FARMERS' MONTHLY OF HAMPSHIRE COUNTY 



SOW CERTI-SEED 



Guided by the experience of the 

 colleges and extension services of 

 the states in which its members 

 live, the Eastern States Farmers' 

 Exchange has again purchased only 

 seed which will produce results un- 

 der the rigorous climatic conditions 

 of these states. The Exchange 

 guarantees the source as well as the 

 purity and germination of the seeds 

 it oifers and from the standpoint of 

 these three important features, the 

 prices are most attractive. 



Dairymen who in accordance 

 with the sound recommendations of 

 the county agents are trying to in- 

 crease their production of legume 

 roughage with wider use of clover, 

 alfalfa, winter vetch, and soy 

 beans, will find that the Eastern 

 States Farmers' Exchange is offer- 

 ing them exceptional values on 

 quality seeds. 



These dairymen will be pleased to 

 know al.so that the Exchange is of- 

 fering for silage corn West Branch 

 Sweepstakes and Lancaster County 

 Sure Crop. Both of these dent 

 varieties produce abundance of 

 stalk and leaves and ear out well in 

 New Hampshire, Vermont, and 

 Maine. The Lancaster Sure Crop 

 is new with the Exchange, but it 

 comes highly recommended by the 

 authorities who know it best. 



Both the Sweepstakes and Lan- 

 caster Sure Crop offered by the Ex- 

 change are produced and marketed 

 by associations of farmers who 

 realize that the future market for 

 their respective varieties rests upon 

 the quality of the seed which they 

 deliver. New England farmers are 

 fortunate to have so reliable a 

 source of seed corn supply as their 

 Exchange has found for them. 



The Eastern States Farmers' Ex- 

 change believes that these two 

 varieties of corn are adequate for 

 the silage needs of all its members, 

 and therefore urges their use in ac- 

 cordance with its policy of stand- 

 ardization. To those farmers who 

 have a variety which satifies them, 

 it suggests for 1926 the purchase of 

 a trial order of both its Sweep- 

 stakes and its Lancaster Sure Crop, 

 so that they may learn exactly 

 what both of these corns will pro- 

 duce in comparison with the corn 

 they have been using in the past. 



This season Eastern States 

 Certi-Seeds are being delivered in 

 feed and grain cars to the farmers 

 who live near one of the 500 sta- 

 tions which these cars serve each 

 month. Farmers living in other 

 localities will have their seeds 

 shipped to them as in the past. 



Write at once for descriptions 

 and prices of Eastern States Certi- 

 Seeds for 1926. 



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A non-Stork, non-rrolif organisa- 

 tion owned and controlled by the 

 faniier.s it serves. 



Springfield, 



Massachusetts 



Hatfield F;iriii Honored 



< 'oiitiniu-d rrom page 1, column 3 

 flock, .second on yearling fat wether, 

 fifth on wether lamb. The flock was run- 

 ner up for championship. When we con- 

 sider the fact that the best Southdowns 

 from this country and from Canada com- 

 pete at this exposition, it will be seen that 

 the Beldens' flock is among the leaders in 

 North America. 



The ram that sired the young stock in 

 this flock was imported as a yearling- 

 three years ago from Lady Fitzgerald's 

 flock in England. This flock and the one 

 owned by the King of England are con- 

 ceded to be the best flocks of Southdowns 

 in England. The results that the Beldens 

 have obtained with this ram show that he 

 is a wonderful breeding animal. 



In addition to the flock of Southdowns 

 there is a flock of about one hundred 

 grade Dorset-Delaine ewes on the farm. 

 These were purchased over a year ago in 

 Ohio. These ewes lamb between Novem- 

 ber and March usually having one lamb 

 each. The earliest lambs have already 

 been marketed. They weighed about 

 twenty five pounds hog-dressed. A tobac- 

 co sorting .shop on the farm is fitted up 

 with lambing pens. After lambing, the 

 .sheep and lambs are put in tobacco sheds 

 where they do nicely. So far, demand 

 for these "pre-hot house" lambs has ex- 

 ceeded the supply. Here again the Beld- 

 ens show the value of their "Quality" 

 policy. 



All of the sheep are kept in Hatfield 

 during the winter and in the summer are 

 transferred to "Mountain Farm" in Col- 

 rain. The Hereford herd consisting of 

 sixty head is handled in the same way. 

 This takes the. livestock away from the 

 Hatfield farm when work on crops starts. 

 ■ In the winter the help on the farm is 

 kept busy .shipping onions and caring for 

 livestock. In this way the Beldens have 

 organized their business so as to give a 

 full year's work for the help on the farm. 

 That is one of the factors that makes this 

 a successful farm. 



Good Crop Farmers 

 The Beldens have always been good 

 crop farmers. In their rotation they 

 produce a large amount of good quality 

 hay. This is fed out to the sheep and 

 beef cattle and makes a large amount of 

 manure. Instead of raising grain so as 

 to get straw for bedding they use wa.ste 

 from cotton mills which makes a good 

 bedding as it is very absorbent. In this 

 way they have a large amount of manure 

 which they use largely on tobacco. They 

 have demonstrated to their satisfaction 

 that manure is necessary to produce a 

 profitable quality of tobacco. They used 

 to sort their own tobacco and in doing 

 this noticed that the ci-op grown on 

 manured land was superior in quality to 

 that grown entirely on commercial fertili- 

 zers. Not only has the manure in- 

 creased the quality of the tobacco but it 



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