The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-07-15
The Farm and The Farmer
BY William r. Sanborn

Easthaven farm holds the wheat
record so far made in Wayne county
harvest operations, both as to the
average" on any farm, and the top
production for any particular field or
acreage.
For example, there was one little 4
acre field on the Easthaven farm
which produced 26S bushels of so
pound wheat This was at the rate OF
SO bushels per acre. This field was in
cluded in 401a acres which produced
total of 1850 bushels, or an average
of 81 1 bushels per acre. The highest
average so far noted in this column
up to now was 80 bushels per acre.
| The bulk of the wheat remains to
be threshed. the large acreage being
on Wayne Farms" Between 100 and
200 acres Of wheat was sown on East
haven and Wayne Farms last year,
and about the same acreage was plant
ed to corn last spring. Dr. S. E. Smith,
in charge at Easthaven, supplied the
above figures on wheat, and said that
the seed was grown on the place and
was inspected and cleaned at their own
-four mill. The variety grown is known
!
be of fine quality and prolific In
production.
The 40 acres of potatoes at East
| haven are doing as well as might be
expected in this kind of weather" said
Dr. Smith, I'VE have large spraying
outfit for bugs and blight and have
suffered no damage from either We
do our own threshing and mill our own
| grain"
! Other Threshing Returns.
| The returns shown by the threshing
machines are not only of interest to
the individual farmer but are also OF
importance to the entire community
The output of the fields means more
money or less money in both town and
country 1t means a greater or lesser
reduction in loan accounts and more
cash in circulation in city and country
districts.
Albert Higgins, farming the Calet
| Jackson farm, southwest OF Center
vile, harvested ~ acres OF whea'
from two fields The first field ran be
/ tween Is and 16 bushels, the Other
I field averaged over 16 bushels. The
grain was of good quality and tested
/ SO pounds. The James Wilson outfit
did the threshing in the Higgins ring
I The wheat was sold direct from the
machines on Tuesday and Wednesday
In Milton District
4 There is a ring being threshed thl:
week, the farms located mostly two
miles or so southwest of Milton, TO,
which Is bushel average is claimed
One field on the E. C. Caldwell plac'
was threshed on Wednesday afternoon
and ran II machine bushels to tn
acre Another farmer in this rim
claims run of % bushels.
One ring in the district about tire
miles east of Milton reports yields O
, from as low as bushels up to q
; there being one farm at each end O
: the scale One farmer obtained bu
154 bushels from % acres. Charlie
Nugent had some go pound whea
Clayton Daugherty garnered $50 busf
els from AZ acres. or II bushels to tn
) acre One member of this ring sal
| that he never saw a finer promise c
y a banner wheat crop during the sprin
l. months, but his wheat headed in
: stunted condition and almost burne
e up for want of rain. The fly an
r chinch bug damaged some wheat
t that section and the bug also injure
n oats. Charles Kirlin and Homer Burtc
S are among the members of this rim
It who have already threshed
# Phosphates and BonemeaI
According to o. B. Price of the Mi
souri, college of agriculture some stril
S ing results were secured in the Ozar
Y country uplands this season. Thes
n phosphates were tested to determir
their effect on the clover yield at ii