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HAMPSHIRE COUNTY 

 FARMERS' MONTHLY 



EB 2 3 1928 



•i cultural 



CollegG. 



Vol. XIII. 



NORTHAMPTON, MASS., FEBRUARY, 1928 



No. 2 



WESTHAMPTON DAIRYMEN 

 DISCUSS THEIR PROBLEMS 



Prof. .John P. Hclyar proved the truth 

 of the old text that "To him that hath 

 shall be given" at a dairy-agronomy meet- 

 ing held in the Westhampton Town Hall 

 on .January 25. Prof. Helyar applied the 

 text to the realm of crops when he showed 

 that productive acres are given only to 

 those men who put into the soil an 

 abundance of plant 

 food. 



In industry the 

 manufacturer has con- 

 trol over little but his 

 production costs and it 

 is in his production 

 costs that the farmer 

 must expect to gain or 

 or lose a profit. And 

 his money must be in- 

 vested in a crop that 

 will bring real returns 

 when it is fed to an 

 animal or sold to the 

 buying public. 



Cows Don't 

 "Give" Milk 



The fact that cows 

 give milk is a falsehood according to Prof. 

 Helyar for the farmer pays for every 

 quart the cow produces. And the farmer 

 who has high producing cows, fed with a 

 high quality roughage, is the man who is 

 buying his milk from the cow at the least 

 cost. 



All of which leads us to the value of 

 alfalfa, clover, sweet clover pastures and 

 real ensilage corn, any one of which is 

 improved by applications of lime before 

 seeding. The pasture problem was 

 thoroughly discussed with the consensus 

 of opinion being that some of the pastures 

 are furnishing little but fresh air, sun- 

 shine and execise to the cows. Of course 

 these are important but they make little 

 milk. 



R. D. Turner has tried clover pasture 

 with some success and .some are consider- 

 ing that the cows might as well bring 

 home some of the meadow hay while they 

 bring home three tons of alfalfa hay per 

 acre from land near the barn. 



M. J. G. Archibald of the Massachusetts 



Continued on page 2, column 3 



"I regard the 4-H work the most 

 important and significant develop- 

 ment in Agriculture in recent 

 yeai-s" — Frank O. Lowden, Presi- 

 dent, Holstcin-Friesian Association 

 of America. 



COUNTY FRUIT GROWERS 



HOLD ANNUAL MEETING 



SOUTH HADLEY BOY 



WINS STATE CHAMPIONSHIP 



Is Awarded Highest Honors 

 in Dairy Project 



Mr. George L. Farley, State Club Lead- 

 er, has just announced that C. Hilton 

 Boynton of So. Hadley has been awarded 

 the highest honors that can come to any 

 Dairy Club Member in Massachusetts 

 when he was awarded the State Cham- 

 pionship in the Dairy Project. 



A brief summary of Hilton's Achieve- 

 ments has been printed in these columns 

 before, but it will do not hurt to repeat 

 it in full, and add other facts of real 

 interest as an example to what any boy 

 can do if he has the necessary ambition, 

 ability and backing of his parents. 



Hilton -started his club work in 1923 by 



selling two pet goats in order to get 



money enough to buy a pure bred Hol- 



stein calf. This calf cost him $20 and 



Continued on page 6, column 2 



"The best time to control aphis is with 

 the customary delayed dormant spray of 

 lime sulphur, lead arsenate and nicotine 

 sulphate applied when the leaves are out 

 \-i inch," according to C. O. Roberts of 

 the Agricultural College who was report- 

 ing a talk by Dr. Parrot at the annual 

 meeting of the New York State Horti- 

 cultural Society. 



Mr. Roberts gave 

 the assembled county 

 fruit growers other 

 valuable information 

 gleaned from various 

 speakers at the N. Y. 

 meeting which he at- 

 tended. Among these 

 facts was that pear 

 psylla seemed to be 

 controlled by a 3% 

 solution of lubricating 

 oil emulsion applied as 

 a delayed dormant 

 when the buds are fat 

 but not green.. 



Want More 

 Deer Killed 



The county meeting 

 was held January .31, 1928 at the old Ex- 

 tension Service rooms in the morning with 

 dinner at Boyden's and a report on the 

 Union Agricultural meetings in Worces- 

 ter was given by Prof. Wm. R. Cole of 

 the college. 



Mr. Ted Crichett reported on the ap- 

 parently very successful hearing held at 

 Boston on a bill which will increase the 

 deer kill from one to two per person and 

 extend the season to two weeks. This 

 bill was introduced by the fruit growers 

 on account of the severe damage which 

 some of them suffered from deer. 



County Agent Wilbur T. Locke of 

 Hampden County told the growers some- 

 thing of what his county fruit association 

 is doing among the growers. According 

 to a study of cull apples made by Prof. 

 Gardner of Michigan, nine per cent of the 

 apples which fall below A grade are there 

 bocause of factors which are under the 

 growers control. 



Mr. Edward Searle of Southampton 

 gave a very enthusiastic report about the 

 Continued ofi pag'«,. 7. column _ 



