The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-07-26
The Farm and The Farmer
BY William r. Sanborn

The Boston township farm bureau
will meet at the school building IN
Boston on Thursday evening, July 70,
at s o'clock. Purchasing fertilizers
for fall use. wheat smut control ana
poultry culling are to be the cnlel
topics for discussion. Cheer up, ana
don't miss the meeting" is the advice
of President Duke.
The long dry spell has begun to tell
on the little streams and on STOCK
ponds. In some instances farmers are
hauling stock water and family CHS
terms are dry, making the work OF
washing still harder because of the
lack of soft" water.
Harry Gilbert says he has been in
the habit of late of reaching his farm
on the Boston pike by in the morn
ing, and getting his pump engine busy.
So far the we'll is holding out put
| there's no telling how long that can or
will continue, unless we have rain,
he said Monday afternoon.
Mr.. Gilbert also has farm which
adioins the Wernle Home, on the west
| There is a fire plug at the Home from
which Mr. Gilbert is now hauling
water. which he is buying from the
city for use of the farm live stock. he
AYERS, too, that he had as promising an
| half acre garden as could be seen IN
a hundred miles of travel, this spring,
from which he hasn't gathered single
!, mess" of anything green and edible
this summer. That farm lies in one
of the dryest of the dry spots, evident.
lily. His idea that a two-day rain would
be welcomed meets the popular view
1t surely would.
Threshing Rig Lost Money.
/ Arthur McMahan, of Centerville, the
owner of threshing outfit and secre
tary of the Wayne Threshermen's as
sociation, reports a loss on hi:
Operations this summer. He state:
that he threshed two wheat rings
having a total of "a members, and tina
the output was, in round numbers bu
/, s 900 bushels of grain. II should have
had at least 5000 bushels" said he
ito have let me out with small
. profit, after covering interest on my in
vestment, repairs, labor, etc. So you
, see | closed the season with nothin,
for my work except the dinners, ant
at an actual cash loss. 1t would have
: taken but short time longer to hav'
; threshed out another 5000 bushels, il
these same rigs, had the grain rul
Heavier, and | should then have had
few dollars for myself. Having don
with wheat, I pulled my rig over mos
of Center township to pick up seveI
crops of oats, all of which ran so ligh
that l was unable to get more than 2
= pounds in the measuring box" Nj
McMahan said that he threshed thes
e seven oat crops in two days. Wi
Y Grove had a small field of wheat whic
n went IS bushels, this being the top
:, in the McMahan ring this year.
Farmer Elevators Sign Up.
The American Farm Bureau, at Oh
y cago, in its weekly letter of July
e says that up to that date number {
farmers elevators had signed CO..
tracts with the Grain Growers, as fo
d lows: Illinois, 10 elevators; Oklahom
2 8; North Dakota 80; Nebraska 3;
). Missouri 80. This gives total of Il
~ country elevators now lined up wit
, the United States Grain Growers.
d looks as if South Dakota, Minnesot
n Iowa, Kansas and Indiana had not y
o been solicited, and the same may
4 true of Michigan and Wisconsin.
% The letter cites the fact that b
three days of campaigning in Okl
homa and Illinois had been done I
IS to the time of making the report.
e further states: I'm Illinois, field S
lie licitors have been able to negotia
il contracts with every local elevate
is befo1 whose directors they have pr
e scented the national grain selling plan
Has 100000 Members.
a. The Illinois Farm Bureau now i
os ports 100000 members who have ea'
paid SIS in dues. Grab lead penc
S, please and figure it up. According
6, our figures this means a payment
if S1,620,000 per year. Now, it would
ty interesting to know what the farme
o. of Illinois are to get for all that me
ey; and to whom and in what SUI
re disbursements are to be made to ha
ne die the farmers own business. 4
ay mittedly there is a large, high-salari
e- force. and farmers will not object
n reasonable" payments to those in
flee, and to the hundreds of cler
- Wha otfopd N tho dptailc Only r,