The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-07-22
The Farm and The Farmer
BY William r. Sanborn

A stalk of corn IA feet high, with
two ears, the lowest being eight feet
from the roots, was received from
Carol, Iowa, by Chicago Board of
Trade firm on Wednesday. Taken as
a whole Iowa corn is in good shape,
still standing better than 100 per cent
of average condition in mid-July, as
several authorities are claiming.
Nebraska wheat is threshing out
more generously than was expected
and this will increase the estimated
average yield per acre.
Viewed from a Pennsylvania train
the best stands of corn between Rich
mond and Indianapolis, were noted in
the southern part of Henry county.
said a traveller from Illinois on Friday.
He said that while they had had a
dry spell in central Illinois that they
had been favored with two good rains
in the last two weeks, and that corn
promised a heavy yield, with little
more moisture, as due.
All Threshed by July Fourth.
"a number of farmers with appar-
entity short memories have come in
of late, claiming that we have had the
record early wheat harvest this year,
said Frank Jones, of South Seventh
street. LAS a matter of fact we have
| had a few earlier harvests. | recall
| one year when we could learn of but
! three crops left to thresh, on the
Fourth of July, and it was fact, too
| that not a drop of rain had fallen from
the time the first wheat was cut until
the last crop was threshed."
A New Paris elevator manager says
/ that so far as he is aware, the highest
average wheat production marketed a.
New Paris ran % bushels to the acre
| this season. And it was a gooC
article
Oats in Hay MoWs.
More oats have been cut for ha,
/ than usual, this season, and in severa
! instances oats harvested for threshins
/! have not been run through the ma
chimes, but were stacked in the barr
lots or packed in the mows. Despite
this fact and unfavorable weathe
| conditions some pretty fair oats arr
reaching the elevators, but the bull
| sold has been running light in weight
From Another Viewpoint
There are two sides to every argu
ment, and now and then there ar
three" said a well known local nipple
ment dealer, on Friday. For example
as many people will recall, during tn,
war period the government stated tina
the fence men and fertilizer manufac
turers came clean. They said tina
the farmers needed their goods il
quantity to meet the demands 70
food. These concerns invited the gov
eminent to audit their books, fix wha
would be considered a reasonably
profit, over and above the increased
cost of steel wire and labor, also o
fertilizer materials, and they would 6,
to it." This dealer claims that tn
price Of certain staple lines of fenc
never advanced as much as did the ray
material and that following the clos
of the war the fence men were anlon
the very first to reduce prices.
Reports All Wheat Threshed.
Alva Alexander, owner of a thresf
ing outfit at williamsburg, tells rattle
pessimistic story as to the wheat GRO
this season. He says that variou
crops ran from to 20 bushels, tn
latter being the highest yield reporte,
from his rig, or that he has heard @
in the williamsburg district. He say
that very little really fine wheat wa