The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-07-11
The Farm and The Farmer
BY William r. Sanborn

Fertility is a by-product of good
farming. Good farming is combina-
ton of science and art, with we'll
directed effort.
All stock farms and dairy farms
should have one or more silos.' More
over, any farm that can afford a sllo
can afford bath room" says our OLD
friend John Cloverseed.
Thirty-seven county agents attended
the culling school of the Ohio uni
versity, to gather the latest informa-
ton on how to eliminate the unproflt-
able egg producers. Poultrymen were
present from all parts of the state.
All butter markets are now very firm
and the price tendency is upward. The
hot weather has produced a scarcity
of fancy >-ades and the consumption
has been holding up in all cities. The
prices on 80 score butter are 81 cents
at Chicago and 3S12c in New York.
Boston is wholesaling this grade at SO
cents, today. These figures are much
/ higher than ruled few weeks ago.
| Supplies are light, so far as daily
| receipts are concerned.
! Receipts of Georgia peaches are in
|
| declining scale at consuming markets
during the past week.
Very Dry at BrookviIle.
Reports are that Brookville. Ind,
and the nearby farm territory, is
suffering for lack of rain. Mr.. w. D.
! Arnold, of Richmond, drove down that
way last week and states that vegeta-
| ton is all stunted, and that the hill
| eli IN hot n
and bare as in October. Corn shows
| but little growth and most of the to-
bacco noticed is yellow. Not only so
but it frequently shows that there has
! been no material growth since the
| transplanting.
! On returning by the way of Bath
! in the valley district very different
conditions were noted, said Mr.. Arnold.
They seemed to have had plenty of
rain around Bath and the crops and
gardens are f1ourishing. "Brookville
was the driest spot in our circuit,
said he.
| Wheat Threshed for 6I2 Cents.
| Some Preble county farmers are get
ting wheat threshed at six and one
half cents We understand that prices
vary in different parts of the county
1
| The liberal crop estimate issued by
the government after the close of the
market on Friday caused the decline
in grain prices on Saturday. But re-
gardleSs of estimates made July we
| are to have a weather market on
wheat from now on until spring wheat
is harvested. and should we have a
| dry August in the corn belt, we will
| IL
Average Live Stock Prices.
The estimated average weight of
hogs received at Chicago last week
was q pounds. This is just one pound
lighter than the ten year average. The
average prices for the week were
/ Hogs, 1920: cattle, 765; sheep, $3.50;
lambs, S10.55. Average price on hogs
for the same week in 1920 was S14.SG,
and on cate $3.50 With 43, 900 hogs
at Chicago on Monday morning the
top advanced 20 cents to S10l0.
Where River Shannon Flows.
The river Shannon is the largest
!. stream in the British Isles, but owing
to long continued drought is in danger
of drying up II is now so low that
IT is possible to walk across it. Both
Irish and English crops are being dam
aged from the heat and lack of rain
France, too, has had a pretty dry sea.
son, and the yield of wheat per acre
is falling below the estimates.
The eyes of the buying world are
now turned to the United States and
Canada. Should anything serious hap
pen to the great spring wheat crops
there is no telling what might happen
to prices during this crop year. But
regardless of that, the world has use
for all the wheat grown in 1921 The
surprising thing as the present writer
sees it, is that wheat prices are not
higher right now 1t isn't that we
have too much wheat in the word, but