HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARMERS' MONTHLY 



Continued from pa^^f 5. column 'i 

 around the track. The floats then came 

 back to receive their prize ribbons. 

 After the awarding of float prizes the 

 Boy Scouts put on a very creditable drill 

 and stunts. 



Next came the Greased Pig Race. 

 There were two pigs, eight boys to a pig. 

 Botn races were mighty lively and 

 greatly appreciated by the crowd. The 

 pigs were won by William Chmura of 

 Hadley and Bernard O'Donnell of Bay 

 State. 



Then came the corn husking and onion 

 topping contest. The former was won by 

 William Chmura of Hadley, who hu.sked 

 sixty ears in five minutes. The corn foi' 

 the contest was supplied by Mr. .Josiah 

 Parsons of Northampton. John Desaya 

 of Amherst won the onion topping contest 

 by topping one hundred and seventy-nine 

 in five minutes. The onions were sup- 

 plied by Mr. Oscar Belden of Hatfield. 



The rest of the afternoon was given 

 over to the High School Track Meet. 

 This was in charge of Mr. L. L. Derby, 

 the track coach at M. A. C, and Mr. 

 Erickson the instructor at the city Y. M. 

 C. A. Ware High School won the Meet. 



Much credit is due to the state con- 

 stabulary for the splendid way they kept 

 the ti-ack clear throughout the afternoon's 

 program. 



Continued from pai^e -S. column 'S 

 As to growth, the bigger the tree, the 

 more fruit it had; and the fertilized trees 

 all grew larger than the unfertilized, the 

 manured trees largest of all. Dr. Shaw 

 concludes, as so many pomologists have, 

 that the nitrogen factor was the key to 

 the fertilizer responses. His manured 

 plot showed consistently larger yields and 

 correspondingly greater growth. The 

 two bone and potash plots followed, a.shes 

 coming ahead cf untreated trees. He 

 suggests that the small amounts of nitro- 



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COUNTY NOTES 



Recently I visited the eatern part of 

 the State and met a produce dealer I have 

 known for years. He stated that he was 

 buying Indiana onions because there was 

 no waste to them. Also that if the Con- 

 necticut Valley farmers wanted to stay in 

 business they should not continue ship- 

 ping rotten onions. He is only one 

 dealer, yet there are hundreds like him. 

 If we want their business we must do a 

 better job putting up onions. There are 

 good onions being shipped from the 

 County but too many poor ones get into 

 the bags and they hurt the reputation of 

 the whole section. 



Ellis Clark of Williamsburg had all his 

 poultry tested for White Diarrhea with- 

 out having a single reactor. It is time 

 some of the rest of our good poultrymen 

 who sell hatching eggs and day old chicks 

 got in line and had their flock tested. 

 The cost of this work per hen is small 

 yet the advertising value of the fact that 

 you have a clean flock is great. Appli- 

 cation for test should be sent to the 

 Massachusetts Agricultural College, Am- 

 herst, Mass. 



Manager Almon Howes of the Western 

 Hampshire Farmer's Exchange stated 

 that members of his organization have 

 igned contracts for 350 Tons of the 24yr 

 open formula Eastern States Dairy Ra- 

 tion. This surely is some .showing for 

 (he section and also shows that farmers 

 can cooperate. While the exchange has 

 only been in existence about two years it 

 has done a lot of business and has saved 

 real money for the members. Last spring 

 a large fertilizer order was handled and 

 certified .seed potatoes were brought in. 

 The Exchange has been of real service to 

 the farmers of the section. 



gen in the bone would have suflnced at 

 least in part to account for the fertilizer 

 stimulus secured from the potash plots. 

 And lime in the ashes could have released 

 nitrogen from the organic matter of the 

 soil. Ashes and lime and potash may 

 have stimulated nitrogen through stimu- 

 lating the growth of clover. 

 Under cultivation the unfertilized plot 

 leaped ahead, gaining rapidly even on the 

 manured plot, as the humus nitrogen of 

 the sod was made available. But the 

 residual effect of the manure told after all 

 treatment was stopped in 1916. Trees in 

 cultivation gave better growth and higher 

 production than those in sod. In sod the 

 sulphate of potash and magnesia gave 

 better results than muriate of potash ; but 

 with strip cultivation this difference 

 seemed to disappear. The quality of the 

 manured apples was inferior to that of 

 the apples grown under potash and bone 

 treatment, but the diff'erence since strip 

 culture has been used is considerably less 

 marked than it was when the orchard was 

 in sod. On ashes, the best color has pro- 

 duced, and on manure the largest size. 



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