The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-06-18
The Farm and The Farmer
BY William r. Sanborn

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If you are of the opinion that any
living farmer, or any farmers wife,
can make a profit on butter at 10 cents
per pound, you can get our consent
in writing to try it for yourself. This
is the freest kind of a country. Get
some land and cows and fixins' and
go to it.
True enough we are now Knee
deep in June" But mighty few cows
are knee deep in clover or in any other
kind of pasture just now You can
prove this by driving in any direction
Nor would there be any money in Is
cent butter were the pastures ten feet
: tall and all green feed
Well, some country butter has been
sold at Is cents in our country dis
tricts. We have been told that several
country stores at small points have
| been taking in butter at Is cents and
| turning it over to buyers at II and
| Is cents.
! Doubling this to be true as to price
on a fair article we called a few
country storekeepers on Friday eve
/ ming.
! williamsburg Paying 20 Cents.
! The manager of the Cooperative
! store at williamsburg said he was pay.
| ing 20 cents for butter. 20 cents for
! eggs, p cents for butterfat and 80
| cents per pound for frying chickens
He also said that 20 cents was the
lowest price he had so far paid for
butter. He said. however. that re-
! ceipts Of butter were falling off as
. farmers are not anxious to sell butter
! at that figure.
Pays 20; Sells for Less.
! Ollie Thomas, grocer at Fountain
! City who has been in the habit of TAX
ing in bushel baskets full of eggs
every Saturday, and a whole lot OF
them during the week, says he is
still paying 20 cents for eggs, also &c
cents for butter Well, a shipper
dropped in the other day and his best
offer for about 100 pounds of butter
was 10 cents 1t is not probable thai
this butter was all gilt edge stock OIL
IN prime condition. but at any rate Mr.
THOMAS let it go for a dime per pound
Eggs at 10 Cents. =. a..
Eggs have been selling at from /!
cents up at country stores OF late
prices varying according to supply anG
pressure TO sell. Boston merchants
were paying IS cents for eggs thi,
morning and nice roll butter was be
ing bought at 90 cents.
The prices prevailing in Wayne
county are on a par with those nov
Beng paid in Preble, Darke and Ran
dolph counties, in the main, so ia
as we can learn. The butter marke
situation now is such that severa
country grocers claim that the buyin!
OF butter is mostly a matter of accom-
mediation. There is so little deman,
that they cannot find ready sale 70
I 1t these hot days
! Only IS Cents at Hamilton.
. A Richmond man who was at Ham
l lIton, Ohio, recently. says he heard
grocery man tell friend that he ha
bought country butter at Is cents
as that was what the association ha
agreed upon paying" that day. H
admitted, too, that he was selling a
; retail at 80 cents.
Live Stock Receipts.
The receipts of cattle, hogs an
y sheep at 20 principal markets so ia
; this year are: Cattle, 4,975,000; hog.
!. l6,24OOO0; sheep, 6,620,000. Thes
= figures show loss of 100000 cattl
. and of 100000 hogs, compared wit
4 the same date in 1920 Sheep receipt
4 show gain of more than 1000. OC
mead over last wear.
= The executive committee of til
q American farm bureau will meet i
\ Chicago, Monday, June p. This wi
= be an important meeting. Among th
. matters TO come up is the date an
q place for holding the next annu;
g meeting
d membership drive is on in a fe
d counties in Wisconsin, although tn
\ is the off season. The drive is on II
n basis of SO annually and is for thrc
year signatures.
e New Hampshire recently reported
membership of 1850 in one count
although the state total is not larg
New Hampshire and Vermont are
L increase their fees from 81 per vel
Lg to not less than IS and, in some i
a. stances, up to so per year.
Id one June Is the government of A
V gentine officially estimated an expol
r able surplus of 100000 bushels
I'd wheat and of 1885, 900 bushels
r. corn. The emergency tariff will pr
vent any of this grain coming