus.sed the plan of 

 work, objectives, materials for use in club 

 work, how to organize and best methods 

 of management. On Friday evening Miss 

 Gertrude Warren of the U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, is expected. On 

 Saturday the technical part of club work 

 will be discussed and a question box will 

 be the evening's program. On Sunday 

 morning will be heard an inspirational 

 speaker sufficiently close to club work to 

 speak of succes.ses achieved by club work. 

 Fi-om this county we expect the following 

 to attend : 



Mr. O. .J. Rhines of Huntington, Mr. 

 Ashley Randall of Granby, Miss Nellie 

 Shea of Bondsville, Mr. Paul Brown of 

 Hadley, and Mr. Harry I. Talmadge of 

 Hatfield. 



Seven out of the eight members of the 

 We^l Farma Clothing Club reported. 

 They have made twenty new garments 

 this summer and mended forty-four. 

 They all learned to use the sewing ma- 

 chine. Four of them made club uniforms. 



Waltei- Kellogg of HaiidenrH'e is to get 

 a Guernsey heifer from North Hampton, 

 N. H. 



work may interest you. The lunch box 

 club may be just what you want. If you 

 take your lunch to school why not learn 

 all about the lunch box and how to put 

 it up and what you should have in it. We 

 have some fine programs for such a club. 

 Are there any useful things to do in 

 club work? "A word to the wise is 

 sufficient." 



AROUND THE COUNTY 



\]'Lst Farms young people will make 

 articles to improve the looks of their 

 homes — for instance, vases from bottles 

 or jars by painting them with oil paint 

 and designing- flowers on them. They al- 

 so will take up stenciling on either sani- 

 tas, -waste baskets or chairs. They will 

 have the opportunity to do real paspart- 

 outing, embroidering, making winter 

 flowers, partridge bowls, etc. The pro- 

 ject is to be called the Home Decoration 

 Project. 



Smith College girls are to assist in club 

 work at Wefit, Farms, Pine Groi'e and 

 Bai/ State. 



Henry Randall and Howard Calder of 

 (Jraiiby, Walter Kellogg of Williamsburg, 

 Dennett Howe of Amherst and Steven 

 Brusko of Hatfield are all planning on 

 getting heifer calves. 



Four local leaders and the Club Agent 

 from each county in Massachusetts met 

 on November 21 for a conference on 

 boys' and grls' club work. 



The Noith Amherst girls under the 

 leadership of Miss Meekins, their teacher,, 

 will form a clothing club. Many of the 

 girls start their second year's work. 



At Hadleii eenter the forming of a 

 poultry group under Mr. Paul Brown is 

 in progress. 



All clubs .should start work before 

 Christmas. During the vacation a little 

 should be accomplished on the project. 



The Hill School boys in Sauthnm/ilon 

 under Mr. William Norris plan handi- 

 craft work for this winter. 



Six members have begun woik in 

 Westliimipton and with the help of Miss 

 Helen Crowley will carry out the Home 

 Decoration Project. 



Club work is part of Extension Work 

 which is encouraged by Hampshire Coun- 

 ty, the State of Massachusetts and the 

 United States. 



Do you feed your chix green feed? If 

 they don't lay maybe that is the reason. 

 Feed it in the form of milk or beets or 

 cabbages or spi-outed oats. They must 

 have it. 



The Huntington poultry club will meet 

 once a month at the High School. 



Some of the boys have increased their 

 poultry to the extent that they are selling 

 laying- pullets this fall. Dennett and 

 .John Howe of Amherst are among these. 



