The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-06-17
The Farm and The Farmer
BY William r. Sanborn

There are still some mighty dry
spots on the local map, while other
small districts have had about all the
rain needed. j. A. King, living nea-
Gettysburg in Preble county, says that
he was fortunate enough to get in most
of his 20 acres of corn early enough
fer a good start but that he has
small hillside patch that has not yet
shown through, for lack OF moisture.
also that some corn land over his
way is not yet planted, farmers being
unable to get it in proper condition.
This also applies TO tobacco and TO
transplanting, much of which remains
to be done.
Looks as we would be able to get
into our wheat in about a week" said
Harry Gilbert, on Thursday. I'VE are
expecting it to make fair crop, as
it is filling we'll. but stands a little
thinner than we would like to see ii"
There are As acres in wheat on the
Gilbert place.
Have you ever heard of "garlicky"
wheat Many farmers haven't and the
amount actually received in the winter
grain markets is never large. 1t seems
however, that there are % cars of gar
licky No. red at St. Louis at this
time, which is unstable except at a
/ big discount
Hesrtbreaking Break.
Suppose you lived in a sheep coun-
. try, and suppose again that you had
! shipped car of choice fat lambs to
| Chicago for the Wednesday market
And suppose once more for luck that
your lambs struck an overnight break
Of 81 to S125 per 100 pounds
+ Well. that is just what happened to
lot of shippers this week. And what
was the reason for the break? Eek.
cessive receipts of lambs forced a big
slump in values" says the market re-
porter.
/ Looks as if there should be some
sort of pool for holding lambs as
we'll as wool. In spite of the slump
the railroads, commission men, yard
workers, etc, each collected in full
OF course.
I Heavy Rains in Wheat Belt.
1t looks as if the Kansas, Nebraska
and Oklahoma harvests may be inter
Tered with by unreasonable rains, ir
TACT operations already have been hello
up in parts of Oklahoma. Floods are
reported IN the Platte river valley il
Nebraska and cloudbursts occurred il
several counties in that state.
= FLOODS have also been reported from
points in Kansas. Rain has been gen
eral in western Kansas this week. tn,
tall being as great as two inches, tn,
later al Hutchinson, where food con
dltlons temporarily prevailed Som,
Oklahoma streams have also been GU
Of their banks but these fiat countr,
streams subside rapidly and il i
hoped the worst is over.
More Than $1,000 Monthly.
1t is now said that the farm burea,
federation has more than one million
, members. At the minimum assess
. ment of so cents per member on tn
! state bureaus this number will Civ
the American farm bureau $500 600 fo
the year, sufficient to pay a whole 10
of salaries, travel expenses. rent. etc
1t is further claimed that 307,7O0 men
bers were added during the past 81
months, or say an average of so 90
l new members monthly. There ar
: now % states on the national member
> ship roll.
: Conceding the claim that Indian
: now has 100000 farmers on the stat
> rolls. that means that they are payin
100000 in annual dues. 1t furthe
a means that our state farm b., eau o
D f1cials have not less than 5000. 600 a
d. state dues income to handle. This
based on the payment of 50 per Ioca
! bureau alember to the state and TIL
= claim by the Hoosier Farmer of 100
. coo circulation monthly This littl
u monthly representative of the Indian
- federation is printed only for member