FARMERS' 



OF HAMPSHIRE COUINTY 



Vol. XII. 



NORTHAMPTON, MASS., APRIL, 1927 



No. 4 



FRUIT GROWERS' MEETING 



AT M. A. C. 



Spraying and Orchard Management 

 Problems Discussed 



About fifty members and friends of the 

 Hampshire County Fruit Growers' Asso- 

 ciation met at M. A. C, Thursday, March 

 24. Prof. Arthur Bourne in speaking of 

 the control of insects called attention to a 

 new bulletin, number 233, just issued by 

 the Massachusetts Experiment Station on 

 the Control of Coddling Moths. For the 

 Red Bug, which makes "dimples" on the 

 apples and brown spots on the leaves he 

 recommends nicotine in the pink and in 

 the calyx spray at the rate of 1 to 800. In 

 the control of the Round Headed Apple 

 Tree Borer he stated that screens and 

 washes had not proved effective. The 

 only solution is to dig the worms out. 

 For Railroad Worms it has been found 

 that eggs are laid about ten days after 

 the flies emerge which is about the middle 

 of July. Control consists in using 1% 

 lbs. of dry arsenite of lead to 50 gallons 

 of water. For the Red Mite he recom- 

 mends using invisible oil for the dormant 

 spray. 



Prof. Doran took up the control of fun- 

 gus diseases of apples. Scab continues 

 to be the worst of these diseases. 

 Scab Control starts with either the 

 pre-pink or the pink sprays, using lime 

 sulphur. Either the dry or the liquid 

 lime sulphur may be used. Dust is not 

 effective until after the calyx spray. 

 Trees that lose their leaves first in the 

 fall will be the first trees to have the dis- 

 ease in the spring. The pink spray should 

 be put on early if no pre-pink spray has 

 been used. The time to put it on is before 

 the first rain after the blossom buds show 

 pink. If no rain is threatened delay the 

 spray as long as possible, so as to get 

 protection thru, the blossoming period. 

 Spraying before rains is the backbone of 

 scab control. 



A short warm rain or a long cold one 

 favors scab. Apples, too, are suscepti- 

 ble to spray burn after rains as they are 

 then growing rapidly. At Cornell they 

 found sprays are effective for two to 

 three weeks if the material has a chance 

 to dry before rains come. There is dan- 

 ger of scab from the time leaves show 

 green till three weeks after the petals 

 fall. Keep the trees covered during this 

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Alice Kanilall, Jieleliertotvn, State Dairy Clianii>ion, iU2<i 



MY HOLSTEIN HERD 



By 

 Alice R. Randall of Belchertown 



In 1920 when I heard about a calf club 

 being organized I was anxious to join and 

 raise a calf of my own. I had always 

 helped my father take care of his calves, 

 so he let me pick out two from his herd 

 of registered Holsteins for $2.5 each. It 

 was so interesting to watch them grow 

 and so much fun to take care of my own 

 calves that I decided I would stay in the 

 club. 



The next year I sold one calf and 

 bought two fi-om my father. I thought 

 these two were large for their age, good 

 shape and nicely marked. I learned that 

 they should be given milk longer so I let 

 these have it until they were six months 

 old, and they showed the value of it for 

 they grew much faster than the other and 

 skin was much thinner and their hair 

 much shorter and more silky. 



In 1922 I lost my bull in the tuberculin 

 test. Then I bought three more calves 

 that were from some of my father's best 

 milk producers. Every year I learned 

 something new. This year instead of 

 turning them out to pasture I kept them 

 in the barn so the flies would not bother 

 them, but I would stake them out for 

 exercise sometimes. 



You cannot always tell what a calf will 

 be like when she becomes a cow for when 

 my first heifer freshened she was a three 

 teater and she was always getting out of 

 the pasture so I sold her. 



Every year I bought two and sold one 



or moi'e if they did not prove successful. 



Now Owns Eight Head of Stock 



At the present I have eight head, 

 Eleanor Pontiac Model, two of her daugh- 

 ters and one son. Two half sisters of 

 Eleanor on the dam's side. A heifer that 

 I bought from the Summit Lumber Co. of 

 David.son Maine, Summit Roxland Par- 

 thenea who is to freshened soon, and one 

 three year old. 



I am breeding my heifers to Sir Hen- 

 gerveld Dekol Walker Ona No. 451878 

 whose dam Beauty Fairfax Hengerveld 

 Dekol is the Connecticut State champion 

 Jr. 3 year old Holstein with a record of 

 22740 lbs. milk, 754.24 lbs. fat in 365 

 days. 



In this way I hope to build up a higher 

 milk producing herd. 



I feed the young stock Eastern States 

 Fitting Ration and they like it and it 

 makes them grow, also good hay and en- 

 silage. 



I have found out that the first six 

 month's of a calf's growth is important 

 for then it has a greater capacity for 

 growth, and if kept growing as constant- 

 ly and as rapidly as possible you will se- 

 cure a large .strong,early matuiing ani- 

 mal. 



Calves that are born in the fall make a 

 greater growth and reach early maturity 

 faster if properly cared for than calves 

 born in the spring for they are likely to 

 be turned out to pasture and they cannot 

 get their growth on green feed alone. 



Grows Legumes 



This was my second year raising soy 



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