HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FAPwMERS' MONTHLY 



OLD DEERFIELD 



FERTILIZERS 



>*|{e:i.sunahle in Uolkir** and Sen.se" 



MANUFACTURED BY 



A. W. HIGGINS, Inc. 



SOUTH DEERFIELD, MASS. 



Teleplioiie 140 



Ooodyear Service Station 



BISSELL'S TIRE SHOP 



XOU'I'HAMHTON, MASS. 



Miller, Cioodvear and U. S. Tires 



Tires and Tub.;s 



Vulcanized by Steam 



FREE AIR 

 fiO KIXO STREET Tel. i:;!i:!-M 



GEORGE H. BEAN 



AUCTIONEER 



Handles auction sales of farms, 

 farm equipment, furniture, tools, 

 in fact anything and everything 

 that is salable. Let me take care 

 I of your sale from preparation of 

 I the poster and advertising, to the 

 I collecting of the last dollar. 



I ALL KINDS OF INSURANCE 

 I Room 3 160 Main St., Northampton 

 I House and office phone connection | 



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A NO-WASTE RANGE HOPPER 

 SAVES LABOR 



The M. A. C. Department of Poultiy 

 Husbandry has prepared plans for dis- 

 tributing in a printed leaflet (No. 76 

 of the Extension Service) for building 

 a No-waste Range Hopper. The design 

 shows a hopper !i ft. long arranged for 

 mash on one side and scratch feed on 

 the other and furnished plenty of feeding 

 space for 1.50 birds. The new type of 

 hopper is simple and duiable and eco- 

 nomical of feed. It can be adjusted also 

 to correspond to the increase size of the 

 growing chicks. Professor J. C. Graham 

 calls it the most important piece of equip- 

 ment next to the growing coop for the 

 poultry lange. 



To Sharpen Your Lawn Mower 



Briefly this whetting may be done as 

 follows : 



First change the pinion gears from left 

 side to I'ight side and visa versa. This 

 change of gears reverses the reel action. | 



Second, draw the knives together until 

 they are snug and the reel turns hard. 



Third, make a thick paste of medium 

 oi' coarse emery powder and oil. Spread I 

 this paste over' the bed knife and push 

 the machine about the yard, or better | 

 fasten the machine to a bench and re- 

 volve the wheel by hand. The supply ' 

 of emery paste must be often replenished 

 and the adjustment kept continually 

 snug. Usually twenty minutes of such 

 grinding will whet the knives so that 

 when the pinion gears are returned to 

 their proper side and the knives adjusted 

 the machine will cut as easily and well 

 as when new. 



Annual Spring Meeting 



t'uniinued Irorn pa^e 1. <:<)liinH) 1 

 tural problems. The duty of the agents 

 is not only to make information available 

 but to get people to put this information 

 into practice. There are several things 

 which the Extension Service is not. It is 

 not charity, neither is it peisonal ser- 

 vice. It is not vocational education as 

 the agents have not the time to give 

 individual farmers intensive training. 



The Extension program of work is 

 made up with the following principles in 

 mind: (1) It must meet a fundamental 

 need; (2) Value must seem to be real 

 to the people afl'ected; (.3) It should re- 

 sult in the general acceptance of prac- 

 tices recommended. 



If the Extension program is to be a 

 success, people must give thought to local 

 leadership and to the planning of a local 

 program of woik. Local programs are 

 based on sources of income and in their 

 foimation, natural opportunities have to 

 be carefully studied. 



H, D, SMITH 



Hatfield, Mass. 



GRAIN, COAL, ICE 



AND 



FARM MACHINERY 



Nurtliam;itiin iluatttuttnn 

 for i>autnijfl 



Incorporalfil 1842 

 A MUTUAL SAVIiSG.S BANK 



Deposits begin to draw interest 

 on the first business day of each 

 month. $1 will open an account. 



Your income from your deposits 

 in Massachusetts Mutual Savings 

 Banks is not taxable under the 

 State Income Tax. 



Open 9 A. M. to .3 P. M. 

 Saturdays, 9 A. M. to noon 

 Monday evenings, 6.30 to 8 



^^BiSJSieiSfsesis^^iSB^esiSiS^SBBKeag 



rilNOl NORTHAMPTON; 



^~~~ The Bank on fhe Corner ^~^ 



Assets over 

 Three and and a half million 



Savings Department 

 Interest payable quarterly 



WM. G. BASSETT. President 

 ElJVVAKU L. SHAW, \ icc-Prcsideiit 

 li F. X. KXEELAXD, Vice-President \ 

 I ELBERT L. AK.VOLK, Cashier 



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