HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARMERS' MONTHLY 



M. A. C. POULTRY COURSE 

 FOR HOME STUDY 



The poultry department of the Massa- 

 chusetts Agricultural College is now 

 ready to offer its new correspondence 

 course in poultry raising. 



This is an absolutely new course, based 

 upon a new idea in teaching poultry rais- 

 ing by mail. A.s.signments are to be 

 mailed you, if you enroll, on a weekly 

 schedule. We have prepared the course 

 upon a seasonal plan, and eveiy operation 

 will be discussed fai' enough in advance 

 of the season so that the assignment can 

 be completed and corrected before the 

 time for doing the work on your own 

 plant. 



We have no hesitation in declaring our 

 confidence that this new poultry course 

 will prove the most effective way to study 

 poultry raising by correspondence that 

 has yet been devised. It offers you the 

 exceptional opportunity of enrolling at 

 any time during the year and beginning 

 immediately upon the assignment for 

 that particular week, without delay, with- 

 out having to start on a part of the sub- 

 ject that is out of date for that season. 



The assignments will set you to work, 

 reading the references given, doing the 

 work reriuired among your hens or your 

 neighbor's, keeping records of the per- 

 formances of your hens, visiting suc- 

 cessful poultry plants and reporting on 

 the methods in use. You will learn to 

 do by doing, and by getting instruction 

 and criticism on what you do. The les- 

 sons take up the week-to-week work of 

 the poultryman. They make use of your 

 own flock as the college laboratory. 

 They put you in touch with the work 

 of successful poultrymen. 



We believe this is one best, most prac- 

 tical way to give a correspondence course. 

 And as the college is not in business 

 for profit, we can offer you this course 

 at the same fee charged for our other 

 courses, $5, which covers the average 

 cost of instruction in a Massachusetts 

 Agricultural College correspondence 

 cour.se. This gives you 57 lessons at 

 nine cents a lesson! 



It is expected that all students have 

 access, to poultry flocks and can do the 

 practical work assigned from week to 

 week. The value of the course depends 

 on the doing of the practices studied and 

 upon the use that is made of the criti- 

 cisms from the college upon reports sub- 

 mitted. 



It is expected that work will be done 

 during the week of the assignment and 

 reports mailed in promptly for correction 

 and assistance from the college poulti'y 

 department. One can enroll any time to 

 receive the assignment of the very next 

 week. 



The following is a sample of assign- 



Continui.'cl on page i), column 2 



TIMELY BULLETINS 



Have you seen the new Apple Spray- 

 ing bulletin issued by the Massachusetts 

 Agricultural College? It has several 

 changes from previous years and has 

 fine cuts showing the proper stage to 

 spray. May we send you one? There 

 may be others that you would like. They 

 are free for the asking! 



(Suipttp Printing (Co. 



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 Kortliantptun, fflaas. 



We Help 

 Fanners 



to Use 

 Concrete 



That is what the Portland Cement 

 Association is for — to tell people 

 the best and easiest way to use 

 Concrete, and to show how it can 

 save them money. 



No matter what permanent improve- 

 ments you need around your farm, 

 whetlier it is a feeding floor, manure pit, 

 silo, storage cellar or foundation, we can 

 give you simple, easy-to-follow instruc- 

 tions for making it of Concrete. 



Just write us and tell us how you are 

 thinking of using Concrete, and we will 

 send you the information you need free 

 of charge. 



You will be surprised to see how easily 

 you can build permanence into your 

 farm improvements with firesafe, 

 weatherpri-of, economical Concrete 

 construction. 



PORTLAND CEMENT ASSOCIATION 



10 High Street 

 BOSTON, MASS. 

 q4 National Organization to Improve and 

 Extend the Uses of Concrete 

 Offices in 24 Other Cities 



