FARMERS' MONTHLY OF HAMPSHIRE COUNTY 



A Business Bank for 



Business Farmers 



This is a message for business 

 farmers — for those progressive 

 crop and cattle raisers who know 

 that to get profits from farming 

 there must be knowledge not only 

 of crops, but of markets, of prices, 

 of soil treatment, of other factors. 



This bank's primary object is to 

 help farmers of this section to pros- 

 per. Our complete banking facili- 

 ties and our dependable sources of 

 information valuable to farmers are 

 at your disposal. 



We'll be glad to serve you. 



NORTHAMPTON 

 NATIONAL BANK 



THE BANK FOR EVERYBODY 



OLD DEERFIELD 



FERTILIZERS 



Both our standard grades of 

 goods and our Concentrated 10-16- 

 14 Potato and Market Garden Fer- 

 tilizer are especially compounded 

 (out of the more expensive mate- 

 rials) to produce not only a quick 

 start but a steady growth over the 

 whole season. 



We handle a full line of fertilizer 

 materials. 



A. W. HIGGINS, Inc. 



SOUTH DEERFIELD, MASS. 



The habit of Saving 



Is at the bottom of most 

 big successes in the busi- 

 ness world. Begin the 

 habit by opening a savings 

 account with the Hayden- 

 ville Savings Bank. One 

 dollar is enough to start 

 with. 



BANK BY MAIL 



HAYDENVILLE SAVINGS BANK 



HAVDENVILLB, MASS. 



the Massachusetts Agricultural College. 

 There should not be so much furniture in 

 the house, she said, that the family can- 

 not travel about with ease. If there is, 

 the families are likely to travel else- 

 where, leaving the family hearthstone 

 deserted. Elimination and rearrange- 

 ment of furnishings rather than acquisi- 

 tion is a good slogan for the majority of 

 homes. 



Plain Wall Papers Best 



Walls, she said, are the background of 

 the decorative scheme. The paper on 

 them can make a room seem larger or 

 smaller, sunny and cheerful, or dark and 

 gloomy. The safest effect is gained with 

 plain paper or those with indistinct pat- 

 tern. If a figured paper is chosen, small 

 are to be preferred to large figures. 

 Good but inexpensive papers can be found 

 in these patterns. The rugs should con- 

 tain the neutral shades. A guest should 

 not be attracted toward his feet; she 

 thinks, but should if he has any impres- 

 sion from the floor coloring at all, sense 

 security and ease. The largest masses of 

 color Miss Tucker would put in the dra- 

 peries with smaller and the vivid touches 

 in pottery, candlesticks, lamps and 

 floors. 



Home Decoration 



The following combinations she gave 

 as examples of good home decoration. 

 With a warm tan paper, she would use 

 a flowered cretonne of tan, orange, green 

 and blue, a blue and orange table cover, 

 a blue pitcher and bachelor-buttons and 

 calendulas in a vase of neutral color. 

 Again, with the same paper, she would 

 properly blend a blue, tan and yellow cre- 

 tonne with a striped blue and white table 

 cloth, blue candle sticks and a yellow 

 lamp, yellow daisies in a gray-blue bowl, 

 or the same with a monks cloth table 

 cover and a blue and tan monks cloth 

 upholstery. Against a warm gray paper 

 she demonstrated a cretonne of soft reds 

 and blues, a rose and white table cover, 

 and crimson and white clover in a blue 

 bowl. A stand with book ends and 

 books repeated these colors. Again, mul- 

 berry and blue striped drapery of ir- 

 regular weave was used with the gray 

 paper. Tapestry in a small pattern em- 

 phasizing blue was suggested for the fur- 

 niture, a rose and white cover for the 

 table, blue flowers and the same mahoga- 

 ny book ends for the dainty touches. 



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A MUTUAL SAVINGS BANK 



Deposits begin to draw interest 

 on the first business day of each 

 month. $1 will open an account. 



Your income from your deposits 

 in Massachusetts Mutual Savings 

 Banks is not taxable under the 

 State Income Tax. 



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Open 9 A. M. to 3 P. M. 

 Saturdays, 9 A. M. to noon 

 Monday evenings, 6.30 to 8 



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Clothing Clinic Part of Fall Program 



During the fall and winter months we 

 are planning to hold one day clothing 

 schools in the communities where cloth- 

 ing classes were held last year. At these 

 meetings the home demonstration agent 

 or clothing specialist will plan to give a 

 lecture demonstration showing how to use 

 the guide pattern for the new fall styles, 

 particularly stressing the circular flounces 

 and the fullness in the back of the skirt; 



