HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARMERS' MONTHLY 



OLD DEERFIELD 



FERTILIZERS 



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Farmers' Week at M. A. C. 



Continued from paKt" 8, column 1 

 herst, whose farm and storage house the 

 fi-uit growers will visit Wednesday after- 

 noon; Prof. W. R. Cole, who will talk 

 on apple storage and Donald Howes of 

 Ashfield, a graduate of M. A. C. and a 

 fruit grower. Mr. Howes' subject is, 

 "Getting Dollars out of Cull Apples". 



All the fruit growers' talks will be 

 given under the pines near the cold 

 storage plant. A consideiable part of 

 the program will be spent in the college 

 orchards, vineyards and small fruit plan- 

 tations, inspecting the experimental work 

 in spraying, dusting, fertilizing and or- 

 chard management problems. The de- 

 partment of horticultural manufactures 

 will illustrate the use of apples removed 

 in thinning to make fruit products. Wed- 

 nesday morning, William L. Doran, who 

 has succeeded Webster S. Krout, in charge 

 of experimental work on apple scab in 

 Middlesex County, will lead a discussion 

 on the control of orchard pests, giving the 

 reports of the most recent experimental 

 woik on the subject. 



Poultry Program 



Every poultryman of the county will 

 find food for thought as well as inspira- 

 tion at the poultry session which will be 

 held .July 25 to 27, inclusive. At L30 

 P. M. Wednesday, "Marketing Poultry 

 Products" will be discussed by an able 

 corp of speakers, including H. B. Walker, 

 manager of the Atlantic Coast Poultry 

 Producers' Association of New York City 

 and Dr. E. W. Benjamin, Manager of 

 the New York Board of the Pacific Egg 

 Producers. 



The Thursday morning session takes 

 up "Producing the Flock" and includes 

 breeding, incubation and brooding. 

 Thursday afternoon is devoted to "Dis- 

 ease Control" at which time "Value of 

 Disease Control Demonstrations" "Con- 

 trol of Bacillary White Diarrhea," "Vac- 

 cine control of Chicken Pox and Roup" 

 will be thoroughly di.scussed as well as 

 the report of the certification committee. 



Friday's program includes "How the 

 New Crop of Poultrymen is being made," 

 "Latest Developments in Practical Voca- 

 tional training" and "Making the hen go 

 the limit by Feeding, Housing and En- 

 vironment." The final session is on "Put- 

 ting Poultry Keeping on a Business 

 Basis." 



Out of state speakers besides those al- 

 ready mentioned will be: Prof. R. E. 

 .Jones of Connecticut; Dr. M. A. Jull, 

 MacDonald College, Quebec, Canada; and 

 Dr. J. W. Fuller of Cornell University. 

 Onion and Tobacco Day 



Friday, the 27th, has been designated 

 as Connecticut Valley Farmers' Day. 

 The principal meetings on Friday will 

 be those of the Tobacco, Onion and A.s- 

 paragus growers, three important Valley 

 agricultural interests. The Tobacco and 

 Continued on page 11. odumn 2 



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