HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARM BUREAU MONTHLY 

 BOYS' AND GIRLS' WORK 



CHARLES H. GOILU. Leader 



1917 Pig Club 



The following is a list of Hampshire 

 county pig club members according to 

 their standing: 



1. Mary Ethel White, No. Hadley 



2. Willard Pease, Middlefield 



3. Sidney H. Sears, Lithia 



4. Frank Kowal, Hadley 



5. Roy Packard, Goshen 



6. Leland Maynard, Northampton 



7. James Lester Comins, Hadley 



8. Edward Weaver, Pelham 



9. George Jameson, Easthampton 



10. Howard F. Pease, Middlefield 



11. Elmer Olds, Middlefield 



12. Joseph Kowal, Hadley 



13. Rose Alma Beauregard, East'ton 



14. Muriel Cooper, Haydenville 

 *15. Frieda M. Hough, Enfield 

 *16. George W. Olds, Middlefield 

 *17. Dorothy Hilger, Cummington 

 *18. John Wanzyk, Hadley 



*19. Chester W. Cady, Huntington 

 *20. Lewis Whitaker, Hadley 

 *21. Charles Streeter, Cummington 

 *22. Stanley Howlett, Amherst 

 *23. Petronela Zitka, Belchertown 

 *24. Lutha Beals, Lithia 

 *Came out at a loss. 



SUMMARY OF COUNTY 



135 started 



32 finished (23 %) 



13 average 



34 pigs 



$7.13 initial value 



$28.44 final value 



28 lbs. initial weight 



158 lbs. final weight 



130 lbs. net gain 



$3.32 labor 



$0.50 pasture 



$12.60 feed 



$16.42 total cost 



$4.98 profit 



1.06 lbs. ave. daily gain 



$ .12 cost per lb. gain 



20.6 % Ave. daily gain 



31% cost per lb. gain 



15 records and reports 



13 stories 



79.6% score 



Eggs for the Boys and Qirls 



The Northampton Poultry Associa- 

 tion pledged 26 settings of eggs for 

 Northampton boys and girls who de- 

 sire to enter the Hatching and Brooding 

 contest. These eggs will be sold at 50 

 cents a dozen and will be ready for dis- 

 tribution about April 1st. The club 

 rules require that each member must 

 hatch two settings of 13 eggs each. 

 Each member getting eggs from the 

 Northampton Association must take 

 two settings unless they can get another 

 setting for their club work from an- 

 other source. 



Home Economics Club 



Pig Clubs for 1918 



Pig clubs are beginning to spring up. 

 The County Leader has secured the op- 

 tion on a number of litters for members 

 who cannot secure pigs themselves. 

 The Northampton National Bank will 

 finance the boys again this year. Boys 

 and girls desiring pigs should notify 

 the County Leader at once. 



1917 Canning Club 



State Club Leader has made the fol- 

 lowing report on the County Canning 

 club: 



Individual clubs 



Enrollment 



Finished all requirements 



Quarts canned 



Value 



Stories written 



Reports made 



North Hadley Oirl Winner 



Mary White of North Hadley is the 

 winner in the state pig club contest. 

 Miss White selected a Chester white pig 

 weighing 30 pounds for which she paid 

 $7. She fed it middlings, hominy meal 

 and skimmed milk. At the close of the 

 contest it weighed 271 pounds. She 

 exhibited it in October at the Eastern 

 States exposition in Springfield, where 

 it won first prize. 



Fourth prize winners in the contest 

 ai'e as follows: Willard Pease, Middle- 

 field; Sidney Sears, Lithia; Frank 

 Kowal, Hadley. 



15 

 109 



21 

 1979i 

 $715.13 



39 



36 



State Leader to Visit Clubs 



Miss Helen M. Norris, state leader of 

 Home Economics clubs will visit Hamp- 

 shire County Clubs during the week of 

 March 17. Her schedule will probably 

 be as follows: 



Monday 18, Hatfield, afternoon 



Hadley, evening 

 Tuesday 19, Huntington, afternoon 

 Wedn. 20, Williamsburg, afternoon 



Amherst, evening 

 Thurs. 21, Granby, afternoon 



Northampton, evening 

 Friday 22, Pelham, morning 

 Wai-e, afternoon 



Winter Egg Laying 



The winter egg laying contest, closed 

 March 1st. This contest has been run- 

 ning since November 1st and a iew boys 

 have been trying to outdo each other in 

 the production of eggs during the 

 winter. 



Kenfred Root of Easthampton has 

 the best record for the County. From 

 a flock of twelve Rhode Island Reds, he 

 has secured 542 eggs in 120 days, an 

 average of 4.5 eggs a day. 



Poultry Clubs 



Egg Laying and Hatching and Brood- 

 ing club has been started in Chester- 

 field, Williamsburg, Huntington, Am- 

 herst. 



your 



Mrs. Howard — The walls of 

 house are vei-y thin, aren't they? 



Mrs. Coward — Oh, very! We could 

 actually hear our neighbors having soup 

 for dinner yesterday! — Ex. 



