The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-10-28

Every farmer who can De present at
the county federation meeting In the
courthouse on Saturday evening, Oct.
80, is urged to attend. The election OF
officers for the coming year, and the
selection of two delegates to the state
convention at Indianapolis on Novem-
Der 1916, is only part of the business
to come up. All township officers are
relied upon to be present; also all
workers In the organization.
The day of the corn show is at
hand, all over the corn belt. Rush
county Is making ambitious plans for
o corn show at Rushville, in Novem-
her, as are several other counties in
to be offered at Rushville and they
are counting on a whale of show.
County Agents in Demand.
There are but three counties in
Indiana not already supplied, or which
have not applied for county agents.
These three are Howard, Crawford and
Vermillion counties, which have taken
no steps in that direction, so far as
reported from Purdue. Mr.. Coleman,
of Purdue, states that in the seven
years of county agent work in Indiana
the county agent idea has become
firmly established, and that the value
Of the agent in connection with the
work of the farm associations, is De-
ing demonstrated every day.
The editor of the Reporter. OF La
Sale county, Illinois, rises to inquire:
do you remember way back in 1896
when corn sold for IS cents per
bushel?"
The farmers short course will be
held at Purdue on January 1O-l4 ana
as the short course has grown IN
popularity from year to year II IS
expected that the town will be hlled
with farmers on these dates.
Mr.. Swift Explains.
And now ladies and gentlemen we
will consider the statement just gwen
out by Mr.. Lewis Swift. an enterprls-
ing young man who is in the butcher
business in Chicago. and who Kills
few millions Of cattle. etc, every year
This Mr.. Swift declares that live stock
market conditions will now improve
because forsooth: THE United States
government has sold all of its cold
storage meat supply" This supply,
Mr. Swift said, had been a bear fac
tor"
In view of the ending OF the war
being two years away, and also in
view of the fact that millions or
pounds were possibly one year old at
the date of the armistice, the wonder
is that it was kept so long. Think OF
the ice and storage bills, and the army
on the payroll to keep this meat from
an almost starved-for-meat public,
oftimes in the past two years OF
famine prices at American butcher
shops. What was the purpose at
Washington? How much has the coun-
try lost by it?
The Unanswered Question.
AS in the case of the $4,000 bales OF
cotton. at Nitro, Va, when cotton was
climbing, so with the meat. The war
being over it was a certainty that we
should still continue to raise hogs and
cattle, as we have; also that all sup
plies for army and navy as such were
needed, could be purchased at lower
than the "cost-plus' stores, withheld
from those who needed them. This
likewise applied to cotton, which in
some of it's manufactured forms was,
bringing up to $25 per pound in the
stores, possibly more in it's filmy
forms. But like the meats the cotton
long remained unmarketed, after the
demand for its use in powder suhsided.