The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-10-17
The Farm and The Farmer
BY William r. Sanborn

II you are interested in Shorthorns
you surely will want to attend the
sale of the Union District Shorthorn
Breeders association on Thursday,
Oct. 10. 1t is to be held on the Joseph
Witter farm, in Union county, about
five miles east of Liberty, and three
miles northwest of College Corner,
Ohio.
This Is the second annual sale of the
association, the initial sale at Liberty
last year, proving a great success.
Thirty head OF good ones will be put
through the sale ring on the 18th, p
or them females. The offering repre-
sents the Broadhooks. Claret, Semp-
tress. Campbell, Nina, Lancaster, Vii
lage Maid and other well known fam.
lilies. Catalogs have been literally dis
tributed in this section.
| A gentleman who has actually been
known to have enjoyed honey all win
ter, without having to buy it, tells US
that: ''If a ten frame colony doesn't
weigh at least rs pounds this fall,
there's not enough honey to last the
bees all winter. Two and a quarter
pounds of granulated sugar to a pint
of water makes a good winter food
for bees"
AS Deserving of Praise.
] Says w. A. Lloyd in "A History of
Ohio Agriculture: "The man who
| improves the livestock of communi-
ty, or gives it a better variety OF
corn, is as deserving of praise as he
who 'plucks glory from the lannon's
mouth"
Liberal With Grain Growers
AS an evidence that the farmers are
disposed to support the plans and
methods of the Grain Growers, consid
er the loans made to them by the
various state farm bureaus. A finan
cial statement, dated Oct 10, and
issued by the Illinois Agricultural
association lists among its assets q
loan of $500 to the U. S. Grain
Growers, Inc.
1t is only fair to suppose that all
our agricultural states have Clipped
in to help teh cause. We recall learn.
ing some months ago that Indiana had
made a similar loan of $4,000, an6
was afterward told that our informant
understood that this had been increas
ed to $4,000. We do not recall seeing
any information to this effect, direct
from the state farm bureau offices, but
our informant is in state farm bureau
work and supposedly had the facts
But in any event the amount is not
large, considering Indiana's large
membership and the income at state
headquarters, at per capita of 5.
annually. AS John Cloverseed wisel,
remarked 1--WE can't expect the GraiI
Growers to make bricks without
straw"
Tractor Days Draw Crowds
Three tractor demonstrations, helC
during the late summer in three Ohio
counties, attracted audiences of 1880
AT the Ottawa demonstration Sep
TENDER 10, fifteen types of tractor!
plowed As acres with 5000 people look
ing on. In Paulding county on Sep
TENDER 10, fourteen types of tractor.
plowed AZ acres in the presence o
1900 people.
Drying Seed Corn.
And how the agricultural college ex
perts tell US that the old sling" syS
tenn of stringing up seed corn, so tina
the ears can not touch in drying i:
the best. To avoid corn root rot ten
dency in the seed is the point aimee
l at. An Ohio authority says:
7 "Fall-selected seed corn, strung 81
\
? nitely known to bring crop les
2 subject to corn root rot Drying seet
: corn thus stored with artificial heat
+ or at least storing it where it viii
, dry out thoroughly before real winte
weather, adds to the assurance agains
] root rot next year.
i THE root rot is a hard trouble t,
!. identify. The disease may be laten
S in ears that look quite all right, an
s spread from ear to ear by contac
e in the corn crib"
Fight on Corn Borer.
t That the government is fully aliv
l. to the danger from the invasion of tn
J. corn borer, and is to proceed alon
o practical lines to limit its spread, an
/ to wipe it out, if possible, is outline
n EU W OF N