The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-08-06
The Farm and
the Farmer
By William r. Sanborn

This is our busy day. We held our
wheat to thresh with the oats and are
making a cleanup" said Burt Eddins,
of Eldorado. Both crops could have
been larger but they are Of fine quail
ity and there will be considerable of
each"
Mr.. Eddins is tobacco buyer and
handles fair share Of the Preble crop
each season. He says that leaf Is
slightly higher, is bringing II to 20
cents for 1919 goods, that there is
considerable being sold just now and
numerous buyers are securing the
Miami Valley picking up crops. Less
tobacco was planted around Eldorado
this year and while much Of it is look.
ing good some crops are not doing
well.
Some Mighty Fine Corn.
There are 60 acres of corn down
on the County T. B. farm that is as
promising as any l have ever seen.
Fifty acres in one field stands as level
as a floor, is fully tasseled and begin
ming to shoot" This is the report of
VIII Seaney. county trustee and in
charge of the farm in a supervisory
capacity. The farm produced literally
last year and a gross income of $4,000
was paid over to the county auditor.
A good judge Of land values says:
THE T. B. property Is now worth fully
$4,000. There are a fraction above
238 acres in the property, and it is be-
ing farmed to the limit.
Harvester Dividends.
The International Harvester com.
pany reports a 1912 per cent dividend
earned on $50 1000, 900 of common stock
in 1919, against liz in 1918. Large
amounts were written off for wal
losses in the war zones and now the
floating debt has been retired. The
cash dividend rate has been increased
from six to seven per cent. The com
pany is now, in a measure, co-opera
tive and provision has been made for
the payment of 60 per cent to EN-
ployes against 40 per cent to the com
pany of all profits above a stated
amount to sinking fund, after interes,
payments. Stock Is also being issued
to employees on favorable terms.
The Man From Dalton Road.
He laid short, thick ear of white
corn on our desk, this man from the
Dalton road, living three miles north
of Hagerstown. We looked it over
1t weighed 1872 ounces, was well filled
and bone dry. Charles Shutz remark
ed that he had grown a lot of thai
corn last year and that he expected 6
, banner crop on his SO acres this fall
IF you want to see some real corn
standing in walls like saplings, come
over and see us. No. not merely OF
my farm but In my neighborhood
Just north OF Haeerstown we car
show you the corn center of the Unit
ed States, this year"
: Makes Wheat Sowing Difficult.
9 Ono OF the results of the hail an(
wind storm on some northern Wayne
county farms, last Saturday. will bt
to make it hard to SOW wheat in a lo
of the corn. The corn is leaning bad
ly and will be bowed" where 1t re
covers and the stalks lie every which
way, where partly down. Where tn,
storm hit hardest the blades wer,
actually shredded. this occurring OF
the Seaney, Showalter, Collins, ant
on several other farms around Foun
tain City, mostly to the north ant
east.
Some farmers estimate their hal
damage at one-third the prosperity,
crop. The hail strip was nearly two
miles wide, extending northeast to Ar
ba and Whitewater, also about a mil,
west Of Fountain City-along the Will
iamsburg pike. Much of New Gardel
township escaped hail damage blu
that whole section got ample rain.