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FARM BUREAU MONTHLY 



Published by the Hampshire County Farm Bureau 



PRICES 59 CENTS PER YEAR; $1.00 PER YEAR INCLUDING MEMBERSHIP IN FARM BUREAU 



Vol. 2 



Northampton, Mass., June, 1917 



No. 6 



THE WORK OF CONSERVATION 



The waste iu the American kitch- 

 en has become proverbial, and if this 

 is more true in the c'.ty and town 

 where there is no pig pen handy, it 

 is also true in the country wlien the 

 pig is fed too expensive a fare of 

 left-overs and when a surplus of 

 garden or orchard stuff is allowed to 

 rot on the ground. The situation 

 was serious before the war; now it 

 is highly critical. The Woman's 

 Council of the Bureau is seeking to 

 do two things: first, to make the 

 great mass of housewives of the 

 county reaUze how important con- 

 servation is, and second, to make 

 more generally understood the vari- 

 ous methods by which it may be ac- 

 complished. 



The Council is fortunate in the 

 co-operation of an excellent team of 

 instructors from the State College, 

 and has already inaugurated an edu- 

 cafonal program which will em- 

 brace the whole country, bringing to 

 each town for at least one day a 

 group of specialists who will present 

 the various phases of the subject. 

 There are four lectures by Miss Eu- 

 dora Tuttle; one on the subject of 

 reducing the cost of foods, one on 

 elimination of waste in foods, one 

 on fruit-canning, and the last a 

 demonstration of canning fruit and 

 vegetables. Many women do not 

 realize how comparatively easy it is 

 to can such things as string beans 

 and greens and how delicious they 

 are in the winter. Miss Marie Sayles 

 is giving a lecture on meal planning 

 and Prof. Thomson speaks on dry 

 storage. Prof. Chenoweth speaks 

 upon the subject of evaporation of 

 fruits and vegetables and upon co- 

 operative canning. There are also 

 consultation hours with time for 

 plenty of questions. 



These "schools," as they are 

 called, are already well under way. 

 Two-day meetings have been held in 

 Amherst, Hadley, Easthampton and 

 Northampton. The rest of the 

 schedule is as follows: 



June 14 — Southampton; 15 — 

 Westhampton; 



July 10 — PlainfieJd, 11 — Cum- 

 mington, 12 — Goshen (?), 13 — 

 Chesterfield, 17 — Middlefield (?), IS 

 - — Worthington. 



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Pig- Distribution in Northampton. 



HOME DEMONSTRATION AGENT 



In connection with tliis emergency 

 work among the women of the 

 county, the Bureau has taken the 

 highly significant step of hiring a 

 permanent home demonstration 

 agent. Her work will be largely 

 educational in a practical way. She 

 will deal with the problem of foods, 

 their relative value and desirabili- 

 ty, their most wholesome and econ- 

 omical preparation. She will give 

 demonstrations in cooking and pre- 

 serving, and will also give some at- 

 tention to sewing and other phases 

 of home economics, in fact every- 

 thing that pertains to the home. Her 

 work will be almost entirely in the 

 field and should become a very im- 

 portant part of the Bureau's ser- 

 vice to the county. 



The new agent, hired June 8 to 

 begin work at once, is Miss Helen 

 Harriman of North Adams. She is 

 a graduate of Middlebury College 

 (1913), has taken the summer 

 course at Simmons, has taught do- 

 mes.'ic science for two years at 

 Northfield Seminary and for two 

 years at the Maryland State College 

 for Women. 



Another change in the Bureau 

 staff should be mentioned. Mr. John 

 Mensel has resigned as Boys' and 

 Girls' Club Worker, and his place 

 will be taken, for the summer at 

 least, by Charles H. Gould. M. A. C. 

 1916, and for the past year field 

 agent of the College faculty. 



MORE PIGS 



Tlie distribution of pigs among 

 the boys and girls of the county 

 goes merrily on. As stated in our 

 last monthly and vividly illustrated 

 in this, there were fifty-six pigs dis- 

 tr.buted at the Court House corner 

 in Northampton on May 26. Some 

 of the crowd who stopped to watch 

 the process, saw more pigs together 

 than they had seen before for a good 

 long time, but the generally ex- 

 pressed wish that one would escape 

 from Agent MacDougall who was 

 handing them out, was quite prop- 

 erly not gratified. 



This was the gala pig day in 

 town, but it was only a single day 

 after all. Charles Gould of the 

 Bureau has been most busy scour- 

 ing the country by automobile and 

 telephone for the little porkers and 

 delivering them in many instances 

 at the home of the buyer. One 

 hundred twenty-five boys and girls 

 of the county are now in the pig 

 contest, each eager to raise the 

 best and largest hog by October 1. 

 Througli the co-operation of the 

 Northampton National Bank the Bu- 

 reau has been able to take the chil- 

 dren's notes for the pigs, and De- 

 cember 1, the date these notes are 

 due, promises as much excitement 

 for Northampton as May 26, the 

 date of general distribution. Mr. 

 Gould reports that the girls of 

 Hampshire County are not afraid 

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