HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARMERS' MONTHLY 



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PROPER FERTILIZATION INCREASES HAY PROFITS 



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I. on- Ammonia I^nfertilized Hi^h Aninionin 



Voii Can UeinoiiMtrate This on A'oiir Farm 



One of tlie most neglected assets on the creasing, proportionally, the prohls there- 

 average farm today is the pasture and from. 



meadow land. Capable of producing The test, conducted by the Cornell, (N. 

 crops of considerable cash value, they Y.) Experiment Station, shows the re- 

 are often left to run down until so far , suits of three different treatments of 

 as their producing value, these lands be- timothy. The stack of hay at the right, 

 come more of a liability than an asset, the largest of the three, represents the 



The prevailing high cost and scarcity yield with a complete fertilizer, contain- 

 of farm labor, however, is forcing thou- ing a relatively high percentage of am- 

 sands of farmers to put considerable monia. The stack of hay at the left 

 areas of their cultivated land to uses . represents the yield with a low-ammonia 

 requiring a minimum of human labor, complete fertilizer. The middle stack 

 This means that more attention will or repiesents the yield of unfertilized hay, 

 should be paid to the possibilities of .se- which is decidedly below that of either 

 curing increased leturns from land in of the other two. The response to extra 

 grass. The accompanying illustration is ammonia in the fertilizer is ijuite ap- 

 but one of many that could be shown to parent, the only questions involved in its 

 picture the results of tests made to de- ; use being the increased yield produced 

 termine efficient methods of producing over and above that from the low-am- 

 higher acre yields of hay, thereby reduc- , monia fertilizer, the value of the hay and 

 ing the cost of production per ton and in- I the cost of the extra ammonia. 



Eastern States Farmers' Exchange 

 Holds Annual Meeting 



Nothing augurs better for the future 

 of agricultural cooperation in New Eng- 

 land than the interest shown by the sev- 

 eral hundred farmers who attended the 

 annual meeting of the Eastern States 

 Farmers' Exchange in Springfield last 

 month. And, judging by the develop- 

 ments at that meeting, no single farmer 

 organization deserves better to succeed 

 than this fast growing cooperative pur- 

 chasing association, owned and controlled 

 by its 12,500 members. 



Manager Selby reported an increase in 

 tonnage during 1923 amounting to 90 

 per cent over that of 1922 (growing from 

 51,000 to 97,000 tons); an increase of 

 130 per cent in volume purchased 

 ($2,020,000 to $4,651 000) ; and a 175 per 

 cent increase in membership (4,500 to 

 12,500). Among other "high-spots" re- 

 ferred to, Mr. Selby called attention to 

 the success in which trainload shipment 

 of feeds had been inaugurated last fall 

 and maintained during the winter, as a 

 result of the Exchange's efforts to secure 



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$50.00 cash or small monthly pay- 

 ments. 



NORTHAMPTON 



COMMERCIAL COLLEdE, Inc. 



76 Pleasant Street 

 Northampton, Mass. 



cooperation from connecting roads. The 

 average time in transit for the carload 

 of feed travelling east in one of these 

 trains has been 6 days from mill to des- 

 tination, as against the 27-day average 

 for individual carloads in the winter of 

 1922-23. 



Senator Capper, speaking at the An- 

 nual Dinner of the Exchange that even- 

 ing, showed a keen interest in the prog- 

 ress of farmer cooperation in the east, 

 as evidenced in the growth of this Ex- 

 change. At the "open-floor" session held 

 at the Auditorium the next day, there 

 was evident an open-mindedness on the 

 part of all in attendance that was rivalled 

 only by the keenness with which policies 

 of the Exchange were discussed. Such 

 lively interest promises much for the Ex- 

 change — and for its cooperating farmers, 

 too. 



Farmers from the following towns of 

 the county were present at the meeting: 

 Hunting-ton, Cummington, Williamsburg, 

 Amherst, Belchertown and Ware. All 

 agreed that it was the best annual meet- 

 ing the Exchange has held. 



BISSELL'S TIRE SHOP 



VOIt'l'HAMI'TOX, MAS.S. 



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The habit of Saving 



Is at the bottom of most 

 big successes in the busi- 

 ness world. Begin the 

 habit by opening a savings 

 account with the Hayden- 

 ville Savings Bank. One 

 dollar is enough to start 

 with. 



BANK BY MAIL 



HAYDENVILLE SAVINGS BANK 



HAVDENVILLK, MASS. 



