HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARM BUREAU MONTHLY 



FARM BUREAU MONTHLY 



PUBLISHED BY THE 



Hampshire County Farm Bureau 



A. r. 3[acl>oiii;.-ill. County AKfut 

 Helen A. Hai-riiitaii, Hume l>eiii. Atcent 



Office First National Bank Building 



Northampton, Mass. 



Entered as second class matter Nov. 9, IfllS. at the 

 Post Office at Nortbami)ton, Massjichusetts. under 

 the Act of March 8, 187U. 



"Notice of Kiitry " 



"Acceptance for mailing at special rate of post- 

 age provided for in section 1103, Act of October 3, 

 1917. Authorized October 31. 1917. '' 



Price, 25 cents a year 



Officers of the Trustees 



Leslie R. Smith, President 



Clarence E. Hodgkins, Vice-President 



Warren M. King, Treasurer 



A. F. MacDougall, Secretary pro tern 



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, Cummington 

 Mrs. Clifton Johnson, Hadley 

 Warren M. King, Northampton 

 Le-slie R. Smith, Hadley 

 John A. Sullivan, Northampton 



A FARMER'S CREED 



I believe in a permanent agriculture, 

 a soil that shall grow richer rather than 

 poorer from- year to year. 



I believe in hundred-bushel corn and 

 in fifty-bushel wheat, and I shall not be 

 satisfied with anything less. 



I believe that the only good weed is a 

 dead weed, and that a clean farm is as 

 important as a clean conscience. 



T believe in the farm boy and in the 

 farm girl, the farmer's best crops and 

 the future's best hope. 



I believe in the farm woman, and will 

 do all in my power to make her life 

 easier and happier. 



I believe in a country .school that pre- 

 pares for country life, and a country 

 church that teaches its people to love 

 deeply and live honorably. 



I believe in community spirit, a pride 

 in home and neighbors, and I will do 

 my part to make my own community the 

 best in the state. 



I believe in the farmer, I believe in 

 farm life, I believe in the inspiration 

 of the open country. 



I am proud to be a farmer, and I will 

 try earnestly to be woi'thy of the name. 

 —Frank I. Mann. 



IS YOUR TOWN STANDING STILL? 



I There aie about six towns in Hamp- 

 I shire County where the farmers are still 

 trying to make progress alone on their 

 own little farm without joining hands 

 with the other farmers in their community 

 and giving their whole town a boost as 

 well as pu.shing their own farm along. 



There are about fifteen towns in Hamp- 

 shii'e County where the farmers have 

 j proven to their own satisfaction that it 

 1 is a lonesome and unproductive task try- 

 ing alone to make farming profitable. 

 They have found that co-operative eff'ort 

 is the only sane and sure way to make 

 their farm and their community a pro- 

 fitable and enjoyable place in which to 

 live. In what group is your town? 



Of what benefit is it for a family to 

 work alone and prosper if their neigh- 

 bors do not progress? How are youi- ; 

 schools and church supported and your 

 roads kept in repair, except by the pros- 

 perity of your neighboring farms. In 

 other words, is it of much use to stay at 

 home and prosper along one narrow chan- 

 nel? Is not the only real way to make- 

 up your mind to live in a prosperous com- , 

 munity; and this can be done only by 

 your taking an active part in all enter- 

 prises that aim at the building up of the ! 

 community as a whole and not the pro- 

 moting of individual prosperity. Let your 

 community prosper and you cannot help 

 but lead a productive and worth-while 

 life. 



COMMUNITY EXTENSION SCHOOLS 



Are Again in Season 



For the past few years Extension 

 Schools from the Mass. Agricultural Col- 

 lege have been in much demand by Hamp- 

 shire County towns. Already requests 

 are coming in regarding schools for the 

 coming winter. 



At the community organization meet- 

 ings being held in many of the towns, 

 definite programs of work are being 

 planned and projects adopted. What 

 better arrangments can be made than to 

 start these projects ofl' wnth a two, three, 

 or four-day school, with specialists from 

 the College present to give each com- 

 munity the information desired? 



If the farmeis of your town are 

 especially interested in potato growing or 

 live-stock raising and if the women 

 desire millinery or clothing work, why 

 not have a school and emphasize these 

 particular points? 



December, January and February are 

 the months in which these schools should 

 be held. Talk over wth your neighbors 

 the question of a school oi- be ready to 

 make plans for it at your community 

 meeting. If your town is one that has 

 never had a school, get busy right off, 

 for you are missing something. Several 

 towns in Hampshire County have had as 

 many as three schools. 



CITIZENSHIP 



Citizenship begins in the home. What 

 is my home to my community? 



What have I done to help my fellow 

 man? 



Did I expect something in return? 



Let us join with our neighbors to sup- 

 port schools, churches, libraries, to en- 

 courage better health laws, roads and 

 farming. 



Give to the world the best you have and 

 the best will come back to you. — Inter- 

 national Harvester company. 



BETTER LIVE STOCK CRUSADE 



In the campaign for better live stock 

 in the United States, the United States 

 Department of Agriculture is asking that 

 all farmers interested enroll in the cru- 

 sade. The only requirement is that every 

 male used must be Pure-bred and of good- 

 type and quality. An emblem will be is- 

 sued by the Mass. Agricultural College 

 and the United States Depaitment of 

 Agriculture to all the farmers filling an 

 application blank and complying with the 

 requirements. Blanks for enrollment 

 can be obtained at the Farm Bureau of- 

 fice. 



For those farmers who do not quite 

 understand the different definitions re- 

 lating to character of breeding, the fol- 

 lowing table is given. 



What is Breeding? 



Purebred: A pure-bred animal is one of 

 pure breeding, representing a definite, 

 recognized breed and both of whose 

 parents were pure-bred animals of the 

 same breed. To be considered pure- 

 bred, live stock must be either 

 registered, eligible to registration, or 

 (in the absence of public registry for 

 that class) have such lineage that its 

 pure breeding can be definitely proved. 

 To be of good type and quality, the 

 animal must be healthy, vigorous, and 

 a creditable specimen of its breed. 



Thoroughbred : The term "thoroughbred" 

 applies accurately only to the breed of 

 i-unning horses eligible to registration 

 in the General Stud Book of England, 

 the American Stud Book, or affiliated 

 stud books for thoroughbred horses in 

 other countries. 



Standardbred : Applied to horses, this 

 term refers to a distinct breed of 

 American light horses, which includes 

 both trotters and pacers which ai'C 

 eligible to registration in the American 

 Trotting Register. Applied to poul- 

 try, the term includes all birds bred 

 to conform to the standards of form, 

 color, markings, weight, etc., for the 

 various breeds under the standard of 

 perfection of the American Poultry 

 Association. 



Scrub: A scrub is an animal of mixed or 

 unknown breeding without definite type 



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