HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARMERS' MONTHLY 



OLD DEERFIELD 



FERTILIZERS 



' Reasonable in Dollars and Sense' 



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SOUTH DEERFIELD, MASS. 



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JOSEPH HICKBTT, Principal 

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COUNTY NOTES 



We have seen a good many men recent- 

 ly who have been getting wonderful egg 

 production from early hatched pullets 

 during September and October. One 

 man got .55 to 65 eggs from a flock of 

 100 pullets, in October. With birds of { 

 this kind it is a problem to keep up pio- 

 duction and avoid a moult as the days 

 grow shorter. Moult and body weight 

 are closely related. The birds that moult 

 have usually laid themselves thin. To 

 avoid this condition keep youi' birds 

 gaining in weight every month. If you 

 find they are losing or just maintaining 

 their weight inci'ea.se the scratch feed. 

 Light, too, helps to ward off moult as the 

 birds eat more. Mark a few birds in 

 each pen, weight them every month and 

 then regulate your scratch feed so they 

 will gain every month. 



We all like to buy or to build new 

 things. Too often we could get along as 

 well if we made bettei' use of equipment 

 on hand. Ed. L. Schmidt of Belchertown 

 had little use for his barn but he did need 

 more room for hens. At a relatively low 

 cost he has remodelled the south side of 

 his barn so that he has four pens which 

 hold 125 birds each and still has ample 

 storage left. He is well pleased with the 

 results and would be glad to show you 

 what he has done. William H. DeWitt of 

 South Hadley is doing the same thing. 

 It seems that the old idea that hens would 

 die on a wooden floor especially if it was 

 on the second story is decidedly out of 

 date. 



Passing the buck was started early in 

 the history of man. You remember 

 Adam gave Eve all the credit in that Ap- 

 ple episode. With a poor crop of po- 

 tatoes in the county many farmers are 

 stating that certified seed is no good. 

 The same might be said of home grown 

 selected stock. We have seen some 

 mighty fine crops gi-own from certified 

 ."eed this yeai' in this county. We do be- 

 lieve, however, that more care should be 

 taken in puttng up certified seed. Did 

 your read the report of a Connecticut po- 

 tato trip recently in the New England 

 Homestead? It compared potatoes fiom 

 the same source as tho.se obtained in this 

 county with certified seed from other 

 .sources. It should be remembered that 

 potatoes do not do well, no matter what 

 the souite of seed, if they are grown 

 under conditions favorable to pond lilies. 

 Neither can you get a good crop if the 

 tops blight the fir.st of August. We be- 

 lieve thoroughly in the idea of certified 

 potatoes and we hope that the majoiity 

 of the potato growers have the same idea. 

 It is by no means the solution of the 

 whole problem but without good seed 

 there surely is little chance for a paying 

 crop. With potatoes stiffening in price 

 is it time to get these orders for certified 

 seed started? 



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