HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARM BUREAU MONTHLY 



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WHERE DOES THE MONEY GO? MORE TOWN LEADERS ELECTED 



Household Accounts Tell Interesting 



Story 



"Money talks," is a common saying. 

 Money goes, is a common fact. That is 

 the most common failing of a dollar bill. 

 We are sometimes a little more content if 

 we know where the inoney goes. House- 

 hold accounts are a sure index to the out- 

 lets of the household budget. They tell 

 you where they are and how much goes 

 through each opening. 



Several women in the county are inter- 

 ested in keeping account of the daily ex- 

 penditure of money from the home. From 

 this time on, the account pamphlets will 

 be supplied by the Massachusetts Agricul- 

 tural College for a small sum. Those in- 

 terested in keeping same may apply to the 

 Farm Bureau. 



The following women are keeping ac- 

 counts at present : 



Mrs. D. C. Randall, Belchertown 

 H. F. Peck, 

 H. W. Conkey, 

 Henry Witt, 



Mrs. D. B. Bardwell, 



Mrs. M. A. Hinds. 



Mrs. E. F. Munsell, 



Mrs. G. D. Blackmer, 



Miss M. E. Bardwell, 



Mrs. Frank Chaffee, Enfield 



Mrs. Ralph Bell, Middlefield 



Mra. Edward Searle, Southampton 



Mrs. J. W. Higgins, " 



Mrs. W. S. Lyman, " 



Mrs. Robert Spier, " 



Mrs. C. R. Kendall, 



Mrs. E. I. Hutchinson " 



Mrs. 

 Mrs. 

 Mrs. 



BELCHERTOWN 



Leader in 'Homemaking, Mrs. Henry 

 Witt ; Clothing Group, Mrs. A. R. Redder. 



PLAINFIELD 



Leader in Homemaking, Mrs. Ralph 

 Rice ; Household Management, Mrs. N. K. 

 Lincoln ; Clothing, Mrs. George Rice ; 

 Health, (tooth brushing), Mrs. Leon Burt. 



HADLEY 



Leader in Homemaking, 'Mrs. J. P. 

 Reed. 



SOUTH HADLEY 



Leader in Homemaking, Mrs. A. W. 

 Bailey; Study Group Leader. Mrs. A. W. 

 Bailey. 



EASTHAMPTON 



Leader in Homemaking, Mrs. Seelye 

 Hitchcock. 



WORTHINGTON 



Leader in Homemaking, Mrs. Arlin Cole ; 

 Household Management, Mrs. Fred Fair- 

 man ; Clothing, Mrs. Howard Johnson ; 

 Warm Lunch, Mrs. Herbert Porter. 



Leader in Homemaking, none. 

 Clothing Group, Miss Dora Foley. 



CUMMINGTON 



Leader in Homemaking, Mrs. Fred 

 Giles ; Clothing Group, Mrs. Fred Giles ; 

 Mouth Hygiene, Mrs. A. H. Streeter. 



GRANBY 



Leader in Homemaking, none. 

 Mouth Hygiene, Mrs. Fiske. Mrs. Gray. 



COUNTY COMMITTTE ORGANIZES 



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At the meeting of the women's county 

 ■committee on Homemaking, January 6, 

 Mrs. Clifton Johnson was elected county 

 leader on the Clothing project, Mrs. Thad- 

 deus Graves on Household Management, 

 Mrs. B. B. Hinckley on Health, and Mrs. 

 J. W. Parsons on Food. 



The regular committee meetings will be 

 held in April, July and October, on the 

 first Monday. The County project leaders 

 plan to confer regularly with the Home 

 Demonstration Agent. 



Farmers' Bulletin No. 91.3, entitled 

 "Killing Hogs and Curing Pork," will be 

 of value to housewives who are fortunate 

 enough to have a quantity of pork prod- 

 ucts to preserve for the winter's use. 

 This bulletin gives information on brining, 

 salting, smoking and pickling pork, render- 

 ing lard, making sausage and head cheese' 

 The Home Demonstration Agent has a 

 limited supply of these bulletins and will 

 be glad to send you one. 



Good reports are coming in from Am- 

 herst from women who are using the 

 home-made fireless cooker. Gas bills are 

 being cut down and the flavor of dishes 

 improved. 



Miss Ayer of the State Department of 

 Health, Mrs. B. B. Hinckley and the 

 Home Demonstration Agent conferred on 

 the Health project for the county. The 

 warm school lunch, use of milk, child 

 feeding, tooth brushing and hygiene will 

 be the subjects particularly stressed this 

 year. 



Now that there is a surplus of milk in 

 some localities why not have a demonstra- 

 tion of the practical uses of it? Miss 

 Belcher of the Massachusetts Agricultural 

 College is ready to meet groups. 



Clothing groups in Huntington, Belcher- 

 town, Enfield and Worthington are being 

 met regularly by the Home Demonstration 

 Agent. 



MILK 



The food value of milk is such that Mc- 

 Collum, the most advanced authority on 

 the subject, says : 



" I only wish to point out the fact, which 

 rests upon sound experimental evidence, 

 that milk is an indispensable article of the 

 diet of any people who wish to achieve ; 

 that milk production cannot rest upon a 

 philanthropic basis, but must be a paying 

 industry. I want to emphasize that the 

 public must allow the price of milk to ad- 

 vance, so that the industry is profitable to 

 the dairyman. Milk is worth much more 

 than its energy value or its protein content 

 would indicate. It is the great factor of 

 safety in making good the deficiencies of 

 the grains which form and which must 

 continue to form the principal source of 

 energy in our diet. Without the continued 

 use of milk, not only for the feeding of 

 our children, but in liberal amounts in 

 cookery and as an adjuvant to our diet, we 

 cannot as a nation maintain the position as 

 a world power to which we have arisen." 



Dr. F. A. Woods, Chairman of Maryland 

 Council of Defense, says : 



"In the consideration of the food value 

 of milk, the very best authority may be 

 quoted to show that not only is milk our 

 most important article of food, but that it 

 is, at current prices, by far the cheapest 

 animal food attainable, is one of the cheap- 

 est sources of protein, or body-building 

 material, and is a cheaper source of energy 

 than is any staple food, except the cereals. 

 Milk contains calcium, phosphorus and 

 other mineral elements needed by the 

 growing body in the most available form ; 

 milk furnishes the fat needed in human 

 nutrition in the most assimilable form : 

 milk contains both of the newly discovered 

 so-called 'fat-soluble' and 'water-soluble' 

 factors necessary to normal growth. Al- 

 together, milk, more than any other food, 

 combines most completely, and in most 

 available form, at the lowest cost, all the 

 elements needed to promote growth and 

 sustain the human body. Milk has abso- 

 lutely no substitute for growing children. 

 It deserves to rank, therefore, as our most 

 important and necessary food." 



H. C. Sherman, in "Food Products", 

 says : 



"Even such comparisons fail to do jus- 

 tice to the true nutritive value of milk, 

 which is largely due to the peculiar nature 

 of its constituents." 



Flora Rose, of Cornell University, says : 



"With all the evidence in, no food bears 

 the investigation of nutritive properties 

 better than does milk. It is impossible to 

 escape the conviction that not only is it a 

 cheap food, but it is a food whose value 

 can hardly be estimated in dollars and 

 cents." 



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