The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-09-28
The Farm and Farmer
Bv WILLIAM r. SA

The manager OF the elevator at west
Manchester believes that fully half OF
the silos in his vicinity are now filed,
and states that the work is being
rushed along. A great deal of the corn
over that way would not be hurt now
by light frost. but all are hopeful
that frost will hold off for some time.
They are paying $2.15 for wheat. AZ
cents for oats and are bidding IS cents
for old corn, which doesn't attract
favorable notice from farmers, the re-
cent drop being too great and too sud-
den to set we'll. The elevator has re-
ceived no soft coal for some time but
got in a car Of chestnut anthracite
day or so ago, which they had to sell
at $18 per ton.
Corn 80 Cents at LosantsviIIe.
| 1--WE can only pay SO cents for old
vator at Losantsville. The manager
says that the best outside bid for a
car of yellow corn on Monday was
$1.03 per bushel and that a number of
bids ran under 81. Nor can they pay
| more than As cents for oats just now,
''low as that price appears to farm
ers.". They have also had to cut wheat
to $205. 1.-The worst blow to farmers
who have the product to sell, is the
slump in the price of clover Seed"
said J. F. Seagraves, "for after the
abnormally high cost of seed last
spring no one could have expected a
price below the cost of growing it."
He says there are a few in his neigh
borhood who will not fill their silos
this year but such cases will be ex-
ceptional. Quite few were filled last
week
Reports From Three Stations.
The Milton Grain company reports
for three country stations, Milton, Ben
tenville and Beeson's Station, at which
points they are now paying 1920 for
wheat, are bidding 45 cents for oats,
and less than 81 for corn, in the or
binary course of business. 1--WE would
rick 81 per bushel for some good corn
in carload lot, for immediate load
ing, as we could get into the clear at
that figure, if we could sell for prompt
shipment" said the manager on Mon
day. AS to silos, he says he knows
of several farmers who will not fill
them this year, having become dis
gruntled some time ago, when they
cleaned out their herds, which cannot
be replaced on shirt notice.
No Corn or Oats Offered
Gardener and Lewis, of Cottage
Grove, say they are buying no corn OF
oats just now, and that while they
paid $3.50 for wheat on Saturday, $3.50
is the very best they can do today
The oats now held around Cottage
Grove will be fed and kept for seed
they say, and as matter of fact more
oats are shipped in than out at that
point.
Mr.. Gardner says they have re
ce1ved but one car of hard coal this
r season, "but have prospects of an
other at some future date They
also complain that soft coal is com
ing in very slowly, just car now and
? then, preventing getting a stock
ahead.
No Coal on Hand
Frank Demort, manager of the Bath
elevator in Union county, says that
. they have had to climb down and are
now paying but $215 for wheat AND
=. are taking in no oats or corn. The
i. fact that they are getting so little
l coal worries them. They have moi
j.. received single car of anthracite this
, season. Since the recent drop II
E wheat the Bath mills have cut theil
J., retail price on flour to farmers t
$3.50 per barrel.
, Mr. Demort states that regardless!
= of the warning sent out by Purdue
week, and he thinks that at least q
:. several farmers sowed wheat las
r.. per cent of the acreage is already
: sown. Silo filling began last weel
and will be finished as weather per
/ mits.
= Paid $3.50 per Hundred
!. The Star elevator at Eaton has 40t
/ bushels of corn on hand, the last o
which was bought at $1.30 per hun
dred. Soft coal is coming in yer.
slowly of late and they have no hare
coal whatever.
I 1t seems that the agent offering an
e thracite insisted that they take ION
: car of pea coal out of every thre
/, shipped" and as they found that thei
V customers did not want pea coal, MI
Il Poos passed up that proposition. TIL
r filling of silos is the principal occr
Y patton Of the farmers who have them
d just now, aside from spending a da
t. at the Preble county fair.