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FARM BUREAU MONTHLY 



Published by the Hampshire County Farm Bureau 



PRICES 50 CENTS PER YEAR; $1.00 PER YEAR INCLUDING MEMBERSHIP IN FARM BUREAU 



Vol. 1 



Northampton, Mass., October, 1916 



No 14 



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John Cishko of Hopkins Academy, Hadley. 

 liuU calf won at the Xational Dair/ Show. 



lis prize Jersey 



BOYS' AND GIRLS HARVE ^T SEASON AT HADLEY 



HOPKINS ACADEMY AGRICULTURE 

 VALUABLE JERSEY CALF WON AT DAIRY SHOW 



John Bishko, a junior at Hopkins 

 Academy is the proud and happy 

 owner of a valuable Jersey bull calf 

 which he won at the Dairy Show in 

 Springfield last week by placing 

 fifth in the Boys' stock judging 

 contest held in connection with the 

 exhibit of the North-Alantlc states 

 boys' and girls' club work. This 

 six months' old calf was donated by 

 Mrs. Ada T. Howie of Sunnypeak 

 Farm, Elmgrove, Wisconsin. The 

 sire of the calf is Nobles Fawn 

 Prince and already the youngster is 

 showing the development expected 

 from his pedigree papers. The calf 

 is not for sale as John expects to 

 raise him at the head of a fine herd 

 of Jerseys which he will develop. 

 The visitors are welcome at the 

 Bishko Farm in Plainville where the 

 calf and the boy will be glad to see 

 you. 



Hopkins Academy is proud of its 

 student w-ho placed fifth and wants 

 to share honors with Sanderson 

 Academy at Ashfield for Earle 

 Streeter of Cummington, a student 

 at that school, who won fourth in 

 this same contest. These two Hamp- 



shire County boys are the only 

 Massachusetts boys in the four 

 western counties to win stock 

 judging prizes. 



There are also other good judges 

 of livestock at Hopkins. In the Pig 

 Judging contest. Dean Eldridge, Ar- 

 thur Comins and Frank Bilske made 

 up the team from Hampshire Coun- 

 ty and w'ere capable of taking sec- 

 ond money of $22. .50 in gold. These 

 boys were not far behind the New 

 Jersey lads who took first. Franklin 

 County placed third and Hampden 

 County fourth. One member of this 

 team also took a prize of $4 with his 

 pig which was on exhibition. 



With the ten-ear samples of corn, 

 Hadley prizes were more numerous 

 than those from any other town or 

 even county in the North-Atlantic 

 states being credited with two 

 seconds out of five and awarded to 

 Roger Johnson and John Pekala. Of 

 fifteen thirds, four were awarded to 

 the following Hadley boys: San- 

 ford Hawley. Harold Gardner, Dean 

 Eldridge and Frank Kokoskl. 

 Continued On Page Three 



SMITHS AGRU'ULTURAL 

 SCHOOL 

 The coming of the National Dairy 

 Show to Springfield this year has 

 been the cause of stimulating much 

 interest among Smith's School stud- 

 ents in agricultural fair exhibits 

 and in agricultural judging contests. 

 Since many prizes were to be award- 

 ed at Springfield, to picked teams 

 of boys and girls representing their 

 respective counties and states. It 

 was deemed wise to have our stud- 

 ents take part in as many contests as 

 possible prior to the National Show. 

 In some of the contests, especially 

 the Livestock Judging contests, no 

 person could cotupete in Springfield 

 who had not become eligible by 

 winning some prize at a local fair. 

 Consequently it was early decided 

 that Smith's School should be rep- 

 resented a', the following fairs: 

 I Amherst, Cummington, Greenfield 



and Northampton. 



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' At the Amherst Fair, the follow- 

 ing prizes were taken rjy our Doys. 

 Stock Judging contest; James Mc- 

 Callum. first; Joseph Dickinson, 

 second; Vegetable judging, Edgar 

 Cox, third. Plowing Contest: Mal- 

 com Frost, first; John Hathaway, 

 third, and Ralph Roberts. fourtJh. 

 Horsemanship contest: Raymond 

 Dragon, first; Mibrris Frary, second, 

 and John Hathaway, third. 



The only contests at the Cttm- 

 mington Fair were in Live Stock 

 Judging and the Smith's School 

 team, composed of Philip Clapp, 

 Raymond Dragon and John Hatha- 

 way, took the second premium. In- 

 dividual prize winners were Percy 

 Amatt and Elmer Clapp who took 

 second and third places respectively. 

 At Greenfield our boys were again 

 very successful. In Live Stock .Tudg- 

 ing Fay Montague took first nriza 

 and Elmer Clapp second prize. In 

 corn judging. Henry Bridgman 

 first, Elmer Clapp second; In Potato 

 Judging. Joseph Dickinson second. 



The competition at the Tri-Coun- 

 ty Pair in Northampton was stiff 

 but again the Smith's Agricultural 

 School boys emerged with credit to 

 themselves. Raymond Dragon and 

 Joseph Dickinson were the first and 

 Continued On Page Three 



