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H AiVIPSHIRE: COUMTV 



M BUREAU MONTHLY 



Published by the Hampshire County Farm Bureau 



PRICES 50 GENTS PER. Y£\l<.; $1.00 PER YE\R INGLUDINTG VIEMBERSHIP IN FARM BUREAU 



Vol. 1 



Northampton, Mass., April, 1916 



No. 8 



SPRAYING CAMPAIGN IS ON 



Thp State campaign for the spray- 

 ing of fruit trees has started In full 

 swing. Every county is making a 

 -special effort to have more orchards 

 .sprayed and records kept on as many 

 orchards as possible to show the actu- 

 al gains due to thorou.gh spraying. 



In Hampshire County the small 

 fruit growers as well as the large are 

 waking up to the fact that there Is 

 no profit in growing poor quality of 

 fruit, and that if they are to receive 

 a profitable price for their apples 

 they must prune their trees, give 

 them proper treatment and, above all, 

 spi-ay and spray thoroughly. 



Good proof of the advantage of 

 systematic spraying may be obtainea 

 from the figures on the expense of 

 packing well-sprayed as compared 

 with those of packing poorly sprayed 

 fruit in the Williamsburg Fruit 

 Growers' Association. Some of the 

 best lots of fruit were graded ana 

 packed for 14c per barrel, while some 

 of the poorer lots cost from 35 to 38c 

 to grade and pack. Size had some 

 iufluence on this increased cost of 

 grading, but a large part of the 

 trouble could be blamed to lack of 

 thorough spraying. This difference 

 of 20c per barrel would go a long way 

 toward the expense for better care 

 and more efficient spraying of the 

 orchards. 



Attend the spraying demonstra- 

 tions held in your district, make sure 

 of the materials you will need and 

 have everytning in readiness for the 

 spraying season. 



Get the bulletin on Spraying direc- 

 tions, published by the Dept. of 

 Pomology, Mass. Agricultural College. 

 You can get these at the College oi 

 at the Farm Bureau ofl5ce. Decide to 

 have your i.ruit trees sprayed at tnt 

 right time, with the right materials 

 and with <.je utmost thoroughness. 

 We have a state law going into effeci 



July 1. that requires us to grade and 

 pack our fruit according to a given 

 standard. One cannot afford to pacK 

 poor fruit under this law. This. Is 

 the season to prepare to sell , our 

 fruit so 'that next fall we will have a 

 product that will need no urging on 

 the market. 



COYS' AND GIRLS' CLUBS. 

 THE WASHINGTON TRIP. 



As reward for their achievement in 

 A,griculture and Home Economics, in 

 boys' and girls' clubs conductea 

 throughout the State by Prof. O. A. 

 IMorton of ..lass. Agricultural College 

 and the United States Department of 

 Agricculture, five boys and two girls 

 left Springfield on February 27th for 

 a wRek'i( free trip to Washington, 

 D. C. 



The girls were accompanied by Miss 

 Mabel E. Turner, club work leader 

 in Milton, while the boys were fn 

 charge of E. J. Burke, Agricultural 

 Instructor in Hopkins Academy, Had- 

 ley. The trip winners were the, first 

 prize winners in each of the state- 

 wide clubs: — corn, potato, market 

 garden, pig, poultry, canning and 

 marketing, and home economics. 



The names of the champions who 

 made the trir and their results were; 



Corn — P. Earle Williams, age 13, of 

 Sunderland, who raised 98 bushels of 

 Dent corn per acre as wei.ghed in the 

 field, not water-free, at a cost per 

 bushel of 47 cents. His exhibit 

 scored 98 points. 



POTATO— Isadore Horin, 17, of 

 Westminister, who raised on one- 

 fourth acre, 114% bushels of potatoes 

 or at the rate of 458 bushels per acre, 

 at a cost of 30 cents per bushel. His 

 eixhibit score 88 points. 



Market Garden — Gust W. Anderson, 

 17. of Brockton, wbo raised on one- 

 twentieth acre, products that yield- 

 ed $94.78 in cash value at a cost of 

 $14.94. He won the State sweep- 



stakes prize of a silver cup for the 

 best exhibit of potatoes which 

 scored 96 at the State Fair in Bos- 

 ton. 



Pig— Willard Buckler. 12, of 

 Pittsfield, who raised two pigs, mak- 

 ing a daily gain of 2.28 pounds per 

 day, at a cost of 6.6 cents per pound. 

 His pigs scored 90 points, being the 

 best pigs in the State. One of these 

 pigs brought $160,000 at auction in 

 New York City. 



Poultry — .T. Harold Merrick, 15, of 

 Wilbraham, who obtained 822 eggs 

 from 10 hens in 100 days at a cost of 

 $5.59 or at 68-100 cents per egg. His 

 profit was $1.50 per hen for the 100 

 days. 



Canning and Marketing — Ethel 

 Spooner of Drimfielcl canned $84.73 

 worth of products, having 24 vari- 

 eties, the quality of the exhibit scored 

 93 points. 



Home Economics — Effie Cahoon .16, 

 of Harwich. Miss Cahoon devoted 60 

 hours to sewing, darning, mending, 

 ironing, baking cake and cookies, 

 setting table and caring for her own 

 room. Her work as exlilblted scored 

 93.5 points. 



The Champions made their head- 

 quarers at the New Ebbit Hotel, 

 where they met the nine champtons 

 from Illinois. With Mr. 0. H. Ben- 

 son, club work leader for the Eastern 

 and Western States in charge, the 

 two delegations sallied forth each 

 day to see more of the nation's Capi- 

 tol. Some of the most important 

 buildings visited were: 



Washington Monument, Washing- 

 ton's Home at Mt. Vernon, Arlington 

 Cemetery, Home of Gen. Robert B. 

 Lee, Congressional Library, Ford 

 Theater, New National Museum, 

 Bureau of Fisheries, Capitol, House 

 of Representatives, Navy Yara, 

 White House, Pan American Union 

 and Government Printing Office. 

 Continued on Page Two 



ARE YOU GOING THTTRRDAY APRTT. 6 OR FRIDAY APRIL 7 TO THE 

 SECOND HAMPSHIRE COUNTY CONFERENCE 



At the Smith's Agricultural School, Northampton? 

 Take a day off and meet people from other parts of the County. 



Read enclosed program and decide on the day. 



