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JAN 2 7 1928 



HAMPSHIRE COUNTY- 

 FARMERS' MONTHLY 



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Vol. XIII. 



NORTHAMPTON, MASS.. JANUARY, 1928 



No. 1 



TESTED HERD OWNERS OF 

 HAMPSHIRE COUNTY ORGANIZE 



A group of 38 farmers who have tested 

 herds and are interested in effectually era- 

 dicating bovine tuberculosis from Hamp- 

 shire County, met Friday December 16, 

 1927 at the Extension Sei-vice rooms in 

 Northampton to organize for more ef- 

 fective work. 



Organizations of such men have been 

 formed already in 

 Hampden, Barnstable 

 and Middlesex Coun- 

 ties with the likelihood 

 of similar groups be- 

 ing organized in two 

 more counties within a 

 month or two. 



The meeting would 

 tiave been attended un- 

 doubtably by at least 

 twice that number of 

 men but traveling con- 

 ditions were the worst 

 of the winter. 



Organization 



Mr. Harry L. Piper 

 explained the methods 

 of organization as al- 

 ready accepted by 

 three counties in the 

 state. 



The organization is to 

 "The Tested Herd Owners' 

 Hampshire County." 



May 1928 brings you new cars 

 and better roads; generous legisla- 

 tures, and twenty-eight hours a day 

 so that you can come somewhere 

 near accomplishing all your set out 

 to do and still have two hours left 

 to sleep. 



be known as 

 Association of 



MAKE OUR NEW OFFICE 



YOUR CITY HEADQUARTERS 



Its purpose is to promote bovine tuber- 

 culosis eradication in Hampshire County 

 and to cooperate with similar organiza- 

 tions in other counties in support of legis- 

 lation or activities of mutual benefit. 



Membership is limited to owners of 

 tested herds and to such other persons 

 interested in its welfare as may be voted 

 eligible by the executive committee. A 

 good example of the latter members would 

 be Prof. C. J. Fawcett of the Massachu- 

 setts Agricultural College and .Joe Cort of 

 the Department of Agriculture. There 

 will be but very few such members so that 

 the control of the organization will rest 

 entirely in the hands of tested herd own- 

 ers. 



Continued on page 3, column 2 ' 



Moved to 184 Main St. 



The Extension Agents now feel that 

 they are qualified to give a course in 

 "How and When to Move" with quite a 

 bit of humor thrown in as you go along. 



If any one has even said that moving 

 is hard work why we all three agree 

 very heartily but, we add, "good results 

 are achieved by hard work" That is just 

 how we feel about our new quarters. 



Come up and see for yourself for we 

 say our rooms have some very good points 

 to your advantage as well as ours. 



1. Cars can be parked indefinitely just 

 two doors above us in the rear of and be- 

 side the City Hall. 



Continued on pagre 3. column 3 



HEN LAYS 306 EGGS A YEAR 

 UNDER AVERAGE CONDITIONS 



Three hundred and six eggs in a year is 

 a record recently completed by a Rhode 

 Island Red hen at the Massachusetts 

 Agricultural College at Amherst. While 

 this record is not the best one made in the 

 state it is worthy of note, declares F. A. 

 Hayes, poultry research agent at the col- 

 lege, that this hen made her record with 

 no special care. 



Hen G-908, as she is 

 known at the college, 

 was hatched April 25, 

 1926, raised with other 

 chicks in a house vdth 

 coal brooder stove, and 

 placed on September 

 20 1926 in a 30x30 M. 

 A. C. laying house 

 with 226 other pullets 

 of the same age. She 

 remained there until 

 June 10, 1927 when 

 she was transferred 

 open air laying house, 

 remaining in this 

 house up to the time 

 when her record end- 

 ed, October 18. She 

 made her entire record 

 in this large flock. 

 These birds were fed 

 according to the re- 

 commendations of the New England col- 

 leges with the single exception that they 

 received whole corn and whole oats, each 

 fed in a separate hopper, and no wheat, 

 barley, or cracked corn in the scratch. 

 The green feed consisted of cabbages up 

 to December 1, mangels up to January 15, 

 sprouted oats up to May 30, fall sown 

 rye pasture to July 1, and after July 1 

 these hens grazed on oats and rape up to 

 September 1 when they again received 

 cabbages. 



The entire flock of 225 birds averaged 

 more than 200 eggs during the year. This 

 hen comes of a well bred strain, her dam 

 having a record of 229 eggs and a winter 

 record of 62 eggs. Her granddam had a 

 record of 110 winter eggs and an annual 

 record of 279 eggs. The daughters of the 

 dam averaged 229 eggs, and the daughters 

 of the granddam averaged 230 eggs in 



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