HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARMERS' MONTHLY 



OLD DEERFIELD 



FERTILIZERS 



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111 session twelve montlis in 

 the year. Students adniitted 

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 when c-onijietent . 



Greater demand and better 

 salaries for business » trained 

 men and women than ever be= 

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JOSEPH PICKETT, Principal 

 76 Pleasant St., Northampton, Mass. 



Continued from page 1. c;olnmii 1 

 tatoes have been obtained showing the 

 following results: 1, Selected better than 

 Certified; 3, Selected equaled certified 

 seed; 18, certified better than selected 

 stock or home grown seed. 



In April, 10 demonstration meetings 

 were held to show how to disinfect seed 

 with corrosive sublimate and to show an 

 easier and quicker way of cutting seed. 

 As a result more men than ever before 

 have disinfected their seed potatoes. 

 Comparative demonstrations showed that 

 disinfected seed gave more marketable 

 potatoes per acre than untreated seed. 

 Six demonstrations showed that greening- 

 seed paid best on late planted potatoes. 



Blight control was carried on by 

 spraying with home-made Bordeaux 

 Mixture and by using Copper-lime dust. 

 Six men who sprayed every 10 days to 

 2 weeks were the only ones in the county 

 to get over 200 bushels of marketable 

 potatoes per acre. Eighteen men tried 

 dusting. Early in August all but six had 

 blight in the dusted and undusted parts 

 of the field. These six men kept the dusted 

 potatoes alive a month longer than the 

 undusted. The gain from dusting ran 

 from 21 to 85 bushels per acre, the 

 average being 58 bushels per acre. This 

 increase represented a labor outlay of 15 

 hours per acre and fi-om 150 to 200 lbs. 

 of Dust costing 8 to 10 cents per pound. 



Eleven demonstrations where 100 to 150 

 lbs. of nitrate of soda and double this 

 ' amount of Acid Phosphate were used on 

 ' good mowings showed that this practice 

 pays. Figures were obtained from eight 

 plots showing a gain from 1280 to 2880 

 lbs. of field cured hay per acre over un- 

 fertilized plots, the average being 1760 

 lbs. per acre. 



Nineteen pasture improvement demon- 

 strations are being carried on in 14 towns 

 of the county. From 400 to 800 lbs. of 

 acid phosphate per acre was applied in 

 the spring. Nine of these have been 

 going on for over a year and show an 

 increased amount of white clover on the 

 fertilized plots. Four of those started 

 this spring already show results. 



Demonstrations comparing acid phos- 

 phate with mixed fertilizers for corn on 

 manured land were conducted in 9 towns. 

 In all but two cases the acid phosphate 

 gave as good results as the mixed goods 

 at one half of the fertlizer cost. The two 

 cases where this was not true were on 

 poor land which had only a light coat of 

 manure. 



Eleven tobacco wildfire control demon- 

 stratons were carried on. All but one 

 controlled this disease in the bed by 

 dusting or spraying, yet practically 

 everyone had the disea.se in the field. 



Poultry Project 



Disease control has been the main work 

 with poultry. Last year three demon- 

 strations were carried on. This year 16 



Continued on paf^e 6, column 1 



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WM. C. i?ASSETT, President 

 F. N. KNI'IiLAiND, Vice-President 

 EDWARD L. SHAW, Vice-President 

 ELHEKT L. ARNOLD, Cashier 



