HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARMERS' MONTHLY 



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Continued from pa^e lu. (.'olumn 1 

 to run risks. Dry weather as a rule 

 means much less trouble from such dis- 

 eases as celery blight, lettuce bottom rot, 

 and similar infections. It is not safe, 

 however, to bank on the weather. Be 

 prepared. 



Plans are well under way for the Aug- 

 ust 8th Field Day at the Market Garden 

 Field Station. Many of the demonstra- 

 tions carried on the last two years will 

 be repeated because they seem to be worth 

 while. Home mixing of fertilizer is of 

 interest to the men as long as they are 

 interested in buying fertilizer, and an- 

 other demonstration of this will take 

 place. The simplicity of the making of 

 home Bordeaux, and the efficient handling 

 of the apparatus, is an important thing 

 for men who adopt it. We will be glad 

 to show this again. In fact, we will stand 

 ready to carry on any demonstration 

 within our power that is particularly 

 needed by market gardeners, if we have 

 a call for such. 



The garden tractor business is a year 

 older than it was the last demonstration. 

 Improvements have been made. The 

 labor situation means that many tractors 

 are being purchased. There will be sev- 

 eral on hand at the Field Station to show 

 improvements and method of work. Even 

 the demonstrators know more about them 

 today than they did a year ago. 



Farmers' Week at M. A. C. 



t'ontiiiued fiom page 9 column 2 

 Onion meetings come in the morning 

 when it is expected that one of the officers 

 of the Connecticut Valley Tobacco Grow- 

 ers' Association will report on the prog- 

 ress of his organization. The Onion 

 growers' meeting will consider a program 

 of farm management to which the college 

 department of farm management and the 

 experiment .station have recently given 

 careful study. An asparagus growers' 

 trip, similar to the very successful one 

 held last summer, will conclude the as- 

 paragus growers' session Friday after- 

 noon. 



The test of dates of planting field dan- 

 delions has showed some very interesting 

 results. From this one year's test, which 

 cannot be conclusive, indications are that 

 July 1st planting is better than later 

 plantings, and while the spread of the 

 plants grown from seed planted August 

 1 and 1.5, was nearly the same, the num- 

 ber of leaves and thickness and weight 

 of the leaves of the plants in the July 1 

 and July 1.3 sowings was sufficient to 

 make the crop considerably heavier from 

 the earlier sowings. This is important 

 to remember. 



GRAIN ORDERS POOLED 



In view of the current announcement 

 that orders for fall-and-winter delivery 

 of mixed feeds are now being booked 

 through the Eastern States 192.3 Feed 

 Pool, we feel some comment is called for 

 regarding the feed pool system, and its 

 originators in New England. For the 

 benefit of some who are as yet unac- 

 quainted with the scope and work of the 

 organization in question, we might sum- 

 marize it briefly as follows : 



The Eastern States Farmers' Exchange 

 is a non-stock, non-profit cooperative pur- 

 chasing association with headquarters at 

 Springfield, Mass. From 1918 through 

 1922, the Exchange purchased for New- 

 England farmers some 5y600 carloads of 

 feed, grain, fertilizers, seeds, and spray 

 materials, valued at $6,36.5,000. By en- 

 abling its member-farmers to buy their 

 "raw materials" at wholesale instead of 

 at retail as heietofore, it is striving to 

 put our agriculture on a par with indus- 

 try. 



The Exchange is credited with direct 

 savings of well over a million dollars to 

 its purchasing members, and with in- 



Continued from page 1. column 2 

 ripening fruit. The best measure to fol- 

 low is to keep the young stock confined 

 to small, clean yards during June. 



2nd. Observe the intestines. If they 

 show the ceca distended with yellowish 

 white cheesy or bloody matter and the 

 intestines full of blood this is coccidiosis. 

 Remove all litter from the colony house 

 and spray with a good disinfectant. Af- 

 ter the house is dry put in a litter that 

 can be replaced each day. All litter that 

 is taken out should be burned. Lime the 

 soil around the house and plow it under. 

 Feed sparingly. Dissolve one ounce of 

 copper sulphate in 10 gallons of water. 

 Use this for their drinking. 



3id. Examine all birds that die from 

 worms, by opening the intestines. 



Poultry manure should be kept in 

 screened manure pits. This is apt to 

 prevent a tape worm epidemic. . 



direct savings of upwards of ten millions, 

 in lowered competitive price-schedules, to 

 New England farmers as a class. By 

 following the recommendations of feeding 

 authorities, fostering the open formula 

 idea, and distributing thoroughly good 

 feeds, the Exchange has been able to im- 

 prove the feeding practices of many 

 dairymen and poultrymen. Its emphasis 

 on the ultimate economy in using quality 

 seeds, no-filler fertilizers, and pure spray 

 materials, has no doubt increased New 

 England crop-yields and crop-values, as 

 well. 



The annual feed and fertilizer pools 

 have comprised a large part of the Ex- 

 change's business. The pool idea, is 

 merely the purchase of a commodity in 

 quantity at what is considered the "low 

 swing" of the market in each year, for 

 shipment. 



Are you watching the results of your 

 seed quality with sufficient care to know- 

 where to buy and where not to buy for 

 1924? Now is the time to make the rec- 

 ords. 



The test of seeds from Boston seed 

 houses requested by the Boston Market 

 Gardeners Association is now under way 

 at the Market Garden Field Station. 

 Plantings have been made to bring the 

 product to as near maturity as possible 

 the date of our Field Day, so that we 

 may know which .strains supplied by the 

 Boston seed houses are the best. 



An ALL DAY FIELD DAY is the plan 

 this year as in the pa.st, and we will be 

 glad to see one thousand to fifteen hun- 

 dred Massachusetts market gardeners 

 present. Suggestions are in order. 



I DID YOU ORDER THRU THE POOL ? 



i The 1923 Feed Pool is over ; it is too late now to accept 



further orders on the Pool basis. However, those who failed 

 to participate in the special advantages of the Pool may se- 

 cure the same feeds, with others like them, at favorable 

 market prices throughout the year. Pool or no Pool, their 

 outstanding quality makes these 



EASTERN STATES OPEN FORMULA FEEDS 

 a good buy in any season 



Milkmore Dairy Ration 24'! Fitting Ration Chick Grains 

 Fulpail Dairy Ration 20 'l Egg Mash Growing Mash 



Economy Dairy Ration IG'c Scratch Grains Fattening Mash 



Write for information on any of the above 



I EASTERN STATES FARMERS' EXCHANGE 



Co-operative Distributors of Feed, Grain, Seeds, 

 Fertilizers, Spray Materials, Etc. 



SPRINGFIELD MASSACHUSETTS 



