The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-08-29

I'VE want every Grange in Ohio to
look upon the county agent as one OF
its leaders and defenders. We feel
that the county agent has rendered in
the past and can continue to render
an unlimited service to organized agri-
culture
This is extract from letter sent
out some time ago by l.. ]. Taber,
state master of the Ohio Grange, in
which he says:
This letter is written to assure you
] that the State Grange appreciates the
/ service that many county agents in
| the state have rendered our order, and
to assure you that the Grange desires
the growth and welfare of every or
all. and if we do our tasks well, there
will be honor enough for all"
| Master Taber is correct; there is
work enough and room enough for all,
if we are to accomplish what farm
organizations usually set out to do.
| After Fourteen Months.
! From June, 1920, until August, 1921
is quite a time to wait for collection
on produce shipped, but such delays
sometimes have their compensations.
/ d
farmers are now getting their checks
for 1920 wool The Bloomington Pan
| tagraph states that the farmers of
the Peoria district are receiving a
profit of from six to fifteen cents per
] pound, above the prices offered in
Peoria last June. If these figures in
clude the cost of freight, storage,
shrink and commission the farmers
did we'll to pool, but the Paragraph
does not make this point clear.
The Peoria wool was shipped to the
same warehouse as was the 1920
Indiana pooled clip, and at about the
same time. This concern sent some
checks to Wayne county few weeks
ago. These were mailed to President
Theodore Davis, at Green's Fork, who
promptly sent them out to the
shippers.
No Details Given.
This letter had a typewriter sigma
ture. 1t gave no information whatever
as to how much wool had been sold
or remained unsold, nor how many
pounds had been received. 1t mention
ed no grades nor prices. nor made
any comment as to freight or sorting
and commission charges. In fact, not
even the name of any man connected
with the concern was given, the letter
being the nearest thing to an absolute
blank, the checks excepted, that we
have ever read from a business con-
Germ, where real money was involved
This, however, is not important now.
Doubtless all the facts, whether salts
factory or otherwise, will be given
with final settlements.
Preparing to Burn Corn.
During a recent investigation by the
Interstate Commerce Commission as
to the almost prohibitive freight rates
on some farm products a represent
ative of the Minnesota farmers said
that high freight rates make a reason
, able return on corn shipped out of his
: state impossible. He added that, 'be
cause of this Minnesota roads would
not only lose traffic on corn, but also
on coal, as farmers were fixing to
, burn corn and were maturing the
, largest crop in the history OF the
state"
The idea Of burning corn doesn't sci
we'll at the first blush. But on after
consideration there is no real reason
: why a farmer in a treeless and coal
= less country shouldn't raise his owr
! fuel. if he can profitahly do so, and
. he finds it ruinous to ship whatever
!. he can burn, also to buy coal, even i!
!. able to get coal. 1t takes lot of land
: to grow wood, remember
4 Extracting Phosphoric Acid.
With the installation of a new high
q temperature oil-burning furnace now
being installed on the experimental
), farm at Arlington, Va. the Bureau o.
8 Soils, will continue Investigations into
d the extraction OF phosphoric acid foI
h fertilizer from phosphoric rock by tn,
(. application of heat.
e Experiments will be continued Will
d a view to establishing methods which
will permit the use of much phosphat,
" rock which now soes to waste, and ais.
: TO a material reduction in freigh
II rates on commercial fertilizers.
II A Land Bank Record.
If The federal land bank of Louisville
d with which the farmers of this distric
II do business, will keep open house i,
the horticultural and agricultural builC
ing at Indianapolis during fair week
Treasurer L. B. Clore has given on
n some figures which show the remark
10 able record of the bank in the fe,
ID years it has been in operation. It
t. capital stock is s2.Q35.250 and its tots
IS loans in Indiana amount to 2,433, 70I
e The net income is S390,S7612 TIL
bank has returned S1393 SS so in div