HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARMERS' MONTHLY 



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Spray thix Full for I.euf-Ciirl 



Continued from pagp In, coluniM I 

 (1) loss of leaves in the spring followed 

 by a new crop of foliage that year which 

 lowers the vitality of the tree; (2) partial 

 or total failure of trees to set or hold the 

 crop due to defoliation; (3) repeated loss 

 of leaves for several seasons, which 

 means the loss of the trees; (4) injury to 

 trees by the killing of twigs. This 

 disease is usually known by the sickly, 

 yellow, culled foliage which usually turns 

 red and di-ops off during the latter part 

 of June. It has often been called blister 

 because of the way the leaves swell and 

 curl. 



Fall spraying with concentrated lime 

 sulfur, one part to nine parts of water, 

 or diluted to a specific gravity of 1.03, is 

 the only sure method of controlling this 

 disease. Thei-e are two big reasons why 

 fall spraying is better than the same ap- 

 plication in the spring. The tiny spores 

 which carry the disease from one season 

 to the next pass the winter on the twigs 

 and buds and are within reach at a time 

 when the fall work is not too pressing. 

 As soon as the buds begin to swell in the 

 spring the spores are able to infect the 

 growing leaves and it is then too late 

 for any control at all. Secondly, there 

 are usually one or two warm, sunny days 

 in the spring, long in advance of the regu- 

 lar spraying season, when the buds start 

 to swell, making it impossible to spray ef- 



fectually at the usual time. 



Absolute thoroughness is essential as 

 you must cover every twig to get reason- 

 able control. If you aren't already 

 spraying with a definite system to reach 

 all the tree with the least possible steps, 

 figure out one and .stick to it. 



< OM( A4>countinM' Secret of Siioress 



<\)ntinued from page 7. oolnniti _ 



"Those who are not accustomed to 

 handling records and figures shy away 

 from it because it looks like a tremendous 

 task and a complicated process. But it 

 isn't, once you get into it. As a matter 

 of fact, determining the cost of egg pro- 

 duction is but little more tedious than 

 keeping a checkbook. Here is the rule: 

 Divide the value of feed used and other 

 expenses by the number of dozen of eggs 

 produced ; the result is the cost per 

 dozen. 



"Say your hens laid 2,630 dozen of 

 eggs last month and that you used $558.78 

 worth of feed and supplies. Dividing 

 .$558.78 by 2,630 gives us 21 1/3 cents— 

 the feed cost per dozen. 



"If you have hired help, dividing the 

 amount paid out by 2,630 shows the hired 

 labor cost per dozen. And so with all 

 other expense items. 



"But mind you, you are not concerned, 

 in these calculations, with the number of 

 dozen of eggs you sold, nor with the 

 amount you actually paid out for feed and 



other things. It is the number of dozen 

 of eggs produced, and the value of feed, 

 supplies and hired help used. 



"Try that out on your own results for 

 last month. If the figuring is too hard 

 for you, ask your boy or your girl to 

 work it out. If they aren't too far along 

 in .school they can do it. Most high 

 school graduates probably couldn't." 



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Filler, Freight and Fertilizer 



In last year's Fertilizer Pool, 83',/r of the mixed 

 goods tonnage was in No-Filler mixtures. 

 Most of our farmers realized that a No-Fillei- 

 fertilizer, compared with a lower analysis mix- 

 ture, carries more units of plant food, of higher 

 (juality and availability, at less cost per unit: 

 that it eliminates the inert "filler", useless in 

 the field and worse than useless on the bill of 

 lading. 



This is the way it figured out for them in the 

 case of 3-12-.3 NO-FILLER v.s. the regular 

 2-8-2: 



The purchase of a ton of 3-12-3 NO-FILLER 

 thus allowpd an actual saving of $7.63, or 179r, 

 over the equivalent amount 2-8-2. This differ- 

 ence is accounted for by the fact that it costs 

 less to mix, sack, and freight a ton of mixture 

 without /zV/f r.than the equivalent ton-and-a-half 

 ivith filler. When you buy low analysis mix- 

 tures, you take money away from productive 

 plant food, and put it into non-productive filler, 

 sacks, and freight. 



Watch for announcements of the new Fertilizer 

 Pool. The only mixed goods offered will be 

 3-12-3, 5-10-5, 5-8-7, 7-8-3, all NO-FILLERS, 

 and 4-8-4. These high analysis mixtures should 

 save you in purchase price, freight and crops. 



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