The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-05-02
The Farm and The Farmer

BY William r. Sanborn

The John Parent company OF Union
City. has applied to the federal govern
nent for grain storage license, capac-
ity 100000 bushels. The inspection
work has been completed and license
will be issued within few days. This
capacity will be bonded, this being a
requirement under the license. When
the details are completed warehouse
receipt will be negotiable collateral at
federal reserve banks. In fact, any
Eank will be glad to accept them for
loans. There is nothing on these re-
ceipts to show connection with the
farm buraar, and any farmer can deal
directly with these government licen-
sed warehouses, carry his wheat until
ready to sell, surrender his receipt at
time of sale, and receive his money
Immediately the transaction is closed.
The Soico Milling company, of
Greenville, Ohio, has also applied for
such license, and will be bonded for
100000 bushel capacity. There is a
bunch of cooperative elevators in
Ohio. about 100 of them, the managers
of which are planning to bond them as
I, group. This point, however. has not
yet been settled, nor has it been de-
cided as to whether their grain will
be marketed through the farm bureau
machinery, which may or may not be
ready to do business in a large and
practical way on this Wheat crop.
; Once More the Soy.
9. B. Moore, of Saline county, Mis-
sonri, writes the state college of agri-
culture as follows:
Il planted about 30 acres Of soy
Leans with com last year. The beans
bore abundartly and I could not see
, they cut down the yield of corn.
hogged down portion of the 80 acres
of corn and beans. ! found that the
hogs ate the beans almost as readily as
place Of tankage almost entirely"
! Despite Mr.. Moore's experience it is
the testimony of The agricultural
schools and seedsmon that a good
crop of soys does cut the corn OUTPUT
rot very materially. perhaps that de
pending in a measure on the quality
or character Of the soil. The only
matter of importance being-"Does the
! SOY crop more than offset The loss in
corn in feeding value and as a soil
! huilder?" The general testimony is
, 1t does"
! Should any of our farmers have
! soys to sell for seed we shall be happ!
to tell the facts.
Why Butter is Cheap
| Taking a butter survey Of the coun
try as whole we may state tina
standard creameries declined from
eight to 10 cents per pound during
the last week in April AS a dairy
man puts it, prices are plenty low
and it is time the market steadied ant
began to advance. The mild winte
and early pasturage is but one rea
son for cheap butter, compared witt
one year ago The general situation
has been of greater effect than wealth
er conditions Too many city consum
ers are out of work and are unable t
use butter freely. at fair prices. Stor
age stocks are exceptionally large.
b.: Webster Man Sells Hogs
81 sold As hogs last Wednesday,
said A. L. Baldwin, of Webster, 40
a little less money than they woul'
have brought as feeders two month
earlier This means that I lost N,
corn and labor, as the increase'
weight didn't balance these. TIL
hogs averaged 17S pounds and wer
in nice shape. The deal was mad
with the local packing plant, within
one-fourth of a cent of the Indiana
police price that day, but when TIL
hogs were delivered in Richmond, tn
. price actually paid was a shade BET