The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-03-02

The sixth annual National Tractor
Show. held al Columbus. Ohio, during
the second week in February, was the
greatest exhibition of power farming
machinery ever held. The total of $50
exniolts, covering 1876. 0G0 square feet
OF floor space, showed the multiplicity
of power farming implements, and in
dlcated the great progress made in this
line OF manufacture. Forty-nine ex-
hibits devoted exclusively to tractors.
gave ample choice to visiting buyers.
Thirty states and nine foreign coun-
tries were represented by agents and
dealers. There was 4 great display OF
tractor-drawn implements, most of
which are being standardized to suit
the new power appliances.
Why They Root and Root.
r According to Professor Evaard, of
Iowa State college, hogs do not root
simply to be doing something They
are digging for protein, and you simply
need to serve them sufficient protein
with their grub to content them, to pre-
vent them from rending the soil Prof
Evaard says they root up sod to get
the grubs which are found directly
under the sod. In an experient a lot
of pigs which were fed only corn and
salt while on blue grass pasture we're
great rooters, while bunch with tank
age supplied in their rations did not
root
Making Money Comparatively.
The editor Of Farm Life, at Spencer.
Ind, throws sidelight on local mutual
Or cooperative societies. as follows:
you still hear people saying that
farmers can't stick together. Yet
\ L. -
farmers right here in Farm LIES home
town, known as The Farmers Supply
Company, that started in business with
nothing, six or seven years ago. and
now has accumulated assets of some
$4,000 and reports a business of we'll
above sixty thousand dollars for 1919
1t was a purely mutual concern, found
ed by members of a Local of the
Farmers Union. 1t has been incorpor-
ated for ten thousand dollars, and now
the stock pays seven per cent. divi-
dends and sells at fifty per cent, above
par"
After reading our recent talk on the
virtues of Sudan grass, a young Center
township farmer arose to remark that
he had such good results from broad
casting 20 pounds of seed to the acre
last year that he would consider it
| wasteful to SOW So to 40 pounds. as
some seed growers advise" Next.
Homemade Grating Wax.
II you intend doing little grating
this spring. and wish to make a first
| class grating wax here is the proper
way to do it.
Take four pounds of resin, one pound
| Of tallow and two pounds of either
beeswax or paraffin. the latter being
| as good as beeSwax, and much cheap
| or. Melt until thoroughly mixed and
! then pour it into a pail Of cold water
When sufficiently cooled to handle,
grease the hands with tallow and pull
the mixture just as you would taffy.
| Then make it into sticks or balls and
| set away in cool place, where it can
not melt
Purc-Ered Statistics.
| In the taking Of the 1920 census an
attempt was made to ascertain the
number of pure-bred animals on Amer
lean farms. When these reports are
/ complete they will comprise an inter
esting and valuable chapter to the
story the census told. This new de-
parture in l:-'e stock enumeration will
especially interest breeders but the
average farmer also can study the
figures with profit.
| The summaries so far available