The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-03-22
The Farm and The Farmer
By William r. Sanborn

Frank Noggle, of New Madison, 81
have not yet decided that question,
but if the market keeps firm, I shall
probably try to. So far as l can hear,
my neighbors will feed as many hogs
as in any normal year, though not all
of them will feed as many as they
have under the pressure or a war de-
mand for meats. There is one thing
against us; there has been quite a
loss Of pigs, in some instances run
ming as high as two-thirds of the
early farrowings. Not all were that
unlucky, for many lost but a few,
some, perhaps, none at all, but taking
the total the loss has been consider
able.
AS to brood sows, don't think they
were marketed AS to cultivation this
spring it looks as if the usual rota-
! ton will be followed, as far as the
| farmers are able, though help is
scarce. Hardly think there will be as
much tobacco put in as last year.
some saying they will pass it up this
year, or will reduce the acreage de-
voted to the weed. The labor short
| age hits the tobacco men hard. Right
now there is no monthly hands to be
| had, and the same is true as to hands
hired by the day. Everyone who
wants work has it,
The worlds champion Jersey is
owned at Bangor, Me, and her record
for one year is 1925 pounds of milk
and 1,O4O of butterfat.
In a crop producing contest in 1919
a Missourian raised 127 bushels OF
corn; Washington man 83 bushels
of wheat; Utah man 107 bushels OF
oats; a Maine man $50 bushels of po-
tatoes, and Californian 14,74s
pounds of alfalfa, to the acre. Pres
ton Moody, a corn club boy of Ere
mont, Ind, raised 1913 bushels on
one acre.
Early chicks pay best. Broilers
marketed in June in Chicago last yeal
brought IS cents per pound over the
late Matched that were marketed il
September.
Soy beans may be planted in the
corn hills and harvested at the same
time; can be cut and stored as silage
or hogged down. Both sheep anC
hogs do we'll in such fields. The beans
are easily threshed and yield up to Al
bushels to the acre, making a profit
able seed or feeding crop. Average
crop on fair soil 25 bushels to acre
The soy bean is a soil builder.
! The champion steer exhibited by the
University of Nebraska sold at Denver
for 40 cents a pound; weight 1860
pounds-total 1864. The steer, al
Aberdeen Angus, was an old-timer, be
ing just 100 months old.
A crop expert estimates a reduction
of 100000 hogs and Of 100000 cat
tie, compared with the high record il
war days. He says that former forced
production may be followed by such {;
decline in feeding as to almost threat
en- a meat famine. The coolers arr
still loaded with meat, however.
Twelve hens at the agricultural col
!, lege farm at Corvallis, Ore, made ;
record of more than 300 eggs each il
one year. One hen laid $50 and twt
others 1923 eggs each.
With the exception of Gamers
which advanced SO cents, all grade.
Of cattle advanced 81 to $3.50 a
Omaha in the week ending March 6
Best yearlings sold at $13.25 and prime
steers at $14 on that date.
A farmer near Carinda, Ia, sold hi!
big farm at a big price and Is renting
J another farm himself this year. Or
trying to buy a farm to suit he an
nounced that 1t is cheaper to rent {
farm in that section at present higl
prices than it is to own the property