The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-12-28
The Farm and the Farmer
BY William r. Sanborn

The Corwin farm in Jackson county,
Ohio, recently was the scene of All
old-fashioned barn dance, in a new
fashioned barn. They didn't call it a
dance party but a warming" but they
had the old-fashioned dances on loft
floor 80 by130 feet, without uprights or
beams; had electric lights in Japanese
lanterns, an orchestra, all the trim
mings and mighty good time.
The barn was designed by rural en-
giners from the Ohio L., and the com
munity barn-warming gave all chance
TO inspect the structure. Printed in
vitations were mailed out something
undreamed of in our grandfathers
days. 1t may be remarked that rural
engineers are planning a number of
modern farm homes in Ohio by way
of demonstration. Two Trumbell coun-
ty farmers have agreed to invite all
their neighbors to their house-warm-
ings when their semi-bungalow homes
are completed to show the advantage
of such new construction.
Claims Meat Much Cheaper
Chicago has a meat council and
J. T. Russell, the president, claims
that meat prices declined fully % per
cent in the year ending Nov. Is. This
! relates to the entire country, of course,
| and is in line with government sta
| tistics. We quote Mr.. Russell as
! follows:
! "A dollar spent at retail, which
| eighteen months ago was worth only
! 81 cents on pre- war purchasing
! basis, is today worth "a cents when
| spent for meats, but only 81 cents
when spent for other food.
plate beef is within 6 per cent and
lard within 5 per cent of the prices
prevailing eight years ago"
To Limit Cotton Production.
! 1t looks as though the South is in
clined to go the whole road in limit
ing cotton production in 1922. Cotton
planters have suffered from overpro
ductiOn at various times in the pas1
% years and are favorable to a dras
tic limitation of acreages in order tC
boost prices, thus making a short croI
profitable. The cotton growers, mer
chants and bankers met at Memphis
in mid-December, raised a fund fol
campaign expenses, and placed the
governors of the cotton states on the
permanent committee to carry on the
work. The committee, a large one, is
representative of practically all south
ern business interests.
Never Got to Like It,
An Illinois farmer who lives on the
edge of the coal fields remarks: I'VE
have grown used to having our stocl
shot and frequently carried off by the
: miners, but we have never got to like
it" Then he goes on TO tell of {
township protective organization
where the farmers contributed two
cents an acre to a fund for large
poster which was distributed along
the main roads and in front of farm
homes, warning hunters against tres
passing. The posters didn't do much
good, at first, but the vigilance com
mittee had a few arrests made anC
the hunters fined and that helped {
whole lot This farmer had an arch
built fronting his lane and says a par
ty of hunters drove right under thai
poster, parked their car and went tt
it. The bunch was arrested within
an hour, was heavily fined the mex
day and at once proceeded to try t.
organize a union boycott against al
the farmers in southern Illinois, bu
that didn't work. Mr.. Casper relate:
that in the township just north O.
them five COWS and a Shetland pony
were shot on Sunday, Nov. 6.
!. Wayne County Hunters
Wayne county hunters are more con
siderate. A few cases where chicken!
have been shot and an odd sheep O
two been laid low, comprise all re
ports of damage from hunters we have
so far received. Now and then, how
ever, fences have been broken dow
and gates left open. One Center town
ship farmer secured the country fol
three days rounding up a large fiocl
of sheep which hunters had permitted
to escape. after being frightened b.
gunfire. Our mo Hunting" signs ar,
painted on wood and hunters seen
bent on destroying these signs in 4;
| wholesale way.
! Vermont Is In Line
The Vermont farm bureau is to es
tablish a state office at Burlington il
January. Vermont has IA countie;
and a population of over 100000
i Twelve of these counties are now or