The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-06-23
The Farm and
The Farmer
BY William r. Sanborn

Good light hogs which sold at sS.15 |
to 1925 at Indianapolis on Wednesday, !
June Is, struck, top of $3.50 on June |
q. Heavies advanced during same
days from sS.15 to $3.50. This inspired
hog raisers with more hopeful feel
ing as to summer prices.
After a 20 cent advance last Satur-
day at Chicago top hogs brought $3.50.
Prices jumped fast on Monday, follow
ed by another upward swing on
Tuesday. when a top of $3.50 was made
on light butchers and on bacon
weights. These we're the highest fig
ures in a month. Dwindling receipts
of cattle also stimulated prices. Prime
steers ranged at $3.50 to 1910, while
choice yearlings sold up to 1925, on
June p, the highest since June 3, at
Chicago. Veal calves gained 81 the
first two days of this week.
Bolster Market.
Disappointing threshing returns
from southern Indiana, Ohio, Ken
lucky and Illinois have been reported
TO Chicago and these have tended to
bolster the market.
Something is likely to happen to
the corn crop so let's buy corn futures.
That is the argument of many a spec
ulator just now and so the market
gets support. Something always hap
pens TO corn, in spots, but this is a
big country. Taken as a whole the
outlook for good crop of corn was
never better on June % in any recent
! year, if ever. 1t is a pity the same
/ cannot be said for wheat although we
shall all have bread and to spare.
Montana is the first state to an
tnounce a woman as county farm
! bureau president, Mrs Lizzie Lynch,
! of Sanders county having won that
unique distinction. Mrs. Lynch was
unanimously reelected for the second
term a few days ago. She is an active
| farmer and stock raiser
Producing Milk From sawdust.
That's about the size of it, milk
from sawdust", otherwise known as
wood meal. 1t is reported that COWS
at the Wisconsin agricultural college
are doing we'll on a ration one-third
hydroliZed white pine sawdust. They
are keeping up their weight and milk
production and show no i'll effects from
the diet is the government report.
In view of these results the Burea-
Of Animal Industry is considering
starting feeding trials with dairy cows,
in which wood product will be fed
the experiments to cover one year
Various soft woods will be tried and
the stock be made at the Iabora tories
where the feeding is done.
North Dakota Pooled Woods.
The Hettinger, n, D., wool ware
house serves a territory producing
100000 pounds Of wool At the recent
, meeting of the stockholders it was de
: cided to pool their 1921 clip with the
National Wool warehouse at Chicago
the owners OF the wool asserting.
But in heavens name why? hal
million pounds Of wool is a temptin2
: and tidy lot. Buyers will as freely gc
TO North Dakota as to Chicago il
quest of it; just as they travel TO Uta2
!, and the coast. The director of the
+ wool marketing department of thu
: American farm bureau was present q
the Hettirger meeting His idea i
9 evidently to make a giant pool at Chi
cago. Our Wayne county men nov
;, have lot OF 1920 wool in that sam,
Chicago pool; it has been at Chicag
for more than a year. a wool buye
called on US a few days ago and sal,
that he understood that Wayne poole
WOOL had not yet been graded, so h
had been told. We advised him tina
y this must surely be a mistake. as w
:, had heard to the contrary.
{ Be this as it may we know of n,
d one who has seen the color of thei
Il money, nor any evidence that thi
= wool will be sold in this year of grace
: although it probably Will be Our 1872
t crop is now pooled at Columbus, Ohio
! where more satisfactory action an
i better prices are to be expected.
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