The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-05-18
The Farm and
the Farmer
BY WILLIAM r. SANBORN

J. l.. Jackson, route 2, Camden, says
that Israel township folks are en-
thusiastic grangers just now. The
township lodge of the Grange, which
was organized but a few weeks ago,
has an enrolment of 10 members, and
MIR. Jackson predicts will shortly have
800. The Grange has large member
ship in Preble county, where it has
been established for almost 80 years.
1--WE took over the Lynn -four mill
about week ago. said Mr.. Adam
son, land being short of wheat to
keep running we paid $500 for about
400 bushels of choice grain. We also
paid $40 for corn and are paying
around $1.10 for good oats. Number
2 wheat is worth $2S5 now, but the
price is likely to change from day to
day, the way markets are. Flour is
worth $14 per barrel at wholesale. AS
to the growing crop, will say that
there are some pretty good wheat
fields around here; the Improvement
of late being rather surprising. But a
iot of wheat was sown to oats, and a
lot more plowed for corn, so that the
acreage harvested will be limited. We
have considerable oat acreage in and,
in the main, oats are looking very
good Don't think there is more than
IS per cent of our corn planted, most
likely less, and Mondays rain won't
help corn planters"
Wheat at So at Glen karn.
Eyes, we have paid So for wheat at
The elevator" said Ben Richards, of
Glen Karn, Ohio, on Monday. I'VE
are also paying S110 for oats and
FOR wheat at the threshers on the
coming crop and it begins to look that
way, though none of us are prophets"
Mr.. Richards says that all late sown
wheat has improved greatly and that
there are some fields which promise
a crop. The poor wheat has been
mostly sown to oats. AS to corn he
says very little has been planted, but
there will be more oats than usual, ow-
ing to the condition of wheat. Very
little rye is grown near Glen karn, but
what is in is looking we'll AS to farm
ers selling their feeder pigs. not many
are doing so; they are mostly holding
On to see what happens to the hog
market.
Says Mondays Rain Needed.
W. l.. Magaw, living on the Liberty
pike, says that while Mondays rain
will delay corn planting a day or two,
that the water was of general benefit.
Says the ground is dry a few inches
Gown and that the rain fall will make
pastures grow and was of benefit to
wheat and oats. This cool, moist
weather is just what wheat requires
he said, ito make it stool out. and it
is also good oat weather." Grain is
growing faster than if we had been
having hat, dry weather, in Mr.. Ma
gaw's opinion.
Farm Help at Picture Shows.
The 65 acres of wheat on the MagaW
place was all sown late. 1t was not
touched by the fly, and is looking fine.
The 80 acres of oats looks like crop
and the outlook for clover is very
promising. Mr.. Magaw says that:
living close to town, enabling the
hired help to go to picture shows Of
evenings, helps a lot l have been
able to get all the help needed, mostly
on that account. We haven't any hogs
this year, that is to say only 100 head
which means that we are about out
of the hog business. What we may do
this fall will depend on our corn crop,
the price of corn and the price of
hogs"