HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARM BUREAU MONTHLY 



D. A. PORBES I SON 



easthampton's 

 "home hardware store" 



Farming Tools 

 Spray Pumps 



Spray Materials 

 Fertilizers 

 Seeds 



Implements 



EASTHAMPTON, MASS. 



BISSELL'S TIRE SHOP 



NORTHAMPTON, MASS. 



Miller, Goodyear, and U. S. Tires 



Tires and Tubes 



Vulcanized by Steam 



GOODYEAR SERVICE STATION 



FKEE AIR 



60 KING .STREET 



Tel. 1293-M 



THE HINMAN MILKER 



ALSO 



The R. T. Prentiss 

 Complete Fertilizer 



R. T. PRENTISS, Agent 

 JOJ Pleasant Street, HOLYOKE, MASS. 



Concluiletl from piif^e 1 



The conservation naturally falls to the 

 women of the County who will assist 

 first in making known, very generally, 

 the kind and method of using the sub- 

 stitutes for wheat flour. It is not a 

 question of saving money, it's a ques- 

 tion of saving wheat. To the family 

 who has heretofore enjoyed Johnny cake, 

 brown bread, and ginger bread, it is a 

 simple matter; it is not so easy to those 

 who are unaccustomed to these varieties. 

 It is necessary, therefore, to cai'ry on a 

 campaign of some instruction and per- 

 suasion to induce people to gradually 

 adopt the use of other grains than wheat 

 for our food supply. There is plenty 

 of food to be had in the country, includ- 

 ing corn products, and the like, but the 

 wheat, we are taking out for the use of 

 the countries abroad ; and the rea.son 

 for this is that corn, which this year, is 

 universally soft throughout the coun- 

 try, due to the early frost, cannot be 

 shipped, without spoiling. The con- 

 servation, at a later time, will also have 

 to do with preserving the fruit grown, 

 — canning the fruits. 



The third part of food administra- 

 tion, concerned with production, is the 

 most vital part of the program at this 

 season of the year. In general, the aim 

 is to produce grain, corn oats, wheat, 

 buckwheat, and later, to sow rye. 

 Grain, grain, grain, is what we need. 

 We cannot grow too much. We must 

 have enoiTnous quantities. We must 

 prepare to .sow it now. Every farmer 

 who grows grain for his stock, every 

 householder who consumes grain, every 

 person feeding poultry, appreciates the 

 high cost and necessity for immediately 

 planning to grow all possible grains. 

 Grain, too, will require less labor than 

 whole crops and will thus enable man 

 to increase his acreage and secure food 

 under this very difficult situation of the 

 labor condition this spring. 



A campaign is on throughout the 

 County, with meetings to be hel5 in 

 every town, in an effort to cooperate in 

 every way possible with the farmer and 

 especially to impress upon all, the vital 

 necessity of every possible effort to in- 

 crease our food supply. The rea.son is 

 not far to seek; it is purely a war 

 measure. The men in this country have 

 agreed with Italy, France and England, 

 who have withdrawn great numbers of 

 men from the soil, that they shall re- 

 ceive supplies of food from America. 



We must furnish this food to keep 

 I their armies in the field, beside our own 

 to fight in a common cause. To produce 

 this food, is the task of the people who 

 remain at home. Let no man who can 

 contribute to this cause, fail to do his 

 or her utmost to make the crops at 

 harvest time most abundant. 



W. M. Purrington, 

 Food Administrator. 



COBURN & GRAVES 



The REXALL Store 



Tel. 200 . . Northampton, Mass. 



FURNACES FOR ALL WOOD 

 OR COAL BURNING 



A one-pipe furnace 

 will heat five or six 

 rooms to an even 

 temperature, and will 

 save fuel in opera- 

 tion. 



Not an ounce of 

 heat is wasted, and 

 the cellar remains 

 cool for storing vege- 

 tables. 



H. B. LYMAN, Southampton, Mass. 

 SHEET METAL WORKS 



The Ideal Restaurant 



SIDNEY J. HALL, Proprietor 



REGULAR MEALS 



Also ORDER COOKING 

 FULL LINE OF LIGHT LUNCHES 



40 MAIN STREET, NORTHAMPTON, MASS. 



H. D. SMITH 



Hatfield, Mass. 



GRAIN, COAL, ICE 



AND 



FARM MACHINERY 



