The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-08-17

So severe has the drought been III
the vicinity Of Dc Smet, S. D., that &
number OF settlers have shot their
emaciated live stock to put them out
Of misery rather than allow them to
Btarve to death.
In nine cases out of ten the fellow
who cannot "afford" to buy clothes
for himself and his wife good enough
80 that they would feel justified in at
tending church spends yearly more
than the amount needed for this pur-
pose on booze and tobacco.
The average peaty soil contains an
excess Of humus, but is deficient In
phosphoric acid. This can be supplied
in the form of barnyard manure or
even more effectively in the shape of
the commercial phosphates. This can
be got at about $50 per ton, and its
application gives a generous return.
The artificial leg OF a farmer we
read of the other day got overheated
and exploded with q sound like a bat
tleship gun. going into a thousand
pieces in the midst of a cloud of smoke.
This should be a solemn warning to
the careless to keep shy of mower
sickles and railroad tracks or to buy
legs guaranteed all cork.
It Is q commendable precaution to
tie horses when one has to go some
distance from them. True, one may
leave them without tying fifty times
without harm resulting. Yet the
next time something may happen to
frighten them, and runaway is the
result. in which vehicle or machinery
may not only be damaged, but the
team seriously injured. Insurance
against such fracas is worth the time
required to make q team secure.
What is considered a rather unusual
market incident was the sale of $50
American sheep on the Toronto (Can-
ada market short time since at $3.50
per hundredweight. A duty Of IS
cents a head was paid on these sheep,
and they sold for 16 cents per hun
dredweight more than the Cana
dian animals. If conditions with ref
erence to other commodities are at
all like this, the new lvsfprocity agree
ment bids fair to be a boon rather
than detriment to the farmer on this
side the line.
It has been quite generally supposed
that seed Of most any kind brought
from a distance would produce better
and larger crops than that grown near
home. Some experiments recently con-
cluded by the Missouri experiment sta,
ton prove quite. conclusively that.
while this principle seems to work on,
all right in the case Of seed potatoes.
1t does not hold in the case Of import
ell seed corn. In fact. the best results
have been secured with seed which
was acclimated to the conditions un-
der which 1t is grown.
A cheese factory at Appleton, Wis.
has been awarded the contract Of man
ufacturing a 1900 pound cheese.
which Is said to be three times the
size Of any cheese on record. To make
this cheese, which Is to be exhibited
at the national dairy show in Chicago
will require the milk Of $500 cows
for the day. or 10000 pounds of milk.
The making of the cheese will be in
charge Of eighteen expert cheese
makers and twenty-five helpers. 1t is
to be made on special fat car, and a
refrigerator will have to be built
around 1t in order to keep 1t until the
time Of the dairy show. @.'.
While the adoption Of the Canadian
reciprocity measure may have some
slight effect In reducing the price OF
wheat at points near the Canadian
border. II Is apparent that it will
greatly stimulate the demand fol
American horses by the removal Of
the $40 per head duty. A friend who
lives at Outlook. Saskatchewan. tells
us there is great demand for horses
present horses which he can buy al
$3.50 per pair In the states he can shiI
to Saskatchewan and get $500 for
This price would cover the $40 duty
and handsome profit over and above
transportation charges.
Whether one be a grower Of grain
vegetables or fruit, 1t would be to his
advantage to have his name entered
on the mailing list for the crop bulle
tins which are issued simultaneously
every month by the crop reporting
board Of the department Of agricul
tnre. These reports not only give thu
conditions Of any given crop at thu
time issued. but also give the figure:
for the same time for the year preced
ing and for a period Of ten years
They enable one to determine in wha
states there is crop shortage and
where the best market for produce j.
likely to be. Uncle Sam sends then
out for the benefit Of his folks and i.
glad to put on his list the names o.
those who would like them.