HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARM BUREAU MONTHLY 

 HAMPSHIRE: COUNTY CL_UB WORK 



"IF YOU DON'T STAND UP AND SAY IT, 



WE WON'T WRITE IT ON THE BOARD' 



That's the way the youthful president of the Victory Sewing Circle of West- 

 hampton landed on a club member who mumbled her ideas from her seat. 



The club had just elected its officers, and was choosing a club name. One mem- 

 ber failed to rise and address the chair when making her suggestion for a club name. 

 The president called her to order, she didn't stand up, and her idea was not written 

 on the board. 



Home Economics Club members get more out of club work than just learning 

 to sew. The club meetings are conducted under simple parliamentary procedure, 

 and members learn how to express themselves. If they have an idea to convey, if 

 it's worth saying, it's worth saying right. They learn to talk on their feet. This 

 club president has the right idea. Her name is Helen Crowley. 



MILDRED \McKEMMIE 



WINS TRIP TO COLLEGE 



Canning Club Prizes Awarded 



Mildi'ed McKemmie of South Amherst 

 has been chosen as the winner in the County 

 Canning Club. The work of this girl has 

 been of very high grade, and her trip to the 

 college next summer has been earned. Her 

 score was 93.34. 



Miss Frances Martin, also of Amherst, 

 has won second prize in the County Contest. 



POULTRY CLUB 



SOUTH HADLEY BOY WINS 



RAISES BEST PIG 



Swift River Boy Second 



Horace Brockway, Jr., of South Hadley 

 has been picked the winner in the County 

 Pig Club. His pig. Curly, made an average 

 daily gain of 1.6 pounds. He gained 310 

 pounds during the season at a cost of 13.6 

 cents. 



Horace's story, short, but to the point, 

 throws some interesting sidelights on the 

 enterprise. 



About the middle of April Mr. Gould and 

 Mr. Rand came to school and told about 

 the various clubs. I decided to join the 

 Pig Club. May 1, I bought my pig. He 

 weighed 33 pounds and was six weeks old. 

 I agreed to pay eight dollars for him. June 

 1, when the club work began, he weighed 

 45 pounds. I named him Curly. In about 

 four days he was sick. When I found out 

 what the matter was and how to cure him 

 I did. 1 fed him oil meal and salts with 

 his regular feed of Red Dog and skim milk 

 to cure him. He gradually got better. 

 In three weeks he was all well and hasn't 

 had a sick day since. Curly was put into 

 pasture July 8. While there, I changed 

 his feed to Schumaker and wheat feed be- 

 cause I couldn't get Red Dog. As soon as 

 sweet corn came I fed him ten ears a day. 

 Curly began to eat chickens and we couldn't 

 afford two chickens a day ; so we put him 

 in the barn. I began feeding Curly my 

 own corn when he got in the barn. I 

 weighed him November 30. He weighed 

 350 pounds. 



I fed him : 



131 pounds Red Dog $4.59 



100 pounds Oil Meal 3.50 



144 pounds Schumaker 4.03 



81 pounds Wheat Feed 1.94 



69 pounds Corn and Oats 2.38 



800 quarts milk 24.00 



1 pig 8.00 



$48.44 



Herman Barnes of Swift River came sec- 

 ond with a Duroc pig which gained 280 

 pounds or 1.6 for a daily average. His 

 cost per pound was 16 cents. His story 

 Cuucludecl on page 5 



PROF. FARLEY TO MEET LEADERS 



Will Help Organize County 



Professor George L. Farley, State Lead- 

 er of Junior Extension Work, will spend 

 the week of February 17 in Hampshire 

 County, working with Town Leaders. 



Professor Farley and the County Leader 

 expect to visit every Town Leader and 

 make definite plans for carrying on club 

 work in each town. Professor Farley's 

 experience in club work will be of great 

 value to the new leaders. After they have 

 absorbed some of his boundless enthusiasm 

 they will have a much clearer conception 

 of their job. 



The problems in each town will be care- 

 fully analyzed and a year's program of 

 work mapped out. The County Committee 

 on Club Work will meet Professor Farley 

 at a later date, when plans for the county 

 will be established. 



Town leaders for club work have recently 

 been elected as follows : 



Plainfield— Ralph Rice. 



Belchertown— Addison R. Kidder. 



Hadley-E. J. Burke. 



Worthington— Miss Alice Bartlett. 



Cummington — Rollin Bates. 



Southampton — Edward Stone. 



DISCUSSES PROBLEMS 



The members of the Hadley Poultry Club 

 met January 10, and discussed many fine 

 points of the poultry business with State 

 Leader Dean. 



Mongrels vs. pure bred birds is the con- 

 test in which members of the club are in- 

 terested. The boys having pure breds are 

 confident they will get more eggs during 

 the winter than the boys keeping mongrels. 



Officers were elected as follows : Presi- 

 dent, Joseph Szafer ; Secretary, Harold 

 Pelissier. 



The Spirit That Wins 



The following letter by Miss Cordie Allen 

 of Lithia is typical of the spirit of Hamp- 

 shire County Home Economics Club mem- 

 bers : 



Lithia, Mass., Jan. 12, 1919. 

 Mr. Gould : 



Dear Sir : — I received a letter from Mrs. 

 Bissell asking me to join the club. I also- 

 received yours. I will join it and do the 

 best I can. As I have no mother and nO' 

 one to show me, I will do the best I can. 

 I will be twelve next month. 

 Yours truly, 



Cordie Allen, 



Lithia, Mass. 



BANNERS ARE POPULAR 



Club Members Determined to Win Them 



Hampshire County Home Economics Clubs are all in favor of being banner clubs 

 From one endjof the county to the other there is a strong determination to bring 

 more of these emblems into the county. Local club officers who are assisting the 

 leaders to make their clubs successful have been elected as follows : 



TOWN 

 So. Amherst 

 Belchertown 

 Enfield 

 Enfield 

 Goshen 



Greenwich 



Russellville 

 Southampton 



Ware 



Westhampton 



So. Worthington 



PKES. 

 Agnes Dorsey 

 Alice Randall 

 Mary Duifee 

 Irene Menard 

 Dorothy Bissel 



S. Churchill 



V. PRES. SEC. 



Kathleen King Francis Shaw 



R. Randall 



Ruth Wells 

 E. Hathaway 



Edith Lyman 



B. Haesaert 

 Doris Baldus 

 Alice Young 

 J. Hathaway 



Rachel Twible 



Evelyn Pease Gertrude Tyler Elsie Quigley 

 J. Wood Edith Morriss K. Sibley 



Helen Crowley Lila Atwood K. Crowley 

 G. Witherell Evelyn Stetson Maude Giltrop 



LEADER 



Cora Hewlett 

 Mrs. D. C. Randall 

 Florence Johnson 

 Dora Foley 

 Mrs. H. H. Bissell 

 Mrs. H. H. Dickenson 

 Mrs. Lilla Bishop 

 B. Agnes Ryan 

 Helena Klopfenstein 

 Mrs. H. H. Sibley 

 Mrs. W. N. Howard 

 Mrs. F. Bridgman 

 Alice Bartlett 

 Mrs. Arlin Cole 



