HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARMERS' MONTHLY 



FARMERS' MONTHLY RAISE HEALTHY PULLETS 



PUBLISHED BY THE 



Hampshire County Trustees for Aid to 

 Agriculture 



STAFF 

 Roland A. Payne, County Agent 

 Mildred W. Boice, 



Home Uemonstriition Ageni 

 Noniiitn F. \Vliippen, Coiiiify Club Agent 

 Mjiry Diinond, Clerk 

 Mary Sullivan, Asst. Clerk 



Office First hjational Bank Building 



Northampton, Mass. 

 Entered as second class matter Nov. 9. 

 1915. at the Post Office at Northampton. 

 Massachusett-s. under the Act of March 

 8, 18?9. 



"Notice of Entry" 

 "Acceptance for mailing at special rate 

 of postage provided for in section 1103. 

 Act of October 3, 1917. Authorized Oc- 

 tober 31, 1917. 



I'rioe, ."O eeiil.»* a year 



Officers of the Trustees 



Edwin B. Clapp, President 

 Charles E. Clark, Vice-President . 

 Warren M. King, Treasurer 

 Roland A. Payne, Secretary 



Trustees for County Aid to Agriculture 



Edwin B. Clapp, Easthampton 

 Charles E. Clark, Leeds 

 Clarence E. Hodgkins, Northampton 

 Milton S. Howes, Cummington 

 Mrs. Clifton Johnson, Hadley 

 Warren M. King, Northampton 

 John A. Sullivan, Northampton 

 Charles W. Wade, Hatfield 

 W. H. Atkins, Amherst 



TAKING CHANCES 



You have undoubtedly heard the story 

 of the three men in the auto who were 

 discussing the possibilities of beating an 

 approaching train to a crossing. The 

 driver bet that he could beat the train, 

 while one of the passengers bet he could 

 not. Stakes were being set when the 

 third passenger ventured in a feeble voice 

 that he hoped that it would not be a tie! 



Potato growers face such a race every 

 spring in the question of the source of 

 their seed. Demonstrations in every part 

 of the county have proved conclusively 

 that Certified Seed beats home grown 

 seed. Certified seed has .seldom been 

 equalled by "selected" stock. Yet there 

 are men who "bet" that their own or 

 selected stock seed will give them a prof- 

 itable potato crop. Last year enough 

 certified seed potatoes were brought into 

 this county to plant 25% of the total 

 acreage. Results were indeed gratifying. 



This year you can get certified Green 

 Mountains, Cobblers and Spaulding Rose 

 seed from the following sources in this 

 County: Amherst, J. E. Merrick & Co.; 

 Easthampton, J. A. Sturges and Co.; 



Practical Plan to Control Infectious 

 Diseases 



The greatest obstacles to successful 

 poultry production are infectious diseases. 

 "These diseases are caused by living 

 virulent germs or viruses. To prevent 

 the occurence of disease is a problem that 

 can be solved only by the rigid applica- 

 tion of scientific facts. Often under the 

 excuse of being 'impractical' the energetic 

 use of pieventitive measures is relaxed, 

 and the plan of control, although itself 

 efficient, is brought into disrepute. There 

 is no 'royal road' to disease prevention 

 and even efficient measures applied in a 

 listless manner will prove disappointing." 



The above statement, enclo.sed in quota- 

 tion marks, is from the Monthly Bulletin 

 of the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion. Sermons, we have heard, are writ- 

 ten for the other fellow. This article 

 applies to every poultryman in Hamp- 

 shire County. 



History of Disease Control 



Professor Wm. C. Monahan of the 

 Massachusetts Agricultural College has 

 been advocating Disease Control work in 

 this county for three years. How far 

 has it got? In 1921, the opening gun 

 was fired at C. A. Drinkwater's poultry 

 plant in Greenwich. The trouble was 

 Paralysis. That yeai- Mr. Drinkwater 

 and W. A. Munson of Huntington were 

 the only poultrymen in the county who 

 had this trouble that controlled it! In 

 1922, fifteen poultrymen adopted the 

 measures recommended by Prof. Monahan 

 and carried on demonstrations which 

 showed that Paralysis in Poultry could 

 be controlled. In 1923, twenty-six poul- 

 trymen car-ried on successful demonstra- 

 tions. 



This, we believe, justifies the conclusion 

 that the solution of the problem is proper- 

 ly worked out. The further conclusion 

 can be drawn that the methods must be 

 practical, otherwise these twenty-six 

 poultrymen who had paralysis in their 

 flocks could not have successfully con- 

 trolled the trouble. The men who carried 

 on this work showed that "there is no 

 royal road to disease prevention." That 

 they were successful is due to the fact 

 that they applied efficient measures in a 

 thoi-ough manner. What these men have 

 done, any poultryman in the county can 

 do because the methods are simple, practi- 

 cal, and the cost is within the reach of 

 all. 



Granby, Earl Ingham; Northampton, J. 

 A. Sullivan & Co.; Williamsburg, A. D. 

 Howes, P. O. Swift River. Place your 

 order now. Don't take a chance that 

 there will be some left when you are 

 ready to plant. The best seed is needed 

 for a profitable crop. 



Healty Stock Necessary for Success 



It has been said that the successful 

 poultryman is one who can raise a 

 Healthy flock of pullets to maturity every 

 year. The purpose of disease control is 

 "to raise to maturity a flock of chickens 

 free from infectious disease and to dem- 

 onstrate a method whereby many old 

 plants may be reclaimed for profitable 

 service and the success of many unin- 

 fected plants be made to endure." Thus 

 this work is designed to make successful 

 poultrymen. It applies to every poultry- 

 man in the county. It will get those who 

 are having trouble out of it. It will as- 

 sure the continuance of success for those 

 who have thus far had no disease. 



Program Based on Prevention 



Everyone has heard the old adage that 

 "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound 

 of cure." So it is with poultry disease 

 control. The keystone of the arch is 

 Prevention. The practical application of 

 this is the first step ! Select for the sea- 

 son's brooding and rearing ground, a plot 

 of land not recently used by poultry and 

 upon which poultry manure has not been 

 spread. The reason that clean gi-ound is 

 ; essential is that as poultry raising be- 

 : comes more intensive, it is necessary to 

 raise larger numbers of chicks on limited 

 areas. This permits heavy contamina- 

 tion of the ground with various kinds of 

 parasites and germs. Clean ground is 

 the only practical solution. This means 

 using portable brooder houses. Plans for 

 ! the house recommended by the Mass. 

 Agricultural College will be furnished 

 free upon request. Older yours now. 



Disinfect Brooder Houses 



I If you had Scarlet Fever in your home, 

 you would not think of just going into the 

 room where the patient had been and 

 simply sweeping up. Yet that is a too 



I common practice regarding poultry house 



i cleaning. It simply removes the visible 



i filth and does not get the source of the 

 trouble. The following steps are neces- 

 sary to cleanse a poultry house: (1) 



I Scrape and sweep out all diit and filth r 

 (2) SOAK down the floors and part way 

 up the walls with a solution of 2 ounces 



' of Corrosive Sublimate in 15 gallons of 

 water. (This is a specific for 



some of our common troubles) ; (3) Give 

 a second disinfection, using Standard Dis- 

 infectant or Carbolic Acid in white wash 

 or Carbola. This cleaning and disinfect- 



I ing should be done BEFORE the brooder 

 houses are moved on to clean land, 

 otherwise disease would be brought on in 

 this way. In short, do just three times 

 as good a job as you have been in the 



[ habit of doing. 



Quarantine \o\it Range 



When chickens are hatched in incuba- 

 tors or are purchased as day old chicks, 

 they should be taken immediately to the 

 brooders. Reasonable precautions should 



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