The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-08-31
The Farm and
the Farmer
BY William r. Sanborn

Hundreds of our farmers will re-
member George Cox, who owned a
good farm south of Carlos City, up to
two years ago, when ha bad farm
sale, and also sold the really and NOV,
ed to Ontario, Canada He returned
to Wayne for brief visit last fall.
Willard Collins, living on the Foun.
tain City pike, and who happens 10
have married Miss Katherine Cox, be
fore her father could take her to Can
ada, has just returned from the Cox
home in Ontario, after a brief visit,
shared in by his wife and baby daugh-
ter. He says that 60 acres of wheat,
dunning % bushels to the acre, were
grown on the Cox farm this year, and
that his hay crop was immense. Mr.
Cox bought the Ontario property, not
far out of Detroit, a few years ago
and one of his boys moved up there
and took charge, shortly after.
Hail Benefited Her Corn.
Dropping in on ''real-estater" we
learned of case where a heavy hail
storm helped to make a crop of corn
This corn is flourishing up near White,
water, and as we heard the lady ex
planted too thickly, the blades shad-
ing the corn too much, in spite Of
thinning during cultivation. well
along comes the hail, splitting the
blades, and letting in daylight gen.
orally, and my, how that corn did
grow after that 1t made our corn,
it certainly did" said she. There
was too much of it to grow big ears
and now we shall have a crop, as
good as any up our way. Yes, some
of it was blown down, but we could
spare it; it was too thick anyway
Finished Filling siIo August 27.
Meeting a man on the street he told
us of the earliest silo filling we have
heard of in Wayne this year. Charles
Hurst, living near Milton, completed
that job on Friday, Aug. q. although
most of his neighbors seemed to think
he was rushing the season. AT any
rate, he had some early corn which
he thought was just in shape for the
silo, and now he has that chore of
his mind for another year.
Wayne County Dry Zones.
Wayne county is scarcely large
enough to have a dry belt" not t.
say two or three of them. But there
have been dry zones this summer, the
| crops showed it. and corn still does
few miles north Of Centerville, two
or three miles to the southeast of thai
metropolis, and in narrow belt north
of Williamsburg. there is complaint
! that all good rain storms have spill
up and gone around" during the las
three mouths. no downpour lastins
more than few minutes at any time
| while neighboring territory would bt
soaked. The only explanation of thi!
phenomena. so far as we know, comes
not from the weather man, but from
a tarroer who "admires q joke" H,
tells US in strict confidence, just a!
we tell you, that rain has been with
held because the farmers in the DIR,
spote whip their wives" Amt Ma
ture wonderful" SEE he, and we CUES
it is. At all events there are actual,
spots in Wayne which have not had
real rain all summer, with too muCl
OF 1t in the early spring.
First Experiment With Soys.
Russell White, who has a. dair
herd, says he planted soy beans il
his corn this summer. this being hi
first experiment in that line. He re
ports a dandy crop coming on, on
which Will make lot of forage or fee
IN the silo. The cultivation of soy
has been found SO profitable tina
many Wayne farmers have become ir
terested and some soy crops are to b
thTeshed for seed this fall, in whic
cases the soys are planted as a seps
rate crop, Of course.
harry w. Bragg, living near Ney
Paris and a Hereford breeder. is a
enthusiast on alfalfa, and says he wi
Z add eight acres to his present stan
for next summers cutting
, r. T. Stewart, of Stewart Bros. fa1
mers and Duroc-Jersey hog men, Ii,
ing on a rural route out of Camde1
say they have as likely a lot of hog
this season as they have ever shown
Both the Stewards believe in co-opers
ton and are pushers in their TOWNSHIP
grange. This reminds us that speal
er at recent grange picnic state
that his grange, in Preble county, ha
, ordered lot of fence last fall fo
, which they are still waiting.
For Ex-Servlce Farmers
, The Richmond Y. M. C. A. announce
free courses in agriculture for all e,
service men now on the farms, {
who may intend to go to farmin,
These courses are along broad lines
, they cover study of soils and fertili
er OF farm crops, OF dairy farming, {
i. live stock breeding and poultry hu
bandry, or farm management, fru
culture, farm drainage; in fact, all TIL
, essentials about which the successfl
farmer has knowledge. There is n
charge whatsoever to ex-service me
and they are invited to take the ma
| ter up with the officers at the "Y" ;
, once. Many will be interested in til
| or nf q arm mr. nd "A,