HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARMERS' MONTHLY 



OLD DEERFIELD 



FERTILIZERS 



' Reasonable in Dollars and Sense" 



MANUFACTURED BY 



A. W. HIGGINS, Inc. 



SOUTH DEERFIELD, MASS. 



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COMMERCIAL 



COLLEGE 



"THE SCHOOL OF THOROUGHNESS" 



111 se.ssioii twelve iikhiIIis in 

 the year. StudeiU^ admitted 

 at any time and graduated 

 when ccinipetent. 



Greater demand and better 

 salaries for business = trained 

 men and women than ever be= 

 fore. For catalogue and com= 

 plete information address 



JOSHPH PICKHTT, Principal 

 76 Pleasant St., Northampton, Mass. 



FALL PLOWING 



Has Many Advantages 



Fall plowing for oats and other spring 

 seeded crops has many advantages. In 

 the first place, it can be done when, as a 

 lule, the men and teams are not so badly 

 rushed as they are in the spring, par- 

 ticularly when the season is late or rains 

 interfere seriously with spi'ing jjrepara- 

 tions for seeding. 



Oats and barley, further, may be 

 seeded earlier on fall plowed land than 

 where one must wait for the soil to dry 

 out for spring plowing. Another point 

 in favor of spring plowing is that less 

 work is required during the spring rush 

 to prepare a seed bed, and a better seed 

 bed is usually obtained. Oats make the 

 best yield in the warmer sections when 

 seeded early, so the importance of a mini- 

 mum of spring work to get a good seed 

 bed is apparent. During the present 

 season, early seeding was parUcularly 

 important. 



Effect on Plant Food 



Pall plowing, again, permits stubble 

 and other organic matter turned under 

 to rot in the fall, so its plant food may 

 be available for the crops earlier the 

 following season than is possible when 

 plowed under in the spring. 



Very often fall plowing, especially 

 when done late in the season, aids in con- 

 trolling insect pests, by tearing up what 

 was intended to be their "winter 

 cjuarters". They are exposed to un- 

 favorable conditions which kills some of 

 them. 



Heavy soils, when fall plowed, are im- 

 pi-oved in tilth by exposure to the hot sun 

 of late summer and to freezing and thaw- 

 ing during the winter and spring, making- 

 it possible to produce a better seed bed 

 than with spring plowing. 



Some Precautions 



When plowing in late summer or very 

 early fall it might be well to put on a 

 light seeding of oats or a similar crop to 

 take and hold plant food which, due to 

 its soluble condition, might otherwise be 

 leached from the soil before seeding time 

 in the spring. 



It is seldom advisable to fall plow 

 rolling lands that are subject to washing 

 as much damage might occur in case of 

 heavy rainfall between plowing and seed- 

 ing time in the spring. Sandy soils 

 subject to blowing had better be left 

 covered by a crop or at least left un- 

 plowed, instead of exposing to the action 

 of the wind duiing the winter. 



Northampton 

 ^ National Bank ^ 



WARREN M. KING, President 

 C. H. PIERCE, Vicc.President 

 EDWIN K. ABBOTT, Cashier 



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Interest Paid on Special Accounts and 

 Certificates of Deposit 



We are qualified to act as Executor, 

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Ls at the bottom of most 

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 And when we get thru C-c-culling 

 Every hen in Hampshii-e County's going 

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