FARMERS' MONTHLY OF HAMPSHIRE COUNTY 



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Mrs. E. M. Burrows is leading the 

 Needlecraft Clothing Club of Worthing- 

 ton as Miss Baird has left town. 



Mrs. Charles Gould of Haydenville has 

 a club of twelve girls taking food club 

 work. These girls took up clothing last 

 year. 



SOME FARM WORKERS 



STILL COME CHEAP 



Now, in the lee fj'inge of any Northern 

 grove or orchard, you are likely to come 

 across this humdrum firm : Woodpecker, 

 Chickadee, Nuthatch & Co., General Con- 

 tractors for Good Ridance of Bad Bugs, 

 Borers Extracted While You Sit by the 

 Stove, Cankerworm and Plant-Lice Eggs 

 a Specialty, Scale Removed. Terms, one 

 chunk of suet in advance of sleety wea- 

 ther. 



The black-and-white senior partner is 

 sparrow size. He attends to borers. The 

 rest are about as big as your Boy Scout's 

 thumb. Chickadees half the time hang 

 upside down, de-bugging twigs; they'll 

 tell you in two sweet whistled notes that 

 winter's not so dismal. Our Mr. Nuthatch 

 scrattles over tree boles like a crab, 

 sounds like the last late tooter of elec- 

 tion night in elfland, and cleans rough 

 bark with a combination awl and pair of 

 tweezers. The Co. are a ceaseless flitting 

 of elusive lisping atoms — kinglets, whose 

 jeweled crowns you may not see — and a 

 mousy little party who keeps to himself 

 and creeps with a crooked needle. 



Nobody knows exactly what the firm 

 is worth to man. The only way to find 

 out would be to put it out of business. 

 Each bii-d, for his lifetime, has been ap- 

 praised at fifty cents in bugs — but what 

 about the progeny of the bugs? Ask 

 your friend the gai-dener how fast green 

 aphis multiply. Then ask your butcher 

 for suet, and tie it up so cats can't reach 

 it.— Collier'.s Weekly. 



Getting t^outl I1iit4*h<>.s 



Continued from pa^Jre 'i. roIiiiTin :> 

 the vent of both males and females in 

 order to insure good fertility. 



After the breeding season is over, the 

 birds should be treated as a laying flock 

 and only those kept over for another sea- 

 son that show they have the strength and 

 ability to deserve it. 



The following are the references re- 

 fered to above: 



(1) Atwood, H. 1922 Effect of confine- 

 ment and green food on number and 

 hatchability of eggs. In W. Va. Agr. 

 Exp. Sta. Bui. 178, p. 11. 



(2) Halpin and Steenbock, 1924 

 Growth of Chicks affected by Ration of 

 Hens. In Wis. Agr. Exp. Sta. 40th Ann. 

 Rpt. Bui. 362, p. 94. 



(3) Kennard, D. C. 1923 The Hatch- 

 ability of Eggs. In Ohio Agr. Exp. Sta. 

 42nd Ann. Rpt, Bui. 373, p. 67. 



(4) Kennard, D. C. 192.5 Poultry In- 



vestigations. In Ohio Agr. Exp. Sta. 

 Bimo. Bui. V. 10, no. 7, whole no. 115, p. 

 118-120. 



(5) Mitchell, H. H., and Keith, M. H. 

 1924 Vitamins in livestock feeding. In 

 HI. Agr. Exp. Sta. Cir. 282, p. 19. 



(6) Sherwood, R. M. 1924 Comparative 

 influences of various protein feeds on lay- 

 ing hens. In Tex. Agr. Exp. Sta. Bui 

 317, p. 22. 



(Sascttp Prtuitiiij QIu. 



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