The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-10-12

he executive committee Oh the dl-
mers' Cooperative company have call
ed meeting of the membership, to
be held a. the school building in Foun-
tain City, on Friday evening.
Some Union county farmers be-
lieve they have raised some extra fine
corn this year." writes a young lady
who lives in Liberty. She says she is
led to make this remark because of
the fine large ears she sees displayed
in town, and especially cites the corn
shown at the Citizens bank this week.
She credits David Maze with bringing
in an ear of the 'Shipley" strain,
/ which is IA inches long and well shap-
ed. Jesse Maze displays an ear OF
yellow corn, also IA inches long, but
Newton Snyder comes along with an
ear of Yellow Dent, measuring 14A
inches. These gentlemen are limiting
that their exhibits will be pretty hard
to beat. The contest is still open.
To Discuss Plan.
Israel township, Preble county farm
ers are to meet at Fairhaven on Fri
| day evening, and will be addressed by
J. NJ. Prugh, president of the Mont
| gomery county farm bureau. His
| theme will be cooperative marketing
and the sales plan of the Grain Grow
| ers' section of the American farm bu-
reau.
| Slovenian Blankets.
i You have heard of Czecho-Slovakid,
of course. 1t is a new country made
! out of some mighty old soil, or at least
! is a new governmental combination
/ But what we started out to say is
this: They raise sheep in that neck
of woods, and are makers of warm
| blankets, and now are exporting them
| to this country for the first time II
many years.
! Our own manufacturers have so de
pressed the price of wool and so care
: fully maintained the price of blankets
that we have little doubt that We
! shall soon be importing blankets II
quantity, and this in spite of our sur
plus wool and the finest machinery
and facilities for manufacture. Incl
| dentally be it remarked that Chi
ca 90 house is now advertising Shaggy
camel's hair blankets, warm, comfort
, able and light in weight" But wool !!
not in competition with camePs hal
from the Steppes of Asia.
/ Doubled His Crop.
:! A Wayne county, Ohio, farmer re
ports planting one-half his acreage
with homegrown seed potatoes AMI
the balance of the field with Mich
gan certified seed. Homegrown seet
produced 100 bushels and the certltle;
!, an even 200 bushels to the arce, &C
cording to his report to the extension
department.
About Glover Seed
Red clover seed growers have bee
in no hurry to sell their seed th1
season. prices quoted being 50 to 5
per hundred under those current las
: wear and less than half the pric
!; offered two years ago. There ar
spots. however. where as much as 4
) per cent of the crop has been sole
: notably southwestern Ohio, and 3
per cent is already marketed in south
' eastern Iowa. These two districts ar
; exceptional in this.
, But if we have been slow In NAL
! keting our own seed we have been Ill
, eral importers. We imported 100000
pounds of red clover in July, Angus
? and September, against $685. 900 pound
in the same months in 1920. Thes
: heavy imports of old seed from Europ
+ and South America depressed price
here, also greatly reduced the stock
abroad. Iowa top so far S14, and Obi
: top on cleaned red clover, to growers
SIPS.
, No Farmers In II.
A farm writer calls attention to tn
, fact that there are no farmers in tn
; unemployment conferences. He cite
the fact that there is no unemployment
on the farms; that farmers have gon
J on working and producing, takin
what they could get for their wares.
: On the other hand he says that: Il
many industries organized labor ha
announced that it would, rather nc
, | work at all than at reduced wages.
Continuing, he says that a sensibl
farmer would talk to the conferenc
like this:
A Farmers Advice
Take the advice of a hard-heade
| farmer, gentlemen. Adjourn you
conference and go to work. Get a
/ you can for your labor and product!
: but if all you can isn't as much as 20
want, work anyway, and keep on worl
ing and producing. That is the wa