HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARMERS' MONTHLY 





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Will do anything- a big machine can 



do. 



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^ COMMERCIAL COLLEGE, Inc. | 



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Northampton, Mass. ^ 



BISSELL'S TIRE SHOP 



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Miller, (ioodyear and I'. S. Tires 



Tires and Tubes 



Vulcanized by Steam 



(ioodvear Ser\ice Station 



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Continued from page 1. column 1 



The results is one of two things: (1) the 

 cow gains more in flesh than she should, 

 or (2) she cuts' dowm on the amount of 

 roughage she consumes. 



Factory vs Farm Production System 



In the majority of cases cows follow 

 the latter procedure. Then the problem 

 !-■ — Why own land at some distance from 

 the railroad if you are going to follow 

 this sy.stem of feeding? Factories are 

 located on railroads where raw materials 

 can be shipped in cheaply and where the 

 finished product can be easily shipped out. 

 If milk production is to be handled on 

 the factory basis, the solution is to give 

 up farms where the raw materials must 

 be hauled long distances fi'om the rail- 

 road and where the fini.shed product must 

 be hauled back at a heavy charge. 



Milk producers on these farms distant i 

 from the railroad have cheap land, cheap v 

 because of its location, not necessarily 

 because of its fundamentally poor soil. 

 On this land can be grown hay and silage. 

 Because of the location of the farms these 

 ci'ops can best be marketed through the 

 cows and sold in the form of m»lk. This 

 is the primai-y function of the dairy cow, 

 a marketing machine. To have her func- 

 tion to full capacity she should be fed all 

 the roughage she will consume. 



The following table, based on milk at 

 (i cents per quart, at the farm, and grain 

 at $.52 per ton illustrates how to get the 

 adhesive dollars. 



The habit of Saving 



Is at the bottom of most 

 big successes in the busi- 

 ness woi'ld. Begin the 

 habit by opening a savings 

 account with the Hayden- 

 ville Savings Bank. One 

 dollar is enough to start 

 with. 



BANK HV MAIL 



HAYDENVILLE SAVINGS BANK 



HAVDF-NVILLK, MASS. 



Your New-Spring-Hat 



it takes fine workmanship to 

 make the hats we sell. We 

 make it a point to sell only re- 

 liable makes. 



You'll like the snap and go 

 especially if you're young and 

 who is old nowadavs? 



MERRITT CLARK 8C CO. 



NORTHAMPTON, MASS. 



POOR LAND PAYS 



POOR WAGES 



Speaking- of "adhesive" dollars. Pro- 

 fessor J. B. Abbott brought out the fact 

 that costs are of two kinds: (1) cash, 

 (2) other. To make the above system 

 of feeding work, it is necessai'y to keep 

 the ca.sh costs of producing hay and silage 

 low. Then if a farmer is efficient in the 

 use of his own and hired labor, he can 

 make a profit on every acre of crops 

 grown. He clearly biought out the fact ; 

 that poor land pays pool- wages for every 

 minute spent farming it. There are two ' 

 kinds of poor land: — (1) That which is, 

 was and always will be poor; (2) Land 

 which was once good, but which has been 

 hayed or cropped to death. The sooner a 

 man stops trying to farm the first type 1 

 of land, the better off he -will be, as it 

 never was intended for agricultural pur- 

 poses. The .second kind of land can be 

 brought back to its former state of fer- 

 tility by tried and proven practices with- ' 

 out excessive costs. 1 



Continued on page !', ctilunin 1 j 



OLD DEERFIELD 



FERTILIZERS 



'IE«';is<iii:il»U- ill l>nllar.<>( tiiKl Sense** 



MANUFACTURED BY 



A. W. HIGGINS, Inc. 



.SOUTH DEERFIELD, MASvS. 



I eleiihoiie 1 .10 



A Business Bank for 



Business Farmers 



This is a message for business 

 farmers — for those progressive 

 crop and cattle raisers who know 

 that to get profits from farming 

 there must be knowledge not only 

 of crops, but of markets, of prices, 

 of soil treatment, of other factors. 



This bank's primary object is to 

 help farmers of this section to pros- 

 per. Our complete banking facili- 

 ties and our dependable sources of 

 information valuable to farmers are 

 at your disposal. 



We'll be glad to serve you. 



NORTHAMPTON 

 NATIONAL BANK 



THE BANK FOR EVERYBODY 



