HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARMERS' MONTHLY 



TOBACCO GROWERS WANT STANDARD 

 GRADES 

 Continued from pu^e 1. column :; 

 quotations on tobacco because of lack of 

 standard grades. We read in local items 

 that one man sold his crop for 45 cents a 

 pound, another for 6 cents. We all be- 

 leive our tobacco is worth 45 cents, but is 

 it? If we had standard grades we could 

 get quotations. These would set a value 

 on tobacco and bankers would know how 

 much they could lend on a specific crop. 

 At present established growers can get 

 credit not on their crop but on their own 

 credit yet a young man has no such op- 

 poi'funity. The Federal Government has 

 funds available for this work but this 

 state must duplicate it before it can be 

 used. This meeting adopted a resolution 

 favo'ing Standardization work and G. 

 Fred Pelissier of Hadley is following the 

 bill in the State Legislature. 



Dr. Anderson of the Mass. Agricultural 

 College has been working the past year 

 with Dr. Chapman on Wildfire. Experi- 

 ments have shown this is a disease and 

 can be largely controlled by seed bed 

 treatment. It must be controlled if 

 growers are to produce quality tobacco 

 and that is the only kind that will be 

 pro'itable for the next few years. 



The following contiol program was 

 g:iven: 



1. Save seed only from disease-free 

 plants. 



2. Sterilize seed using 1 to 1000 solu- 

 tion of corrosive sublimate. 



3 Sterilization of Seed Beds with 

 steam or formaldehyde or when the 

 disease has been in the beds the previous 

 year, change the location if practicable. 



4. Spray or wash sash, plank or cloth 

 "with foi'maldehyde. 



5. Spray or dust beds with a Bordeaux 

 type fungicide weekly from the time the 

 plants are the size of a dime until setting 

 is completed. 



6. Water beds only sufficiently to keep 

 the plants growing. Ventilate thoroughly. 



7. Set plants from disease-free beds 

 only. 



Copies of the above control measures 

 may be had from the County Agent. 

 These give full information regarding 

 control measures. 



The following will conduct disease 

 •control demonstrations : 

 Amherst — J. H. Collins, M. J. Nelligan, 



Robert Adams, Clarence Hobart. 

 Easthampton— H. J. Taylor, W. H. Han- 



num. 

 Hadley — H. J. Searle, G. Fred Pelissier, 



Edward Coffey. 

 Hatfield— Chas. Wade, .1. J. Betzold. 

 Williamsburg — W. E. Kellogg. 

 Southampton — IVI. J. iVIadscn, Fred 



Strong. 

 Demonstration meetings will be held in 

 every tobacco growing town to show how 

 different control operations are per- 

 formed. 



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THE SMITH'S AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL 



NOW HAS FIVE DEPARTMENTS 



The stu<lents in each depart- 

 ment are placed under two 

 types (if teacliers, skilled work- 

 ers and selected academic 

 teachers 



Tlie trustees have decided to 

 liuild a new school ))arn. The 

 lio.vs will do tlie work. 

 A new catalogue is just out. 



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