JUL 2 r, 192? 



HAMPSHIRE COUNTY ^-01...^ 



FARMERS' MONTHLY 



Vol. VII. 



NOKTHAMPTON, MA 88., JULY, 1922 



No. 7 



FIELD DAYS AND PICNICS 



Attractive Program in August 



August is the month for field days and 

 picnics. This year the Faim Bureau, 

 Pomona Granges and the local Holstein 

 Club are holding meetings which should 

 interest every farm family of the county. 



The Market Gardeners' Field Day at 

 Lexington will be held Wednesday, Aug- 

 ust 2. Experimental work of value to 

 every gardener is being carried on. 

 Everyone should see the Manure economy 

 test; Asparagus test of Washington, 

 Mary Washington, Ai-genteuil and Pal- 

 metto ; Seed production ; Effect of Hubam 

 as a green manure crop ; Squash vine 

 borer control; Greenhouse tomato varie- 

 ties; Carrot blight control. The fol- 

 lowing demonstrations will be given 

 during the day: — Vegetable tying by 

 machinery; a test of costs of tying by 

 hand using different kinds of tying ma- 

 terials; selecting. plants for seed produc- 

 tion ; dusting for insect and disease con- 

 trol; plowing under green manure crops. 

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FARMERS' WEEK 



Program of Interest to the Whole Family 



The fourth annual Summer Farmers' 

 Week at the Massachusetts Agricultural 

 College announces for .July 25 to 28, 

 probably offers more interest to the 

 small farmer, the general farmer, and the 

 farm woman than any previous Farmers' 

 Week. 



"An afternoon in the flower garden" on 

 the 27th is arranged to fit into the women's 

 program, but it is also open to florists 

 and other visitors who wish to inspect the 

 perennial gardens at the college. The 

 Home Vegetable Garden discussion on 

 Thursday morning is also scheduled with 

 the farm home side of the program, and 

 is made distinct from the Market Garden 

 sessions on Friday morning. Two hours 

 on lawn making and lawn maintenance 

 will be offered as a demonstration by the 

 college grounds department the afternoon 

 of the 26th. 



Beekeeping, a subject which makes its 

 appearance on the Farmers' Week calen- 

 dar for the first time, is made a full 

 day's program, and conflicts with no ma- 

 jor farm subject. The farm .shop meet- 

 ing will consider gasoline engines, and the 

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INTEREST -f- C0-OPERATION:=SUCCESS 



FORAGE CROP TRIP 



Ware Farmers Visit Demonstrations 



Thirty-five Ware farmers attended the 

 first Twilight Field Trip held by the Ex- 

 tension Service this year. The object of 

 the trip was to bring to the attention of 

 the farmers of Ware the demonstration 

 work which is being carried on with for- 

 age crops by M'. D. Griffin and Frederick 

 Goodale. 



Starting at 6.30, Mr. Griffin's demon- 

 stration plots were visited. In the pas- 

 ture a fertilizing demonstration was 

 started three years ago in .June. There 

 plots were laid off and fertilized at the 

 following rate per acre: — Plot I — 300 lbs. 

 Acid Phosphate plus 700 lbs. gi-ound lime- 

 stone. Plot 11—300 lbs. Acid Phosphate. 

 Plot III — A heavy application of wood 

 ashes. On the dry knolls no benefit could 

 be seen on any of the plots but where 

 there was a fair moisture supply all three 

 plots showed an increase in the amount of 

 white clover. On all three plots the white 

 clover was growing through the moss. 

 On the unfertilized section the clover 

 plants were few and far between. The 

 way the fertilized plots were fed down 

 showed that the cows knew a good thing 

 when they saw it. On this demonstra- 

 tion the lime does not seem to have paid. 

 This spring Mr. Griffin has started a new 

 plot using acid phosphate at the rate of 

 800 lbs. per acre as he believes that a 

 Continued on page 2, column 1 



BIG RESULTS SHOWN 



Worthinjtton Room Girls 



For the last eight months nine Worth- 

 ington girls have had a "room club pro- 

 ject". This is a new project in Massa- 

 chusetts. The group in Worthington has 

 been not only "doing over" their own 

 rooms but have been trying to get sta- 

 tistics and work out a program of work 

 for other clubs of the same nature to 

 work on. 



Miss Alice Bartlett has been the local 

 leadei-. 



The girls have made waste paper bas- 

 kets, rugs, curtains, draperies, linens, 

 covered boxes, refinished furniture, 

 papered walls and painted ceilings, floors 

 and wood work. Some girls have done 

 all the things, others only a few. The 

 girls have worked with the material at 

 hand putting in work and thought rather 

 than money. 



On July 1st the rooms were finished 

 and the final inspection made. Mr. Fai-- 

 ley, State Club Leader, Miss Lucile Rey- 

 nolds of M. A. C, Mr.s. Mary Sullivan 

 and the county agent from the Hampshire 

 County Extension Service were guests 

 of the club. The rooms were visited in 

 the following order: Doris Mason has 

 worked out a scheme of blue and yellow. 

 Her sister, Winifred, has a very pretty 

 room of blue i-elieved with pink. Miss 

 Bartlett's room is in gray and yellow 

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