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HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARMERS' MONTHLY 



materially richer in protein. Soil is pre- 

 ferable to pure cultures. 



The method is simple. Screen the 

 trash and pebbles out of the inoculating 

 soil and when you are ready to plant wet 

 it up into a soupy mud. Then, each time 

 you fill the seed hopper, stir in mud 

 enough to make every seed dirty but not 

 enough to clog the planter. 



If you decide to plant in rows wide 

 enough to cultivate (which, after all, may 

 be advisable on heavy land or very weedy 

 land) you will require less than a bushel 

 of seed per acre, in which case the total 

 yield can be increased somewhat by 

 broadcasting ten pounds of Japanese mil- 

 let per acre just before the last cultiva- 

 tion. With thicker planting, or in a very 

 dry year, the millet is not likely to 

 amount to much. In any event, it never 

 should be sown until the beans have a 

 start of three to five inches. 



Plant early if possible. Otherwise 

 haying the crop will interfere with silo 

 filling. Cut as soon as the pods begin to 

 form. Half grown seeds do not cure out 

 well. 



And watch out for wood chucks early 

 in the season. A chuck with a just 

 ordinary appetite will eat a quarter of 

 an acre of soy beans off as fast as they 

 grow, if he gets a start while the beans 

 are small. Later it doesn't matter so 

 much, though the writer would not go so 

 far as to claim that either wood chucks, 



rabbits or deer are really beneficial to 

 soy beans at any stage of growth. 



CONTROL OFORCHARD PESTS 



No fruit grower should be satisfied 

 with his spray program unless he is se- 

 curing at lea.st 85% unblemished fruit. 

 Better fruit means better spraying. Al- 

 lowance must be made, of course, for un- 

 favorable weather conditions. But in the 

 average season the above percentage 

 should not be difficult to attain. 



Now is the logical time to take an in- 

 ventory of the situation and to find out 

 why our efforts in past seasons have not 

 given best results. Cases might be 

 mentioned where three or four spray ap- 

 plications were made, and yet half of the 

 fruit bore evidence of insect or disease 

 injury. What pests, then are we fail- 

 ing to combat successfully? 



One of the points at which we are most 

 likely to fall down is that the spray 

 material is not applied at the right time. 

 Our aim should be to provide a protective 

 covering at the time the pest is starting 

 to work. Two examples will emphasize 

 this point, — (1) The curculio feeds on 

 the leaves for a few days before it staits 

 to work on the fruit. Obviously then, 

 the time to poison this insect is easily in 

 the season. Arsenate of lead in the 

 "pink" and calyx" sprays will do vastly 

 more good than in any attempt we may 



make later in the season. (2) Scab 

 spores are disseminated before blossom- 

 ing time. A protective covering of lime 

 sulfur as a "pre-pink," and again as a 

 "pink" application will do more to pre- 

 vent scab infection than any amount of 

 later spraying. 



The next most important point in ef- 

 fective spraying is that the job be done 

 thoroughly. As much as 50% difference 

 in control has been noted between or- 



SAVE YOUR CULLS 



Every Community and large or- 

 chard should save the juice from 

 their cull fruit. The Premier 

 Portable Cider Mill is efficient, 

 economical, and durable. Every 

 community should know about it, 



save the trip to a cider mill, 



and have the pomace at home for 

 feed. 



Send for descriptive circular. 



PREMIER CIDER MILL CO. 



New Britain, Ct. 



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YOU NEVER GET MORE OUT OF YOUR FERTILIZER THAN THE 



MANUFACTURER PUTS IN IT! 



Whether it be tobacco or onions, or anything else, your crop grows only in propor- 

 tion to the food you give it. 



For 76 years we have been making fertilizer for the New England farmer on this 

 principle : Build a fertilizer as good as human skill can build it, letting Quality exceed 

 every other consideration. We have an intimate knowledge of New England soil, and 

 New England crops. We know how to combine Plant Food with Land Food. 



It is worth your while to use 



Liberty Brand Fertilizers 



made by 



APOTHECARIES HALL COMPANY 



Factory: East Windsor, Conn. Main Office: Waterbury, Conn. 



MAURICE P. NELLIGAN, Agent 



Phone : Northampton 1820 



P. O. Address : Amherst, Mass. 



