The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-05-05
The Farm and The Farmer
BY William r. Sanhorn

Joseph P Griffin, president of the
Chicago Board of Trade, told the Hi
nois senate on Wednesday that the
enactment of the LantZ measures
the first aiming at the control of the
board by the state department of agri-
culture, and the second prohibiting all
trading in futures would mean the
wlping out of Chicago as the grain
center Of the world
Mr. Griffin asserted that the Board
OF Trade ever has occupied an unen-
vlable position between the producer
and the consumer and it is impossible
to satisfy both
In case the Chicago board went GU.
of business, Mr.. Griffin said thai
The center of the machinery for reg
lstering the grain prices of the world,
probably would be moved to Liverpool,
Paris or Berlin" The speaker said
that the members of the Legislature
had been misguided and nIisinformed
by incompetent advisers, just as the
committee on agriculture at Washing
ton had been advised by lawyers and
paper farmers who know little of the
actual practices of marketing"
County Agent Talks Wool Pool.
!
a little persuasive literature regarding
the pooling of the new wool clip. In
Ills circular letter he says:
What about the wool situation this
year? Is Indiana planning to pool the
% 1921 wool clip" What is the Wayne
County Farm Bureau doing for The
:, wool men?
These are questions That have come
up in the last week. and this letter j.
Il being sent TO you in order that yo'
. may become acquainted with the VOC
, situation as it is today.
= The Indiana federation has decide,
u to pool this years wool clip with TIL
Ohio growers at Columbus. A few
Indiana counties are undecided abou
pooling. They said that if they sold Il
home last year at clipping time the.
!. would have received more per poun'
= for their wool than they receive
;. through the pool last winter. But lie
Il us ask those few counties this: Va
the decline in wool caused by til
:. pool? Other farm products fell off il
u price, and there was no pool Fo
', three years proceeding 1920 Illinoi
:. farmers pooled their wool and save'
= from 10 to Is cents per pound. Las
u year, true enough they gained nothin
but averaging the four years they hav'
saved good money. Again, We ask
what caused the decline in wool La
a year. was it the pool or simply III
n economic condition of the country?
a Selling Direct to Mills.
r "a If you sell to the scalper thu
I wool passes through four middle-mel
:. before it finally reaches the mill.
k 90 Other states have been success
S full in pooling and will pool again thi:
. year
t go The bigger the pool the more
l. effective it will be in securing a fai
e price.
e a. Pooling with the Ohio wool grow
= ers will cost the farmer about Az
G per pound: that is, Az cents will
d cover the freight handling charge
|. storage and commission; if the WOO
y sells for SO cents at the mill thu
a grower gets 45h cents for his share
y To Meet Saturday Afternoon.
\ The county farm bureau has callc'
t meeting of the wool growers to b.
r. held in the Office of the county agen
Z next Saturday afternoon at 100. Th
o pooling problem will be threshed OH
r at that time and large attendance
r. of our sheep owners is hoped for.
$ 1t is worth while noting that NOR
II than one million pounds of pooled
S woods have been marketed within TIL
r past three weeks. also that the Onl
pool completed sales totaling 100000
pounds on April 10, the top price OF
I. which was SO cents for half bloc
D combing woods, but the bulk of al