THE HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARM BUREAU MONTHLY 



Mason. Alice Perry. Elizabeth Coles, 

 Bernlce West and Mand Gilthrop, 

 Wortliington. 



One thing very noticeable is that 

 only one girl. Catherine Snyder, 

 came from the eastern part of the 

 County. Come on boys and girls in 

 Eastern Hampshire: don't let West- 

 ern Hampshire take all the prizes. 



STATE GRANGE MEETING 



The Massachusetts State Grange 

 met for its 44th .\nnual session at 

 Tremont Temple. Boston, and was 

 called to order at 11 A. M. by Mast- 

 er E. E. Chapman of Ludlow. Ad- 

 dresses of welcome were given by 

 Hon. Charles L. Burrill. Treasurer 

 of the Commonwealth, who took the 

 place of the Governor, who was out 

 of the State: by Wilfred Wheeler, 

 Secretary of the State Board of Ag- 

 riculture, by Mayor Curley of Boston 

 The last speaker mentioned the fact 

 that the question of. Drainage of wet 

 lands. Irrigation of arid lands. Con- 

 servation of soil fertility and Labor 

 were questions that were prominent 

 more than one hundred years B. C. 

 Tliese welcoming addrssses were re- 

 sponded to by the Overseer. Chaplain 

 and Lecturer of the State Grange 

 and the meeting was fairly under 

 way. After the noon recess, the ex- 

 emplification of the work of the 

 Juvenile Grange was given by the 

 Juvenile Grange of Athol. These 

 little folks all under 14 years of age, 

 filled the chairs, went through the 

 opening ceremony, held a business 

 meeting, initiated candidates, gave a 

 lecturer's program consisting of read 

 ings songs and music from their own 

 orchestra and closed without the 

 use of a manual, retiring with the 

 convention on its feet giving three 

 cheers and a tiger. Past State Mast- 

 er Ladd then informed the people 

 that these little people had come to 

 Boston at their own expense and he 

 proposed a collection to keep them 

 over night and give them a good 

 time on the morrow. He said, "it 

 will take $60.00." The collection 

 amounted to over $130.00. It is 

 needless to say that these 28 young 

 people will long remember this trip. 



The rest of the afternoon was tak- 

 en up with the Annual Address of 

 the Master and the State Treasurer. 

 The important parts of both reports 

 were referred to different commit- 

 tees, and the Grange took a recess 

 until eight o'clock. In the evening, 

 the sixth degree was conferred on 

 656 candidates, after which a pro- 

 gram of music and Mrs. Catherine 

 Ridgway as a most charming reader, 

 was enjoyed by all. 



The second day started at nine 

 o'clock and officers' reports, standing 

 committee reports, introduction of 

 business was the order of the day. 

 Charles M. Gardner of Springfield 

 was elected as Executive Committee 

 for three years in place of Warren 

 C. Jewett of Worcester. The re- 

 port of the Trustees of the Educa- 

 tional Aid Fund, showed that a to- 

 tal of 98 young men and women 

 had been helped toward their educa- 

 tion by this fund. 



The report of the Chaplain, Rev. 

 A. K. Weelock was as usual most 

 interesting. 



In the afternoon, the Lecturers' 

 conference was held in Lorrimer 

 Hall while the business of the ses- 

 sion was still carried on in the main 

 hall of the Temple, a short recess 

 was taken to allow a representative 

 of Dr. Conrad Myers, to give a short 

 address. In the evening the Ladies' 

 degree staff of Millis grange exemp- 

 lified the work of the third degree 

 and this work with its marches and 

 tableaus received the hearty ap- 

 plause of the audience. Ten prizes, 

 given by the State Grange for the 

 best Community Service work were 

 then awarded as was the Silver cup, 

 given for Athletics, awarded to 

 Rockland. 



The last session was held in Lor- 

 rimer Hall and a very busy one it 

 proved to be, many resolutions be- 

 ing passed, and reports considered. 

 Among the resolutions passed was 

 one indorsing the work of the Mass. 

 Agricultural College, another de- 

 clared in favor of National Prohibi- 

 tion. The chairman of the Good of 

 the Order committee caused a laugh 

 when reporting on a resolution in 

 favor of turning back the clock one 

 hour in order to conserve daylight. 

 He said that it was the opinion of 

 the committee that it was a little 

 late in the day to advise the AL- 

 MIGHTY that he had made a mis- 

 take in the hour for the rising and 

 setting of the sun. All work was 

 finished and the session closed at 

 3.50 P. M., one of the most success- 

 ful in twenty years. 



L.R.S. 



Continued From Pase One 



FEEDING DAIRY COWS 



the average season the difference be- 

 tween the late spring or early sum- 

 mre price of grains and that that is 

 asked for the same grains in winter 

 is great enough to make the early 

 buying economical. This year the 

 early buyer could well have afford- 



ed to borrow money at a high rate 

 interest to lay in grain for the wint- 

 er feeding. Certain July quotations 

 gave a wholesale price of cotton seed 

 meal of $34.00. gluten feed $29.00, 

 mixed feed $26.00, bran $23.00, and 

 hominy $30.00 per ton. Quotations 

 from the same source for Decem- 

 ber on the same feeds were $45.00, 

 $42.50, $31.00, $34.00, and $45.00 

 respectively, and other feeds not 

 mentioned have increased equally in 

 price. 



With such prices it will be well to 

 see that the cow gets only what she 

 deserves in the grain fed, that she 

 be fed in proportion to the amount of 

 milk that she gives, that is at the 

 rate of lib grain to each 31b milk 

 produced. It will be good practice 

 to feed all of the first class hay the 

 cow will clean up readily and, if 

 silage is available, to feed from 30 

 to 50 pounds of silage per day, de- 

 pending upon the size of the cow. 

 The grain, even though high in 

 price must be of good quality, prefer- 

 ably a rather bulky mixture of 3 or 

 4 grains, palatable, and carrying 

 sufficient nutriment which with the 

 roughage will furnish the materi- 

 al for milk production. A mixture 

 made up of 



200 pounds gluten feed 

 100 pounds cottonseed meal 

 100 pounds bran 

 100 pounds beet pulp 

 vi'ould fill the above requirements 

 and should give satisfactory results 

 where the different feeds can be 

 bought right, as should also a mix- 

 ture made up of 



200 pounds distillers grain 

 100 pounds mixed feed 

 100 pounds cotton seed 

 200 pounds beet pulp. 



The beet pulp as used above would 

 be fed dry but if silags is not avail- 

 able, it could be fed to advantage 

 separate from the grain mixture and 

 soaked so as to furnish the much to 

 be desired succulence in the ration. 



The greatest saving in grain can 

 be made in feeding it only to profit 

 producing cows. The so called "rob- 

 ber" cow will dig deeper in the dai- 

 rymg-n's purse this year than ever 

 and it is of the greatest importance 

 that the individual production of the 

 cows that will eat this high priced 

 grain be known. Production records 

 are this year of increased value and 

 fortunate indeed is the dairyman 

 who has already, by means of these 

 records, gotten rid of the poor pro- 

 ducers. 



F. W. TURNER, 



Mass. Agri. College. 



