The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-08-10

every little wheat has come in dur
ing the past week. said Manager
Bowen of the elevator at Crete, Ind.
| This is ordinarily good oats coun-
| try" said he, but our crop was not
only a small one but the oats are
| light in weight this season. NOW ana
then an exceptional field went as nlsn
| as 80 bushels, but the crop ran mostly
around Is bushels, and under. We
paid s10S for the last wheat received
| and our price on oats is now rs cents,
| which isn't a bad price, considering
what we can get for them at central
markets, also the quality of the oats.
Mr.. Bowen said they were buying
no corn. whatever That corn is most
| w being fed and that were the hogs
| in the country more of them would be
on feed right now. He said that they
| had fields in his section which prom
Used so bushels or better, as they
seemed to have had more showers
| than fell in most places and their corn
never really suffered for moisture. 1t
| is now a question of how long frost
will stay off," said Mr.. Bowen. Feed
ers are paying 60 cents for corn IN the
Crete district.
Headed For the Circus.
| William B. Woodward, of Dublin,
said on Tuesday that nearly all the
! farmers had sold their wheat from
the machines, and that some OF them
4 had taken 20 minutes off to spend the
money. there was so little of 1t. But
even so. enough was reserved, ne
thought, to buy ticket to the circus on
Friday and he intended to be among
i those present. He said that corn
needed no more rain, simply warmth
and sunny weather, to make good
crop. No grain is now being received
at Dublin, but the last of the oats crop
lis dribbling in at Straughn.
/ Are Still Threshing Oats.
/ cat least one rig is .threshing oats
today" said j. F. Seagraves, on Tues
day. but we are getting near the
! wind-up" He reports corn as LOOKING
fine, said they have had plenty OF
rain and if frost held off long enough
Ito mature late corn they expected
good crop.
1--WE usually get at least one car OF
frye. and now have 1900 bushels in
store,' said Mr.. Seagraves. Farmers
are not selling corn but are feeding it
as a rule. At any rate we can't afford
to pay the prices that feeders are
: paying Hogs are scarce or there
would be more of them on feed. Feed
: ers have secured the country for pigs
since hogs began to advance. Mr.
Seagraves said that they were keeping
a good stock of coal in the bins and
that farmers were buying as usual
and he had heard no talk of pooling
: orders for coal. A light crop of light
\ weight oats was harvested and the
; buying price at Losantsville is now %
cents.
G. G. Membership Campaign.
The Indiana farmer is not to be de
prived of the privilege to contract with
the u. S. Grain Growers for the pool
ing and handling of his surplus grain
regardless of state action prohibiting
the sale of the Finance Corporation
stock in this state The latter corpor
alton, however, has. nothing whatever
to do with the membership campaign
which is now on. Fifteen solicitors
/ for members are now in this field, and
, are in charge of James K. Mason, Of
! Milton, regional director of the Grain
, Growers, Inc, for Indiana The mem
. bership initiation fee is $40, and this
: first cost covers the entire five years
: of the contract, and may run in
: definately, so far as we understand
t THE idea is to secure members who
will stand by the organization and poo
: their grain so that orderly marketing
S may be done in future, by the farmers
e themselves"
: Committee Of IS in Session.
t The Committee of Fifteen are in
e session at Chicago today, having beer
: almost a year on the job. Several
meetings have been held, however, anG
e presumably much travelling done in
:, the quest of information as to the
5 best manner of disposing of live stock
in the interest of the growers.
/ We understand from the Chicago
4 newspapers that this committee i:
r perfecting plans for the establishment
Y of producer-owned and operated co
: operative commission companies at the
:, leading markets" This plan has beer
= in effect at Omaha, Kansas City anC
:. ST. Paul for years. The Nationa
|, Farmers Union has been handling
t hundreds of cars of live stock at Kan
j; sas City for a long time. The Office
L is backed by the farmers of Kansas
L but it handles live stock from Kansas
l. Missouri, Oklahoma and southern
! Iowa, with sprinkling from Nebrask;
and Colorado, it is said.
h This cooperative concern sells OF
I the open market, makes no CLAIM
whatever of getting more money thai