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rucckss  in  new  HAMPSHIRE  farming,  milk  production  in  Massachusetts  has 
’  The  new  county  survey  work  is  shed-  rapidly  decreased  since  1890  and  its  place 
ding  light  on  real  conditions  of  success-  wVi 1  ,'v  ia  ,s  L'rmc;d  *(’s® 
ful  farming.  By  getting  the  figures  able  nnlk  from  northern  New  England 
from  a  large  number  of  farms  and  com-  ?lu^  (  an  a  da.  Sufficient  milk  to  supply 
pariug  notes,  it  is  possible  to  see  some  Massachusetts  people,  continues  the  ro¬ 
of  the  reasons  why  a  proportion  of  the  P°rt-  could  be  produced  within  the  bor- 
farms  pay,  while  many  others  return  s  °  .  ‘  ta/e  I'1®  thousands  o£ 
only  a  small  to  medium  net  income,  or  ?c.r<?8  P*  naturally  good  dairy  land  now 
sometimes  none  at  all  after  all  charges  I?11?/*  Vlle  W(!re  stocked  with  milch  cat- 
are  made.  tie.  There  may  be  some  doubt  about 
Of  60  farms  in  Merrimack  County,  much  good  land  lying  idle,  but  anyhow 
taken  as  they  come,  it  appears  that,  the  Board  seem  to  think  there  is  need 
larger  ones  paid  the  best.  The  net  per  "f  encouragement.  Mhy,  then,  say  the 
acre  may  hove  been  small,  but  the  mini-  producers,  still  further  check  and  dis- 
ber  of  acres  in  crops  may  roll  up  a  good  ‘‘'mrage  the  industry  by  increased  cost  of 
total  income.  The  large  business  done  production,  1’kely to  result  from  _la ws  and 
enables  the  fftrmer  to  use  at  least  two  r u les  a.lo ng  the  h n os  urged  by  the  Board 
men,  with  enough  live  stock  and  macliin-  H  aJiu  folks, 
ery  to  round  out  the  complete  enterprise.  at.fai.fa  in  Maine. 
Next  to  size  of  crop  area  came  quality  “A  good  field  of  Alfalfa  is  like  milling 
of  cows  in  Uns  dairy  county.  °ne  town,  bran»  do(.I;II,,s  W.  T  Gupti]1)  Maine 
with  the  help  of  a  eou  tester,  has  in-  (’ommissioner  of  Agriculture.  “A  ton  of 
creased  in  four  years  its  yield  per  cow  A]falfa  Js  considered  as  rich  as  a  ton  of 
from  $43.77  to  *66.78.  Some  farms  with  bran »  Mr.  Guptill  has  ideas  of  hia  own 
small  herds  paid  better  than  some  huge  f,bout  the  best  way  to  manage  this  pecu* 
farms,  because  of  the  better  quality  of  crop.  Perhaps  it  is  not,  after  all,  so 
the  cows.  The  most  profitable  farms  as  peculiar  as  some  would  have  us  believe, 
a  class  were  those  devoted  mainly  to  T]u,sc  Maine  Yankees  have  plain  but 
dairying,  which  shows,  not  that  dairying  very  successful  ways  with  potatoes  and 
always  pays  best.,  but  suggests  rather  clover  and  they  seem  to  be  doing  well 
that  m  a  dairy  section  it  is  better  to  f  st  f  i(j.  Aif-of.. 
stick  to  dairying  mostly,  or  in  a  fruit  Treat  Alfalfa  much  the  same  as  grass 
section  to  fruit  growing,  or  to  market  and  cloVGI%  adviKCS  Mr_  Guptin.  in  fact, 
gardening  in  a  section  wheie  that  Inn'  j.JC  f|nds  a  g0od  way  to  introduce  the  crop 
is  the  leading  one;  for  adaptation  of  sur-  is  to  sow  five  or  i0  pounds  of  it  with 
roundings  and  community  of  efloit  along  ji10  clover  seed.  Some  of  it  may  be  ex- 
one  line  is  n  great  help.  .  petted  to  grow,  and  anyhow  the  other 
G°0d  yield  per  acre  counted  well  in  grasses  will  make  the  seeding  a  success, 
these  farm  comparisons,  but  could  not  Gr  ]1C  sometimes  sows  Alfalfa  with  bar- 
wholly  offset  lack  of  crop  acreage  of  the  j(,y(  not.  to  have  a  “nurse  crop,”  which 
small  farms.  It  is  plain  that  1  acres  {0rm  j1R  considers  nonsense,  but  to  make 
of  crops  netting  only  .10  per  acre  clear  SJ,rc  0f  a  cr0p  for  bjs  trouble.  Every 
profit  will  pay  hotter  than  -0  acres  of  ceding  will  do ''better,  as  the  soil  and 
crops  showing  a  profit  of  $-0  or  $-*0  p<  i  crop  become  adapted,  and  it  costs  no 
acre.  Most  likely  some  farmers  who  niore  to  reseed  Alfalfa  than  Red  clover, 
have  been  trying  to  push  the  yield  of  This  gradual  introduction  of  the  crop 
their  land  beyond  a  moderate  I'jnit.  dnea  a  way  with  inoculation  of  the  arti- 
would  make  more  money  by  hiring  added  ficial  kh)d  f  which  Mr.  Guptill  holds  a 
land  and  help,  and  aiming  to  secure  mod-  poor  0„inion.  “j.ime?”  Yes:  all  the  old 
crate  yields  from  more  acres.  I  he  gen-  ]and  gjjould  be  limed  for  any  kind  of 
eral  conclusions  seem  very  much  like  gra^g  to  get  best  results.  For  Alfalfa, 
those  obtained  from  a  survey  of  one  or  two  tons  to  the  acre  is  even  better  than 
more  of  the  dairy  counties  of  New  York,  ono  Thorough  preparation  of  the  soil 
and  were  these  same  factors  of  crop  acre-  {  ;,dvis(,d  a(j  f(ir  and  freedom  from 
age.  yield,  specialization,  quality,  etc..  f  wit  J|  j  vious  use 
appearing  in  abont  the  same  relative  im-  of  Ill.tnljr„  and  fertilisers  is  important. 
j>or  ance.  ,  .  \T  In  short,  Mr.  Guptill  gives  the  impres- 
Tho  average  receipts  of  the  60  New  ^  that  he  thinks  a  good  deal  of  com- 
Hampshire  farms  were  $l.i93  Expenses  jdicato(J  Jmn»on.<e  htlH  been  written  about 
fie  e<r  ^iaiu<  fertilizers,  it  .,  A  Ifni  fn.  “No  farm  is  too  small  to  have 
$1,1.18.  Interest  at  live  per  cent  on  an  smal]  patch  of  Alfalfa.”  be  declares, 
average  investment  of  $6.4 <0  was  $821,  .|m]  by  ^  pIan  of  grftduollv  vvorkhlg 
le.it  rag  $_il  to.  the  fill  in  ,r  s  pay  o  s  jn^0  the  crop  there  would  be  little  risk 
labor;  a  net  return  small  in  dollais,  ui.  0I.  expense  in  making  the  experiment, 
free  from  many  of  the  deductions  that  1  *  1 
make  a  larger  city  income  se.em  like  pov-  MARKETING  POTATOES, 
erty.  Three  of  the  60  farms  paid  over  The  hag  question  is  a  cause  of  some 
$1,000  each,  net  profit,  and  one  paid,  hesitation  among  producers.  The  price 
$1,500.  On  the  other  hand,  there  -were  has  been  boosted  considerably  as  a  result 
some  which,  after  the  interest  was  taken  0f  the  war,  which  has  interfered  with 
out,  paid  little  or  nothing  for  the  work  the  supply  of  fibre  stock.  A  few  Maine 
of  the  owner.  Without  doubt,  some  shippers  have  already  written  their  Bos- 
farms  are  too  small  or  poor  to  pay.  and  ton  brokers  that  they  may  ship  in  bulk 
they  ought  to  be  combined  with  others  this  vear  instead  of  using  bags.  Others 
or  given  back  to  forestry.  Some  farm-  are  asking  the  dealers  to  look  them  up  a 
ors,  too,  need  to  get  down  to  business  aud  supply  of  cheap  bags  which  are  obtained 
see  whether  yield  per  acre  and  yield  per  seCond  hand  from  retail  stores  and  from 
cow'  cannot  be  brought  up  nearer  the  peddlers.  These  collectors  are  now  pay- 
standard  set  by  the  best  paying  farms.  jDg  about  five  cents  for  sacks  in  good 
young  SUGAR  MAKERS.  order  and  selling  them  at  seven  cents. 
Because  youthful  sugar  makers  are  re- 
eeivimr  due  encounmement  there  is  rea-  f-lunnS-  as  at  present,  or  recently,  there 
son  to  expect  the  reputation  <>f  Vermont  usually  considerable  trouble  about  “re- 
as  a  souree  of  maple  sweets  will  in  time  3ccted  shipments.  Gioweis  comp  am, 
be  raised  to  a  still  higher  standard.  The  without  reason,  that  buyers  who 
sugar  festival  at  Lyndon.  In  April,  with  haVG  a«reGd  tf)  Pa?  a  cer  ai“  P'ICG’,  aro 
exhibits  by  120  boys  and  girls,  showed  ^ery  _ much  moie  fussy  about  then  m- 
evidence  of  both  enterprise  and  skill.  spccUon,  if  the  market  has  happened  to 
The  600  members  of  the  club  range  from  dr^*lnG  u  ,^0mnnv 
eight  to  18  years  of  age.  Everything  \\a7  f°  Boston.  I  hey  find  a  good  many 
served  or  shown  at  the  festival  was  ( l,  '  V-  s.  ,‘V "  ^t'jck,  that  would  pass 
raised  or  prepared  by  the  children,  f  \  ^ad  not  .,0  f  0C1D?  IU  the  mai- 
There  wt re  several  hundred  exhibits.  ln'if  e  the  purchaser  anxious  to  Imd  a 
The  prize  was  awarded  for  stirred  sugar  loophole  of  escape.  In  New  York,  the 
to  Wallace  Carter;  for  hard  sugar  to  shjppei-  .s  able  to  counter  such  a  move 
Mavnard  Burlington ;  for  tub  sugar  also  *.’;v  Gi1  ,,1S.  .,e  *  tate  Department  of 
to  Wallace  Carter;  for  maple  cream  to  foods  and  Markets,  which  will  send  an 
Harold  Rearm  on  th ;  for  maple  syrup  to  inspector  who  will  report  condition  and 
Dorothy  Buggies;  for  maple  cakes,  one  ?la',a  'bo  shipment,  free,  of  cbaige. 
ounce,  to  Harold  Learmouth ;  for  other  In  I  mstou  there  is  no  such  referee  as  yet, 
sugar  cakes  to  Harold  Farmer.  and  the  shipper  must  arrange  for  an  in¬ 
spector  as  best  lie  can.  Rather  than 
the  vanishing  milic  bills.  bother  about  it  the  shipper  will  often 
The  prospect  for  passing  any  of  the  give  in  and  allow  the  buyer  Lo  dodge  his 
extreme  and  drastic  Board  of  Health  had  bargain.  Then  the  lot  will  be  sold 
bills,  grows  less  as  the  legislative  ses-  in  the  open  market,  which  might  not  be 
sion  at  Boston  approaches  the  end,  and  so  bad  were  it  not  for  the  fact  that  some 
the  producers  or  others  who  dislike  the  brokers  are  connected  with  jobbing 
incessant,  stirring  up  of  the  milk  situa-  houses,  so  that  the  transaction  amounts 
tion  are  feeling  relieved.  The  opponents  to  passing  the  shipment  from  one  hand 
of  these  measures  claim  strength  enough  to  the  other  with  a  decided  shrinkage 
to  vote  them  down,  and  the  Board  people  in  value  during  the  process.  It  is  for 
seem  to  be  devoting  their  efforts  chiefly  such  reasons  that  so  many  producers 
to  leaving  things  in  shape  for  a  new  at-  turn  their  crops  over  to  a  local  buyer 
tempt  next  year.  Their  persistence  is  in  their  own  town,  and  let  him  take  all 
far  more  evident  than  their  tact  and  the  risk  of  such  happenings,  as  well  as  a 
diplomacy.  Maybe,  after  a  few  more  good  share  of  the  profits.  Occasionally 
years  of  this  annual  march  up  Beacon  a  grower  comes  down  in  the  Bangor  boat 
Hill  and  down  again,  somebody  will  pick  along  with  his  potatoes  and  sells  them 
up  the  question  by  the  right  handle  and  himself  to  the  jobbing  firms  around  Fan- 
everybody  will  be  happy.  The  Pratt  bill  euil  Hall  market.  Such  a  plan,  shreivd- 
with  its  encouragement,  instead  of  lv  managed,  has  been  known  to  net  a 
threatemngs.  seems  a  step  in  the  direc-  little  more  than  the  yard  price  and  no 
tion  of  compromise,  and  it  may  be  passed  city  expenses  to  be  taken  out  of  it.  The 
yet.  Nobody,  except  the  extremists  aud  grower  who  visits  his  market,  and  gets 
some  of  the  contractors  had  anything  to  acquainted  with  his  broker  and  deal- 
say  against  it  ers  and  makes  inquiries  about  them  is 
Opponents  of  new  restrictive  milk  legis-  likely  to  get  a  better  idea  of  market  eon- 
lation  claim  that  the  Board’s  own  report  di Lions.  The  same  is  true  of  shippers  in 
shows  that  producers  need  something  en-  general ;  for  the  ins  and  outs  of  distant 
couraging  rather  than  drastic  new  mens-  marketing  are  very  much  alike  iu  many 
ures.  The  Board’s  report  declares  that  Hues  of  produce.  G.  n.  f. 
Quality  for  quality  these  prices  are 
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No.  2  Yellow  Pine,  sizeC9>1  00 
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No.  1  Hemlock,  sizolx4"(I*9>i  00 
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