QUALITY 
February  12,  1916, 
NEW  ENGLAND  NOTES 
The  management  of  the  Xew  England 
Fruit  Show  lias  decided  to  meet  with 
the  It hni]t>  Island  Horticultural  Society 
this  Fall.  The  next  regular  show  will 
be  held  in  1017.  presumably  at  Boston. 
This  decision  was  reached  at  the  annual 
meeting  of  the  management,  January  26, 
in  Boston.  The  premium  list  was  con¬ 
sidered  and  there  was  brief  discussion 
i  f  needs  to  advertise  first  in  order  to  in- 
c-ease  demand.  A  committee,  with  Prof. 
F.  (’.  Sears,  chairman,  was  appointed  to 
report  on.Jrhe  subject  at  the  Summer  meet¬ 
ing.  The  Stare  apple  grading  law  goes  into 
effort  in  July.  This  year  the  aim  will 
be  educational.  Inspectors  will  give  in¬ 
s'  ruction  and  there  will  be  no  prosecu- 
i  ions  except  iu  flagrant  cases.  The  idea, 
according  to  Vice-President  Wheeler,  is 
to  get  the  law  working  gradually.  Offi- 
cers  elected  are:  President,  .7.  T,.  Ells¬ 
worth:  vice-president.  Wilfrid  Wheeler; 
secretary,  .T.  Howard  Brown;  treasurer, 
A.  Warren  Patch.  Directors  from  each 
State:  W.  II.  Conant,  Buckfiehl.  Me.; 
Charles  W.  Barker,  Exeter,  X.  IF:  Geo. 
D.  Akin.  Putney,  Yt. ;  F.  0.  Sears.  Am- 
lmrst.  Mass.:  C'.  I..  Gold,  West  Corn¬ 
wall.  Conn.;  IF  M.  Bowen,  Provi¬ 
dence.  IF  I. 
*  This  Big  Crop  S 
was  not  Big  Enough! 
4lsiife  $  4L„~v#,, 
We  are  slowly  getting  together  au  Al¬ 
falfa  map  of  Xew  England.  Before  we 
are  done  we  want  the  location  of  every 
acre  of  Alfalfa  in  the  Xew  England 
States  and  a  brief  history  as  well.  In 
no  part  of  the  country  is  Alfalfa  more 
needed.  Xowliere  will  it  give  greater 
value  to  farm  land  or  do  more  to  im¬ 
prove  farming.  Let  us  know  of  any  suc¬ 
cess — or  failure — with  Alfalfa. 
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A  few  weeks  ago  a  reader  who  has 
a  farm  in  Xew  England  said  he  wanted 
to  buy  several  tons  of  chicken  manure  for 
his  orchard.  Already  more  than  a  dozen 
poultry  men  have  come  offering  such 
manure  for  sale.  We  believe  that  within 
a  few  years  chicken  manure,  well  dried 
and  mixed  with  chemicals,  will  become 
a  regular  item  iu  the  Xew  England  fer¬ 
tilizer  trade.  Farmers  often  remark  that 
natural  wood  ashes  give  better  results 
than  any  artificial  combination  of  lime, 
potash  and  phosphoric  acid.  Those  who 
are  familiar  with  well  dried  hen  manure 
know  what  remarkable  results  it  gives. 
There  is  a  good  chance  coming  for  some 
hen  men  to  work  up  a  grass  or  garden 
fertilizer  with  him  manure  as  the  basis. 
Prizes 
Amount 
ing  to 
Thirty  farmers  have  received  $3000  in  cash  for  the 
largest  30  crops  of  wheat,  corn  and  potatoes,  grown 
fertilizers  exclusively,  under  severe  restrictions  as  to  measur 
ing  the  land  and  weighing  the  crops.  Here  are  the  results 
on  our 
BEST  YIELDS  AVERAGE  YIELDS 
Potatoes  .  375  bush,  per  acre  10  Prize  Winners  321.3  bush,  per  acre 
Corn  .  .  115  bush,  per  acre  10  Prize  Winners  96.74  bush,  per  acre 
Wheat  .  59.86  bush,  per  acre  10  Prize  Winners  48.50  bush,  peracie 
The  crop  shown  in  the  photograph  was  good  but  not  good  enough  to  win  a  prize. 
The  recent  fruit  show  in  Boston,  Mass., 
was  a  fine  one.  with  a  display  of  the 
most  beautiful  apples.  They  were  as 
good  as  they  were  beautiful,  for  Xew 
England  soil  and  climate  continually  pro¬ 
duce  this  combination.  With  some  ap¬ 
ples  beauty  is  not  even  skin  deep,  while 
with  others  you  must  gel  under  a  very 
ordinary  skin  to  taste  the  beauty.  In 
Xew  England  they  grow  a  fruit  which 
is  beautiful  from  blusli  to  core.  A  little 
group  of  enthusiastic  fruit  growers  are 
doing  wonders  for  Xew  England  apples. 
They  arc  educating  and  organizing,  and 
their  work  is  now  bearing  fruit — as  fine 
iu  its  way  as  the  apples  themselves.  Xo 
use  talking,  the  North  Atlantic  slope  is 
coming  to  its  own.  It  is  not  “coming 
back,”  for  it  never  went  away — though 
many  of  the  farm  boys  did  so. 
HOW  DID  THEY  DO  IT? 
Send  for  our  contest  book 
today.  It  gives  all  facts  and 
We  send  it  free  to  any  address 
figures  and  pictures  of  the  great  crops 
The  American  Agricultural  Chemical  Co 
CLEVELAND.  CINCINNATI,  DETROIT 
Farm  Legislation  at  Boston 
Two  great  rural  industries  are  iu  line 
to  receive  a  boost  in  Eastern  Xew  Eng¬ 
land  if  hopes  of  the  agricultural  officers 
prevail  with  tlieir  favorite  dairy  and 
market  gardening  bills  in  the  Massachu¬ 
setts  Legislature.  Mr.  llarwood  and  the 
dairy  people  ask  $50,000  for  encourage¬ 
ment.  of  production  of  clean  milk  and  of 
improved  dairy  stock.  The  clean  milk 
contests,  it  is  claimed,  have  resulted  in 
better  understanding  of  the  necessary 
conditions.  Milk  samples  that  would 
have  beeu  first  prizes  two  or  three  years 
ago  are  away  down  the  list  now  be¬ 
cause  so  many  in  the  contests  are  doing 
still  better.  “Most  depends  on  the 
milker,”  asserts  Mr.  Harwood,  the  exe¬ 
cutive  officer  of  the  State  board  division 
of  animal  industry.  “I  can  get  milk  of 
certified  quality,”  be  asserts.  “It  is  care 
in  milking  and  cooling  the  milk  after¬ 
wards  that  is  of  first  importance.”  It 
is  hoped  that  the  continuance  of  prize 
contests  will  increase  the  number  of  in¬ 
telligent,  careful  milkers.  Good,  practi¬ 
cal  dairy  stock,  too,  is  scarce.  Most 
of  the  prize  money  offered  has  been  for 
fancy  stock.  The  plan  here  would  be  to 
(Continued  on  page  205.) 
MR.  W.  D.  BALMER,  a  well-known  farmer,  bought  a 
Chatham  Grain  Grader  and  Cleaner  just  a  year  ago.  He 
cleaned  and  graded  his  Seed,  raised  a  bumper  crop,  thenKSK 
paid  for  liis  machine  out  of  the  increased  profits  and  had  $415  net  gain  for  his  »SSS  888 
work.  CharlesC.  Wine  claims  he  made  $700  extra  profit  in  one  se,.son.  egSSS 
George  Dunnington  made  $257  out  of  his  Chatham  first  year.  Geo.  Bride! 
made  $3J0  extra  on  oats  alone.  Mr.  I.  C.  Foote  made  $48  the  first  11  days  by 
cleaning  neighbors'  seed.  The  names,  addresses  and  complete  let' ers  are  all  wSSSSSSS^^ 
printed  in  the  B-ook  here  shown.  Over  300  such  letters  will  be  sent  you  for  the  asking  SgSSSSSSH 
— juac  to  prove  the  Chatham  Is  the  pixatest  money- making  Farm  inAch.in#e  in  exUcence . 
You,  reader,  ore  losing:  hundreds  of  dollars  every  season  you  pot  off  buying  a  Chatham.  KgSSSxfl 
CHATHAM  and*  Cleaner 
No  matter  where  you  live  or  what  crops  you  grow,  the  Chatham  is  simply 
E  indispensable.  It  cleans  out  all  chaff,  dirt  and  weed  seed;  takes  cracked 
shrunken  grains  from  the  plump  ones;  separates  any  two  grain  mixtures. 
if  Bags  the  clean,  pure  seed.  Does  it  easily,  rapidly  and  surely.  A  priceless  UMA wLq-. 
asset  on  any  farm  that  grows  corn,  oats,  wheat,  rye.  barley,  timothy,  clover,  S 
Bax,  alfalfa,  beans  or  peaa.  Big  Capacity.  Hand  power  or  gas.  OveHOO.OW  in  daily  use. 
5*1  SPECIAL.  OFFER  c„nj  pri„ia i  Oulelc 
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H  materials,  my  Price  must  soon  bs  raised.  Don’t  wait  till  the  pi  ice  goes  up.  BpULI 
781  r  of  a  short  time  only,  1  offer  my  pretest  Send  postal  now!  betid  for  my 
- 1  Jg  ;ow.g,1l‘ie  and  **. Special  Offer  and  this  astonishing  ViW 
■  'Ll  fr,'f,bcuk,  IttelU the .entranoing story of 
contort.  Albany,  Scranton,  < Coiumhon,  Jr  n  rpori .  multiplied  Wheat  Yields*,  extra  bumper  Corn 
Minnoapollrt,  Omaha,  Kansas  City,  Be.  Louis,  ana  <‘ropa;  bountiful  Oat  yields;  record -hr  eakuriK  Harvests  of  Barley, 
many  others.  My  terms  are  cash  or  six  months'  Flax,  Timothy,  Clovfr,  Alfalfa,  otc.— all  results  from  sowing  cle 
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