The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-10-04

Hartford City claims the dubious
honor of reporting the first frost in
Indiana this fall. 1t formed on Sunday
night. 1T damaged the tomato crop,
though not all the product was destroy
ed" as the message ran.
Eugene Meyer, managing director OF
the war finance corporation, is back in
Washington, after a three weeks tour
which took him among the cattle men
and on to the west coast. He said he
had been advising the buying and feed
ing of cattle, also that the banks ap-
pear ready to begin the needed finan-
cling, aided by the finance corporation.
The great North American hog will
have an inning at Purdue on Friday,
October 7. 1t will be the FIRST annual
swine day. at the university and many
breeders and farmers are expected to
attend. A tour will be made of the
| hog farm and the various herds on
different feeding rations will be in
| spected. Several brood sows with suck
/ lings will be exhibited, with relation
to feeding experiments.
Licensed Warehouses.
Numerous elevators in the grain
growing areas of the northwest, where
| bAASlN 10 a 6lCoI dCoiIC " al dISS lOl
f, loans, have been licensed and bonded
! of late. Large elevator corporations
are included in the new demand al
/ though the warehouse receipts of such
substantial concerns have always beer
bankable paper The bonding is the
first step, after which the government
issues license, all being satisfactory
Among the somewhat belated silo:
/ to be filled was one on the Wilson Nc
Cav farm, four miles southwest o
Richmond, on Saturday. A number o
silos were filled in Center township
within the past few days, with other!
here and there throughout the county
making the closing of the silo season
Beef From Velvet Beans.
The United States Department o
Agriculture has conducted a steer-fat
itening experiment in Mississippi whicl
shows that velvet beans are we'll adapt
ed for use in making beef Feedin;
mixtures of silage, dry velvet beam
and cotton seed were compared will
combinations of silage and dry velve
beans, and silage and soaked velve
beans. The mixture of silage an,
soaked velvet beans resulted in tn
most economical and profitable produC
ton of beef
Apple Trade Brisk.
Indianapolis dealers report apples Il
good supply, despite a short crop, an
say trade is brisk, under practicall
the same conditions as existed las
fall Dealers announced a cut of % t
80 cents per bushel on Grimes Golde
and Jonathans, on Monday.
Milk, S1.75 in Porter.
Valparaiso reports that the Mil
Producers Cooperative company ha
fixed the price of milk in Porter couI
ty at $1.75 per hundred pounds. wit
: the usual differential for milk delivere
in Chicago. The Pine township farr
, bureau has decided to build a commur
, ity house for the holding of farm NEE
ings and for such other uses as ma
be for the benefit of Pine TOWNSHIP
social life.
MIR. Mckenzie's Idea.
H. c. Mckenzie, director of the ia.
alton service of the American Farl
Bureau, has this to say:
The net result of all the change
proposed by either the senate or hous
of representatives on the tax bill
! to shift large part of the taxes frol
: incomes TO consumption-frcm thos
who are able to pay to those who wi
have to take it out of their living.
The repeal of the excess profit
tax and the raising of the fiat rate
!, Is per cent would relieve the corpo
y ationS with very large earnings
q most of their taxes, and increase til
taxes largely on the corporation I
, small earnings. 1t favors the stror
la2ainSt the weak