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FARMERS' MONTHLY OF HAMPSHIRE COUNTY 



AsriculturnI Report 



Continued from page 9, column 1 

 mittee met three times and suggested the 

 following lines of work: — (1) The use of 

 nitrate of soda on orchards in sod; (2) 

 The use of the spray schedule as recom- 

 mended by the Massachusetts Agricul- 

 tural College; (3) Thinning; (4) Prun- 

 ing. 



Instead of holding pruning demon- 

 strations in different towns, it was de- 

 cided that a meeting on pruning be held 

 at the Agricultural College, so that the 

 pruning experiments could be seen. 

 Thirty-five men attended this meeting. 

 Fifty-three men agreed to carry on dem- 

 onstrations in a better fruit campaign. 

 All of these men agreed to try nitrate of 

 soda on their trees; eighteen agreed to 

 carry out the spray program, while 

 twenty-four agreed to try thinning of the 

 fruit. 



A summer meeting of the fruit growers 

 of the county resulted in the formation 

 of the Hampshire County Apple Growers' 

 Association. Charles Gould, Haydenville, 

 was elected president; W. A. Parsons, 

 Southampton, vice-president; and Wil- 

 liam Fiske, Westhampton, secretary- 

 treasurer. This association worked with 

 the state bureau of markets and suc- 

 ceeded in getting more complete market 

 reports from the Springfield market for 

 the fruit growers. They also co-operated 

 with the Chamber of Commerce in put- 

 ting on an Apple Week exhibit. Sixty- 

 five merchants co-operated in this work. 

 About six real window exhibits were 

 made, the rest simply being small dis- 

 plays of apples. While this year's dis- 

 play was not what it should have been, 

 it was a step in the right direction. 



Poultry 



Follow-up work on the poultry disea.se 

 control campaign has been carried on. 

 This disease control program consists of 

 (1) brooder house disinfection; (2) 

 range rotation (or disinfection of the 

 range) ; (3) use of tobacco dust to con- 

 trol round worms; (4) disinfection of 

 laying houses. This year, fifty men 

 agreed to carry on disease control work. 

 There are fully another hundred who, 

 W'hile they did not sign up, have carried 

 on this program. Much less trouble from 

 diseases has been reported than in pre- 

 vious years. This does not mean that all 

 the problems of disease control have been 

 solved, but it does mean that gratifying 

 progress has been made. On many 

 plants, round woi'm infections have been 

 succssfully cleaned up in two years, 

 while in others, the ravages of this para- 

 site have been greatly reduced. 



In the county egg laying contest, fifty- 

 five men agreed to send in production rec- 

 ords and costs. Twenty-nine complete re- 

 ports have been sent in for the year. The 

 highest flock average was made by Frank 

 D. Steele of Cummington, with an aver- 



age production of 205 eggs per bird. 

 Each month timely information is sent 

 out with the summary of production and 

 costs for the preceding month. In this 

 way about one hundred poultrymen have 

 been kept on our monthly mailing list. 



Two poultry breeders' schools were 

 held at which the principles and practices 

 of production breeding were discussed. 

 This information was given to a selected 

 group of poultrymen who are doing their 

 own breeding. As a result of this work, 

 four men are carrying on Cockerels' 

 Futurity tests to determine the line of 

 breeding they should follow. 



Poultrymen who are selling day-old 

 chicks have been urged to have their 

 flocks tested for Bacillary White Diar- 

 rhea so that disease free sources of day- 

 old chicks may be established in the 

 county. Three flocks in the county are 

 already on ihe Certified Breeders' list 

 and several more are taking up testing 

 work. 



One poultry tour, attended by seventy- 

 five poultrymen, was held in Hampden 

 County to show improved managerial 

 practices. The use of summer shelters of 

 the Tolman type has been urged. One 

 large poultry , plant built nine of these 

 shelters this year, while several men tried 

 out one or two. All report good results 

 and that they will increase the number 

 of shelters another year. The use of 

 range hoppers has also increased and 

 users report excellent results. 



The statistical summary shows that the 

 county agent made 891 farm visits, 

 wrote 331 letters and held 40 meetings 

 with an attendance of 1378 people. 



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Who's Who With PouMry 



Continued from page 1, column 3 

 December and 18.1 in January, then 

 paused slightly in February and March. 



Some of the other flocks were held up 

 either by failing to get birds in laying 

 condition by the first of November or 

 through failure to keep the birds up in 

 body weight after they start laying. The 

 following record is typical of a severe 

 winter pause. The figures show eggs 

 per bird: Nov. 10.5; Dec. 8.1; Jan. 6.8; 

 Feb. 10.5; March 17.9; April 21. This 

 flock was all set and ready to go in No- 

 vember but was not getting scratch feed 

 enough to hold body weight. If poultry- 

 men would forget some old ideas and 

 realize that it is practically impossible to 

 get pullets too fat at this time of year 

 they would get better winter production. 

 High protein mash does not make eggs 

 when the birds are thin any more than it 

 makes milk from thin cows. 



There is an opportunity to join the Egg 

 Laying Contest. We want more poultry- 

 men to send in monthly records of egg 

 production and feed costs. Just drop a 

 line to the County Agent, Northampton. 



Northampton, 



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