HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARMERS' MONTHLY 



OLD DEERFIELD 



FERTILIZERS 



" Reasonable in Dollars and Sense" 



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A. W. HIGGINS, Inc. 



SOUTH DEERFIELD, MASS. 



Telephone 140 



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NORTHAMPTON. MASS. 



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 the year. Students admitted 

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 salaries for business = trained 

 men and women than ever be- 

 fore. For catalogue and com= 

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JOSEPH PICKETT, Principal 

 76 Pleasant St., Northampton, Mass. 



FARMERS' EXCHANGE 



Rachel Randall (club membei') has 

 Beikshiie pigs for sale. These are out 

 of Eastern Belle 6th and Eastern Belle 

 7th, and sired by the first prize Berk- 

 shire boar at 1921 Eastern States. 

 Conthmed from page 1. coUiimi I 

 crease over selected stock. We do not 

 guarantee that certified seed will always 

 do this as there is selected stock that may 

 be as good as certified seed if you knew 

 where to get it. Unfortunately, or 

 otherwise, Hampshire County farmers 

 got selected stock last year that was of 

 decidedly inferior quality. This year 

 some of the selected stock looks good and 

 we have been fortunate in getting ten men 

 who are planning to plant certified seed 

 beside it. We believe we will obtain some 

 results that will be worth while. 



This year, just one dealer in the 

 County handled certified seed. Others 

 are watching the results this year. Most 

 dealers have not handled certified seed for 

 one or both of two reasons (1) That far- 

 mers will not pay the extra price for cer- 

 tified seed; (2) The profit from handling 

 certified seed is not as great as it is from 

 selected stock. In other words, it is up 

 to the farmers to demand certified seed 

 and then after it is ordered to take the 

 potatoes and not cancel the order even if 

 the price on table and selected stock does 

 drop. It is poor economy to buy seed 

 of unknown qualities when certified seed 

 may be obtained. 



This year every farmer who ordered 

 certified seed cooperatively paid his de- 

 posit with the order and paid cash for 

 the seed before the car arrived. There 

 are a few who were disappointed by not 

 ordering early enough but the majority 

 ordered early and may have the satis- 

 faction of knowing that while others may 

 have bought a little cheaper, no one got 

 any better seed. 



Five full carloads of certified seed were 

 shipped in to Amherst, Granby, Williams- 

 burg and Easthampton. The farmers of 

 Enfield purchased through the Hampden 

 County Farmers' Exchange while the 

 farmers of Greenwich bought direct from 

 the grower in Maine. Other individual 

 farmers have purchased Vermont certified 

 seed. 



There have been three cases in the 

 County where unscrupulous dealers have 

 sold selected stock as certified seed. Every 

 barrel of certified seed has a blue tag 

 stating that the potatoes in the sack have 

 been inspected twice in the field and are 

 ceitified to be practically free from 

 disease by the Maine Department of Ag- 

 riculture. 



One seed dealer has shipped potatoes 

 into the County which are certified by 

 himself. This is equivalent to pur- 



chasing a blank book and "registering" 

 your own stock and in this case was of 

 just that value. This dealer has hurt 

 his potato business in this county. 



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 F. .\. KNEELANI), Vice-President 

 EDWAKl) L. SHAW, Vice-President 

 ELBEKT L. ARNOLD, Cashier 



