

FARMERS' MONTHLY 



OF HAMPSHIRE COUINTY 



Vol. XI. 



NORTHAMPTON, MASS., JULY, 1926 



No. 7 



COUNTY AGENTS VISIT 



NEW JERSEY FARMS 



Many Fine Farms and Good 

 Farmers Seen 



Every one hat; heard of the New Jer- 

 sey mosquitoes. They say "lots" of them 

 weigh a pound. The county agents of 

 Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode 

 Island, however, did not visit New Jersey 

 the week of June 20 to see the mosquitoes. 

 If they had, they would have been dis- 

 appointed as they saw none. They did 

 go to see how extension work is being 

 carried on in that state and to see what 

 our New Jersey competitors are doing. 



Poultry 



At North Haledon we visited the 

 "White Egg Farm," a $50,000 corpora- 

 tion with a capacity of 5000 white leg- 

 horn hens. They hatch their own chicks 

 on this place and so far have not been 

 troubled with Bacillary White Diarrhea. 

 They trap nest about 250 birds a year to 

 get pedigreed cockerels and pullets for 

 their breeding operations. By this se- 

 lective breeding they have raised their 

 egg production from 137 eggs per bird in 

 1920 to 166 eggs per bird in 1925. 

 Practically all of the eggs are sold at 

 retail. Five men do the work on the 

 plant while the sixth devotes his entire 

 time to selling. It is intere.sting to note 

 that this farm has paid ten per cent on 

 the investment. 



The New Jersey Experiment Station is 

 specializing in the study of poultry 

 diseases. At the present time they are 

 conducting experiments on worm con- 

 trol. They have found that disinfectants 

 are relatively ineffective in killing worm 

 eggs. They conclude that the solution of 

 the worm problem is to avoid rather than 

 to try to cure worm infection. They are 

 starting pullets in long brooder houses 

 about 22 feet deep. In front of these 

 they have a cement slab about sixteen 

 feet wide. The chicks are not allowed to 

 go on to the ground while in this house. 

 As soon as they are weaned from the 

 heat they are placed in movable colony 

 houses on clean range. The New Jersey 

 authorities believe that can be avoided if 

 predisposing factors are controlled. 



The Vineland Egg Laying Contest was 



visited. The production of this contest is 



said to be the highest of any of the 



eastern contests and the mortality is the 



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HOLSTEIN CLUB TO MEET 



The summer meeting of the Hampshire 

 Franklin Holstein Friesian Breeders' 

 Club will be held Saturday, August 7. A 

 picnic dinner at the summit of Mount 

 Holyoke will .start the program. In the 

 afternoon the farms of Pelissier Broth- 

 3rs, H. J. Searle and Son, E. P. West and 

 J. G. Cook will be visited. These farms 

 have some of the best Holstein cattle in 

 Hampshire County. These herds have 

 been among the leaders in production in 

 the cow testing association this year. 



The meeting is open to every one in 

 the county who is interested in Holstein 

 cattle. Pack a lunch and bring the whole 

 family. There is a good road to the top 

 of Mount Holyoke. To reach it, turn 

 south at the Hadley Town Hall and keep 

 straight ahead. There is a big sign show- 

 ing the road to the mountain. 



BETTER KITCHENS 



• FOR BETTER HOMES 



In line with suggestion from many 

 sources for making better homes are 

 several points on kitchen planning from 

 the Bureau of Home Economics of the 

 United States Department of Agriculture 

 co-operating with Better Homes in 

 America. 



One of the first things the homemaker 

 thinks about in a better home is a well- 

 arranged, well-equipped kitchen. That 

 does not mean that she is kitchen-minded 

 either. It means rather that she knows 

 where convenience counts most in a house. 

 In most family kitchens at least 1,000 

 meals are cooked during the course of 

 evei-y year. Surely for any job that 

 comes as regularly and often as getting 

 three meals a day, every step-saving, 

 time-saving arrangement possible should 

 be included in the plan and the equip- 

 ment. 



The points that make for convenience 

 in the kitchen are as follows : 



First, la.st, and all the time, in planning 

 and equipping a kitchen, think about the 

 work to be done in it. 



If building or remodeling a kitchen, 

 make it oblong and with no more floor 

 space than actually needed. A kitchen is 

 a workroom. Spaciousness is paid for in 

 miles of useless steps. 



Study the relation of the kitchen to the 

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FARM AND HOME WEEK 



Massachusetts Agricultural College, 



July 27=30 



Program Arranged by Days 



Home Making — July 27, 28, 29, 30. 

 Food Preservation — July 27, 28, 29, 30. 

 Poultry Husbandry — July 28, 29, 30. 

 Fruit Growing— July 27, 28. 

 Flower Growing — July 27. 

 Home Gardening — July 28. 

 Live-stock Farming — July 28. 

 Beef Cattle Raising— July 28. 

 Dairy Farming — July 29. 

 Beekeeping — July 29. 

 Forestry — July 29. 



General Meetings 



A rest hour program will be held daily 

 between 12.30 and 1.30 P. M. with motion 

 pictures and music. Also during the 

 same time some of the college represent- 

 atives will be glad to talk over the pos- 

 sibilities of an education here at M. A. C. 

 with any interested persons. Community 

 singing will be held each evening between 

 7.00 and 7.45. 



The first dynamometer demonstration 

 in New England, will be held at the col- 

 lege on Thursday afternoon, July 29. 

 The dynamometer is a scientific instru- 

 ment through which tests can be made of 

 the best ways to hitch up horses, the 

 best types of hor.ses to use for various 

 kinds of work and the relative pulling 

 power of light and heavy teams. After 

 the dynamometer demonstration the live- 

 stock parade will be held. 



Evening Programs 



Tuesday evening Farm and Home 

 Week guests are invited to attend Camp 

 Gilbert's entertainment, or the program 

 arranged for the School of Rural Clergy- 

 men, which is to be held here on campus 

 the last week in July. 



On Wednesday evening two highly 

 recommended and well qualified speakers 

 are listed: 



Beatrice Chandler Gesell of New 

 Haven, Conn., an authority on child 

 psychology. 



Dr. James J. Walsh, of New York City, 

 who will talk on The Funny Things That 

 Cure People. 



Dr. William M. Jardine, Secretary of 

 Agriculture, is to be the speaker for 

 Thursday evening. 



Flower Growing— Tuesday 



Two interesting talks are listed, includ- 



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