FARMERS' MONTHLt 



OR HAMPSHIRE COUINTV 



LIBRARY of the 



Massachusetts 



WAR 2 3 1926 



^cultural 



Vol. XL 



NORTHAMPTON, MASS., MARCH, 1926 



No. 3 



HEADS AND HATS 



Ware Women Hear Mrs. Chamberlain 

 Discuss Subject 



"If we are to be good looking we must 

 pay particular attention to our hair and 

 how we dress it and to the type of hat we 

 wear," said Mrs. Elsie K. Chamberlain, 

 representative of Filene's Information 

 Bureau, while talking to a group of one 

 hundred and eighty girls and women at 

 Ware. 



"Our hair is our indoor hat," continued 

 Mrs. Chamberlain, "we must dress it be- 

 comingly." In these days of bobs and 

 flat hair dressing, heavy hair is no longer 

 an asset. Many girls are shortening 

 and thinning theirs so that their heads 

 shall be small and sleek. The quality of 

 your hair is much more important than 

 color or amount. Hair should be healthy, 

 shiny and smooth. 



Short hair and simple flat coiffures are 

 generally becoming to girls. In every 

 season, however, with every fashion, the 

 face comes first. If your head is flat at 

 the back, or your nose is prominent, per- 

 haps you need the balance that a knot of 

 hair will give. If your forehead is high 

 and your hair fine, though sleek hair and 

 center parts are the vogue, you will do 

 well, maybe, to choose side part and to 

 wave your hair to soften the forehead. 



Round heads may be sleek, long narrow 

 ones are often benefited by a little fluffl- 

 ness. The short thick neck is usually 

 benefited by cutting the hair or raising 

 the knot; the efl"ect of the long thin neck 

 may be lessened by a low horizontal roll 

 or figure eight. 



The important thing to remember is 

 that your hair should be so dressed that 

 it is becoming from the back and side. 

 A becoming profile is really more es- 

 sential than a becoming front view. 



Hats have very little trimming this 

 year and are generally more becoming. 

 Hats like hair should subordinate them- 

 selves to faces. When the hat is more 

 important than ourselves we make a mis- 

 take. Broad hats are not for little 

 women. High trimmings are not for tall 

 ones. Crowns should measure at least 

 the width of the face and bulky crowns 

 should never be worn on small heads. A 

 hat with a brim is usually more flattering 

 than a brimless turban. 



Only trim, tailored people can wear se- 

 A-ere hats with clear cut lines. Harsh or 

 Continued on paHu 4. column :i 



FRUIT GROWERS' MEETING 



Massachusetts Agricultural College 



Thursday, March 25, 1926. 



10.30 Femald Hall. 



How the Codling Moth has Fooled 

 us. A. I. Bourne. 



Mr. Bourne has all the apple 



pests in captivity! Come and see 



what they look like. Learn how 



to control them. 



Life History and Control of Apple 



Scab, given so you can understand 



it. W. L. Doran. 



12.30 Fniit Growers' Dinner, 

 Draper Hall 



1.30 French Hall 



Saving Time and Cutting Cost of 



Spraying. 



Some interesting suggestions and 

 figures on how to handle equip- 

 ment and the costs of doing it 

 will be given. W. H. Thies, C. H. 

 Gould. 



A chance will be given every- 

 one to tell how they do it. 



Every Fruit Grower in this County 

 is invited 



OSBORNE WEST, DAIRY CLUB 

 MEMBER, OUTLINES WORK 



Below is printed a dairy club story 

 written by Osborne West of Hadley. 



"This was my fourth year in the dairy 

 club. I bought my first calf when I was 

 about ten years old. I kept grades 

 several years and had eight at one time. 



Tested for Tuberculosis 



In 1919 I bought a purebred heifer calf 

 but it died after I had had it a little 

 while. In 1920 I bought a purebred 

 heifer. She had four heifer calves till I 

 lost her in .January on T. B. test. I have 

 two of her daughters now. One I traded 

 for another calf and I lost one on T. B. 

 test. In 1922 I bought a calf. She did 

 not turn out very vi^ell but had twin heif- 

 er calves which look very good. I lost 

 her on T. B. test. In 1922 I bought a 

 heifer calf from Mt. Hermon School. 

 Continued on pjigrc 6. column 1 



DAIRY FARMS NEED LIME 



Acidity Reduces Yield and Quality of 

 Hay in this County 



Dairymen have noticed that cows drop 

 in production when they are changed 

 from good to poor hay. To keep up produc- 

 tion more grain has to be fed. It is 

 reasonable to conclude from this common 

 experience that if there was more good 

 hay to feed that grain bills could be 

 materially reduced. The reason that we 

 do not have enough good hay is that we 

 use .short lived legumes in a long rota- 

 tion. The long lived legumes such as red 

 clover and particularly alfalfa need a 

 large amount of lime in the soil if they 

 are to do well. We cannot adopt a short 

 rotation on most of the dairy farms of 

 the county but we can use more lime. 

 Many farmers think that they cannot 

 afford to buy lime. It is the truth that 

 the things that a man wants he gets, if 

 he wants them badly enough. If fann- 

 ers wanted lime badly enough they would 

 use the same -methods that they employ 

 to get radios, flivers and other things, i. e. 

 by going without .something else. 



The man that is without cash has just 

 one thing to capitalize, — his labor. For 

 dairy farmers in this financial condition 

 the thing to do is to grow the crops that 

 do not need lime. Corn, millet, oats, oats 

 and peas. Red Top, rye and vetch are 

 crops that do well on acid soils. By 

 growing large crops of these, the grain 

 bill can be kept from becoming burden- 

 some. These men should .stop wasting 

 money trying to grow crops that must 

 have lime to succeed. The man with 

 more cash can grow all of the crops in the 

 foregoing group and by using a small 

 amount of lime can grow alsike clover, 

 Soy Beans, Sunflowers and turnips and 

 have better success with timothy and red 

 clover. 



While it is possible to "get by" with 

 crops in the groups that need little or no 

 lime we must eventually use lime enough 

 so that we can really grow the longer 

 lived and heavier yielding hays such as 

 red clover and alfalfa. These legumes 

 are more palatable than the acid soil 

 grasses. The statement that it is not the 

 first cost but the upkeep that counts in 

 buying a car is equally true as regards 

 hay fields. The first cost of establishing 

 red clover and alfalfa is greater than 

 Continued on pag"G III. column 1 



