The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-10-18

The livestock marketing COMMITTEES
of Is is apparently getting down to
bedrock, and the plan" is about per-
fected and ready for the consideration
of the farmers who are to meet 10
ratify it. The committee opened It's
seventh session at the Hotel La Salle,
Chicago, on Tuesday morning, ana DE-
tails of the marketing plan Will now
be perfected, published and circulated
SO that those interested may have the
opportunity to study the methods pro-
posed, previous to the ratification con-
ference at Chicago, On November 10
1t is decided that a national board
of nine directors will have charge OF
both the cooperative and orderly
marketing features of the plan. All
of the numerous farm organizations
will await the story of these many
meetings, and months of study with
great interest, and this without regard
to alliance with the American farm
bureau This marketing problem is
one confronting the individual farm
er in every livestock district.
That Shorthorn Sale
Ralph Druley, secretary of the
association, said on Tuesday, that
they were all set for their sale on
Wednesday. and were hoping for a
pleasant day. He said the cattle are
! in the pink of condition, that the cata-
log has had a wide local distribution
| and that lot of buyers are expected
TO be present. The sale will be pulled
off on the Joe Witter farm, three
| miles northwest of College Corner
This will be the second annual sale
of the association
Corn, Wood or Coal
Western papers, meaning particu
iarly those of Kansas, Nebraska
northen Iowa and parts of Minnesota
and South Dakota, have had some
thing to say about prospective burn
ing of corn the coming winter Now
| that Kansas coal miners have gone
out on an outlaw strike, the farmers
and villagers of that state have q
very potent reason for considering
! possibility
Surely no farmer can find comfort
] in burning a crop he has worked sc
hard to mature and crib, but there are
times when that may seem advisable
and to be the best way out That has
been true in the past when low corn
prices and lack of transportation, to
gether with high prices for coal, has
made corn burning the proper thing
to do
| And that is to occur in places, dur
ing the coming winter, unless all signs
fail. Many farmers, we believe, vii
inevitably burn corn in the prairie
states. where wood is scarce anC
costly.
Corn Gives Less Heat.
Scientific investigators frown OF
corn as fuel. They state that Goa
would have to go much higher, Of
corn become almost valueless before
it would be profitable to burn it. Iowa
engineers say that soft coal wouic
have to sell at $40 a ton before i
would pay to burn corn worth AZ cent!
for a IS pound bushel. But there arr
2 thousand country stations whert
new corn, if sold at all. will not brins
half of AZ cents at the track scales
when it begins to move, unless price
advance from present levels. Ensi
neers claim that corn with 10 pc
cent moisture, the winter average
furnishes only 7,540 British therma
units per pound, against $4,000 unit
from Iowa coal also corn is not S;
convenient in use and firing as coal
they say.
/ Argument Non-effective.
But consider the farmer compelled
to haul his corn Is or 20 miles owe
frozen, rutty and bottomless mud road
and then sell it for Is or 20 cents
| buShel then buy coal at high price,