HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARM BUREAU MONTHLY 



HAMPSHIRE: COUNTY CLUB WORK 



MAKE MONEY ON TWENTIETH ' 

 ACRE OF ONIONS 



North Amherst Boy Clears $25 



Walter Jones, age 9, of North Amherst 

 is the first boy in the Hampshire County 

 Onion club to finish his project, and win 

 his bronze medal. In fact, he is the first 

 onion club member in the State to come 

 through with the project. Incidentally 

 he can show a fine profit. 



Walter became interested in the onion 

 club through hearing the County Leader 

 tell about it at school last spring. So 

 as soon as the land was ready he staked 

 off 1-20 of an acre and planted it to sets. 

 Then he began to keep records on the 

 crops. And if every farmer would keep 

 records as accurately as those records on 

 the onion project were kept-well, farmers 

 would know lots more about their busi- 

 ness. 



Walter sold his crop to a Commission 

 man in Boston and made a net profit of 

 $25.20. 



NORTHAMPTON FAIR APPROACHING 



Youth's Department Interests Young 

 Folks 



The Youth's Department of the Three 

 County Fair is to be the best ever. More 

 and better premiums are oflFered the 

 young people. Any boy or girl is allowed 

 to compete, whether club members or not. 

 All who can show any article made or 

 grown by them should not keep it at 

 home the first three days in October. 

 Bring it to the Fair. 



School and town exhibits of vegetables 

 and manual arts are to be featured and 

 there can be no better way of showing 

 the collective efforts of the school child- 

 ren than by entering this contest. 



MOTION PICTURES START 



GIRL IN PIG CLUB 



Little Miss Alice Fairman, aged 10, 

 of Worthington, has become an enthusi- 

 astic Pig Club member, and all because 

 Mr. V. A. Rice, State Pig Club Agent, 

 came to Worthington one evening with 

 his motion picture machine. 



One raw April evening the people of 

 Worthington had a community supper. 

 The town fathers were there, so were the 

 school children, the local club leaders, 

 parents and guaidians; the County Lea- 

 der brought Mr. Farley and Mr. Rice, 

 and Alice Fairman and her parents were 

 there too. 



After supper, Mr. Farley told all about 

 club work. The Home Economics Club 

 gave a demonstration, sang its songs and 

 gave its yell. Then came Mr. Rice; he 

 didn't say anything, just showed those 

 wonderful Pig Club films, while the 

 County Leader told what the diff'erent 

 scenes meant. Everyone went home 

 good natured. 



Next May the County Leader was boil- 

 ing his Ford up the hill from West 

 Worthington, when one of the men work- 

 ing in the road, dropped his shovel, and 

 shouted : 



"Hey there!" 



"Hello, Mr. Fairman," said the County 

 Leader, "road torn up ahead?" 



"No, but say, got any of those cards 

 you were talking about the other night? 

 You've started something up my way. 

 My daughter's been talking pigs ever 

 since that movie show you fellows put 

 on." 



"Yes, sure, wait a minute," and the 

 County Leader dove down into the depths 

 of his brown bag, which is filled with 

 enrollment cards, rape seed, primers, etc., 

 and gave him a card. 



"I got her a pure bred Berkshire. 

 She's crazy about earning some money, 

 and what she gets from him she is going 

 to put in the bank. Come up to the 

 house some day." 



"Sure, I'll be glad to," and the Ford 

 resumed its boiling. 



Two months later, the County Leader 

 went to Alice's home. She lives about 

 three miles from town over towards Cum- 

 mington, in fact, so close to Cummington 

 that it is hard to tell which town she be- 

 longs to. 



The club member lead the County Lea- 

 der up the hill in back of the house, and 

 there was a Pig Club project for any girl 

 to be proud of — movable pen, rape field, 

 mineral mixture, fine pig, and an enthusi- 

 astic pig club member, and what is more, 

 some genuinely interested parents. 



"My pig has gained most a pound and 

 a half a day since June 1," volunteered 

 Alice. "I've got all my feed records, but 

 I can't add 'em up right the fir.st time 

 myself, but mother helps me." 



"I'm going to take him to the Cum- 

 mington Fair, like the boy did in the 

 movies." 



Those movies had made their impre.s- 

 sion. 



On the way to town the County Leader 

 met the man who sold her the pig. 



"I've just seen one of your pigs that's 

 been doing a pound and a half a day 

 since you sold it," commented the Leader. 



"That so, who is that?" 



"Little Alice Fairman, up the road 

 here." 



"Well, 1 want to know, I remember 

 now the sow he came from. Well, he 

 was a good pig, he ought to do well." 



HAMPSHIRE COUNTY AT THE 



EASTERN STATES 



Club Members to Exhibit and 

 Demonstrate 



Massachusetts is trying its best to up- 

 hold its end at the Eastern States Ex- 

 position, and Hampshire County has been 

 assigned its pait. 



Evelyn and Fayolyn Streeter of the 

 Cummington calf club will be present at 

 Camp Vail and will exhibit their Short- 

 horn calves in the big club pageant. 



Some club members from Belchertown 

 will send some bread and canning ex- 

 hibits. 



Irving Clapp of Noithampton, and 

 Kathleen and Horace Brockway of South 

 Hadley will exhibit their fat hogs which 

 they have raised in the pig club. These 

 pigs are fine animals, and should help 

 the awards in the class to come Massa- 

 chusetts way. 



Hadley club members will be in evi- 

 dence as usual. Frank Bilski, James 

 Lehane and Henry Kokoski, will repre- 

 sent the State in the Inter State Com 

 Demonstration contest. Hadley corn, 

 potato, and poultry club members will 

 also have exhibits of their product on 

 hand. 



CANNING CLUB EXHIBITS 



Members of the Junior Canning Clubs 

 in Ware, Waretovim and Easthampton; 

 have exhibited their canned fruits and 

 vegetables which were judged by the 

 Home Demonstration Agent. 



At the Ware Fair, approximately Iff 

 jars were attractively arranged in a 

 booth in the exhibition hall. The club 

 prize winners were: 



Marion Sloat, Waretown, first prize. 



Lurelene Sumners, Waretown, second' 

 prize. 



Rachel Cummings, Waretown, third 

 prize. 



Pauline Dillion, Ware, first prize. 



Ethel Wein, Ware, second prize. 



Julia Gurka, Ware, third prize. 



Prizes of money were given to those 

 exhibiting the best individual jars of 

 certain fruits and vegetables. 



In Easthampton, the exhibit was held 

 in the Town Hall, along with the garden 

 exhibit. Victoria Niemiec scored the 

 highest. Amy Oberempt won second, and 

 Lillian Ferry, third. Money prizes, .$1.00 

 75f and .50f were given the winners. 



Four of the five girls in Easthampton 

 told the Home Demonstration Agent that 

 they had shown their mothers how to can 

 "the new way." 



