HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARMERS' MONTHLY 



Farmers' Week at M. A. C. 



Continued from pnge 1, column 1 

 ever been, may we suggest that you join 

 the growing number of farmers and home- 

 makers in Massachusetts who have the 

 Farmers' Week habit? Make a trip to 

 your state agricultui'al college this sum- 

 mer for Farmers' Week. You'll find it 

 worth while and you'll come again. 



General Farm Program 



A general farm program will occupy 

 the two central days of Farmers' Week 

 at the Massachusetts Agricultural College 

 this summer. The subjects that have 

 been given in separate dairying and live- 

 stock and farm ciop programs are 

 brought together in this one series of 

 meetings on topics that bear most on the 

 work of the general farmer who makes 

 milk and raises feed for his cows, and 

 some crops that he markets besides. 

 Wednesday and Thursday are the general 

 farm days. The meetings on Wednesday, 

 July 25, are on farm shop problems in 

 the morning and demonstrations of "Cow 

 Testing", "Selecting the High Producing 

 Cow" and "The Influence of the Pure 

 Bred Sire", in the afternoon. 



On Thursday, the 26th, the topics on 

 the general farm program are "Hay and 

 Silage Production", "Feeding the Herd 

 for Economical Production", "Farm Fer- 

 tility", "Should Massachusetts Farmers 

 Pool Their Milk" and "Profitable Dairy 

 Farming". Among the speakers ai-e E. 

 G. Woodward, Manager, Grassland 

 Guernsey Farm, Taconic, Conn.; Director 

 S. B. Haskell of the State E.xperiment 

 Station; Richard M. Pattee, director of 

 the New England Milk Producers Asso- 

 ciation ; Prof. J. A. Foord, head of the 

 division of agiiculture at the college; 

 and Prof. S. M. Salisbury, head of the 

 department of animal husbandry at M. 

 A. C. 



Fruit Program 



"More Fruit Per Acre" and "More 

 Kinds of Fruit for Massachusetts Or- 

 chards" are two ideas to be urged at fruit 

 growers' progiam to be held Tuesday and 

 Wednesday, July 24-25. 



The program as announced by Profes- 

 sor Fred C. Sears, head of the college 

 department of pomology, includes lectures 

 by Professor Wendell Paddock of Ohio 

 State University on "More Fruit Per 

 Acre" and by Walter R. Clark, a Milton, 

 New York, orchardist on "Diversification 

 of our Tree Fruits". Other speakers on 

 the fruit growers' program are Geoige 

 M. Darrow of the U. S. Depai-tment of 

 Pomology whose topic is "What is the 

 Matter with Raspberries", — Mr, Darrow 

 is said to be the leading American au- 

 thority on raspberries, — Wright A. Root, 

 President of the Massachusetts Fruit 

 Growers' Association, who will preside 

 at the fruit growers' supper, Wednesday 

 evening; Alfred N. Hulst, of South Am- 



Continucd on page !i, column 2 



FARMERS' EXCHANGE 



For S.ale: 6 weeks old, pure-bred Berk- 

 shire pigs. G. Fred Pelissier, Hadley. 



For Sale: 2 year old pure-bred Jersey, 

 fresh since April. Eunice Doerpholz, 

 Belchertown, R. F. D. 



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