THE HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARM BUREAU MONTHLY 



OUR FKIENDS. THE ENEMY 

 (In the garden) 



The asparagus beetle: "A most 

 beautiful creature, slender and 

 graceful in form, blue black in col- 

 or, with red thorax and lemon-yel- i 

 low and dark blue wing covers witn 

 reddish border. Its length is a 

 trifle less than 1-4 inch." Eggs de- 

 posited on leaves and stems from 

 April 1 on. Apply arsenate of lead 

 on young plants, old plants after 

 cutting season or plants reserved as 

 bait. 



The Weevil (bean and pea): An 

 Insect 1-8 inch long and covered 

 •with fine pubescence. It develops 

 in the seed during the winter and 

 emerges in the spring. Fumigate 

 the beans in the fall with bisulphid'^' 

 of carbon. 



Anthracnose: A fungus diseasa 

 that attacks the beans, particularly 

 the wax varieties. It is character- 

 ized by black spots with reddish or 

 yellowish margins on all parts of 

 the plant above ground and by 

 rusty spots on the seed. It is trans- 

 mitted mainly through the seed and 

 the best way to combat it is the se- 

 lection of clean pods for planting. 



The Maggot (cabbage, cauliflow- 

 er, etc) : A fly similar to but small- 

 er than the housefly. developing 

 from a footless white lava. It feeds 

 on roots and stem. Place card 

 discs about the plants early in 

 spring, or tight with carbolic acid 

 emulsion. 



Aphis (cabbage, cauliflower, let- 

 tuce, peas, etc): Little green bodies 

 with large paunches, commonly 

 known as plant lice. They pass the 

 ■winter in eggs on refuse and mul- 

 tiply enormously. Apply kerosene 

 emulsion. 



Cabbage worm: A large white 

 butterfly with black spots on thJ 

 fore wings, developing from a larya 

 an inch long, nearly green with 

 black spots, developing in turn from 

 yellowish eggs on the under side of 

 leaves. Apply arsenate of lead. 



Club root (cabbage, turnip, cau- 

 liflower, brussels sprouts, radish, 

 ^etc): A disease causing a distor- 

 tion of the root, to be avoided by 

 use of seed and soil which are not 

 infected. 



Cucumber beetle (cucumbers, 

 melons, squashes) : A beetle 2-5 of 

 an inch in length with black head 

 and yellow striped back, developing 

 from a white larva with a brown 

 head. 3-10 of an inch in length. 

 Dust plants with air slacked lime 

 or cover hills with mosquito net- 

 ting. 



The squash bug (squashes, cu- 

 cumbers) : A large black beetls 

 with a red triangle in the back, 



coming from egg clusters under 

 the leaves. Crush the eggs and pick 

 beetles by hand. Trap under boards 

 in Uie night. 



The cut worm (tomatoes, corn, 

 beans , etc) : A slender worm with 

 a brown back, which eats through 

 the stem of the plant. Use pois- 

 oned liait (bran, clover or weeds), 

 and paper collars in transplanting. 



BOYS AND GIRLS "DOING THEIE 

 BIT'" 



The Bureau is co-operating with 

 the County and town committees in 

 encouraging the children to plant 

 gardens in a serious and systematic 

 way. Over six hundred children in 

 Northampton have enlisted in the 

 garden work, and the oversight is 

 in the hands of many local "visit- 

 ors," Northampton women and 

 Smith students, who in turn are 

 under the supervision of six train- 

 ed men. One of these men, Mr. 

 Rand, is contributed by the Bureau 

 for two days' service a week. Mr. 

 Rand is also supervising the child- 

 ren's gardens in Easthampton 

 where the local grange is giving 

 generous prizes for the best cared- 

 for plots. About 150 children are 

 enrolled in Easthampton. 



PLOWMAN'S PROVERBS 



A weed pulled in time saves nine. 



There is many a slip twixt the egg 



and the chick. 



Early to hoe. early to spray. 

 Makes the potato field flourish 



and pay. 



Do not put up a scarecrow after 

 your corn has been stolen. 



A little squash-bug is a danger- 

 ous thing. 



Many are milked, but few are ent- 

 ered in advanced registry. 



Answer not the hired man ac- 

 cording to his anger lest thou be- 

 come like unto him. 



Deny the fish-rod and spoil the 

 child. ' 



Summer goeth before a fall. 



He that raiseth the beans is 

 greater than he that taketli the 

 city. 



Cast your corn upon the market 

 and it shall come back to you in tin 

 cans. 



.\ soft emulsion turneth away the 

 plant lice. 



Weeds spring eternal in Dame 

 Nature's breast. 



It's a wise cow that knoweth her 

 own stanchion. 



A good bull is rather to be chos- 

 en than many heifers. 



A hoe in the hand is worth two in 

 tile barn; 



A hen on the roost is worth two 

 in the garden; 



DAIRY RECORDS 



Cows in tlie Central Hampshire 

 Cow-Test Association, making over 



1000 lbs. milk or 40 lbs. butter fat 

 for the month of April: 



W. H. Learned, Florence, Grade 

 Holstein, 

 1303 39.1 lbs. 



J. S. Graves. Williamsburg, G. 

 Hclstein, 



1057 31.7 



P. B. Holsteiu, 

 1.5S5 41.2 



E. H. Montague, Westhampton, G. 

 r iernsey, 

 :090 44.7 



C. G. Loud, Westhampton, P. B. 

 Holstein, 

 1779 58.7 



A. D. Montague, Westhampton, 

 G. Holstein, 



1175 37.6 



1011 34.4 



H. M. Bridgman, Westhampton, 

 G. Holstein, 



1071 38.6 



115S 35.9 



1404 56.1 



733 41. 



1038 42.6 



1042 33.3 



Lombello Bros., Westfield, 

 P. B. Holstein, 



1042 31. 



1695 50.9 



Clapp Bros., EasUiampton, 

 G. Holstein. 



1049 37.4 



1004 40.2 



1007 45.7 



E. T. Whitaker, Hadley. 

 G. Holstein. 



1001 34. 

 Mrs. R. G. Sessions, Hadley, 



P. B. Holstein, 



1300 35.1 



FOR SALE — New milch cows; also 

 a new separator, 650 lbs. capa- 

 city, never used. C. M. Thayer, 

 Cummington. 



WANTED — Duroc-Jersey Boar 

 ready for service. J. A. Sturgis. 

 Easth.-.mpton. 



FOR SALE: — Guernsey bull calves 

 at reasonable prices. Mixter 

 Farm breeding. Fine opportuni- 

 ty if taken at once. Two of the 

 calves are from advanced Regis- 

 try Cows. George Tiramins, 

 Ware, Mass. 



FOR SALE: — Farm of 50 acres. 

 Good 8-room house with wide pi- 

 azza. Barn and henhouse. Nev- 

 er-failing spring water. 100 

 grafted apple trees, abundance 

 wood and timber for farm use. 

 Telephone and free delivery of 

 mail. An ideal location for poul- 

 try. Price $1,000. Reasonable 

 terms. Address owner, H. H. Ma- 

 son, Worthington, Mass. 



