HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARM BUREAU MONTHLY 



Wiswell the Druggist 



82 Main];street 



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Wholesale and Retail Dealers in 



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90 East Street, 



Ware, Mass. 



Elevator on B. &. A. R. R. 

 I.oiie Distame Telephone 



GAZETTE PRINTING CO. 

 MERCANTILE PRINTERS 

 NORTHAMPTON, MASS. 



THAT EASTER SUIT 



We have just received some of the old 

 style hard finished goods that were so 

 hard to get during the war. These suits 

 arc made to give the maximum of ser- 

 vice and are priced so as to be within 

 the reach of all. We invite you to come 

 in and look them over 



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80 MAIN STREET, NORTHAMPTON, MASS. 



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Here is Henry Ford's world-wide gift to civilization, whicii 

 has won the all-England championship prize at the demon- 

 stration given at Lincolnshire, England, May 9, 1918. It is 

 one of the principal factors in winning this great war in 

 helping in the production of food. Every farmer sliould own 

 one of these machines. 



For Circulars, Catalogs, Etc., Etc. 

 CHASE MOTOR SALES COMPANY 



Distributors for Western Massachusetts 



■403 MAIN STREET NORTHAMPTON, MASS. 



Concluded from page 1 

 it, you will also see brush coming up with 

 it and it can't be helped. 



"You ask a farmer why he doesn't 

 keep his pastures better. He will say, 'I 

 don't have the time,' and it is so. 



"We start every spring and strain 

 every nerve to raise more ensilage, to 

 feed more cows, to make more milk, to 

 get bigger checks, to pay bigger grain 

 bills and we are lucky if we pay them all. 



"How many of us are keeping our 

 stock on father's farm? Of course we 

 handle more money selling milk, but how 

 are we going to keep on? 



"If you double the brush in our pas- 

 tures every few years, as it is doing 

 now, how long is it going to be before 

 our pastures are woods? Pretty soon we 

 are going to be very tired; then anxious- 

 ly, we look to "sonny." Will he take the 

 farm? Sonny will look out over the 

 farm. He sees the brush coming through 

 the fences in to the mowing. 'Huh, 

 father has sold this farm and carted it 

 into the city. Come wife, let's go to the 

 city and get a job.' 



"There are other things in life besides 

 milk and money. Are we making as 

 much out of life as we might, .socially, 

 etc. ? Can't we live a less strenuous life, 

 by keeping different stock, when pork, 

 lamb, poultry, eggs and beef are so high ; 

 improving our farms more, also by keep- 

 ing stock that stay in the pasture all 



summer and help keep them clean? We 

 look in horror at a man who sells all his 

 hay, that cjuickly effects the mowings, 

 but selling milk is a slower process and 

 seem to effect the pastures first. 



"This is simply calling attention to a 

 serious danger to our farms and it is 

 serious when we notice that more brush 

 has grown on our farms the past 25 

 years than for 7.5 years before. 



"I don't think I am pessimistic in call- 

 ing attention to these things, for I love 

 the country life. I love Middlefield, and 

 better yet, I love its people, and I be- 

 lieve that by working together we can 

 gradually make some change that will 

 make Middlefield a better place to live 



Professor Earl .Jones says that those 

 farms buying the Rural type of .seed po- 

 tatoes such as Dibble's Russet, Carmen 

 No. .3, Petosky, etc., should remember 

 and plant them a little closer than Green 

 Mountain potatoes. 



The reason for this is that they have 

 fewer plants and set fewer tubes per hill 

 and are apt to grow coarse unless they 

 are planted rather close in the row. It 

 seems safe to advise that varieties of this 

 type be planted from 3 to 4 inches closer 

 in a row than Green Mountain potatoes. 

 Varieties of this type grow upright and 

 are easier to spray than Green Mountain 

 potatoes. 



