HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARM BUREAU MONTHLY 



Hampshire: county club work 



ARE HAMPSHIRE COUNTY BOYS 

 AND GIRLS INTERESTED 



IN CLUB WORK? 



Here' is a letter which one of our club 



members wrote, which will 



speak for itself 



Cummington, Mass. 



Nov. 17, 1919. 



Dear Members of the Boys and Girls 

 Clubs: 



"I wanted to come to the Farm Bureau 

 Meeting, but I have to go to school. I 

 thought the next best thing I could do 

 virould be to write a short letter. 



"I don't know how we ever got along 

 before we had the clubs, but we certainly 

 have nice times now. 



"My sister and cousins were in the 

 canning club and had trips to Amherst 

 as prizes. 



"I can't boast of such trips, but I took 

 fourth prize at the Eastern States Ex- 

 position for potatoes this year and got a 

 beautiful medal, also a second medal for 

 my Shorthorn calf that spent the week 

 there. 



"I got a second prize of fourteen dol- 

 lars and a nice letter from. Mr. Harwood 

 of the State Department of Agriculture 

 which I think as much of as the prize, and 

 a lovely certificate signed by Wilfred 

 Wheeler, Commissioner. 



"Every boy and girl ought to be in one 

 of these clubs. I like the live stock best, 

 but there is the Canning Club and the 

 Home Economics which I was in two 

 years. I learned to make bread and all 

 other kinds of cooking which I love to do. 

 Last year, mama went on a vacation and 

 I did the cooking. My sister did the 

 house work. 



"Never mind it if you don't win a 

 prize — stick to it. 



"Do the work yourself — don't have 

 your father, mother, or hired help do it, 

 because in doing the work yourself is 

 where you get more benefit than from 

 the prizes. 



"There is always the visits from the 

 leaders, Mr. Howe, Mr. MacDougall, and 

 others which are to be looked forward to." 

 From a Club Member, 



Fayolyn G. Streeter, 



Age 13 years. 



Silvermine 



"I bought a pig, it was red and black, 

 A curly tail and a nice broad back. 

 Her legs were straight and strong 

 Her face was broad and her ears were 



long 

 I named my piggy, 'Silvermine' 

 For my pocket she might line." 

 Nettie Thompson 



South Hadley 



Age 10 years 



THE STORY OF "CURLY" 



On the front page is the picture of 

 Alice Fairman of Cummington, who 

 told the story of her pig at the Annual 

 Meeting. Are you • interested in her 

 "^tory? Here it is, as she wrote it for 

 the club leader. 



"I bought my pig with the money that 

 I got at the fair last year on canning, 

 cooking and sewing. 



I One night when he was small, he bit 

 1 my puppy's tail while he was waiting for 

 his supper. 



One Sunday morning just as we were 

 starting for Springfield he got out of his 

 pen and we had to leave him in the bai-n. 



He can get out any time. All he has 

 to do is to put his nose under the end of 

 the pen and raise it up. 



The fiist of June he weighed SO pounds 

 and was six weeks old. 



The nineteenth of September he 

 weighed 155 pounds. 



At first we weighed him in a hen crate 

 uath wire on it and one night just as we 

 put him on the scales he stuck his nose 

 through the wire and walked out, but he 

 stopped under the first apple tree and I 

 went I'ight up to him. 



Curly has been in pasture most of the 

 time and has had rape since the fifteenth 

 of July. He has had sweet apples and 

 some sweet corn which I planted to save 

 buying grain for him. If I mi.x my grain 

 too dry it makes him mad, and he tips 

 it over and spills it all. 



If you stick your foot through his pen 

 he will bite it, but I get right inside the 

 pen with him and give him a bath in 

 warm water and rinse him off with cold 

 water. I give him something to eat so 

 he will stand still. 



The other day we had to put him in a 

 larger pen so he would get more exercise; 

 he was getting fat and lazy. 



I entered him at Cummington Fair 

 where he won the first prize which was 

 $5.00. On account of my good looking 

 pig, Mr. MacDougall invited me to attend 

 the Annual Meeting of the Farm Bureau 

 and tell the farmers how I had raised my 



pig. 



The first day of December before we 

 killed him, mother took a picture of 

 Curly and I together. That morning he 

 weighed 280 pounds. 



December 1, pork was $17.00 a hundred 

 so I cut my pig up and peddled him out, 

 so in that way he brought $25.00 a hun- 

 dred. 



Alice Fairman 



Cummington, Mass. 



FOOD RULES FOR 



SCHOOL CHILDREN 



1. Begin the day by drinking a glass of 

 water and drink at least six glasses dur- 

 ing the day. 



2. Do not go to school without break- 

 fast. 



3. Eat regularly three times a day. 



4. Eat slowly and chew all food well. 



5. Drink milk every day — four glasses 

 are not too much. 



6. Eat some breakfast cereal every day. 



7. Eat some vegetables besides potato 

 every day. 



8. Eat bread and butter every meal; 

 dark breads are best. 



9. Eat some fruit every day. Spend 

 the pennies for apples instead of candy. 



10. Do not eat candy between meals ; 

 eat candy and other sweets only at the 

 end of a regular meal. 



11. Do not drink tea or coffee; it does 

 the body no good but does do it harm. 



12. Do not eat or touch any food with- 

 out first washing the hands. 



13. Do not eat fruit without first wash- 

 ing it. 



14. Do not eat with a spoon or folk 

 which has been used by any other person 

 without first washing it. 



15. Do not drink from a glass or cup 

 which has been used by another person 

 without washing it. 



16. Do not eat from the same dish with 

 any other person. 



A. W. SANDWALL 



JUNIOR CLUBS 



Canning club exhibits were judged in 

 Huntington, Westhampton, Williamsburg 

 and Enfield last month. This completed 

 the exhibits of the 16 clubs formed last 

 June. 



ECHOES FROM THE CLUB 



LEADERS' CONFERENCE 



If there is enough interest shown, a 

 Sheep Club may be formed. A member 

 will start with three bred ewes. 



We hope there will be some "Mother 

 and Daughter" clubs formed. In this, a 

 girl and her mother or some other person 

 work together as a unite in the club. 

 This makes it very interesting, because 

 each can help the other. 



The Garden Club this year will be for 

 plots 500 square feet or over. This will 

 enable more work, on less ground, and 

 hence a better garden. 



The Home Economics clubs are just 

 starting for 1920. Some new features 

 are planned, such as care of clothing, 

 laundrying, storage of clothing, and 

 pressing. 



