HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARM BUREAU MONTHLY 



FARM BUREAU MONTHLY 



PUBLISHED BY THE 



Hampshire County Farm Bureau 



A. F. ^lacDousr.ill, County Agent 

 Helen A. Hnrriinan. Home Deni. Aeent 

 C. H. Gould, Hoys' and Girls' Club Leader 



Office First National Bank Building 



Northampton, Mass. 



Entered as second class matter Nov. 0, 1015. at the 

 Post Office at Northampton, Massachusetts, under 

 the Act of March 8, 1ST9. 



" Notice of Entry " 



"Acceptance for mailing at special rate of post- 

 age provided for in section 1103, Act of October ?, 

 1917. Authorized October 31, 1917." 



Price. 525 cents a year 



Officers of the Trustees 



Leslie R. Smith, President 

 Clarence E. Hodgkins, Vice-President 

 Warren M. King, Treasurer 

 Charles H. Gould, Secretary 



Trustees for County Aid to Agriculture 



Edwin B. Clapp, Easthampton 

 Charles E. Clark, Leeds 

 Clarence E. Hodgkins, Northampton 

 William N. Howard, Ware 

 Milton S. Howes, Cumniington 

 Mrs. Clifton .Johnson, Hadley 

 Warren M. King, Northampton 

 Leslie R. Smith, Hadley 

 John A. Sullivan, Northampton 



Dedicated to the Tobacco Grower 



Tobacco is a filthy weed; 



I like it. 

 They say it fills no normal need; 



I like it. 

 It makes you old, 



It makes you lean. 

 It takes the hair 



Right off your bean; 

 It's the worst darn stuff 



I ever seen. 

 But— I like it. 



The sow pictured on page one is a good 

 example of the quality of stock that 

 should be kept on more of our Hamp- 

 shire County farms. 



Mr. H. C. Barton, South Amherst, sec- 

 retary of the Mass. Swine Breeders' As- 

 sociation, is a very successful .swine 

 breeder and farmers would profit by 

 making Mr. Barton a visit and inspect- 

 ing his piggery. For a market, along 

 with his sale of breeders and young pigs, 

 Mr. Barton is developing a market for 

 home-made sausage and scrapple. 



Each breed of swine has its followers 

 and it is planned to run a series of ar- 

 ticles in this paper by different breeders 

 in the County so that the points in favor 

 or against any one breed may be thor- 

 oughly brought out. 



FEDERAL LAND BANK NEWS 



That the farmers recognize the ad- 

 vantages of the Federal Farm Loans is 

 indicated by the applications received by 

 the Springfield Land Bank since organi- 

 zation. All told the Land Bank received 

 5,243 applications for an aggregate 

 amount of $16,358,239. Although the 

 winter months very naturally slowed 

 down the work of the Land Bank, be- 

 cause of the impossibility of making 

 farm appraisals, applications are coming- 

 in in goodly number. Some Associa- 

 tions, however, are more or less inactive 

 and are waiting for the spring to put 

 in their applications. It is confidently 

 expected that with the opening of the 

 spring season a rush of applications will 

 come in and the Land Bank is making 

 every preparation to handle them prompt- 

 ly- 



The Northampton F. L. A. of North- 

 ampton which covers the Counties of 

 Hampshire, Berkshire, and Hampden 

 held its Annual Meeting in January. 

 This Association was chartered on Sep- 

 tember 11, 1917 and has made 43 loans 

 amounting to $101,600.00. The Directors 

 elected at the Annual Meeting for the 

 current year are John E. Hart, A. G. 

 Markham, Norman Willet, J. Harry 

 Allen, John Dalrymple, Hoilis E. Cole. 

 The officers are John E. Hart, President 

 of Worthington and A. G. Markham, 

 Vice-President of Worthington. The 

 Secretary-Treasurer is Horace S. Cole of 

 Worthington. The officers of the Asso- 

 ciation are planning an active campaign 

 to extend the facilities of the Association 

 to all farmers in its territory. They in- 

 vite each and every farmer to communi- 

 cate with the Secretai-y-Treasurer who 

 will be very glad to explain the System 

 and to assLst in every way possible in 

 making out the application and in .secur- 

 ing the loan. 



There are several farmers inteiested 

 in aspargus growing. For the benefit of 

 these men, the Mass. Agricultural Col- 

 lege has for distribution, about 13 lbs. 

 of seed and 2500 one-year old roots of 

 the new rust-resistant Washington as- 

 parugus. If any grower desires this 

 stock call the Farm Bureau. 



Don't Tell Anyone We Told 

 You— But: 



Mrs. H. H. Bissell of Goshen has cre- 

 ated quite a reputation as a club leader. 

 Some Chesterfield people are beginning 

 to wonder why somebody in their town 

 can't lead a club, too. 



F. E. Parsons, Farm Bureau Director 

 for Enfield, is trying hard to get the 

 people interested in the Farm Bureau. 

 He let it leak out at Town meeting that 

 the time to criticize and ask questions 

 of the Farm Bureau is when the Bureau 

 held meetings in town for that purpose, 

 tie is trying to arrange another Farm 

 Bureau Night. 



The fish man in Cumniington says that 

 if the women in town want to buy fish 

 from him, they'd better stay home on 

 Tuesday instead of going to those Cloth- 

 ing Club affairs. 



Mrs. Edward Searle and Mrs. Speere 

 of Southampton joggled over the ruts, 

 in the Bureau car from Southampton to 

 Cummington also to Belchertown to as- 

 sist in Clothing Club meetings in those 

 towns. 



Miss Rachael Packard was recently 

 chosen Town Club Leader for Goshen. 



Prof. W. R. Hart is the guiding .star 

 for club work in Amherst. 



Get the habit of doing things right. 



POTATO VARIETIES 



In considering the question of seed po- 

 tatoes, it is surprising the number of va- 

 rieties desired by the farmers in one 

 community. One farmer has had good 

 luck with this variety another with an- 

 other variety and so on. There is often 

 a reason why one variety does better in 

 a certain locality or on different soils, 

 but the reason for so many followers of 

 different varieties in one community is 

 due, without a doubt to the strain of seed 

 or the freedom from diseases that this 

 or that faimer may have purchased. 



Potato growers will be interested in 

 the following pargraph, published in the 

 December number of the "Potato Maga- 

 zine." 



"At a conference of the Potato Coun- 

 cil of Ontario held in Toronto on Sep- 

 tember 6, the follow'ing varieties of po- 

 tatoes were decided to be identical and 

 are classed as Green Mountain: Carmen 

 No. 1, Clyde, Gold Coin, (Vermont), Del- 

 aware, Dreer Standard (not Dreer Early 

 Standard), Green Mountain, Green 

 Mountain, Jr., Snow, State of Maine, 

 Uncle Sam, Wee MacGregor. The ex- 

 perts present agreed that no one can dis- 

 tinguish between them as to plant, blos- 

 som, or tuber." 



