HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARM BUREAU MONTHLY 



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C. N. CLARK, President 

 WARREN M. KING, Vice-President 

 EDWIN K. ABBOTT, Casliier 



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CoiH-luded from puK'' I 



These can be cleared up only by the ex- 

 penditure of time and money required to 

 cut them or pull them out and then cut- 

 ting the second growth until the plants 

 are killed. 



i. Is it more economical to clear the 

 present pastures or to fence, plow, fer- 

 tilize and reseed for pastures some of the 

 old mowings and cut out the brush every 

 year as it comes in allowing the present 

 pastures to go to woods? 



2. Would better attention to one-half 

 or three-fourths of tne present acreage 

 of hay land result in the pi'oduction of 

 more and better hay at less expense for 

 harvesting? 



3. One farmer in the hills has kept up 

 the productivity of his farm by growing 

 considerable corn and then seeding down 

 in the corn the same year so that some 

 of the old hay land is taken up every 

 year. The manure produced during the 

 winter is put on the corn land and that 

 produced during the summer on the older 

 hay land. To what extent can this prac- 

 tice be followed on the average farm 

 where the land is not too rocky or wet for 

 cultivated crops and is near the barn? 



4. Should corn or grain be grown 

 more than one or two years on the same 

 land without reseeding? In other words, 

 should not some of the older hay land be 

 manured and plowed up every year and 

 the cultivated land seeded down? 



0. Is the expense of top-dressing grass 

 land with chemicals prohibitive? (It is 

 assumed that all the manure would be 

 used on the cultivated crops.) 



6. Is the expense of getting lime into 

 the hill towns prohibitive? 



7. Can the farm work be arranged 

 during the winter and early spring so 

 that the winter's accumulation would not 

 be left in the barn to be hauled out in 

 late April or May? 



8. Should not more oats or other 

 small grains be grown in the hill towns 

 at the present time? Feed and bedding- 

 would be produced and more land kept in 

 cultivation with less labor than cultivated 

 crops require. 



ONION SHIPMENTS 



April 



-South Deerfield, .3-5 cars 



Hadley, 23 cars (179 bags) 



Amherst, 9 cars 



Whately, 4 cars 



71 cars (179 bags) 



Members of the Sow and Litter Club 

 have had no trouble in disposing of young 

 pigs at prices ranging from .?7 to .$9. 



Charles Sears of Lithia demonstrated 

 his own home-made tireless cooker at a 

 community meeting in Goshen. 



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P. N. KNEELAXI), Vice-President 

 OLiVEK H. BKADI-EY, Cashier 



