The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-08-26
The Farm and
the Farmer
BY William r. Sanborn

1.-THE rains since Aug. is making a
lot of nubbins into good ears" is the
concensus Of farm opinion, both in
FPreble and Wayne counties, as ex-
pressed at the Fairhaven Grange
spicnic, on Wednesday. The roads from
Richmond to Fairhaven are lined with
walls of corn, the like of which the
Oldest inhabitant has seldom seen, re-
CARELESS Of the late planting of so
many fields.
The question now uppermost in the
minds of all the people, and not mere
s.ly those of the farmers, is: How soon
will the bulk of the corn be safe from
frost? Here is what few practical
farmers say:
Already Feeding New Corn.
Charles Atkinson, living on the Web
ster Pike, says that he has one field
SO far along that he is already feeding
new corn to his hogs. 1t is an early
variety, and was planted early, is well
Tdented. and some of the husks are be-
ginning to show brown.
He has another field which is later
and while the first field should be safe
from frost in about two weeks. the
other will not be safe for three or
possibly four weeks, depending on the
weather Warm weather and showers
will dry weather. for next two or three
weeks"
Mr.. Atkinson lives 5 n miles north
OF Richmond. 1t is his opinion that the
strip east"and west, a mile or so wide,
contains as sood a show for a corn
crop as can be found in all Indiana.
About one-half of an average crop of
wheat was grown along the same strip,
hut there were some good oat crops
harvested over that territory.
Mr.. Jackson's Idea.
James NJ. Jackson, formerly on the
Braffetsville road, and now raising his
first crop on the Reservoir road, near
Richmond, says that his experience on
the new place has been quite satisfac-
tory; that he raised so bushels of oats
to the acre, and around II bushels of
wheat, and that his corn is looking
fine.
In his view corn requires at least
three weeks of warm dry weather to
make it safe Says it will mature in
his neighborhood without another drop
of rain. and will do so quicker than
if showers~come often. Says his corn
needs 10 days or so of warm, dry
weather.
Eiahteen Bushels to the Acre.
William Puthoff, farming on the
New Paris pike. says that a lot of corn
will take all of September to be safe
from frost, although most of our corn
has nearly attained its growth. THE
bulk of the crop is still a rank green,
is still growing and needs time for ma
turing properly" He feels that frost
Is still far enough in the distance to
insure a large per cent of it ripening
and isn't borrowing trouble. Sunshine
for time, and no rain is what he is
hoping for Not having enough corn
TO run lot of hogs through, he says
ne sold them all, his spring pigs ex-
eepted.
If Frost Comes Early.
c. A. Addleman says that lot OF
Wayne corn is late, so late that many
fields have just reached the roasting
ear stage, and should frost strike us
early lot of these fields will be dam
aged. With favorable weather for an
other three weeks, "all such fields Will
make rapid growth, but if it keeps
cloudy and showers, it will take long
time for such corn to dry out"
Mr. Addleman says the fly got most
Of his wheat and the poor operation CT
hts drill reduced his oat crop, but at
that he harvested 46 bushels to the
acre. Should no frost come up to the
middle of October it will suit Mr.. Ad-
dleman just right - and there are
others of the same mind.
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