THE HAMPSHIRE C(_)U\TY EARM BUREAU MONTHLY 



Milk scales 



200 milk sheets 



3.U0 

 5.00 



$983.00 

 Not only has he developed a herd 

 of high producers by careful selec- 

 tion and breeding, knowing his stock 

 by keeping daily records, but he has 

 in the meantime been increasing 

 the number of pure blood livestock 

 in his herd and now has high grade 

 stock to sell, disposing last year of 

 3 head at an average price of ,$300. 

 llr. Putnam tcld his story in a 

 modest, practical way, showing 

 through his own experience that the 

 average farmer needed only Co ap- 

 ply business principals to his dairy 

 operations to realize a good profit 

 from his cows. 



FARM MANAGEMENT 

 Mr. Sumner R. Parker, State Lead- 

 er of County Agent Work, brought 

 out very forcibly in his talk at the 

 Granby meeting the importance of 

 every farmer making a careful study 

 of his farm operations and finding 

 out for a certainty if he was man- 

 aging his farm in a way best adapt- 

 ed to his local conditions. To find 

 out if in managing the farm, as a 

 dairy farm, should more cows or 

 fewer cows be kept, should live- 

 stock be raised or bought, should 

 pure blood livestock be increased, to 

 what extent should cash crops be 

 grown or in other words to what ex- 

 tent should diversity be practiced? 

 Jlore economic production of milk 

 will bring the same returns as an 

 increase in the price of milk. Mr. 

 Parker gave the following points as 

 essential ones to consider in trying 

 to run a dairy farm at a profit. 



1. Our Herds must be the right 

 size for the Farm. 



2. Our Cows must give at least 

 7000 lbs. per year. 



3. We must improve our herds by 

 careful breeding. 



4. The time will soon be here, if 

 it has not already arrived, when the 

 stock we have f«r sale must be pure 

 bred in order to sell at a high price. 



5. Jlake sure our roughage is the 

 best possible; clover and alfalfa in 

 abundance. 



6. Our grain ration economical. 



7. Our bacteria count low. 



S_ Our product of high quality. 



RAISING YOUNG STOCK. 

 At a Judging contest and again in 

 a talk on raising young stock. Prof. 

 J. A. McClean of the Quaker ®ats 

 Comipany emphasized strongly the 

 importance of careful selection and 

 ln-eeding in developing dairy stock 

 and told of the great opportunity 

 there is for the business of raising 



high grade dairy cattle and selling 

 it in the wholesale dairy sections of 

 this State. In talking on the care 

 of young stock, he urged the farm- 

 ers to take more pains in condition- 

 ing their cows before calving and 

 then after the calf was born to start 

 immediately and keep the calf grow- 

 ing, the first few months of a calf's 

 life being the most important. Feed 

 it all it can eat up to six months and 

 then if it is a fall calf it can be 

 turned out to pasture and it will be 

 ready to take care of itself. For a 

 grain ration for calves, Prof. Mc- 

 Lean suggested the following: 300 

 Bran, 300 ground oats, 300 hominy 

 or corn meal, 100 oil meal. 



SELLING CREAM 

 At the meeting on Mr. W. H. 

 Morey's farm at Cummington, Prof. 

 0. A. Jamison gave a very instruc- 

 tive talk on the Handling of Cream. 

 An interesting discussion followed in 

 which it was quite plain that there 

 is a lot of misunderstanding between 

 the farmers in the hill towns sell- 

 ing cream and the co-operative 

 creamt'ry and visa versa. Prof. 

 Jamison told of the importance of 

 the farmers trying to produce a Irigh 

 quality cream so that the creamery 

 could make a high quality butter, 

 that no matter who the butter-mak- 

 er was, unless he had good cream to 

 work with, he could not produce but- 

 ter that would bring the high mar- 

 ket price. The advantage of selling 

 high testing cream was also brought 

 out and under the right conditions 

 it was proven that 30% cream could 

 be sold by the farmers to more profit 

 than 18% cream that is produced at 

 the present time. The farmers pres. 

 ent were very desirous of getting 

 .some assistance from Prof. Jamison 

 this coming winter and if possible, 

 he will spend some time with them 

 and the creamery. 



TOBACCO GROWERS 

 Continued From Page 1 

 six or seven years, or at least a large 

 part of this time, to the study of 

 the moaaic disease, which, at the 

 time he began the work, seemed to 

 be one of the most serious diseases 

 of the tobacco crop. His work has 

 been brought to a conclusion, I un- 

 derstand. This frees Dr. Chapman 

 for the new work. It has been de- 

 cided to place an auto at the dispos- 

 al of Mr. Chapman for a few weeks, 

 and he will visit as widely as pos- 

 sible the farms both of growers who 

 are suffering from tobacco sickness 

 and those who are free from it. He 

 will endeavor to learn everything 

 possible concerning the local condi- 



tions through careful inquiry and 

 investigations, and will, of course, 

 make and report observations of 

 what he sees. After this prelimi- 

 nary study, he will be mucli better 

 qualified to direct assistants another 

 year, when we hope money may be 

 available for their employment. Mr. 

 Haskins will continue to do such 

 chemical worl- in connection with 

 tobacco investigations ;.j may be 

 suggested by development. He has 

 done, in the aggregate, a large 

 amount of such work in tho last few 

 years. We can also have the co- 

 operation of some of the other sci- 

 entific departments at the Experi- 

 ment Station, as, for example, the 

 soil division under Professor Morse, 

 or the work of Professor Osmun 

 and Dr. Anderson in Botany. 



"It seems to me that we have 

 done all that could be done under 

 the circumstances, and with the 

 funds at our disposal, to try to meet 

 the needs of the tobacco growers at 

 this time. Personally, I feel that 

 the whole need for help for the to- 

 bacco growers should be taken up 

 as a general problem, and the Legis- 

 lature asked to make sufficient ap- 

 propriatons to carry this thing 

 through. I should be glad to know 

 whether the situation, as it stands 

 at present, is reasonably satisfacto- 

 ry." 



Yours very sincerely, 

 KBNYON L. BUTTERFIELD. 



President. 



FARM BUREAU WORK 



SUMMARY OF THE WORK 



(July 31 -Aug. liJ) 



Farms Visited 41 



Letters Written 4S 



Circular Letters 64S 



Office Calls 32 



Telephone Calls 56 



MEETINGS 



Meetings Held 7 



Attendance 650 



Is Fanning A Business? 



If it is, you should keep sufficient 

 figures on your farm business so you 

 can determine what changes you 

 should make to increase your net in- 

 come. How long could your store- 

 keeper do business if he did not have 

 some record of his transactions? 



What Are Your Gross Receipts? 



How lUTich money do you take in 

 in a year? Are you doing as much 

 business on your farm as you ought 

 to? Could you increase your net in- 

 come by doing a larger business? 



