HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARMERS' MONTHLY 



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OLD DEERFIELD 



FERTILIZERS 



•Reasonable in Dollars and ^»'n\e" 



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A. W. HIGGINS, Inc. 



SOUTH DEERFIELD, MASS. 



Telephune 140 



Ooodyear Service Station 



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 6C KIXG STREET Tel. I29.'i-M 



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NORTH A M I'TOV, MASS. 



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GEORGE H. BEAN 



AUCTIONEER 



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j Handles auction sales of farms, 



I farm equipment, furniture, tools, 



I in fact anything and everything 



I that is salable. Let me take care 



: of your sale from preparation of 



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JUNIOR SCHOOLS AT M. A. C. 



Dept. of Horticultural .Manufactures 



During two weeks in .June, 192.3, the 

 I -Junior Service in cooperation with the 

 Department of Horticulture Manufac- 

 tures can-ied on three Laboratory Schools 

 in Food Preservation for .Junior Club 

 Leaders and Members. Each of these 

 Schools was two and one-half days in 

 length thus giving five 21 hour labora- 

 tory sessions and also time for round 

 table and summary meetings. The lab- 

 oratory sessions were packed full of 

 actual practice and in this brief space of 

 time a vei-y comprehensive and well 

 rounded .series of problems was studied. 



I'lmUry I'liinters 



Continued from page 1. column 1 

 culling gives an opportunity to thoroughly 

 clean and disinfect the laying houses. 

 Clean Houses Thoroughly 



The thorough cleansing of a poultry 

 house is no small task, especially when 

 so many of them have dirt floors. The 

 first operation, which usually is the last 

 on too many farms, is to sweep down the 

 building and to remove the accumulated 

 filth. This really is just a beginning. 

 With diit floors the sand or gravel should 

 be taken out till fresh earth is reached. 

 The whole floors should be disinfected 

 with a solution of 2 ounces of corrosive 

 sublimate in 15 gallons of water. One 

 gallon of this solution should be used on 

 every 10 square feet of floor space. For 

 e.xample a house 16 x 20 would need 32 

 gallons of solution to be entirely effective. 

 It would be well to thoroughly disinfect 

 the di'op boards with this same solution. 

 The walls and nests should be sprayed 

 with a coal tar disinfectant and then 

 white washed. Then fresh sand for the 

 floor should be biought in. 



Moving Means Vacation 



Pullets always take a vacation when 

 they are moved. Such being the case it 

 is good business to have them take this 

 vacation before egg production starts. 

 They should be in winter quarters when 

 they are twenty-four weeks old, then the 

 vacation is on their own time and not at 

 the expense of egg production. Another 

 point of importance is that pullets will 

 do better if confined to the hou.ses than 

 they will if allowed to have yard room. 

 Naturally it is necessary to provide 

 proper houses and adequate ventilation. 

 At this time of year the windows in the 

 back of the laying houses are a great 

 help to ventilation and later on they re- 

 move the necessity of pulling the litter 

 out from under the dropping boards. 



It is impoi'tant to provide plenty of 

 litter and about twice as much green feed 

 as you think is necessary. If the pullets 

 have come from a good range, they have 

 been able to get this themselves. The 

 usual practice is to under-estimate their 

 needs. 



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C. H. PIERCE, Vice-Presideni 



EDWIN K. ABBOTT, Cashier 



J. MALCOLM WARREN, Ass't. Cashier 



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 DEPOSITS, $3,300,000 



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FOR 



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 vegetable grower 



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 NORTHAMPTON 



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