The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-11-02

speculative OUTSIDERS IN the market.
The men we have been tying up by
restrictive legislation are the men
who are actually carrying the enor-
nous loads in the visible supply.
These are the men who have been pay
ing the market price, in cash, from day
to day, regardless of future happen
ings or prices, here or abroad. They,
of course, have sold to mills and to
exporters, as they could and at what
ever prices the market warranted at
the date of the transaction, sometime
at profit, but more often at a loss.
This is the inevitable course in de-
Ginning markets, be it in shoes or
leather, in speculative products or in
any line Of manufacture. We have
had ample proof of this during our
period Of deflation. Every farmer
and every merchant can tell you this,
except in possible cases where prices
have been artificially maintained.
This is not defense of the specu-
lator, or of any irregular board of
trade methods; it is a simple state
ment of the facts.
The fashionable Hog.
The latest fashionable hog in stock
yards society is known as the feather
weight" and it weighs around 145
pound. The featherweights frequently
sell at 10c to 15c over light bacons,
weighing 100 to 100 pounds, at Chicago.
Much depends, however, on the num-
bers and kind of hogs in the days
receipts.
A stock yards commission firms
letter of Monday night said: Swine
average advances 25 cents on light
supply" After 10000 in the Chicago
pens last week, light supply" would
seem to be the only tonic for a sick
market. One-third fewer hogs were
received last Monday than a week
earlier
But the hitting of day with a COM
paratively light run is sheer matter
OF luck. No shipper can tell how many
others are heading hogs to market to
be sold the same morning as his will
show up. The orderly" marketing of
live stock presents much grayer
problem than that of feeding the
market with any kind of grain, accord
ing to price and demand
incidentally be it said, too, that
lambs also were in light supply on
Monday and the consequent advance to
1885 equalled the high spot in Oc-
tober.
Sterilize Milk Vessels.
Every farm wife is in the habit of
scalding milk vessels, and to properly
scald is to sterilize. Now sterilization
is so important that the department
of agriculture at Washington has is
sued Farmers Bulletin, No. 74S. de-
voted to this subject, and it is free for
the asking. Use live steam for five
minutes" says this bulletin, "and If
you cannot get live steam boil all the
utensils for at least five minutes The
bulletin goes on to describe a simple
steam sterilizer for home use that can
be made by the local tinsmith at
modest cost.
New Farm Machine
And now comes another modern
wonder. 1t is reported that an cleo.
trical device has been perfected
which will furnish nitrogen to ncn-
leguminous plants in sandy soils.
Some of these machines have been
made but not in sufficient quantity
to place them on the nitrogen from the
have been taking nitrogen from the
air electrically, but at an enormous
cost for suitable machinery, as wit
ness the Muscle Shoals plant which
the government is now endeavoring
to sell or lease.
Rats Cause Third Planting
No one really knows hows much
damage rats inflict in this country.
but the department of agriculture es-
Inmates it at $200,000,000 per year, to
stored foods stuffs, grain and field