HAMPSHIRE COUNTY 



FARM BUREAU MONTHLY 



Vol. IV. 



NORTHAMPKjN, MA.SS., JIAKOH, Ji)]!t 



No. 3 



WILLIAMSBURG MAN 



TAKES FIFTH PLACE 



In the corn contest, conducted this 

 past year by the Mass. Society for the 

 Promotion of .Agriculture, Hampshire 

 County had few entries, but those who 

 did enter made a creditable showing. 



Franklin County growers won the first 

 three places, Berkshire fourth, and 

 James H. Loud, Williamsburg of Hamp- 

 shire County, fifth. Ernest S. Russell of 

 Hadley stood tenth and Roger .John.son, 

 Hadley, fifteenth. Mr. Everett M. John- 

 son had a high cost per acre of .$94.40, 

 but by having a heavy yield of stalks 

 and using them in the silo, he received a 

 large credit for them, $6.5..52, making the 

 cost for the 68.61 bushel of grain only 

 $28.88 or .4209 cents per bushel. The 

 highest yield in the contest was 103 

 bushels per acre, grown at a cost of .51 

 1-.3 cents per bushel. 



Mr. Loud of Williamsbui-g grew his 

 acre of corn cheaper than any other con- 

 testant and had a yield of grain slightly 

 better than the winner but lost out on 

 having a low yield of fodder which in- 

 creased his cost per bushel for grain. 

 The cost for growing the acre was $.58.37, 

 credit with stover $22.33, net cost for 

 grain per acre $36.04, yield 69.51 bushels, 

 cost, .518 cents per bushel. Mr. Ernest 

 S. Russell of Hadley had a yield of 69.43 

 bushels costing .633 cents per bushel and 

 Roger Johnson, Hadley, a yield of 62.15 

 bushels, costing .768 per bushel. 



YORKSHIRES EXCEPTIONALLY PROLIFIC 



This Sow Has Averaged Twelve and One=third Pigs in Nine Litters 



QUALITY, APPLES ONLY 



PROFITABLE KIND TO HANDLE 



Williamsburg Association to Learn from 

 Connecticut Excliange 



The question of the best methods of 

 production and handling the apple crop 

 was thoroughly discussed at the annual 

 meeting of the Williamsburg Associa- 

 tion. Mr. Hallock, Manager, of the 

 Washington Fruit Exchange, Connecti- 

 cut, was the chief speaker and his figures 

 showed that his association was receiv- 

 ing a higher price from their apples than 

 what was received in his section, due to 

 the better quality of apples produced by 

 the members. Two power sprayers that 

 did the spraying for the members, were 

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CENTRAL MILK STATION 



OPENS IN EASTHAMPTON 



How many farmers have desired to see 

 put into operation the idea of a central 

 milk station, where all the milk for one 

 city or town could be brought and pre- 

 pared for delivery? We now have such 

 a plant in operation in Easthanipton and 

 producers, as well as consumers, should 

 avail themselves of the opportunity of 

 inspecting the plant. 



Easthanipton has ideal conditions for 

 making the central plant a success. By 

 co-operating the whole milk business of 

 the town with the work of the old Cream- 

 ery Association, there should be no 

 waste, all surplus being turned into but- 

 ter. 



The association now comprises about 

 fifty milk producers, all living within a 

 radius of three miles of the building and 

 most of them in Easthanipton. The old 

 patrons of the creamery still sell theii' 

 cream to the association for the manu- 

 facture of butter. At present about 2,000 

 rjuarts of milk are being bottled and de- 

 livered daily. 



Ralph Clapp is president of the asso- 

 ciation, Mr. W. M. Gaylord, treasurer 

 and manager, Mr. Raymond Hendi'ick is 

 foreman of the milk plant, and Mr. D. C. 

 Morey, former manager of the Cumming- 

 ton Creamery, is the butter-maker with 

 Mr. W. G. Cross his assistant. 



Yorkshires for New England 



In any discussion of breeds of swine 

 it is safe to begin by making the state- 

 ment that all breeds are good. The dif- 

 ferences are confined largely to ques- 

 j tions of type, prolificacy and quality. A 

 fair-minded intelligent judge has to ad- 

 mit that from the results of various 

 feeding tests no one breed shows a su- 

 periority over any other, and practically 

 each breed has come out at the top in 

 one series and at the bottom in another. 



At the North Dakota station York- 

 shires have been first in cheapest gains 

 but although I am a Yorkshire enthusi- 

 ast this may have happened because the 

 individual Yorks were better than the in- 

 dividual of the other different breeds. So 

 let us in fairness conclude that equally 

 good hogs of the niajoi' breeds of swine 

 are equally good feeders. 



It is my belief that there are more 

 Chester Whites in Massachusetts than 

 any other breed of hogs, but I believe 

 hat a bacon type animal finds here a 

 more normal environment than does a 

 'ard hog. Consider for a moment the 

 situation in England where all our prin- 

 cipal breeds of cattle and sheep had their 

 origin, and the parent stock of our Amer- 

 ican breeds of hogs were imported from 

 there. 



New England more closely approxi- 

 mates English conditions than does any 

 other section of the United States; and 

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