HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARMERS' MONTHLY 



GOSSIP 



They say as how Jud White has gone 



plumb mad, 

 An' lost all the sense he ever had. 

 Folks that have known him for many a 



year 

 Say he's beset with a most terrible fear 

 That ruin will o'ertake him, given time 

 Because he spent nine dollars for a ton of 



lime. 



It seems that Jud went to a meetin' one 



day 

 To hear what the professors had to say 

 About lime and legumes and other needs 

 To save from buyin' expensive feeds. 

 Jud, he allowed there was somethin' to it 

 An' vowed he'd see if he couldn't do it. 



Jud lived about a mile from town 



An' had five acres he was seedin' down 



So he goes 'to the store where he buys on 



time 

 An' bought a ton of hydrated lime. 

 He drew it home and spread it around 

 An scarce could see it on the ground. 



He seeded an waited for the grass to 



grow, 

 Feelin' quite .sure 'twould make a .show. 

 So the neighbors would come to see his 



crop. 

 An' stare an' gaze with mouth adrop. 

 The grass, it came, but the neighbors not 

 Tho Jud had hoped an' talked a lot. 



Jud, he waited an' looked an' fumed 

 Feelin' quite sure that he was doomed 

 To cruel disappointment an' bitter des- 

 pair, 

 Too much it seemed for him to bear. 

 For was he not generous with that lime 

 Spreadin' a ton that he bought on time? 



But the neighbors knew what Jud didn't 



ken, 

 That instead of a ton he should use ten. 

 Two to the acre they knew was right. 

 An' anythin' less was much too light 

 To get results on land so sour 

 It couldn't pay labor ten cents an hour. 



Spec. 



Massachusetts produces annually about 

 1,600,000 bu.shels of onions with a total 

 value of about $1,400,000. 



A man too busy to take care of his 

 health is like a mechanic too busy to take 

 care of his tools. 



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JUNE 21, 1926 

 NEW IMPROVED FORD PRICES 



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Why Dairymen Grain 



Cows When Grain 



Is High 



Il.ippily the time \\a.s gone by 

 \vh<'ii dairymen need to be told that 

 dairy cows retjuire grain to make 

 milk in profitable ciuantitie.s month 

 after month. Today it \s generally 

 understood that grain is an impor- 

 tant part of the cow ration, and the 

 tiue.stion with mc^t farmers is the 

 selection of the grain. The most 

 successful dairymen feed frain the 

 ye.ar round, whether it is high or 

 low, because they know that profits 

 depend on maintaining full milk pro- 

 duction, and that full milk produc- 

 tion demands grain. They figure it 

 something like this: 



With good roughage they can pro- 

 duce milk economically and in quan- 

 tity feeding from one pound of grain 

 to three pounds of milk produced to 

 one pound of grain to five pounds of 

 milk produced. When grain rises 

 .$10.00 a ton, i,4c a pound, the added 

 grain cost in making milk amounts 

 to a little more than one and one- 

 half mills per pound, three mills per 

 cjuart when grain is fed on the one- 

 to-three basis, and only one mill per 

 pound, two mills per Quart, when 

 grain is fed on the one-to-five basis. 

 Why should dairymen stop making 

 as much milk as possible for which 

 they are sure to get not less than 3c, 

 .and in some cases 10c and 12c a 

 quart, just because the cost of grain 

 needed to give that maximum pro- 

 duction goes up two or even three 

 mills per quart? As a matter of fact 

 most dairy rations have been $2.00 a 

 ton higher this August than they 

 were last, and are actually $2.00 a 

 ton under August 1925. 



The selection of the grain is the 

 important thing because the few 

 mills invested in the right grain ra- 

 tion increase the return in milk 

 several cents. The question is "Which 

 combination of grain will make me 

 the most quarts of milk for the small 

 sum I pay for grain per quart of 

 milk?" The steady increase in the 

 demand for Eastern States Rations 

 in the face of rising markets and the 

 keen competition shows that more 

 and more dairymen believe the East- 

 ern .States Rations do this very thing. 



Where records are kept EiiKfern 

 State.H Open Fornniln Feeds prove 

 their \vi»r<h. 



For information on the Eastern 

 States teed service for horses and 

 poultry as well as dairy cattle, the 

 service which should not be confused 

 with car door service offered by 

 manufacturers through dealers or 

 groups of farmers, write the office. 



I Eastern States foraici's f}xch(uig« 



A non-.stoek, non-profit orgnnizn- 



tion owned nnd controlled l»y the 



farmerH it serves. 



Springfield, 



Massachusetts 



