The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-12-02

The Farm Bureau Song book was
introduced to an appTeciatiye lot of
farm folks at the rally meeting and
supper at Green's Fork on Wednesday
night The Boys Glee club of the
high school, consisting of about 20
members, manfully tackled the new
/ book and under the direction Of Miss
FIossy Neff, supervisor Of music,
! made the welkin ring
The opening song, Farm Bureau
! Rally" was followed by, Pack I'D
/ Your Troubles IN Your Old Tin Ford"
and later by two other choice selec-
! lions. Every rumber in the farmers
song book was written to be sung to
some familiar tune, so that all can join
in the singing.
AS one youth remarked to the young
miss at his right: THE Bureau Song
/ book is a humGinger" whatever that
may be. The meeting was held in the
| Friends church, which was packed to
| the doors.
! May Hold Several Meetings
| AS originally planned there were
! but three general meetings to be held
! in Wayne county, previous to the open
| ing Of the membership campaign.
/ These were billed for Richmond, Hag
! erstown and Cambridge City. points
| accessible to various townships. It
now seems likely that each township
has held or will hold meetings to
| facilitate the work of the campaign.
Big Farmer a Bankrupt.
According to a news despatch from
! Macomb, Ill, farm lands totaIling
more than 100 acres, and recently
appraised at 100000. together with
lpurebred stock and farm equipment,
are to be put up at public sale, near
Littleton. The farms belong to George
Runkle, recently adjudged a bankrupt
in the federal court at Peoria, with IL
abilities Of approximately S250OO0, -
it is said.
Grew Potatoes Under Straw.
viii Gaar reports growing some fine
potatoes this year under straw
. mulch. About twO-fifth of an acre
was planted and around so bushels of
Michigan Carmens harvested Mr..
> Gaar states. The usual burrows was
, plOwed, the potatoes dropped in but
not covered by the soil, instead of
which straw to a depth of 10 or IL
inches was applied to the plot In
such conditions the potatoes needed no
. cuitivating whatever, and thus the
, rows might have been planted much
= closer together" said Mr. Gaar. but
this was not thought of until after the
T. planting was done. or | might have
2 grown a much larger crop on the same
: number of square feet"
2 We understand that If Michigan
- Carmen seed is imported into this dis
. trict that it will be bug-free the first
, year, but that if you plant the home
(rssf IN, ell
8 you will have no such exemption
This means that to escape this infes
= tatiOu you must import your seed from
: year to year. In discussing the fore
T. going facts another farmer said he in
a tended to give the Gaar experiment q
% trial next year but thought he wouIC
{ at least cover the potatoes lightly witt
r soil before mulching.
; Three-Man Egg Pool.
: Russell J. Poole, Chicago IT. c. L
f man and city food expert. says tina
l. the Fate bulge in the price of eggs il
r. costing Chicago egg-eaters $4,000
daily more than the situation warrants
This sum is the difference between The
n aggregate cost of the eggs consumed
= daily and the cost at the price fixeC
e as fair by the experts report. The re
@ port gives the high and low prices OF
all eggs put into storage from MarCl
! ! to July 81, also average price pc
d month.
n From these figures Poole maintain
t that March eggs should now come on
q Of storage at 3524 cents, having cos
n an average of 2734 cents. According
Z to Mr., POoles figures April eggs wer,
; stored at an average cost of 2414 ant
d May eggs at p cents per dozen. Th
average price advanced to 23l2 il
June and to 27h in July.
! Mr.. Poole says he is in possession
| of testimony that three men meet eaCl
| day and fix the price of eggs for CHI
} cago and promises to turn this over
either to the state or federal author
e tiles, for action. He states that egg
e went into Chicago storage last May a
p as low as 10 cents per dozen.
d A farmer in CulbertsOn, Neb a low
G. priced corn district. has figured on
(. The cost of a farm wagon, measure
If in bushels of corn, at the price of cor
? at his station. This he discovered t
3 be $50 bushels. which he contends,
n too much corn to trade for an every
day farm wagon, and in this judgmen