Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-03-17
SCHOOL CLUB ACTIVITIES.
Meetings of Various Branches of Home
and Industrial League-Tasker Tells
How to Raise Poultry.

The Camera club met with its lead
er, Miss Eddy, in the high school lab
oratory Tuesday, March l. H. NJ. Wood
gave an interesting talk on GLOW to
Take Good Snapshots -
The Vegetable club met Monday,
March 6. Mr.. Sweeton, county agent,
gave talk on the tomato plant and
demonstrated methods of planting seeds
and transplanting the young plants.
One member of the club reported toma
to plants two inches high.
The Potato club met Tuesday, March
I, with +. b. Smith.
At the last meeting of the Cultivated
Flower club, Mrs. Frank w. Pier spolc
to the members on selecting their pos
of ground, preparing and fertili2ing il.
etc. She told them of the necessity of
selecting reliable firms from which to
buy seeds. She told them how to plant
and transplant their flowers.
The Sewing club will have meet
ing March 81, at 3.45 p. m. Mrs. f. l.
Swift will speak
Each school will have meeting 81
the Cooking club in its building to-
day, March II. The classes will have
their demonstrations Saturday, March
is. Mrs. II. C. Rice, Mrs. C. Hamilton
and Mrs. Frank w. Pier are three Of
the mothers who gave demonstrations
to groups of girls from the Cooking
club and were very much interested in
it.
Cook county, Illinois, offered silver
cup to the girls and boys of that coun-
ty for producing the largest profit from
gardening. Alma Kutz won this prize,
her profit being $3.50.
A meeting of the Poultry club
was held Monday evening, Feb. %,
with 10 members present. Reports given
by the boys to show the egg production
of their flocks showed that Murray
Gould and Clyde Haskell had the best
records. Their averages were above 60
per cent. Mr.. Tasker gave q practical,
helpful talk to the boys Among other
suggestions were the following: Poul-
try culture is the most important
branch of agriculture in point of the
profits. Too much glass in the
henhouse makes extreme temperature.
In the daytime the glass attracts heat
making the henhouse too warm. At
night the glass gives off heat, and 'tKe
house becomes very cold. Mediterranean
breeds, such as the Leghorn, are for
laying, not for market. Asiatic breeds,
such as Brahma, are especially for
market American breeds, such as
Rhode Island Red, combine the two
Do not feed spoiled garbage to the
hens, since it causes very bad dis
ease. Feed hens green stuff. Give the
fowls a chance to dust themselves. This
will keep down the lice. Keep the house
clean. In general, begin
ners are advised to buy hens and set
their own eggs.
This club is soon to have a chicken
raising and egg-laying contest, the
rules of which have been drawn up.
The points of the ehickenraising con
test are as follows:
l. Largest per cent of eggs Matched,
2. Largest per cent of ,hsalrhy chicks
Matched, living 100 days after being
hatched, 40.
3. Largest average weight of chicks
living 100 days after Matching, 10.
i. Best expense record, 90.
.. Best written account, not over
500 words, telling how chicks were
Matched and reared, 10.
Points for egg-laying contest are rs
follows:
l. Average egg production, 40
2. Net profits, 80.
8. Best expense record, IS.
4. Best written account, not over
500 words, telling how fowls were fed
for egg production, IS.
Since this club began, Clyde Haskell
has reported two unusually large eggs,
the first measuring eight inches by six
and one-fourth inches, and the other
eight inches by six and three-ei gifts
inches.