The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-12-22
The Farm and the Farmer
BY William r. Sanborn

! The lack of snow protection in the
southwest stimulated wheat prices on
Wednesday, as zero weather was pre-
dlcted over most of the winter belt
The wheat isn't making much of a
showing anyway, owing to lack of
rain when most needed. Grain men
feel certain that the western winter
wheat crop will assuredly fall under
the average next year
so far as our observations go the
growing wheat in Wayne county and
IN nearby territory, looks very prom
lslng. There has been little cold
weather and we have had ample rain
since the sowing, which was unusually
late, on account of last summers ex-
perience with chinch bugs. Many of
our fields show an almost solid green
and growth which indicates good
roofing
Farmers are beginning to discuss
the utility of reducing corn acreage
next spring. Views differ widely as
TO It's practicability as a national, or
rather a corn belt measure. Charles
EndSley said: That is a matter for
The farm bureau, and for a strong or
ganlzation at that. | am afraid we are
not that far along. as yet. To properly
influence such action, and to make it
fairly effective, would require deter
mined cooperative effort in all the
states interesed"
kentuckian on Corn Prices
Early in December Kentucky feed
CT wrote the Breeders Gazette as fol-
lows:
| have read with interest articles
in the Gazette on corn as fuel. | see
that corn on farms in the cornbelt is
worth II to 80 cents per bushel. !
have recently tried to buy carload of
ear corn in Cincinnati. The best price
have had so far is 81 cents per bush
ell. After all that has been said about
cheap corn, it is not cheap to the con-
sumner. We in Kentucky need corn
and would use lot of ii if we could
buy it at price at which we could
afford to feed it to live stock and
compete with the rest of the country
MIR. Taylor's experience is in line
with that of many feeders at interior
points, outside of the corn belt. The
price on the Iowa Or Nebraska farm,
the low point area, it's not the price
at Kentucky, Tennessee or New Eng
land station. At this writing No. .
yellow corn is bringing shippers 50 to
SO cents in Cincinnati, and the eleva-
tors must make something on their
sales.
No War Tax on Freight
The war tax of three percent on
freight bills win not be collected after
Dec. 81; freight arriving after that
date being tax free. Pursuant to mod
ifications in the war tax law the war
tax on passenger fares will be can
celled on the same date.
While this tax of percent on the
amount of the freight bill was COM
paratively light, and not very burden
some to the individual shipper, it
raised a lot of revenue made extra
work for the railroads and in the ag-
gregate, netted millions to the govern
ment. Live stock and grain shippers
will endorse this action for the saving
and relief it represents.
Exports and Imports of Beef.
A comparison of our exports of beef
during the past three years show a
tremendous falling off in 1921. Fresh
beef exports for the first 10 months
OF the current year were only 9,s70,000
pounds, compared with S4,973,00O
pounds last year and 152,714,O00
pounds in 1919. Those who predicted
that the end of the war would prac-
tically close the European market to
our beef are in an I-told-you-so posi-
ton.
In view of these circumstances no
effort should be spared to exclude for
eign chilled or frozen meats from our
markets. Whole cargoes of New Zeal
and frozen lamb have come into this
country in the past three years, total
ling millions of pounds, and we have
even received a little lamb and NUT
ton from far-away Australia In the
long run such imports will affect con-
sumers adversely by discouraging and
restricting domestic production.
We understand that the cattle and