THE HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARM BUREAU MONTHLY 



HAMPSHIRE COUNTY 



FARM BUREAU MONTHLY 



Published By The 



Hampshire County Farm Bnxeaa 



A. P. MacDougall, County Agent 



Office, First National Bank Bldg. 



Northampton, Mass. 



Entered as second class matter 

 Nov. 9, 1915 at the post office at 

 Northampton, Massachusetts, under 

 the Act of March 8, 1879. 



OFFICERS OF THE FAKM BUREAU 



Lesli.e R. Smith, President, Hactley. 

 W. D. Mandell, Treasurer, Northainp- 

 ton 



K. K. Clap?, Secretary, Nortliamp- 

 ton. 



Advisory Board 



Leslie R. Smith, Hadley 



Chas. R. Damon, Williamsburg 



Ferley E. Davis, Granby 



C. E. Hodfrkins, Northampton 



X^arren M. King, Northampton 



M. A Aiorse, Belchertown 



Martin Morris, Southampton 



EDITORIAL 



ANNUAL MEETING. 



The second annual meeting of 

 the Farm Bureau comes on Saturday, 

 January 6th. Save this date. Ev- 

 eryone is welcome. Attend the meet- 

 ing and help by giving your sug- 

 gestions as to what work should be 

 carried on during the year 1917. 

 The success of the year's work de- 

 pends on the interest of every farm- 

 er and business man in the County. 

 Make this a real, live, profitable 

 meeting. 



The meeting will be held in Odd 

 Fellows' Hall, Northampton at 10 

 o'clock. 



The program in the morning will 

 consist of reports of the different of- 

 ficers and the County Agent, and 

 the annual election of officers and 

 directors. Dinner will be served in 

 the same building. 



In the afternoon, Sumner R. Park- 

 er, County Agent Leader, Mass. Ag- 

 ricultural College, will tell of the 

 work being done in other counties 

 in the State. Miss Laura Comstock 



will explain the work of a Woman 

 County Agent and tell of what suc- 

 cess this type of work is being re- 

 ceived in other sections. Several 

 directors will tell of results obtained 

 in their towns during the last year 

 and state what is desired for the 

 coming year. 



A good old-fashioned nieering in 

 which everyone takes part and gets 

 acquainted with his neighbors in 

 the surrounding towns, is looked for. 

 Every town should be represented by 

 five to ten men; more if possible. 

 Remember the date, Saturday, Janu- 

 ary 6, 1917. 



ORDER YOUR LIME AND FER- 

 TIUZER AT ONCE. 



On account of the shortage and 

 high price of labor, many lime con- 

 cerns are not putting ground lime- 

 stone on the market this year. 

 Other concerns are planning to car- 

 ry their present prices only until 

 January 1st. The prices will then 

 be increased 25c per ton for Janu- 

 ary and February and then another 

 25c for March and April. This fact 

 along with the uncertainty of ship- 

 ments that is bound to take place 

 next spring, makes it more than im- 

 portant that orders should be placed 

 immediately. 



Do not delay your fertilizer ord- 

 er. Place it now. Demand an early 

 shipment. All indications point to 

 slow freight service next spring. 



The fertilizer situation is very 

 similar to that of last season. Send 

 to your Experiment Station or the 

 Farm Bureau Office for Circular 

 No. 59 which explains the value and 

 use of the different fertilizing ma- 

 terials and suggests formulae for 

 different crops. 



The date for the Winter Meeting 

 of the State Board of Agriculture is 

 January 9-12, 1917. Be sure and 

 attend. 



DAIRY ORGANIZATION. 



Hampshire County dairymen are 

 gradually binding themselves to- 

 gether in the several local organiza- 



tions for the purpose of, as stated in 

 their By-laws, "the improvement of 

 conditions surrounding the produc- 

 tion and sale of milk and cream, 

 the supervision of contracts with 

 dealers, and the collection and dis- 

 semination of knowledge concerning 

 the production and marketing of 

 milk products." 



With the exception of the farm- 

 ers supplying Amherst and East- 

 hampton and the men in the west- 

 ern part of the County who produce 

 cream, nearly every dairyman be- 

 longs to a local or a market organ- 

 ization. The Northampton Milk Pro- 

 ducers' Association, Holyoke Milk 

 Producers' Association, Ware Milk 

 Producers' Association, Swift River 

 Valley Milk Producers' Association, 

 together with the men who belong 

 to the Springfield Milk Producers' 

 Association, takes in a large share 

 of the producers. In the towns not 

 closely connected with the market, 

 the farmers are planning more local 

 organizations, so that they can at- 

 tend the meetings more easily and 

 thus take more interest in the or- 

 ganization. As soon as conditions 

 demand it, a county organization 

 will be formed, composed of direct- 

 ors from these local organizations so 

 that matters of county-wide Inter- 

 est can be handled, directly through 

 one organization. The other coun- 

 ties in the state have organized or 

 are organizing on a similar plan. IC 

 it is thought best, these county or- 

 ganizations can elect directors to a 

 state union and so on up to a New 

 England Association, but for the 

 present at least the local organiza- 

 tions are the important ones. The 

 local is the foundation and the whole 

 value of dairy organization depends 

 on their strength. 



1916 HOME ECONOMICS CLUB 



Well done, boys and girls. Stan- 

 ley LeDuc, Chesterfield and Rozella 

 Ice, Williamsburg won third prize 

 (a week in camp at M. A. C.) Vivi- 

 an Miller, Williamsburg and Vera 

 Smith, Worthington, won fourth 

 prize in Bread Making in the State 

 Home Economics Club. The follow- 

 ing girls also completed their work 

 satisfactorily and are entitled to 

 wear the club pin: Nellie Streeter, 

 Cummington; Christine Smith, Paul- 

 ine Shaw, West Cummington; Ethel 

 Packard, Goshen; Catherine Snyder, 

 Prescott; Mary Neil, Gertrude 

 Crafts, Helen Kokoski, Catherine 

 Gniewek, and Martha Swaikowsky, 

 Russellville; Ernestine Browe, Doro- 

 thy Rhodes and Helen Drake, Will- 

 iamsburg; Esther Tinker, Marion 



