HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARMERS' MONTHLY 



THREE 

 COUNTY 



FAIR! 



Northampton, Mass. 



OCTOBER 3, 4, 5 



Boys^ and Girls, Events 



Good Horse Racing 



Good Exhibits 



"BE THERE" 



GEORGE H. BEAN 



AUCTIONEER | 



! 

 Handles auction sales of farms, 



faiTO equipment, fumiture, tools, in 

 fact anything and everything that 

 is salable. Let me take care of 

 your sale from preparation of the 

 poster and advertising, to the col- 

 lecting of the last dollar. | 



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ALL KINDS OF INSURANCE 



Room 3 J60 Main St., Northampton 



House and office pfione connection 



(Jnntinxied from ]iapr.. 1. column 1 

 At Bruno Zenner's in Easthampton, the 

 .second Twiliglit meeting was held. Here 

 is was demonstrated that a bad Rhizoc- 

 tonia infection on seed potatoes could be 

 cleaned up by the corrosive sublimate 

 method. The seed before treatment was 

 the worst we have ever seen, yet the re- 

 sulting crop after disinfection is practi- 

 cally free from the disease. On another 

 field there was a comparison between dis- 

 infected and untreated certified seed. 

 Even with certified seed it paid well to 

 disinfect as was shown by a far better 

 stand on the disinfected plot. 



At Westhampton and Chesterfield, 

 afternoon trips were held. At the former 

 it was cleai'ly shown that when potatoes 

 are faithfully dusted, late blight can be 

 controlled. Ralph Bridgman and .J. R. 

 Clapp each left undusted plots in their 

 field. In both cases the undusted plots 

 showed .50':/ or more late blight while the 

 dusted parts showed less than 109!-. 

 Ralph Bridgman's field showed too that 

 it pays to green seed as a better stand 

 was obtained where the seed was greened 

 than where it was not. That Acid phos- 

 phate was as good as mixed goods for 

 corn on manuied land was shown by 

 Ralph Bridgman, Burt Bros and J. R. 

 Clapp. Mr. Hathaway weighed up the 

 products of his hay top dressing demon- 

 stration. Whei'e 100 lbs. of Nitrate of 

 soda and 100 lbs. of Acid phosphate per 

 acre were put on, the hay crop was in- 

 creased 1320 lbs. over the unfertilized 

 plot. Acid phosphate at the rate of 

 800 lbs. per acre has greatly increased 

 the amount of clover in H. M. Clapp's 

 pasture. 



On the Chesterfield trip, potato, corn 

 and pasture demonstrations were visited. 

 At William Baker's potato field, certi- 

 fied seed looked superior to that one year 

 from Maine and far superior to local 

 seed. Disinfection also paid on this field 

 as the untreated seed gave a very uneven 

 stand. At H. E. Sutherland's, certified 

 seed did not make the top growth that 

 seed grown locally one yeai- did. The 

 latter, however, showed a higher per- 

 centage of mosaic. That it pays to use 

 acid phosphate on good pastures was 

 clearly brought out at Fred Thayer's. 

 Here one part of the pasture received 

 400 lbs. per acre of acid phosphate in 

 May 1921. While the unfertilized part 

 showed some clover, the feed has been 

 fully doubled on the fertilized section. The 

 cows appreciate the fact by cropping the 

 fertilized plot far closer than the other. 

 Albert Damon showed that acid phosphate 

 equals mixed goods on corn where the 

 land is manured. The certified seed 

 showed best while local seed was the 

 poorest. At Chas. Munson's it was dem- 

 strated that late blight could be con- 

 trolled by using Bordeau Mixture applied 

 with a knapsack sprayer. 



Northampton 

 ^ National Bank ^ 



WARREN M. KING, President 



C. H. PIERCE, Vice-President 



EDWIN K. ABBOTT, Cashier 



J. MALCOLM WARREN, Ass't. Cashier 



CAPITAL AND SURPLUS, $718,niin 

 UEPUSITS, SS.:i"U,IH«J 



Savings Department 

 Interest Payable Quarterly 



We are qualified to act as Executor, 

 Administrator and Trustee 



Why not make your will appointing 

 this Bank as Executor? 



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Hatfield, Mass. 



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