HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARM BUREAU MONTHLY 



D. A. rORBES I SON 



EASTHAMPTON S 



WHEAT 



New Food Administration Ruling Incourages Production. 



On page one of this issue is a ruling by the State Food 

 Administrator regarding wheat grown by farmers in Massa- 

 chusetts. Since this issue went to press a new ruHng has been 

 issued and the following interpretation is made by County 

 Food Administrator, W. M. Purrington of Haydenville. This 

 ruling should be highly appreciated by the farmer of Hamp- 

 shire County and in response the acreage should be increased 

 100 to 200 S"r. 



Arrangements have been made whereby the farmer who 

 has grown some wheat may, by application to tlie County Food 

 Administrator, have permission granted to take his wheat to 

 the mill, have it ground into flour and take the flour home for 

 his family use in UNLIMITED quantity. 



The only requirement being a written statement from the 

 farmer that he grew the grain and that it shall all be used for 

 human consumption. The miller shall file with the Admin- 

 istrator a statement of the date, name, residence and amount 

 of grain ground and flour so delivered. 



Whereupon the Administrator will issue to such a grower 

 permission to hold such flour for his own family use without 

 liability as a hoarder of flour, subject only, to the order of the 

 Massachusetts Food Administratoi'. 



Furthermore, the farmer may upon application receive a 

 permit to sell such flour to a baker or a direct consumer with- 

 out substitutes. 



It is not the purpose of the Food Administration to in any 

 way suspend the general regulations with reference to flour, 

 but to make a special case of wheat grown in this county 

 whereby the grower shall be himself benefited and thereby 

 stimulated to a greatly increased production of wheat, to the 

 saving of the freighting of flour from the west over congested 

 railways and the feeding of our own people, our great army, 

 and our allies. 



About 200 acres of wheat well scattered over the County 

 have been grown this year with excellent success, there being 

 a yield varying from 25 to 40 bushels to the acre. 



Considering the minimum of labor required for the rais- 

 ing of wheat, the fact that any good well drained land may be 

 used, that sowing may be done now, or in the spring, and the 

 foregoing very liberal privileges we should have the acreage 

 greatly increased possibly 600 to 800 acres. 



W. M. Purrington, 



County Food Administrator. 



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are going to the ground in which they 

 pass the winter. 



Where these caterpillars are discovered 

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R. T. PRENTISS, Agent 



JOJ Pleasant Street, HOLYOKE, MASS. 



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I or other specimen to be dug, use the 



blade. The Yankee genius who perfected 



this useful tool is C. O. Bicknell of West 



I Chesterfield, — Herbert A. Myrick in 



N. E. Homesfend. 



COBURN 8C GRAVES 



The REXALL Store 



Tel. 200 . . Northampton, Mass. 



Don't Walt Until Pali 



before putting in your heating 

 plant. Prepare now for cold 

 weather by installing A ONE= 

 PIPE WOOD FURN.ACE. 



You will find a woodburn= 

 ing furnace a good kind to own 

 when the use of coal is re= 

 stricted. 



H. B. LYMAN, Southampton, Mass. 

 SHEET METAL WORKS 



ROSEN RYE 



$3.00 per Busliel F. 0. B. Michigan 



A LIMITED NUMBER OP BUSHELS 



FOR SALE 



Make application through Farm 

 Bureau. 



H. D. SMITH 



Hatfield, Mass. 



GRAIN, COAL, ICE 



AND 



FARM MACHINERY 



