HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARMERS' MONTHLY 



FARMERS' EXCHANGE 



For Sale: Rhode Island Red Cockerels — 

 g:ood color, price $2.50. .Jame.-; H. Loud, 

 Williamsburg, Mass. 



BUYING PROPER FERTILIZER 



SAVES FARMERS MONEY 



Massachusetts lixperts (live Official 

 Figures 



In the Annual report of the Massachu- 

 setts Experiment Station, Official Chem- 

 ist H. D. Haskins states: — 



"It is estimated that the plant-food 

 bought by Massachusetts' farmers in 

 1921, in form of low analysis fertilizers 

 cost them about $94,001) more than if it 

 had been bought in the form of high 

 analysis mixtures. To this should be 

 added the extra cost of freight, cartage 

 and labor." 



The report covers the first six months 

 of 1921, during which period 54,370 tons, 

 about 90', < of the year's consumption of 

 fertilizers, were purchased. 



The.se are some of the interesting facts 

 brought out by the stations figures: — 



About 70',v of the total tonnage, 

 (37,600 tons) was mixed goods, of which 

 i)?j'/r, (35^00 tons), was complete fertili- 

 zer, i. e., contained annnonia, phosphoric 

 acid and potash. 



Nearly 26,000 tons or 73' r of the com- 

 plete fertilizers were high analysis. 97'/^ 

 of them were carried in 24 brands. 



According to the report — "36' y of the 

 total tonnage of mixed fertilizer was de- 

 rived from grades recommended for the 

 East by the Soil Improvement Commit- 

 tee of the National Fertilizer Association; 

 and over 64';'f of the total tonnage de- 

 viated by l','< only in nitrogen, phosphoric 

 acid, or potash from grades thus recom- 

 mended." 



GEORGE H. BEAN 



AUCTIONEER 



Haiidle.s auetion sales of farms, 

 farm eciiiipment, furniture, tools, i>i 

 fact anything- and everything that 

 is salal)le. 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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House and olfice phone connection 



' Continued from ym^t- 1. rolunm :! 



\ removes the possibility of the imposition 

 of tax penalties upon those who improve 

 their land by forest planting. 



Profes.sor Grose estimates the cost of 

 planting white pine on an acre of idle 

 brush land in this State as $22, exclu- 

 sive of the land value. Trees secured 

 now from the State Department of 

 Forestry cost $10 a thousand, and a 

 thousand will plant an acie. The pros- 

 I pect is that $9 will be the price next 

 year. The planting can be done by a man 

 and a boy at the rate of an acre a day. 

 Besides the planting there is the expense 

 of cutting over the aiea, to give the white 

 pine a start over the native hard woods. 

 I Three cuttings, Professor Grose figures, 

 [will ordinarily be sufficient, and he esti- 

 mates the cost of each cutting as one 

 day's labor. 



j So for the farmei- who owns waste land, 

 ! and who needs scarcely figuie compound 

 'interest on his own or his hired man's 

 'labor, a very modest investment will plant 

 ja considerable area of land which may be 

 too grown up to brush or too generally 

 rocky to permit of profitable use for 

 I pasture. 



I White pine grow.s into profitable boards 

 in forty yeai's, when at present prices 

 $200 to $400 an acre is not too much to 

 exjject for stumpage." Professor Grose 

 believes that present prices will not pre- 

 vail forty years hence, and he is further 

 urging that half-grown timberland has a 

 decided value. "Not the least of the re- 

 turns to be expected from forest planting 

 is the pleasure of watching trees grow," 

 he says. 



As an investment for the education of 

 his children, many a farmer might very 

 well consider the development of some idle 

 acres by planting a woodlot. 



COMMUNITY MEETINGS 



Community nieetiiig- wei-e held in 

 Go.shen, Prescott, Pelham, Worthington 

 Gi-eenwich and Cummington during De- 

 cember. At these meetings the Agents of 

 the Extension Service put on an enter- 

 tainment which was well received. Then 

 the men and women divided into sections 

 and discus.-ed woik which had been 

 done during the past year and planned 

 work for 1923. Other towns having 

 community meetings scheduled are South 

 Amher.st, Huntington, Chesterfield and 

 Easthampton. There ai-e just two 

 i-easons foi- these meetings: (1) To give 

 all the people of the town the benefit of 

 the experience of people who have car- 

 ried on local demonstrations; (2) To plan 

 work foi- 1923 which will be a step 

 toward solving local faim and home piob- 

 lems. If your community program of 

 work is not what it should be, one of the 

 first cjuestions to ask yourself .should be, 

 "What did I do to help make a worth 

 while program?" If you did your part 

 and did not get results, write to the 

 County Agent befoi'e acting as a wire- 

 less broadcasting station. 



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(.:. H. PIERCE. Vice-President 



EDWIN K. ABBOTT, Cashier 



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