THE FARMERS' MONTHLY, JUNE, 1928 



Fifty Pound Fat Producers 



Number Thirty-five 



The highest individual in butter fat 

 production for April on twice a day milk- 

 ing is owned by Pelissier Bros., of Hadley 

 while G. H. Timmons of Ware owns the 

 individual on three time milking which 

 made 85.2 pounds of butter fat. 



L. C. Le Due 

 C. M. Norris 

 T. C. Mara 



Poultry Diagnostic Service 



Will Be Resumed 



Avoid Overcrowding on Range 



well 

 then 

 con- 



* Milked three times daily. 

 Seven herds have an average milk pro- 

 duction of over 1000 pounds. 



There were fifteen herds with an aver- 

 age fat production of over 30 pounds. 

 Steele, Pelissier and Adams own the high 

 herds. 



On July 1, 1928 the poultry diagonostic 

 sei-vice will be resumed at the Massachu- 

 setts Agricultural College under the fol- 

 lowing rules and regulations. 



In order that the diagnostic service, 

 which was interrupted last summei-, may 

 be carried on again with less decomposi- 

 tion of specimens and with equal or better 

 service to all concerned, the following 

 instructions ai'e suggested: — 



1. Dead specimens should be 

 cooled out promptly after death, 

 packed in air tight, preferably tin 

 tainers and well wrapped in paper. 



2. Parcel post and express packages 

 should be prepaid, marked PERISH- 

 ABLE and addres.sed to the DEPART- 

 MENT OF VETERINARY SCIENCE, 

 Massachusetts Agricultural College, Am- 

 herst, Mass. Delayed delivery frequently 

 is responsible for a condition of specimens 

 which makes satisfactory examinations 

 impossible. Most of the specimens which 

 have spent either Saturday and Sunday 

 or holidays in the mail are decomposed 

 and unsuitable for examination on arri- 

 val; therefore shipment on Friday or 

 Saturday should be avoided. 



3. A specimen (shipment) consisting 

 of not more than five chicks or two adult 

 birds from one farm will be examined for 

 two dollars ($2.00). A check or money 

 order payable to the Treasui-er of Massa- 

 chusetts Agricultural College should 

 accompany a letter of history sent at the 

 same time the specimen is shipped. 



4. Suggested points for the letter of 

 history are source (purchased or home- 

 hatched), age, suspected causes of the 

 trouble, when the first signs of disease 

 appeared, number affected, number ex- 

 posed, and nature of corrective measures 

 applied. 



5. If in doubt regarding incubation, 

 brooding, feeding, housing and other 

 points of poultry husbandry, you will re- 

 ceive more prompt attention by consulting 

 either the Department of Poultry 

 Husbandry, Massachusetts Agricultural 

 College, Amherst, or your County Ex- 

 tension poultry specialists. 



6. Beginning July 1, 1928 we .shall be 

 able to do diagno.^tic work under the 

 above conditions. 



A range condition where one has not 

 over 400 pullets per acre is desirable and 

 even more range is beneficial to the birds. 

 Since the birds like to range in the early 

 morning it is important that the Tolman 

 shelters or other range shelters be opened 

 at an early hour. Shade is essential 

 somewhere on the range and corn or sun- 

 flowers are suitable providing they are 

 I protected until they reach sufficient 

 height to avoid the birds eating them. Be 

 sure that the birds are getting sufficient 

 green feed. 



The leaders in egg production for the 

 six months' period ending April 30, 1928 

 are listed below. 



County List 



Hampshire 



No. No. Prod. 

 Pullets Pullets Per 

 Nov. 1 Apr. 30 Pullet 



380 129.9 

 214 120.0 

 312 119.0 



Governor Signs Bill 



Continued from page 1. column 1 

 eradication of the disease now exceeds 

 20,500,000. This last figure represents 

 about 359r of the total cattle in the 

 country which shows the progress that the 



John Bloom, Ware, 450 

 P. L. Wheelock, Am'st, 315 

 F. D. Steele, Cum'ton, 347 

 Mrs. A. G. Eldridge, 



Amherst, 150 120 104.0 



S. E. Clark, Wills'burg, 45 32 87.6 



^•tjite I^i.st.s 



Large Flocks with- 1,000 Pullets or More 

 Homer Rowell, Essex, 1101 *1834 100.1 

 Peckham P. F., Bristol, 1900 1170 98.8 

 Elm Tree P. F., Ply'th, 2504 

 Monroe &Nepper, Ply., 1709 

 C. C. Rayner, Mid'sex, 1005 

 M. R. .Jones, B'stable, 1014 



E. H. Small, B'.stable, 1614 



Large Flocks with 500 to 999 Pullets 

 C. M. Williams, B'stable, 525 344 100.7 

 A. S. Pendleton, Essex, 611 589 99.1 

 L. E. French, Plymouth, 

 C. N. Ward, Bristol, 



F. Porebski, Plymouth, 

 A. E. Elwell, Essex, 

 F. F. Barnes, Plymouth, 850 *606 *85.8 



Small Flocks90 to i99 Pnllets 

 John Bloom, Hampshire, 450 380 129.9 

 P. L. Wheelock, Hamp., 296 214 120.0 

 F. D. Steele, Hampshire, 347 312 119.0 

 R. E. Wheeler, Worcester, 350 340 106.7 

 R. L. Clapp, Middlesex, 131 101 105.0 

 Mrs. A. G. Eldridge, 



Hamp.shire, 150 120 104.2 



L. H. Lindsay, Middlesex, 310 280 102.3 



*A11 females. 



T. B. campaign is making. 



Hampshire County Making Progress 



In 1927 there were 324 herds tested in 

 the county representing 5,006 cattle with 

 only 368 reactors or a percentage of re- 

 actors of 7.3. Of these herds 224 were 

 tested for the first time which is a higher 

 number of first tests than any county in 

 the state for 1927. 



