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FARMERS' MONTHLY OF HAMPSHIRE COUNTY 



Alfillfa-corn Seeilinier 



Continued from page 1, column 2 

 the acre, yet it is as good as a lot of 

 other fields that can be seen in less than 

 a day's drive. 



Earle Parsons has five-and-a-half acres 

 of alfalfa in the Northampton meadows 

 planted in the same way. It certainly 

 looks good. The corn the first of August 

 averaged four feet high and the alfalfa 

 had made from twelve to fiften inches 

 growth. 



In Southampton, H. H. Payne has 

 a fine stand of alfalfa sown this year 

 by this same method. The land was 

 sandy and poor, yet the corn is about 

 four feet tall and the alfalfa is coming 

 strong. The above picture shows W. W. 

 Haswell of Easthampton in this corn and 

 alfalfa field. The row of corn on the 

 right was bent over so as to allow the 

 light to get into the alfalfa to take the 

 picture. The stand of corn was as good 

 as it is in the background. The corn and 

 alfalfa were planted on this piece about 

 June 20 and the picture was taken Au- 

 gust 4. 



C. B. Tower of Leeds has two acres of 

 the alfalfa-corn combination sown the 

 same way. The other field is on the Hill- 

 side School at Greenwich. For some rea- 

 son, as yet unexplained, the alfalfa did 

 not start on the latter piece. In other 

 words, four out of five demonstrations 

 have come through right, or fourteen- 

 and-a-half of the sixteen acres sown by 

 this method this spring came through 

 successfully. 



For the men who are short of feed, this 

 method of seeding according to Prof. 

 Abbott will give from two-thirds to three 

 quarters of a corn crop and will insure a 

 stand of alfalfa that will be in fine shape 

 to go through the winter. The corn will 

 be cut as usual for the silo but the al- 

 falfa is neither to be cut nor fed. 



T«»hnofo Grower.s Meet 



Continued from page 1, column 3 

 CO a week or ten days after using the 

 cyanide. 



Dr. Paul Anderson, director of the field 

 station, said that there were two classes 

 of tobacco-sick soils: (1) Those affected 

 with Black Root Rot (2) Those affected 

 with Brown Root Rot. No organism has 

 been found in the latter disease. Experi- 

 ments carried on in Whately showed that 

 increasing the fertilizer on soils afi'ected 

 with Brown Root Rot did no good. It 

 was worse after timothy, corn and clover. 

 After potatoes, tomatoes and onions, 

 there was less trouble. Experiments are 

 still being carried on with this trouble. 

 Regarding "Calico," he advised that dis- 

 eased plants be pulled out and destroyed. 



JUNE POULTRY SUMMARY 



Few flocks kept up to the 160 egg 

 standard which calls for eighteen eggs 

 per bird in .June. Part of this lapse may 

 be attributed to the unseasonably warm 

 weather. The following is a list of the 

 five best flocks in the county. 



Eggs 

 per bird 

 F. D. Steele, Cummington 20.2 



J. M. Lowe, Amherst 19.1 



John Bloom, Ware 19.0 



S. F. Thomas, Amherst 18.3 



H. F. Duncan, Belchertown 16.9 



I'otiito Crop Report 



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N. Dak.) have an acreage 89.1'/? of last 

 year and 81..5';r of their .5-year average. 

 Their July 1 forecast is for a crop 10.S'''o 

 of last year's harvested crop and 79.5% 

 of their 51-year average. 



In the 12 minor late crop states (S. 

 Dak., Neb., Kans., Mont., Wyo., Colo., 

 Ida., Wa.sh., Ore., Calif., Utah and Nev.) 

 acreage is 82.2% of last year and 83.1% 

 of their 5-year average but because of 

 very low yields last year and high con- 

 ditions as of July 1 the forecast is for 

 about 3% more potatoes than last year. 

 These 20 late crop states combined on 

 July 1 condition have a crop forecast 

 77.-5% of their crop harvested last year. 



In the 9 states (Del., Md., W. Va., 

 Ohio, Ind., 111., Ky., Iowa, and Mo.) of 

 deficient production acreage is 103.6% of 

 last year and 102.9% of their 5-year av- 



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