FARMERS' MONTHLY OF HAMPSHIRE COUNTY 



PROriTS AND ruN 



A Letter for Parents 

 and Children 



"Eastern States 

 Farmers' Exchange, 



April 7, 1926. 



"My hens are doing fine on 

 Eastern States Feed. 



"The poultry class at South 

 Kingston (R. I) High School 

 formed a poultry cluh. There are 

 12 members and my pen is leading. 



"Through January, February 

 and March I had 2.5 hens. In 

 .January, I got 348 eggs, an average 

 of 14.32 eggs per hen. In Febru- 

 ary, I got 371 eggs. That made an 

 average of 14.8. In March, I got 

 4.59 eggs which made an average 

 for that month of 18.3. 



"In January, I got $11.69 for my 

 eggs, and my Eastern States Mash 

 and Scratch cost me $4.90, so I had 

 $6.78 profit. In February I got 

 $10.93 for eggs and a profit of 

 $5.79, for I spent $5.14 for grain. 

 In March I got $10.56 for eggs, 

 spent $5.89 for grain and made 

 $4.67. In the 3 months from my 25 

 hens, I got $17.14 profit." 



Yours truly, 

 "Frank L. Nichols, Jr. 

 "Tower Hill, 

 "R. I." 



"P. S. — My hens are White Leg- 

 horns and "my male bird came from 

 England last Spring." 



This boy is getting a lot out of 

 his experience with Eastern States 

 feeds. He is learning that quality 

 feeds bought at fair and reasonable 

 prices can be turned to profitable 

 production. He is learning to use 

 the co-operative selecting and pur- 

 chasing service which his father 

 and farmers in eight States have 

 established. He is learning that the 

 few minutes spent on records each 

 day, provided the records are in- 

 telligently used later, constitute a 

 necessary and valuable part of his 

 day's work. 



By bringing the service it offers 

 to the attention of farmers in 

 various sections of the East, the 

 Eastern States Farmers' Exchange 

 has been able to help more and 

 more farmers solve important pur- 

 chasing problems. Are you .ioin- 

 ing with your neighbors in whole- 

 hearted support of this movement? 



For information about the Ex- 

 change write the office. 



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E^eonuniioal Corn Production 



Continued from pag"e 3, column 3 



The third step is to use a plank drag 

 or roller on the corn piece as soon as it is 

 planted. This is to break up the clods 

 and to level the field. This operation puts 

 the land in shape so that the spike tooth 

 harrow or the weeder can be used before 

 the corn is up. Then it can be used after 

 the corn is up an inch without danger of 

 burying the small plants. On an unrolled 

 or unplanked field the corn is often 

 covered with lumps at the first harrow- 

 ing. For this reason the corn is allowed 

 to get to be about two inches high. Dur- 

 ing this time the weeds get a good root 

 system and are not disturbed by the har- 

 row or the weeder. The continued use 

 of the harrow or weeder never lets the 

 weeds get started. 



Last year several men in this county 

 used the above method in growing corn. 

 Where there was no witch grass the corn 

 never had a cultivator in it. There was 

 no need because the weeder did efficient 

 woi-k. On other fields the corn was only 

 cultivated once. Hand hoeing, was ab- 

 solutely eliminated. E. T. Clark of 

 Granby was one of the men who did not 

 have to cultivate his corn. His labor and 

 fertilizer costs on 7 acres of corn is given 

 below. 



Plowing with tractor 

 Harrowing (team) 11 days 

 Planting 

 Weeder (one horse 4 hours) 



5 times 

 Harvesting (2 teams, S men, 



5 days) 



$20.00 

 12.00 

 7.00^ 



15.00 



100.00 



Springfield, 



Massachusetts 



$161.00 



This makes a total cost of $315.00 to 

 grow and put 140 tons of corn into the 

 silo or a total of $2.25 per ton. This is 

 $7.35 per ton less than the average cost 

 of production and certainly would pay 

 liberal depreciation on machinery, rent of 

 land and overhead charges. 



This illustrates the foregoing points: 



(1) The corn field was close to the silos; 



(2) Labor was economized by properly 

 preparing the seed bed and by using the 

 leveling harrow and the weeder instead 

 of the cultivator and hand hoeing. Other 

 men in the county have assured me that 

 counting all costs their silage stood them 

 less than six dollars a ton in the silo. 

 The whole secret in this method of corn 

 production is never to let the weeds get 

 started. 



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