HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARM BUREAU MONTHLY 

 BOYS' AND GIRLS' WORK 



CHAKLKS H. GUILIJ. Leailer 



Boys' and Girls' Club Work 



With one year of organized club work 

 in the County, just past, it is evident 

 that the organization must be stronger 

 if all that is desired is to be accomplished 

 in boys' and girls' work. 



The most vital need is a good supply 

 of local leaders who will devote some of 

 his or her time to seeing that the young 

 people in the town do a good, construc- 

 tive piece of club work. As voiced in a 

 previous issue to have junior work a 

 success, the parents must get our point 

 of view; namely, that feeding father's 

 pig is not being a member of the pig 

 club, and weeding the family garden is 

 not the same as having a garden that a 

 youngster can do with just as he plea.ses. 

 There is one other aspect to the point of 

 view that we hope the parents will con- 

 cur in, and that is the fact, that pig 

 clubs, etc., won't work, unless there is 

 some person in each community who is 

 willing to make himself partly responsi- 

 ble for the success of the enterpri.se. 



Hampshire County Among Winners 



The following prizes have been award- 

 ed as a result of the Winter Egg Laying 



contest : 

 I 

 Margaret Delano, Vineyard Haven, Mass. 



(Week at M. A. C. Camp) 



Alfred Seher, Westfield, Mass., R. F. D. 



(Week at M. A. C. Camp) 



.Joseph Cooper, Middleboro, Mass. 



(Week at M. A. C. Camp) 



Kenfred Root, Easthampton, Mass. 



! (Book) 



Stanley Ward, Holden, Mass. 



(Book) 



Howard Abrahamson, Waltham, Mass. 



(Book) 



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. 



Canning Club 



Each member joining the canning club 



each member is given two weeks in 

 which to write a story of their summer's 

 experiences in canning. The stories 

 should be sent into the County Farm 

 Bureau office before Nov. 1. Tardy 

 stories do not receive the same credit as 

 those sent in promptly. 



LOCAL CLUB EXHIBITS 



Each individual club makes an exhibit 

 of their canning products near the close 

 of the season. Every club member must 

 exhibit at this time five jars of products, 

 2 different varities of vegetables, 2 dif- 

 ferent varieties of fruits, and 1 green. 

 The products may be exhibited in pint 

 01- quart jars but members should be en- 

 couraged to enter them all in pint or all 

 in quart jars. 



If club members salt or dry their 

 greens in preference to canning them, 1 

 pint of the salted or dried greens should 

 be exhibited in place of the canned 

 greens and will be scored with the can- 

 ned products. Dried products may be 

 included in the final exhibit. 



Club Work 



The advantages of systematic club 

 work : 



1. To encourage and train boys along 

 the lines of the activities of country life. 



2. To put into practice the facts of 

 scientific agriculture obtained from 

 books, bulletins, or, in other words, club 

 work is a means of acquiring more ed- 

 ucation. 



3. To bring the school life of the boy 

 into closer relationship to his home life. 



4. To assist in the development of the 

 spirit of cooperation in the family and 

 in the community. 



5. To popularize and magnify the vo- 

 cation of the farmer by demonstrating 

 the splendid returns which may be se- 

 cured from farming when it is properly 

 conducted, that is, club work is the means 

 of earning dollars and cents, thereby 

 bringing independence. 



6. To enlarge the vision of the boy 

 and to give him definite purposes at an 

 important period in life, thereby develop- 

 ing leadership. 



7. To furnish to the progressive rural 

 school teacher an opportunity to vitalize 

 the work of the school by correlating the 

 teaching of agriculture with actual prac- 

 tice. 



8. Club work opens up visions of 

 other things, other places, other insti- 

 tutions, other people. 



9. Club work develops the agricul- 

 tural and livestock assets of the com- 

 munity. 



, is a.sked to can a minimum of 24 quarts 

 during the contest. The canning may 

 be done in pint, quart, or two quart jars 

 but the whole must total 24 quarts. The ' Amherst 

 fixed maximum number of quarts for 

 which credit is given is 124 quarts. 



VARIETY 



The following five varieties of products 

 must be canned : 2 vegetables, 2 fruits, 

 and 1 green. As many other varieties 

 of products as given on the time table in 

 the primer can be canned as one wishes. 

 If club members want to can products 

 other than are given on this list, they 

 may do so, but they will not receive 

 credit on the canning club record. 



NOTE 



If club members wish to salt or dry 

 greens rather than can them it is allow- 

 able. The drying of certain products is 

 also recommended and credit will be giv- 

 en to club members for all drying done. 

 After the required 24 quarts of fruits 

 and vegetables have been canned, drying 

 may be done to any extent the members 

 desire. 



REPORTS 

 At the end of the contest, club mem- 

 bers report on their work. A report 

 sheet will be furnished for this purpose 

 on which a record is required of the 

 amount canned, variety, value of canned 

 products in dollars and cents and total 

 amount of season's expenditures. (This 

 will include cost of new jars, rubbers, 

 food products, a canner, if newly pur- 

 chased, and sugar.) 



STORIES OF EXPERIENCE 



After the canning contest has closed, 



Canning clubs have been organized in 

 the county with leaders as follows: 



Mrs. Fisher 



Mrs. Pontius 

 South Amherst Cora Howlett 



North Amherst Laura Dickinson 



Maude Fields 

 Belchertown Mildred Morse 



Mrs. Roy Shaw 

 Cummington No Leader 



Enfield Mrs. Ned Harwood 



Mrs W. S. Chaffee 

 Easthampton Ruth Finch 



Mrs. Ogden 

 '., jtt% \u k',' ^o j»^ ^ Miss Agnes Flynn 

 Goshen Mrs. Bissell 



Greenwich No Leader 



Hadley & N. HadleyMiss Thayer 



Hatfield 

 Huntington 

 Middlefield 

 Northampton 



Florence 



Pelham 



Plainfield 

 South Hadley 

 So. Hadley Falls 

 Southampton 

 Ware 



i Westhampton 

 Williamsburg 



Mrs. Thaddeus Graves 

 Grace Fiske 

 No Leader 

 Mrs. Hebert 

 Mrs. Elder 

 Miss Hill 

 Miss Ruth Howes 

 Miss A. Ely 

 Marguerite Chapin 

 Miss Ruth Andrews 

 Mrs. Hamilton 

 Mrs. E. Ward 

 Mrs. Shepherd 

 Miss Clara Hudson 

 Mrs. Bailey 

 Miss B. M. Skinner 

 No Leader 

 Mabel Southworth 

 Miss Drummond 

 Miss Louise Clapp 

 Miss Anne Dumphy 

 Miss Rozella Ice 



