The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-11-03

VI WI tdltN Ill TIC Ni'IIu3 anu liui
rowed over SC that there are no places |
where the hoppers can get up between
he burrows most of the grasshopper |
troubles will be ended If YOU were
troubled this season, YOU will be on the |
safe side and save yourself trouble an
other season if YOU will first seed all |
the land which was cultivated In 1916; |
then pillow little more than usual for
corn, and lastly, pillow as much more as
possible of the breeding grounds and
sow them to oats and peas to be cut
for hay and take the place Of the hay
which might have been expected if
there were no hoppers. If you cannot
pillow all of the possible breeding
grounds. pillow as much as you can and
reduce the crop Of hoppers and the
area which will need to be gone over
with the poison bait next spring.
Plow this fall and don PM it off
until next spring. \ little attention to
this now may save you good many
/ dollars.
/ Boston Milk Market. - The strike
| called by the New England milk pro-
/ ducers OH October l extended to Wind
/ ham county and since that time milk
| producers in East Putucv and West
minister have held back their milk from
/ the Boston market until the dealers
would pay the increase in price de
manded by the producers association.
Formerly n car of milk was picked up
ON the Boston < Maine between Brat
t.eboro and Bellows Falls, but since
the strike the amount had been reduced
to one half car. The few producers
around Brattlcboro have failed to CO.
Il Al.
crs association and are sending their
milk at the old price. Those who went
out have held firm and sent their cream
to the Amherst creamery ever since
This is not quite as satisfactory as il
would he if they were following this
system permanently and had the right
sized separators to handle this milk
quickly and had calves and pigs to take
the skim milk.
We hope to see our dairy farmers get
q fair price for their products. We are
inclined to believe, however. that the
matter should be figured pretty care
fully before our producers 20 back to
shipping milk to Boston at the old
, prices. They should consider that dairy
COWS are bringing record prices, which
are going higher each year, and that
, quite an amount Of valuable fertility
I is kept At home in selling cream, and
that there is less risk Of losing the
pay for the product Producers OF milk
for the Boston market do not always
+ keep account of the sour milk that is
taken out on their check. nor the cX'
Z rense Of complying with Boston board
+ or healfh requirements. nor Of the
J transactions Of the Boston Condensed
! Milk Co, which still owes the farm
+ crs Of Nindham county over $4,000 for
milk delivered to them several years
70 ago. These things cut down on the net
b pfoht when the% are all figured IN, and
u II looks IS though We VIII have them t.
deal with lnst as long as producers
5 send mix to Boston under the present
/, system,
r "ould II not ne safer and better, III
the loEG rum TO concentrate the efforts
$ On "efeioPihG d S'falh OF Sood-lrodue.
@ ing cows ana aePeAo on the safe OF
/ surplus stock ana cream and pork, with
. Suttt returns. rather imam TO put M
- WIN the al.ncultleS ana uncertainties
@ '"IIeetea WIN me Boston market
e ran Tor AuaIla Ill 1871. = SeNera
Y Farmers nave had sou samples taken
i where they expect to have 4 new piece
< OF aiialla next season. This Will glNC
& them an ldea as TO the amount OF llm(
Z that theN need ana they can get 1t
{ TINS winter When farmers arc pooling
f their orders for lime and when 1t can
. be drawn ON runners. They will then
have 1t SO that IT can be applied earl
I in the spring, thus giving time SO that
Il the lime can take up the add in tho
soil.
Why not pick out a field and have
the soil tested this fall? Your county
|. agent would be glad to confer with vol
h on the best location and then make
the lime requirement test for you.
\ Windham County Notes.-The Wind
\ ham Potato Growers association ha>
lately received an inquiry for inspected
h Irish Gobbler seed potatoes to 90 Il
II New Jersey, where they write thai
Vermont grown seed do better than
! any other. Another inquiry came t.
I. this office from a county agent, George
: T.. Reid. in Mount Holly, New Jersey
! He states that a number Of LARGE 1roW