The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-09-17
The Farm and
The Farmer
BY William r. Sanborn

The effect or the IaVOTaOie weather
in the corn belt, when corn dropped
TO low of $1.27A for September and
to $110 for December. has naturally
been felt locally and at all our coun-
try elevators. A number Of elevators
are paying but $1.25 for corn today in
the Richmond radius.
Country elevator wheat prices have
been ranging almost as high as those
paid at central ma rkets. and this is
particularly true of milling concerns.
since receipts at country points have
been falling off SO sharply. The
farmer having wheat in store is in no
hurry to unload it on declining mar
ket, while there is now no more
grain to come from the threshers.
Country receipts of wheat are light in
this section, and at some points not
bushel of corn Is likely to come in at
present prices, nor until the safety of
the growing crop is assured.
Glover Seed Entirely Too Low
The best informed dealers are tell
ing US that clover seed is entirely too
low; that it will not now bring the
cost Of production. To begin with,
it costs 81 per bushel Just to thresh
it, and the work Of cutting and hand
ling is worth something, Of course.
Then, then IS the land and interest
on it's value to be figured.
John Hazelrigg, OF Cambridge City,
said Thursday that he had cleaned
100 bushels Of clover seed for farm
ers that day, and that he had advised
each Of them to hold. Clover seed Is
selling at $40 per bushel, at least that
is about the bid price, and many re-
ceivers are not bidding too strongly
at that figure, because city factors
and seed houses are not anxious to
buy, apparently. Compared with a
year ago, clover seed has gone to the
dogs. Take Toledo. for example. now
s14 for prime cash." against around
$50 last spring. Farmers who have
a clover crop know all about seed
prices for past two years, when good
seed sold at from $25 to over $50 at
farm sales in Wayne and Preble coun-
ties. Several men who have studied
the situation are saying. "Put your
seed away and forget it."
1--WE were paying s2.40 for No. 2
wheat UP to Wednesday," said Waldo
Kennedy, of Greensboro, "but we have
to drop down in view Of recent de-
clines. We cut to 1896 Wednesday
afternoon, and we may pay but 1925
for the next to come in, depending on
the trend of values. We have not
been taking in any corn or oats OF
late, prices being too low to suit
holders"
No coal has been received by the
Greensboro elevator folks for several
DAYS, but they have some under con-
tract, and no telling when it may
come in. Mr. Kennedy said Thursday
that an agent had offered him some
soft coal at $1125 at the mines, who
claimed that he was selling q lot OF It,.
He was told to go his way until a
more convenient season.
Hard Coal Briquettes Sic.
A car of Pennsylvania briquettes-
pressed coal slack, in the main, reach
ed Fountain City this week, at a cost
of SIG, according to the manager Of
the elevator Number l wheat has
been bringing S2.40 at this point,
but not so today. Good corn is worth
S125 to buy now. Referring to clover
seed, Mr. Bfttner says that big Eng
lish, little red and alsace were in
the same SO per bushel class right
now, although he considered this price
as out Of reason, compared to real
cost and value. He said that corn is
still considered too green for silo fill
ing in his baileywick. Oats are going
at so cents at f. c.
Been Paying $3.50 for Wheat
H. L. Trick, elevator man at Ell
dorado. says they have been paying
$3.50 for No wheat for some time,
but it is now worth but $3.50. Corn
is not dry enough to put into stlos in
the Eldorado district, he claims, and
he knows of no farmers whose silos
are likely to be filed for some days.
Farmers are busy harvesting tobacco
just now.
The United States Bureau of Educa-
ton has six hundred and fifty thou