HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARM BUREAU MONTHLY 

 HAMPSHIRE COUNTY CLUB WORK 



BELCHERTOWN AND 



SOUTHAMPTON GIRLS WIN 



Home Economics Awards Announced 



Miss Blanch Haesaert of the Blue 

 Meadow Home Economics Club of Belch- 

 ertown has won the first prize in the 

 county bread club, with a score of 94.45, 

 and Miss Dorothy Bissell of Goshen 

 comes second with a score of 94.15. 



Some very good scores were made and 

 they were very close, as the following 

 schedule shows: 



Beatrice Smith, Greenwich 94. 



Beatrice Hutchinson, Southampton 93.11 

 Maude Giltrop, Worthington 92.65 



Mary Duffy, Enfield 92.20 



Thelma Dickinson, Greenwich 92.15 



Elsie Quigley, Southampton 92.45 



The first premium in the sewing club 

 goes to Evelyn Pease of Southampton 

 whose .score was 90.4. Miss Kathleen 

 Sibley of Ware came second with 89. 

 Other high scores were as follows: 

 Alice Eandall, Belchertown 85.65 



Josephine Hathaway, Goshen 85.35 



Rachael Twible, Greenwich 83.95 



Rachael Randall, Belchertown 83.80 



The camp trip to Amherst is in store 

 for these girls this summer. 



FEED PIG FOR GROWTH 



NOT SIMPLY FOR FAT 



Is your .June feed record complete and 

 entered in your r«;ord book? Here's a 

 sample .June feed record: — 



MONTH OF JUNE 



Name of Feed Qts. Lbs. 



Milk 60 



Garbage or waste 30 



Middlings 30 



Tankage 6 



Oats (ground) 30 



Number of days that pig was on pas- 

 ture or that you cut green food and fed 

 in pen. 



.June 20 days 



Enter your .June record, neatly filling 

 in the names of grains you have been 

 using and the amounts fed. 



Feed your pig generously: early 

 growth is always cheap growth. If you 

 stunt him while young, he will never 

 recover from the eff'ects. 



Feed materials which will make him 

 grotr, not make him fnt. Don't feed 

 much corn but do feed plenty of milk, 

 middlings, ground oats, tankage and pas- 

 ture. Pigs always do better on a variety 

 of feeds than on any one feed. 



The meanest person on earth is the 

 person who is cruel to dumb animals. 

 Did it ever occur to you that failure to 



MORE ABOUT CLUBS 



FOR THE WOMEN 



.Just a chat with the mothers of the 

 girls who are in club work this summer. 

 Perhaps a local leader has consented to 

 give her time and interest in the work in 

 your community. Of course she is anx- 

 ious to make it a success and she is going 

 to, but how much it will mean to her if 

 she has the co-operation of the mother.? — 

 if she is sure that mother is perfectly 

 willing that Mary come into the kitchen 

 and do her canning. It's hard, no doubt, 

 to have Mary "fussing around the kitch- 

 en," especially in hot weather — it's so 

 much easier "for me to do that myself" — 

 haven't you often heard that statement — 

 but, dear mother.s, be martyrs if neces- 

 sary, for think how much it means to the 

 children when they look at those jars of 

 fruits and vegetables and know that 

 I their summer has been well spent. "Dig- 

 I ging in the garden or standing over a 

 stove in .July, is no picnic," says one little 

 club girl, but I am glad I became a Can- 

 ning club member, for by the work I 

 have been enabled to earn quite a little 

 money and have had a good time with 

 the other club members." 



And don't forget the boys, too. Wouldn't 

 it have meant a great deal to you, older 

 folks, if when children you could have 

 a pig that was all your own, and wouldn't 

 it have been fun to see if your pig 

 couldn't be the best one in town! Club 

 work is making the boy or girl more in- 

 terested in the farm, and everyone»agrees 

 that is a good thing. 



LITHIA BOYS WIN SOW 



AND LITTER CONTEST 



Luther Beals and Charles Sears Earn 

 County Prizes 



The Camp Trip to the Massachusetts 

 Agricultural College has been won by 

 Luther Beals of Lithia, who did the best 

 work in the Sow and Litter Contest. 

 His score was 98, and was based upon 

 the quality of the sow and litter, the 

 numbers of pigs raised, the record and 

 the story. Luther has been in the pig 

 club every year for the last three years 

 and has come out on top. He started in 

 with a pig he purchased locally and did 

 not make much the first year, except to 

 make up his mind that he wanted pure- 

 bred for the next year. 



The County Leader got him two pure- 

 bred sows, one of which gave him the 

 litter that earned the prize. Luther says 

 he sold all his pigs for $7.50, and could 

 have sold twenty more if he had them. 



Charles Sears, the most versatile club 

 member in the County, after trying 

 Canning, Home Economics, Pig, and Sow 

 and Litter contests has been awarded 

 the second premium. His score was 97. 



Freddie Field of Goshen came third. 

 , Other boys who finished with good 

 scores were : Roy Packard and Freddie 

 Field of Goshen, Winthrop Kellogg of 

 Amherst and Raymond Vollinger of 

 North Farms, Merton Smith of Amherst. 



provide a pig with good feed, clean 

 water, a clean house and pen, and .shade 

 in summer, was one form of cruelty? 



Attend your club meetings faithfully. 

 The success of a club depends on whether 

 or not it is made up of good live mem- 

 bers. Is your club successful? 



Those of you who grow the best pigs 

 will be asked to exhibit them at the Fairs 

 in the fall where attractive prizes will 

 be awarded. Only the best pigs go to 

 the Fairs and only those owned by boys 

 and girls who keep complete records. 



For maximum growth rape should be 

 cultivated while small. Do not pull rape 

 plants up by the roots except where nec- 

 essary to thin the plants to a good stand. 

 Teach pig to eat rape while he is young. 

 (See Primer). 



If you want to win, you have got to 

 know a little more than the other fellow. 

 "Knowledge is Power." You get knowl- 

 edge by digging for it in your Primer 

 and other bulletins and by asking ques- 

 tions of your County Club Leader at 

 your club meetings. — V. A . Rice. 



ENTERS FIVE PIGS 



IN FEEDING CONTEST 



Lithia Boy Determined He'll Succeed 



Charles Sears of Lithia has just fin- 

 ished his sow and litter contest and in- 

 stead of (Selling the young pigs, has 

 determined to raise them all himself and 

 give the people at Brightwood a little 

 extra work next winter. 



The pigs are Chester Yorkshire Cross 

 and are good animals, that give promise 

 of making quick gains. The young pigs 

 are called Case Tractors by the owner. 

 The mother was given the name Case 

 Tractor because she used to plow 'up 

 everything in sight, so the name has 

 been visited upon the younger generation. 



CALF CLUB MEMBERS 



MAY ENTER THIS CONTEST 



Members of the County Calf Clubs are 

 eligible to enter this conte.st offered by 

 the State Department of Agriculture. 

 Entry blanks may be obtained from the 

 Farm Bureau or State Department at 

 Boston. .$2,500 is offered in prizes in 

 fifteen different classes. 



