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HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARMERS' MONTHLY 



Continued from page- ri column 2 

 year the following timothy crop is bound 

 to be good. Then too, the soil is in better 

 shape for crops that follow. When the 

 crop is seeded again, the chances of suc- 

 cess are greatly increased. In some parts 

 of the country alfalfa may stay for years 

 but not here. Its greatest value will be 

 in a short rotation which should always 

 be used on light land. 



We would like to have one of these 

 plots in every town in the county where 

 conditions are favorable. In this you can 

 help by letting the County Agent know 

 at your earliest convenience. This may 

 help you and your neighbors. It surely 

 is woith trying. 



Offsetting Labor Shortage 



Continued from page 1. column 1 

 We have seen a man go into the lot 

 alone with his team, hitch on to the 

 loader, drive ahead until there was a lot 

 of hay on the wagon, stop the horses, 

 distribute the hay and then drive ahead 

 again and in this way put on a load 

 quicker than two men would usually do 

 it. He likes the rake type of loader 

 as this will elevate a bunch of hay to 

 the load before it needs distributing. If 

 one feels that he can only obtain one of 

 these pieces of machinery, let it be the 

 side delivery rake, but the two make a 

 combination that is hard to beat. 



Then there is the matter of spraying 

 potatoes. Most men absolutely will not 

 spray except for bugs because of poor 

 equipment. Satisfactory horse drawn 

 sprayers are on the market and with a 

 fair acreage one of these machines will 

 often pay for itself in a season like last 

 year. For men with smaller acreage 

 perhaps the best outfit is a hand duster 

 costing about $2.5. Others use a barrel 

 pump mounted on two wheels with a 

 spray boom behind. There are bound 

 to be rainy days before these implements 

 are used so why not get an outfit riggfed 

 up before it is too late? We know of 

 one man who has a power sprayer equip- 

 ped for spraying apple trees which he is 

 going to use also to spray his potatoes. 

 Every so often he has planted two rows 

 further apart than usual so that his 

 machine can be driven through the field. 

 We realize that all of these suggestions 

 will not entirely eliminate the need of 

 labor, yet they will go a long way to 

 reduce the necessity of extra help in rush 

 seasons. The labor situation this year 

 i-esembles a horse story we once heard. 

 "A man had a horse which he said only 

 had two faults: he was hard to catch 

 and wasn't much good after you caught 

 him." So it seems to be with labor this 

 year. Self help seems to be the only way 

 out and it is a problem worthy of serious 

 thought. 



LINCOLN . ^^^^y FORDSON 



One Can Not a — Ford 

 to be without a — Ford 



at these prit-e-s : 



CHASE MOTOR COMPANY 



NORTHAMPTON, MASS. 



24 Center Street Telephone 470 



NOW IS THE TliVlE TO REGISTER 



IN THE 



New Automotive Department 



AT 



SMITH'S AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL 



NORTHAMPTON, MASS. 



The trustees have secured a man with ten year's experience 

 to head the work. 



Boys in the Agricultural Department will have a year's 

 work under this expert. 



A group of boys will he admitted to a three years' course 

 of work on gas engines, lighting, ignition, storage batteries, 

 rear end repairs, etc. 



Boys will work on the leading makes of cars. 



WRITE TO THE DIRECTOR OR VISIT THE SCHOOL 



