FARMERS' MONTHLY OF HAMPSHIRE COUNTY 



fhould be done but some tentative sug- 

 gestions may be made. The Experiment 

 Station plans to give some study to the 

 problem in order that something more 

 positive may be said. 



In the first place it is safe to say that 

 when the Delicious sets heavily in the 

 bearing year it will pay to thin, probably 

 it will pay to thin heavily. With much 

 less confidence it may be suggested that 

 in the bearing year it may be wise to de- 

 lay application of nitrogen carrying fer- 

 tilizers until the .June drop is about over. 

 Then about the middle of .June or the first 

 of .July according to the sea.son, a liberal 

 application of nitrate of soda or sulfate 

 of ammonia may be made. By a liberal 

 application is meant, for a normal 12 year 

 old tree, from three to five pounds of I 

 nitrate of soda in a sod orchard or from I 

 one-half to two-thirds that amount in a 

 cultivated orchard. Four-fifths of these 

 amounts of sulfate of ammonia will fur- 

 nish the same amounts of nitrogen. The 

 proper amounts will be determined by the 

 age and size of the tree, and the fertility 

 of the soil as indicated by the vigor of 

 the tree and the growth of grass or cover 

 crops in the orchard. Probably it will be 

 wise to adopt this suggestion in an ex- 

 perimental way at first. Try it out on 

 part of your trees and see if it works. 



It will be generally understood that it 

 is highly important to spray this variety 

 with care and skill in order to protect the 

 fruit from scab and maintain a maximum 

 of healthy foliage. 



Dr. J. K. Shaiv, M. A. C. 



RESISTANT CHESTNUT TREES 



The chestnut as a timber tree owing to 

 the ravages of a parasitic fungus dis- 

 ease has disappeared from its northern 

 range and is rapidly being exterminated 

 southward. Here and there, there are 

 native chestnuts which still have a por- 

 tion of their top and branches alive, in 

 spite of the fact that the disease has been 

 pi-esent for ten years or more. Dr. Perley 

 Spaulding, forest pathologist of the .U. S. 

 Forest Experiment Station at Amherst 

 says that this indicates that those trees 

 are more or less resistant to the disease 

 and desires to receive information con- 

 cerning the location of such trees with the 

 idea of getting nuts or cuttings from them 

 with which to begin the breeding of re- 

 sistant trees. This .sort of thing has been 

 done with other kinds of plants and may 

 be possible with trees. Dr. Spaulding also 

 suggests that when cutting chestnut tim- 

 ber that trees which still have some life 

 be left standing so that if they do happen 

 to have disease resistant qualities in 

 them they will have an opportunity to 

 propagate themselves. The number of 

 such trees is small and will never be 

 missed from the lumber pile. 



H. O. Cook, Extension Forester. 



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THE BUILDING TRADE 



I told you last month of a boy who graduated from the 

 Agricultural Department and now owns his own farm and is a 

 state inspector. 



This month I will tell you of a boy who entered the Carpentry 

 Department in 1911 and didn't get to going very strong at first 

 but improved year by year until he graduated in 1914. He went 

 to work for $9.00 a week, then he received $3.50 a day. When he 

 received $7.00 a day it occurred to him that with the training 

 he had received at Smith School in mechanical drawing, building 

 estimates, framing and use of woodworking machinery, he ought 

 to direct the work of less fortunate men. He thereupon entered 

 into partnership with an older man and began to plan houses 

 and to figure contracts. His next move was to go into business 

 for himself. For several years he has been conducting his own 

 business, bidding against old contractors, getting some jobs and 

 losing some, but mo.st of the time having from six to ten men in 

 his employ and often two buildings going on at the same time. 



The Smith School, Northampton, has 38 boys studying to 

 be carpenters. 



If you would like to be a contractor eight or ten years from 

 now, you had better visit the 



Smith's Agricultural School 



