FARMERS' MONTHLY OF HAMPSHIRE COUNTY 



FARMERS' MONTHLY 



PUBLISHED BY THE 



Hampshire County Trustees for Aid to 

 Agriculture 



STAFF 

 Roland A. I'ayne, County Agent 

 Mildred W. Boice, 



Home Demonstration Agent 

 Harold W. Fnstman, County Club Agent 

 Catherine Ijiieey, Clerk 

 Helen Clark, Assl. Clerk 



Office First National Bank Building 



Northampton, Mass. 

 Entered as second class matter Nov. 9. 

 1915, at the Post Office at Northampton, 

 Massachusetts, under the Act of March 

 8, 1879. 



"Notice of Entry" 

 "Acceptance for mailing at special rate 

 of postage provided for in section 1103, 

 Act of October 3, 1917. Authorized Oc- 

 tober 31, 1917. 



Price, no cents a year 



Officers of the Trustees 



Charles W. Wade, President 

 Mrs. Clifton Johnson, Vice-President 

 Warren M. King, Treasurer 

 Roland A. Payne, Secretary 



Trustees for County Aid to Agriculture 



Edwin B. Clapp, Easthampton 



Charles E. Clark, Leeds 



Clarence E. Hodgkins, Northampton 



Milton S. Howes, Cummington 



Mrs. Clifton Johnson, Hadley 



Warren M. King, Northampton 



Charles W. Wade, Hatfield 



W. H. Atkins, Amherst 



L. L. Campbell, Northampton 



ONE WAY T. B. IS SPREAD 



How does it happen that bovine tu- 

 berculosis gets spread around? Here's 

 one way. John Jones is an observing 

 dairyman. One of his cows doesn't look 

 just right. "Guess I'll sell her," he says 

 to himself. A dealer stops at his place 

 and asks if he has anything to sell. John 

 replies, "Not fussy about it, but I've got 

 one cow that I would sell." They look her 

 over and a trade is made. 



The dealer tells Bill Smith that he has 

 a cow that he bought from John Jones. 

 Of course she is a good one. Smith knows 

 that Jones has good cattle. He buys her. 

 If Smith is not a very observing man he 

 won't notice that she is not all right. She 

 may not do as well as he expected but 

 perhaps shifting her around was the cause 

 of this. Finally, he decides that he will 

 have his cattle tuberculin tested. This 

 cow is one that reacts and is sold for 

 .slaughter. If .she shows slight lessions he 

 is lucky. If she has become a spreader he 

 has other reactors. 



Tests made recently in the western part 

 of the county show that it is not always 

 cheaper to buy cows than it is to raise 



them. Too often the purchased cows are 

 reactors. The men who have not bought 

 anything but bull calves are having their 

 stock pass clean. Those who have not been 

 fussy when they have purchased cows of- 

 ten find that they brought something be- 

 sides new cows into their herds. 



THE WORLD'S GREATEST 



POULTRY EVENT 



The World's Poultry Congress to be 

 held at Ottawa, Canada, July 27-Aug'ust 

 4, 1927, will be the greate.st gathering of 

 poultry interests the world has ever 

 known. It is the first international poultry 

 meeting ever held in America, where over 

 one-third of all the poultry in the world 

 is located, and it will consumate the most 

 thorough-going attempt ever made in pre- 

 paring an exposition of poultry and things 

 pertaining to poultry and to present in 

 one series of meetings the best thought on 

 every phase of poultry husbandry. 



Many Massachusetts poultrymen are 

 going to Ottawa. Such a congress is too 

 good an opportunity to miss. It is but 

 two day's (approximately 500 miles) drive 

 by auto or an over-night's ride on the 

 train. The round-trip convention fare by 

 railroad is $19.85 from Amherst. From 

 Boston it is about $1 more. Sleeping car 

 rates are $3.75 for lower and $3 for upper 

 berths each way. 



Any poultryman may become a delegate 

 to the congress by paying a fee of $5 

 which entitles him to participate in all 

 parts of the program and attend the ex- 

 position. For this fee he also receives a 

 copy of the published proceedings. An 

 associate's fee is $3 and carries the same 

 privileges excepting the report. A man 

 and wife should pay an $8 fee for two 

 memberships and one printed report. 

 Membership cards and a copy of the pro- 

 gram may be secured by sending the fee 

 directly to Dr. M. A. Jull, U. S. D. A., 

 Washington D. C. With your member- 

 ship card there will be returned in- 

 structions for making reservations for 

 lodgings which will cost $2 per day single 

 and $3 double, with meals extra. 



Further information concerning auto 

 tours or train schedules may be obtained 

 by writing Wm. C. Monahan at Amherst. 

 Such inquiry will also help in .securing 

 adequate train service. 



I'roKre.s.s in T. It. Testing 



Continued from page 1. column 1 

 ty of being resold as milk cows. As an 

 additional safeguard the reactors have to 

 be slaughtered in the presence of a federal 

 inspector. 



When reactors are found, two sets of 

 papers are made out by the veterinarian. 

 The first set give the identification tags of 

 the animal, from whom she was purchas- 

 ed, the date of purchase, the price paid, 

 and the present appraisal of the animal. A 

 record of these is kept by the Divinsion of 

 Animal Industry and by the Federal 



Supervisor for New England. The second 

 set of papers gives the identification tag 

 numbers and the price the owner receives 

 for each animal when sold for slaughter. 



The Way Indemnity is Figured 



To arrive at the amount the owner of a 

 reactor will receive, the amount received 

 for the animal is substracted from the ap- 

 praised value. This gives the net loss. The 

 net loss is divided by three, the owner 

 stands one-third and the state and federal 

 governments each stand one-third. The 

 limit of indemnity on grade cows is $25.00, 

 while on registered animals it is $50.00. 

 The following is an example of the way 

 indemnity is figui-ed on grade cows: 



Cow A Cow B 



Apprai.sed Value 100 100 



Beef Value 25 10 



Net Loss 



State Pays 

 Federal Gov't 

 Beef Value 



3|75 

 25 



3]90 

 30* 



25 

 25 

 25 



25 

 25 

 10 



Owner receives $75 $60 



*Above maximum of $25.00 so state and 

 federal governments pay only $25.00 each. 

 For registered cows the maximum is 

 $50.00 each from the state and federal 

 government. This does not mean that all 

 registered cows bring $100.00 in indemni- 

 ty. In the above table if Cow A were 

 registered she would bring the same 

 amount as a grade. In the case of Cow 

 B the state would pay $30.00 and the 

 federal $30.00. This with the beef value 

 of $10.00 would bring total indemnity to 

 $70.00 on a registered cow. 



How the Test is Made 



Recently we had an opportunity to see 

 exactly how the testing is done. In 

 Huntington one hundred and six head of 

 cattle in eleven herds were tested. There 

 were seven reactors in this group. Eight 

 of these herds had no reactors. Grade 

 cattle are identified with a Massachu.setts 

 tag, bearing a serial number, which is 

 placed in the right ear. Registered animals 

 are identified by their registration paper. 

 Monday, the veterinarian placed about 

 two drops of tuberculin in the folds of 

 loose skin under the tail of each animal. 

 As soon as this is done the animals can be 

 turned out to pasture if desired. On 

 Thur.sday the animals are seen again. If 

 there are reactors there will be a soft 

 swelling, varying from the size of a pea 

 to as large as a pullets egg at the point 

 where the tuberculin was injected. Other 

 than this swelling, the animals are in no 

 way afl"ected. There is no nervousness, 

 loss of appetite of other outward indi- 

 cation that the cattle are under test. The 

 last reading of the test is made on Satur- 

 day. In other words the readings are 

 made seventy-two and one hundred and 

 twenty hours after inoculation. 



