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

From a top of s765 on Wednesday,
hogs climbed to IS at Indianapolis
on Thursday. Chicago had $4,000 fresh
hogs in the pens but in the face OF
the tremendous daily receipts this
week managed to advance its figures
Is cents
In view of our liberal corn crop, and
the heavy reserves Of old corn re-
naming on corn belt farms. this would
seem to be a pretty good time to feed
hogs. Many farmers also are begin
ming to talk favorably of cattle feeding
as a prospective good investment.
Numerous farm editors are coming
over to this view of the situation, and
are advising the saving of every brood
SOW and the building up of herds. AS
matter of fact there never was as
good an opportunity to secure pure
bred stock for so little money, as
sales statistics go to prove. You who
have attended such sales are aware of
the comparatively low prices recently
paid. The pure-bred market has been
largely a farmers market all this
year, and especially so since the close
of the spring sale season.
Just Bit Late.
A metropolitan editor informs his
readers that old-fashiOned fermenting
and sailing methods of preserving
winter yegetab les are coming back in
to use as a means of cutting down the
! living expenses. He insists that this
method of storing costs little more
than the storing of them in their
natural state, because old kegs, bar
rels, butter and lard tubs, etc, can
/ be used at little cost.
! Our Chicago friend is correct; but
| his information is a bit belated, n
+ almost mid-November About the only
! thing now available for this kind OF
| packing is cabbage, in the form OF
kraut But among the vegetables men
! toned in his list are cucumbers, string
| beans. green tomatoes, corn in the
! roasting ear stage, green peas, beetS,
! beet tops and turnip tops. Any of
our farm folks who have any or all
of this assortment can utilize the salt
ing method at a profit. The brine OF
dry salt methods are inexpensive.
/ Still Signing Up.
At the date of our latest advices
Cos cooperative elevators and asso
Citations of grain growers had signed
up with the Z. S. Grain Growers. OF
this number 23O are in Illinois, whicl
also continues to lead in membership
. now running we'll over $500 in the
state and having more than 1900 il
a single county.
Protecting the Birds.
When quail are feeding in the fields
along in the fall they are voracioUt
eaters of chinch bugs, if any ar
present Authorities tell us that
quail will eat 900 of them at a meal
and will be ready for another batcl
in couple of hours. Bob Whites ar
? reported to be the only birds of thi
kind that specializes in chinch bugs
a fact worth remembering in this in
fected district.
Every bag OF quail shot this fal
l will cost the farmers dollars, and TO
e this reason, among others, farmer
= are posting against hunting on thei
: lands. These birds destroy million
= of alternating insects in the gras
and stubble and should be protecte
/ as an economic factor. They are cor
: stantly at work destroying insects
) both in winter and summer.
q Quail Feed with Chickens.
: Some years ago we spent a few day
r at Kansas farm house, near Kansa
i City, during a spell of bitterly colt
Z snowy weather. On looking out of on
L bedroom window one freezing mOrnin
} We were surprised to see large cove
5 of quail feeding and drinking with tn
| chickens. It was explained at tn
n breakfast table that warm water wa
, set out for the birds in freezing days
Il that suet was hung in the trees an
!, small grain distributed in the orchar
:, for the hungry feathered folk. TIL
. | result was that wild creatures b.
g came tame and fearless and that o.
|, chard became the home of hundred
!. of birds and a place of nestbuildin
- from year to year. The orchard an
= garden crops proved the value OF tn
- birds, we were told.
. Soy and Corn SiIage.
L. r Gavin, owner of a herd
pure bred Holsteins in Pike count,
y Missouri, reports that soy bean an
= corn silage is a good ration for dair
:, COWS. He has put up this silage Ion
g enough to prove this fact, as he aver
y v. C. Abbott, in the same count