The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-11-04
The Farm and Farmer
Lev WILLIAM ri. sANRoRN e.

Ey WILLIAM :
The Fort Wayne News, despite the |
pressure of political matter a few days !
ago, remarked as follows: "A string |
of vehicles loaded with apples a quar- |
ter of a mile long at cider mill Is |
common sight" No, no, the apples |
were not a quarter of mile long, IL /,
was the string of trucks and wagons.
This reminds US that We noted |
string OF one we'll laden wagon of
good looking sound apples on a resid-
ence street, on Monday morning The
driver was doing good business at a
cut price, and his apples looked rlch
and colory. The peddlar with really
edible apples disappeared from our
streets when the price of fancy apples
climbed to 10 cents per each on street
stands. and to two pounds of ordinar-
les for % cents in our bang up grocer
les. To see apples peddled at price
which permits the poor man to enjoy
an apple pie in the bosom of his
family-well, say,
Speaking of Goose Eggs.
Speaking of goose eggs, which we
wernt but will, some chap Of inquisi-
tive mind has discovered that, from
the point of nourishment" geese lay
the UeSt eggs, uuth tSSS tanning HSNt,
the third most nutritious being the
eggs of the guinea hen. The great
American hen comes fourth, according
to this man, with turkeys fifth in the
food value procession. But don't let
this hinder you from raising good poul-
try. Eggs are not going out of fashion
at 60 cents per dozen, and they are
paying 65 cents for them at wholesale
| in Cincinnati today.
Eighty-BusheI Wheat.
John r. Mcmahon, of the County
! Gentleman, writes a story OF the lie
| and labors of The Wheat Wizard OF
| Canada" farmer who has been
| breeding wheat for several years. By
natural selection he has developed Red
! Bobs wheat which produces up to so
| bushels per acre on virgin prairie soil.
! In the international wheat show con-
test in New York in 1911. which was
| open to all the world, he won the
| $1,000-in-gold prize offered by the Can
adian Pacific road for the best bushel
of hard red wheat shown. This award
was made on Marquis wheat 1t is
/ claimed that his Red Bobs is a larger
producer, will withstand drouth bet
ter, ripens s to 10 days earlier, and
promises to add from 100000 bush
els up to the annual wheat crop of the
! Dominion within very few years In
1917 the international sweepstakes on
| potatoes was awarded him at Peoria,
and in 1918 he captured the interna-
| tional sweepstakes on wheat, for the
fifth time-the worlds championship
Impossible as it may seem, in the past
10 years Mr.. Wheeler has increased
the yield of his Victory oats from SO
bushels at the start, to $50 bushels per
acre in 1919, in his seed plots. These
oats average 80 bushels on the farms
planted to them, away up north in
Saskatchewan.
Farmers Will Burn Corn.
In recent article we predicted that
unless corn advanced, or coal declined
materially, western formers would
burn corn and save money by doins
so; albeit they would, also enjoy no
= and comforting fires. Now comes thu
= Prairie Former of Chicago, with mum
, erous letters from its farm subscriD
\ ers. stating that the burning of corn i:
at hand. For instance, JOrgen Peter
son. of Turner county, S. D., writes
, quite little talk of burning corn
Can't get hard coal at any price ant
9 Kentucky soft coal is selling at $15.5
6 per ton
}. H. o. Fritzel, of Kingsbury county
4 says: NO corn burned yet Hard Goa
: is selling at $20.50. and the best sof
s coal we can get is $685..
O O. G.. Larson, of Clay county, writes
4 Last week l heard farmers in Parker
! Mitchell, Mt Vernon and Scotland sa
that if conditions don't change the
Will have to burn corn" There wer
several such letters covering a numbe
of counties.
What is true of the Northwest
equally true of the plains states. Cor
has declined further since our articl
}, was written. Aside from the scarcit
+ of coal, is the economic fact that
e is cheaper right now at many interiO
4 points. to burn new crop corn than t
L Euy coal. Then, too, to burn cor
X saves a double haul of the corn t
5 market and the coal to the farm, q
T. saving of all the labor of handlin
both corn and coal.
OFT C2OWNOVER'S POLAND SAL
The top dollar at the OFT Crow
over Big Type Poland hog sale on Wee
resday, on the Crownover place, nea
Milton. Was paid by Whiteley ar
Cole, who bid $12J for yearling SOW
\ very fair crowd was present and tn
sale was conducted by Flanagan an
Miller. and settlements made throug
the bank at Pershing.
In view Of prevailing hog markt
conditions MI. Crownover said that h
had a fairly good sale and that he fl
ured his average at close to $50 pc
head" The sale opened at l p. Ii
after the Ladies' Aid of the NJ.
church, at Milton. had served an app
thing lunch Fifty head were ca
alogued, and the dispersal was primo
Wayne, Union and Henry count
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