HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARM BUREAU MONTHLY 

 BOYS' AND GIRLS' WORK 



CHAKLKS H. OOIILI), Leader 



The Garden Clubs 



The boys' and girls' gardens are well 

 started. We have eliminated from our 

 lists the names of those whose courage 

 waned with the approval of planting 

 and seeding time, and now it is our am- 

 bition that everyone still in the contest Amherst 4 

 completes his season's work successfully. Belchertown 4 

 In Easthampton and South Hadley the Chesterfield 1 

 supervisor has visited each one at his W. Cummingt'n 3 

 garden, and with a few exceptions the Easthampton 



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Enfield 

 Goshen 



Northampton 

 Pelham 

 Plainfield 

 Southampton 



same is true of Huntington. In Hat- 

 field the organization of local visitors is 

 being completed, the children having Granby 

 already enrolled and planted their j Greenwich 

 gardens. In Northampton, Leeds and ] Hadley 

 Florence the forty volunteer visitors , Hatfield 

 have sent their second report to our Huntington 

 office. The ninety community plots on 

 Williams Street have been assigned and 

 planted. There is every indication of a 

 very successful season. 



Most of the children some of whom • South Hadley 

 planted as much land to I'adishes as to Ware 

 corn, are already beginning to harvest Westhampton 

 a crop and to plan for something to ' Williamsburg 

 plant in the space thus becoming avail- ' Worthington 

 age. Watermelons and peanuts are 

 also popular, but there are plenty of ' Total 

 beans, and the winter vegetables would 

 gladden the heart of Hoover. 



In South Hadley many of the children 

 who are not in the garden club proper, 

 have enlisted in a potato growing con- 



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Canning nlub enrolments not yet complete. 



What the 1918 Home bconomics Club 

 Has Accomplished 



Ruth has learned the importance 



Canning Club 



Enrollments for the 1918 Canning 

 Club must be made by .July 1, but those 

 previously enrolled may start work for 

 the contest May 15. The contest will 

 close Oct. 15. Each member must can 

 at least 24 quarts, including two differ- 

 ent vegetables, two different fruits, and 

 one green, by the One-Period Cold-Pack 

 Method, but 124 quarts will be the maxi- 

 mum number for which credit will be 

 given. Each individual club must make 

 an exhibit representing their work near 

 the close of the contest. Every club 

 member must exhibit at this time five 

 jars of products, two varieties of vege- 

 tables, two varieties of fruits, and one 

 green. If club members salt or dry their 

 greens in preference to canning them 

 one pint of the salted or dried greens 

 should be exhibited in place of canned 

 greens and will be scored with the 

 canned products. Dried products may 

 be included in the final exhibit as a dis- 

 play, but will not receive credit in place 

 of canned products. The scoring of the 

 quality of work will be based wholly on 

 cold-pack canned products with the ex- 

 ; ception of greens. A report will be re- 

 quired from each member, showing re- 

 ceipts and expenses and a story of ex- 

 perience will be due from each member 

 on or before Nov. 1. 



test (minimum 24 hills) and the club of neatness and small details. 



Wild Boar 



members have invariably included spuds 

 in their garden plan. The children 



— North Amherst. 



The sewing is difficult and unnatural 

 there are also keeping a record book of f^^, j^^^. ^^ p^^.j^^.^^^ ^^^ g„,^„ ^^^^^^^ ^^^ 



their work, from which they expect to , j^^^ accomplished does mean more to her 



education than some of the work that 



determine the financial success of their 

 gardens 



Juiior Home Economics Club 



The judging of the .Junior Home Eco- 

 nomics Club exhibits has been completed. 

 In general the work of the children dur- 

 ing February-April was very satisfac- 

 tory and the exhibits showed that much 

 had been accomplished in breadmaking, 

 sewing and household ta.sks. Ware, 

 Amherst, Worthington, Northampton, 

 Granby and Hatfield had especially good 

 exhibts. 



larger amounts of produce than are ex- 

 hibited at the market. 



The Market committee will provide a 

 Community Table, at which any produce 

 may be left with the person in charge. ; I am pleased that a branch of the 

 This will be sold at a reasonable fixed Home Economics club has been estab- 

 commission, 10% of the same to be used \ lished in Ware, as it has shown the mem- 

 in defraying the expense of the market, bers what they them.selves could do with- 



If you have over production of any ' out aid from their superiors. I hope 

 kind, send it to the market and help the work of the club will fully repay the 

 someone to have the advantage of fresh i supervisors for their generous and cheer- 

 fruits and vegetables. ful help. 



came more easily. — Amherst. 



Previous to joining the club, Leslie 

 did not like home work. On joining the 

 club she went to work with more vim 

 and enjoyment than I had ever been 

 capable of instilling into her. Person- 

 ally, I feel that she has gotten more real 

 good from this course than from any 

 other study taken this year. — Amherst. 



She has learned the value of minutes. 

 This, I value as much as her ability to 

 cook. — Cummington. 



Mildred never did any kind of work 

 before, and it was Cjuite an experience 

 for her. — Hatfield. 



She seemed to enjoy the work, and is 

 ■fiill keeping it up. — Huntington. 



Dear Sir: 



I am very sorry to tell you that your 

 pig jumped four boards high. He ran 

 away Friday noon and the dog went 

 away with the pig. The dog came back 

 two days after and the pig did not come 

 back and we did not see the pig since 

 then. I was gone to Holyoke. When I 

 came back I hear that the pig ran away. 

 I am very sorry. Please write and tell 

 me what I should do about it. 

 Yours truly, 



Belchertown. 



Prizes offered for the Most Economically 

 Grown Corn 



Ordinarily, corn contests are on the 

 basis of the best corn, regardless of the 

 conditions under which it was produced. 

 But following the general demand for 

 economy in all things, the Massachusetts 

 Society for Promotion of Agriculture 

 has started a corn contest which will be 

 run largely on efficiency lines. There 

 will be $250 in prizes for the best corn 

 in the State in 1918; regarding the best 

 not only to mean the biggest yield nor 

 the best quality of corn, but rather 

 these qualities considered together with 

 the cost of production. The all-im- 

 portant point of the contest will be the 

 least cost per bushel. The first prize 

 Concluded on page 6 



