The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-11-28
The Farm and The Farmer
BY William r. Sanborn

/ the American farm bureau convention
were printed and mailed from Atlanta
This kept the country informed down
to the minute Bundles of these re
ports were sent to state and county
| headquarters for distribution, wherev-
er so requested.
Although tWO-thirds of the states
had but one or two state delegates,
districts and counties sWelled the num-
! Der present. In addition were pro-
I gressiye farmers from all eastern and
central states. also from the local
southern district; men who came to
! see and hear for themselves, and at
/ their own expense
Henry at Muscle Shoals
The Columbia City Post is of opin-
! ion that if Henry Ford can accom-
| plish even fraction of the things
enumerated in his recent interview,
| the government should lose no time in
turning over to him Muscle Shoals
! free of charge. What he claims he
can do for the South and for the far
! mers of United States sounds rather
| quixotic but maybe Henry can do it,
Curing Your Own Meat
w I'LL ICltl EilI6 ~ tIc low pI iNE VI
hogs and the buying of cured meats
! by farmers, a Chicago writer says:
The average farmer will find it
worth while to keep a liberal supply
/ of hogs at homo for butchering. There
is no excuse for the man who raises
hogs TO hurry all his marketable sized
/ pigs to market, and not keep enough
for his own use"
~ -
| enough farmers are curing their own
meat, but are dependent upon the mar
ket men to supply them with hams and
bacon, at least during the summer
He further AYERS that: The present
retail price OF cured meat, compared
with the price farmers get for live
hogs, clearly indicates that there is
I urgent need FOR more slaughtering
dressing and curing of meat on the
farm"
Ard Per Contra
II is admitted that Mr.. Ridgeway is
/ correct as to the saving by the indi
vidual farmer. VINO is fixed to, or car
cure his meat in such shape that il
will be sweet and palatable all the
year. Not all farmers seem able to dc
this, or at least do not manage it
The right kind of a smoke house ISM
a costly proposition, however, nor fO1
= that matter neither is satisfactory
farm ice house. The smOkehOuse ma.
be built and utilized anywhere, but tht
ice house is a matter of cOnvenien
: ponds and streams to provide the ice
Farmers Buy Fresh Meats
As a matter of fact practically al
corn belt farmers do butcher, but no
all of them kill the annual pork
ham and sausage supply To the eX
tent that this butcherine is done the.
keep hogs off the market. at a benofi
to themselves as shippers, If they bu,
cured meats in summer they art
= broadening the demand for their owl
product and are thus in a measur,
supporting their own live stock mar
kets. Taken Dis a whole the farmer
r of the country including the largcs
E live stock growers, consume a lot o
) fresh as we'll a. cured meats in year
meats that are prepared at the cen
trail packing plants, to which thei
! hogs. cattle ana sheep are shipped
= The farms on which We find then
= Strengthening n COW or steer. or but
2 cheering a lamb, are Omparativei,
few
= Farmers Short Course
Dean Skinner of Purdue says tina
70 the farmers snort course in Januar
will provide a week of intensive train
! ing for Indiana farm men and women
r 1t will be held at Lafayette and rul
: from the 9th TO 18th. The Dean is an
( tiCfpating the largest attendance il
t the history of short courses.
An elaborate program of interest t
every farm man and woman, regard
p less of the kind of farming engaged il
=. is being prepared Different section
will be provided for the men in ANNA
= husbandry, poultry husbandry, dairy
+ ing, fruit-growing and vegetable gal
. dening and on soils and crop subjects
' The women will have two section
r dealing with different home economi
I problems,