The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-10-22
The Farm and Farmer
By WILLIAM

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Two dollars for so pound wheat was
the best they could do at Crete at the
high time this week, according to
Bowen and Richards, elevatormen.
Neither oats or corn was on offer, they
said, and very little wheat was coming
in. They have a little coal at Crete
but not an abundant supply, and have
received but single car of anthracite
all summer. THE sowing of wheat is
over with now but it is doing little
good, owing TO rainless and hot four
weeks, since the last. shower"
The only car of hard coal received
at Lewisville, Ind, was purchased
through the state farm federation and
cost $500 at he mines, we understand
The price is higher now, ranging from
$11 up. V. o. Chance states that they
find it hard to get coal of any kind
and have not been getting enough to
supply the local demand Mighty
little wheat has been brought in or
late and no one around Lewisville
present prices. "Our farmers have
Just about finished sowing wheat,
said Mr.. Chance, land are now anxious
ly waiting for rain
"Too Sweet To Do It."
In giving farmers warning as to the
coming advances in the cost of horses,
the editor of the National Stockman
| and Farmer, says:
Next spring a good many farmers
will have to go out and buy work
horses. In the spring of 1922 still
more farmers will need additions to
! nd
mechanical or other miracle intervenes
these buyers will pay good bit more
for big work horses than it cost to
raise them. Then we can say, told
you So, but no doubt we'll be too
sweet to do it."
Have SiIos, No SiIage.
"Not for the lack of corn, but be-
cause they have cleaned out their
! cattle and quit feeding operations, is
| the reason that a number of silos
north of New Madison were not filled
, this fall" is the way Harley Billman,
puts 1t. He says that but two or three
loads Of steers have been brought in
this season and that but one feeder,
! so far as he knows. has any silage. He
says, however that number of dairy
silos were filled in his home district.
Mr.. Biilman says he is getting stray
| load of wheat now and then but no
corn or oats He thinks that the aver
age wheat acreage has been sown and
that the work is now completed.
Four Cars Now Rolling.
If we understood Walter Pedan, OF
West Manchester correctly on Ihur5-
| day he has not received car OF coal
since late in August, but has four cars
on the rails, at least they should now
be rolling his way. Mr., Pedan is in
clined to think that wheat can't de-
cline all the time and having two car
loads that were bought at $1.9O to -
he is in a mood to hold to see what
happens next Wheat sowing Is
practically completed around west
Manchester, in spite Of dry and I'M
favorable conditions Not single
| farmer will discuss selling bushel or
corn or oats at ruling prices.
Paying So For Number One.
| The elevator at Economy was pay
ing 81 for No. wheat on Thursday,
and they were preparing to ship car
which sold at a profit. A car of hard
coal had just come in, the second
within a month. and they still had
little soft coal in the bins, this coming
from Kentucky. What Economy most
needs at this time is a good fall or
rain to start the wheat that was soWn
in dust to growing.
Business Very Dull.
Grain men couldn't be doing less
business right now, had this been a
famine year, instead of banner crops"
said John Hazlerigg, of Cambridge
City. "A Columbus, Ohio, grain man
was here today and says the same
condition exists there and that coun-
try elevator men are mostly in the
same boat. So far as we are concern
ed in our district farmers won't con-
slider selling anything; won't even
talk about it,
Mr.. Hazlerigg, who is especially
equipped to hull and clean clover, says
he has bought less clover than at any
season in past ten years. He isn't
urging anyone to sell, as there is
hardly first cost to the farmer in
present offered price. There is plenty
of seed in his district.
Mr.. Hazlerigg takes the European
Exchange conditions. the various
strikes and troubles in Great Britain.
the forcing of Canadian wheat on all
our markets at lower than domestic
prices, and lastly the near approach Of
the election, into account. He is
hopeful that We shall see a better de-
mand and a more normal market
when things quiet down and we know
who is slated to occupy the White
House from March on