The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-07-23
The Farm and The Farmer
BY William r. sanborn

There is a prosperous looking farm
scene to be viewed near Richmond,
where tenant of some years stand
Ing is likely to vacate this fall, and
TOT this reason. His boys have attain
ed to the age where the town pave
ments and picture shows have greater
charm than have grassy meadows and
milking cows. Then, too, the BOYS
have bought couple of Fords," said
the farm owner, "and as boys will be
boys the simple life no longer suits
them, so they are looking for Jobs in
town" This farm has supplied con-
siderable milk in the past two years,
and the herd is to be increased. The
owner is business man who can't
sleep well unless he has a farm or two
to interest him.
City Life Not Always Cav
But town life isn't a gay life for
farm youngsters out of Jobs" said
this business man, "and many who
nave lived in towns and cities all
their lives would now jump at the
cnance these boys are planning to run
away from. Jobs are no longer going
begging either; in fact, they have to
be carefully hunted before landed,
right now" said he.
Darke County Wheat Crop
There are spots in Darke county
where the wheat yield was fairly salts
factory, for instance in the Arcanun
district" said Mr. Hall. of the Grubbs
Grain company of Greenville, Ohio.
Now and then an Arcanum farmer has
reported rs to 80 bushel yields, but
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the county over the average would be
around II or IL bushels, as near as
we can learn. Quality is fairly good,
however, but there isn't enough of it.
our wheat was cut by drought,
chinch bugs did little damage, but
that wasn't serious. The dry weather
cut down our oats yield and reduced
the quality. We are paying 20 cents
for No. 8 white oats today, and mighty
few are grading that high"
Many Oats Under 25 Pounds
Mr.. Hall said that many oats crops
were running under 25 pounds in the
Greenville district He stated that
they had loaded an $4,000 pound car
with oats on Friday, and that they
were so light the car only contained
1,400 bushels, instead of around 1000
bushels. as would have been the case
with heavy oats, by weight. Corn
needs rain badly. We are paying s110
for wheat and farmers are selling free
ly. according to our informant. 1.-THE
old corn is being picked up by feeders,
, who have been liberal buyers since
hogs began to climb"
Report from Randolph County
The manager of the Goodrich ele-
vators at Winchester reports that the
farmers are selling wheat freely and
that the quality is averaging first
class, lin fact we have raised lot
Of good wheat in this section" said he,
'but the crop was not heavy in all
townships. Our estimate is Is bush.
els for the entire county but there
are districts where wheat ran much
higher For example, there is a re
port of one 80 bushel yield in the
Saratoga section, where it is claimed
that a patch of country averaged q
bushels Wheat threshing is almost
done and we expect that both wheat
! and oats will be practically cleaned uI
next week, if weather is favorable. We
are paying SLIP for No. 2 wheat to
i day and 80 cents for oats, against 81
/ cents on Tuesday and 81 cents yester
! day. Our oats are light and poor this
season"
| Asked as to the chinch bug damage
to wheat and oats in Randolph county
the elevator manager said: "Botf
were injured to degree, but not i'm
portantly, in our opinion. The dry
weather come pretty near doing W
our oats and of course hurt wheat
too.
Then followed a chinch bug scar,
on corn, but the actual loss on corr
wasn't great A few patches here ant