The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-06-04
The Farm and The Farmer
BY William r. Sanborn

The members of the Fountain City
elevator association will meet on Tues
day evening, June Z. T. c. Locksley
an expert elevator man and an official
of the U S. Grain Growers, will ad-
dress the meeting
P. c. Ohler, the Indianapolis stock
yards representative of the farm fed
GRAFTON. is to be the principal speaker
at the Center township farmers meet
ing at Centerville, Monday evening,
June s.
They made a shipment of three car
loads of hogs at Economy last Mon
day, two of which went to Indanar-
oils. the other to Cincinnati, and all
to be sold on the Tuesday market
Some argument as to the merits OF
the two markets caused this division
in the shipment by the various own
ers.
Economy does not happen to be
cooperative shipping point, but a
few neighbors joined in making up
the three car loads. The car sent to
Cincinnati was jointly owned by
Charles and Albert Atkinson, father
and son. o. H. Farmer, Albert Swift
and Will F'outs loaded out the In
dianapois shipment Mr. Charles At
, kinson reports receiving $3.50 for his
load. and says that had the other two
/ cars also been SHIPPED to Cincinnati
the shippers would have saved the
freight. compared with the prices
paid them 1t Indianapolis He fig
| ures that he did well in shipping as
! he did Some of the hogs sent to
indianapolis sold as low as sS.15.
| But one swallow does not make Il
summer. 1t may be that on another
i occasion the figures paid on Tuesday
, would be reversed and that Indian
apolis would prove the higher market,
this having often been the case
Had Rain at Economy.
! Reports from the Economy district
are that they have actually been ia
Iored with A couple of good rains
since the Richmond district went dry.
One of these rains fell on Wednesday
, night of last week the other occur.
red on Saturday.
One farmer estimates that they will
harvest about SO per cent Of an ave
rage wheat crop around Econom".
Another reports corn all in, much of
it up and dong well, and pastures
in fine shape.
While it is a fact that showers have
fallen recently over several portions
of Wayne, Randolph, Union and Preble
counties, it is also true that many dis
tricts are showing the need of mois
ture.
Paying $1.35 for Wheat
Very little wheat is coming in al
Lynn. and corn in that section Is
practically all being fed, according tc
reports from the mill and elevator
Flour is in fair demand. it was stated
the mill now running full time foul
or five days per week. The millers
at Lynn are now interested in rho
flour mill at Hagerstown, having pur
: cha sed the latter mill about month
ago. The Hagerstown mill is being
overhauled and improved, and thi:
: work is so nearly completed that flour
milling likely will begin inside of ter
days.
Center Township Meeting
The farmers of Center township will
meet in regular monthly session a
: the Centerville school Monday night
June 6. 1t is expected that the live
stock marketing association will make
an interesting report at that time ant
that considerable business of import
ance will be discussed. large at
tendance is hoped for.
Packers Make No Protest
Well. the house passed the mea
packer control bill at Washington or
Thursday. and the measure is now be
fore the senate. The bill, a s paSseC