THE HAMPSHIRE CuUNTY FARM BUREAU MONTHLY 



HAMPSHIRE COUNTY 



FARM BUREAU MONTHLY 



Published By The 



Hampshire County Farm Bureau 



A. F. MacDougall, County Agent 



Office, First National Bank Bldg. 



Northampton, Mass. 



Entered as second class matter 

 Nov. 9, 1915 at the post office at 

 Northampton, Massachusetts, under 

 the Act of March 8, 1879. 



OFFICERS OF THE FARM BUREAU 



Leslie R. Smith, President, Hadley. 



W. D. Mandell, Treasurer, Northamp- 

 ton 



Iv. K. Clapp, Secretary, Northamp- 

 ton. 



Advisory Board 



Leslie R. Smith, Hadley 



Chas. R. Damon, Williamsburg 



Ferley E. Davis, Granby 



C. E. Hodgkins, Northampton 



\\ arren M. King, Northampton 



M. A A'orse, Belchertown 



Martin Norris, Southampton 



EDITORIAL 



The following paragraph taken 

 from an address by Dr. B. T. Gallo- 

 way, dean of Ne.w York State Col- 

 lege of Agriculture, brings out clear- 

 ly the value of local initiative in 

 Farm Bureau work. 



"Communities are much like indi- 

 viduals. No individual can grow un- 

 less he serves. No commmunity can 

 grow economically, socially, normal- 

 ly, or ethically unless it is aroused to 

 the need of service. Growth, to be 

 jjermanent, must come from within, 

 and the only way it can come from 

 within is for the people who consti- 

 tute it to move, to act, to do some- 

 thing for the common good. In the 

 old days when we selected a good 

 farmer, because he was a good farm- 

 er, to go out and help other farm- 

 ers, the most surprised man was the 

 good farmer himself, for he found at 

 once that the mere fact of his help- 

 ing other farmers helped' him as much 

 or more than it did his neighbors. 

 If farm bureau work is to be perma- 

 nent, if it is to accomplish its aims 

 ei'onomically, socially, and, I might 

 also say, morally and ethically, It 

 niiist be an outgrowth of local spirit, 

 wisely guided, but not directed or 

 donlnated by any agencies from 

 ■without." 



DIRECTORS FOR 1916 



Amherst 

 H. C. Barton, N. Amherst 

 Ray Dickinson, N. Amherst 

 R. H. Whitcomb, So. Amherst' 



Belchertown 

 Everett Howard 

 M. A. Morse 

 Wm. Sauer 



Cummington 

 A. B. Doggett 

 W. M. Morey 



Chesterfield 

 F. Baker 

 Charles Bisbee 

 Arlin Cole 

 H. L. Merritt 



Easthampton 

 Jarius F. Burt 

 E. B. Clapp 



D. A. Forbes 



Enfield 

 Walter Bliss 

 J. W. Flint 



Goshen 

 Geo. L. Barrus, Lithia 

 Arthur W. Packard 



Greenwich 

 W. H. Walker 



Granby 

 Chas. W. Ball, So. Hadley 

 Perley E. Davis 

 Earl Ingham 



Hadley 

 Thomas Hickey, Russelville 

 Fred Pelissier 

 Leslie R. Smith 



E. T. Whitaker 



Hatfield 

 Geo. Belden, Bradstreet 

 Chas. AVade 



Huntington 

 W. A. Monson 

 C. B. Palmer 



Middlefleld 

 J. T. Bryan 

 W. A. Olds 



Northampton 

 C. E. Clark, Leeds 

 Wilfred Learned, Florence 

 H. N. Loomis 

 Josiah Parsons 

 J. A. Pollard 



Pelham 

 Herman Page, Amherst, R. F. D. 



Prescott 

 Waldo H. Peirce, Gr. Vil. 

 Walter M. Waugh, Gr. Vil. 

 Chas. W. Berry, Gr. Vil. 

 Plainfield 

 H. S. Packard 

 N. K. Lincoln 

 Chas. E. Thatcher 



South Hadley 

 I. N. Day 

 C. A. Judd, So. H. Falls 



Southampton 

 E. C. Searle 

 W. A. Parsons 



Westhampton 

 A. D. Montague 

 Le.i Burt 

 F. A. Loud 



Worthington 

 Frank Bates 

 E. J. Clark 

 Ernest G. Thayer, W. W. 



Ware 

 Geo. H. Timmins 

 Bert Green 

 M. D. GrifHn 



Williamsburg 

 Chas. R. Damon 

 E. W. Goodhue, Haydon. 

 John Ice. 

 Leon Sanderson, Hayden. 



DAIRY RECORDS. 

 Cows in the Connecticut Valley 

 Cow-Test Association making over 

 1000 lbs. milk or 40 lbs. butter fat 

 for the month of February: 



F. D. Bridgman, Westhampton, 

 Grade, Guernsey 



Milk Fat 



978 lbs. 41.1 lbs. 



E. C. Harlow, Amherst, Purebred 

 Jerseys 



614 41.8 



874 42. 



646 40. 



632 ■ 40.4 



1104 62.9 



998 66.9 



778 43.6 



772 45.5 



J. L. Ingham, Granby, Holsteins 

 1026 30.8 



1008 31.2 



C. G. Loud, Holsteins 

 1051 42. 



James McAuslane, Easthampton, 

 Purebred Holsteins 



1423 48.4 



1209 41.1 



W. A. Parsons, Southampton 

 946 41.6 



Ruth G. Sessions, Hadley, Holsteins 

 1267 39.3 



1026 35.9 



1296 50.5 



E. T. Whitaker, Hadley. Ho\- 

 steins 

 1147 42.4 



1104 36.4 



E. D. Waid, Amherst, Holsteins. 

 1356 40.7 



