HAMPSHIRE COUNTY 





FARMERS' MONTHLY 



Vol. IX. 



NORTHAMPTON, MASS., FEBRUARY, 1921 



No. 2 



DAIRY FARMERS' SCHOOLS 



Intelligent Crop Production and 

 Feeding Featured 



Two hundred and twenty-two men at- 

 tended the eleven Dairy Farmers' Ex- 

 tension Schools held in the County during 

 ■January. Sixty of these men were favor- 

 ably impressed with the information pre- 

 sented and agreed to carry on demonstra- 

 tions. The information must have been 

 sound and reasonable to get 30 per cent 

 of those present to agree to try the prac- 

 tices. 



Dairy farmers have long known there 

 are two kinds of dollars: (1) the circula- 

 ting kind, which come in from the milk 

 check and pass on directly for grain bills ; 

 (2) the adhesive dollars which when once 

 received, stay in the farmers own pocket. 

 Unfortunately too few farmers have been 

 handling this last kind of money. Fortu- 

 nately there are a few farmers in every 

 town who have found the way to get 

 adhesive dollars. It is upon their experi- 

 ence that these schools were based. 



Intelligent Feeding 



Professor C. J. Fawcett of the Mass. 

 Agricultural College ably presented a 

 talk on "The Economical Feeding of 

 Dairy Cows." The basis of the talk was 

 the fact that the more milk a cow pro- 

 duces the more feed she must consume. 

 Cows producing from 40 to 60 pounds of 

 milk a day will return a handsome profit 

 on a large amount of grain. Unfortu- 

 nately thei'e are too few of these cows in 

 existence. It would be a simple problem 

 if every farmer had this kind of cows. 

 Grain could be fed in the proportion of 

 I pound of grain to 3 pounds of milk 

 with profit. 



Feeding Cows of Average Production 



It was brought out that the majority 

 of farmers have cows which average 

 nearer 2.5 pounds of milk per day. Ac- 

 cording to the rule of thumb, using grain 

 in the ratio of I pound to 3 of milk, the.se 

 cows would get about 8 pounds of grain 

 per day. If the cows weigh 1,000 pounds 

 and if they are eating 1.5 pounds of hay 

 and 30 pounds of silage per day, they 

 are getting about 12 pounds of digestible 

 nutrients from the roughage. With 8 

 pounds of grain, more nutrients are sup- 

 plied than are needed for milk production. 

 Continued on page S. column 2 



LEFT TO RIGHT — OSBORNE WEST OF H.MJLEY; DENNETT HOWE OF AMHERST; N. F. 

 WHIPPEN, COUNTY CLUB AGENT; ROGER WEST OF HADLEY ; HORACE BABB OF HADLEY. 



HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT 

 PROJECT PROGRESSES 



stress Laid on Need of House\\i\es 



Having Hquipment Well Arranged 



and fiond Working Conditions 



in Kitchen 



Review of work given at Extension 

 Schools by Mrs. Harriet Haynes, State 

 Specialist: 



What is it that takes away "that 

 schoolgirl complexion," the springy step, 

 and enthusiasm for her work from the 

 housewife? It is the everlasting stoop- 

 ing, bending, kneeling, and scrubbing 

 where thought has not been given to the 

 problem of labor-saving in the home. 

 Manufacturing concerns, great and small, 

 spend time and money devising ways and 

 means of saving labor, but too often little 

 consideration is given to the necessity of 

 sparing the workei- in the home. 



"It's not the jumping 'urdles that 'urts 

 the 'orses 'oofs; it's the 'ammer, 'ammer, 

 'ammer on the 'ard 'ighway." .Just so, it 

 is not the cooking, washing, cleaning that 

 wears out the housewife, it is the constant 

 stooping over a sink, work table, or stove 

 which is too low. 



What is the remdy? Furniture isn't a 

 fixed thing, not even sinks with plumbing 

 ContiiUKMl iin priKo 1, cnlMniii :; 



i POULTRY TEAM 



' TAKES SECOND 



Club Boys show ability at New York 



The team of poultry judges including 

 Roger and Osborne West and Horace 

 Babb of Hadley and Dennett Howe of 

 Amherst retui-ned from the National 

 Poultry Show at Madison Square Gar- 

 ! dens. New York City, as second winners. 

 The New York team won first place and 

 , Connecticut and Virginia tied for third. 

 The scores of the teams wore as follows : 



New York 1490 



Massachusetts 1 390 



Connecticut) 



Virginia ) 1180 



Even though our boys didn't come out 

 on top we are confident that they know 

 the good qualities of a bird, and that they 

 can pick out laying hens. Our purpose 

 in encouraging poultry judging to enable 

 them to do the thing mentioned in the 

 preceding sentence. 



In New York the boys stayed at the 

 Prince George Hotel and saw as much 

 of the city as they could for the time 

 there. They wei-e interested in the 

 Aquarium and Bronx Zoological Park. 

 They went up to the top of the Woolworth 

 Building and went twice to theatres. The 

 American Museum of Natural History 

 where six stories of an immense building 

 (''>ntinupd on p.-iRi- 7. rolunin I 



