The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-08-09
The Farm and The Farmer
BY William r. Sanborn

New Garden township farmers are
to meet Tuesday evening at the
schoolhouse in Fountain City. While
there is to be business Of some i'm
portance to come before the meet
ing, the occasion is to be largely Soc
ial, and the families of the members
are to be present. This means, toe,
that refreshments are to be served,
as is usual on social occasions.
The farmers of Washington town
ship are slated to meet at the Grange
Hall in Milton, on Tuesday evening
Now that the rush of harvesting and
threshing is over, it is expected that
attendance at all the farm meetings
will more nearly represent the full
memberships of the township units
Webster township farmers are t.
meet at the schoolhouse on Thurs
day evening, Aug. II. All farmers are
invited as business of Importance will
be discussed.
The rural picnic reason is nov
opening up. The Jackson township
farmers and their families are pic
nlClHS d. JdShSOu pain llIlS uCoOdl
afternoon. A basket dinner was en-
joyed by hundreds at the noon hour
Numerous games an contests are II
progress as we go to press.
Farm Bureau and Grange Picnic
An all-day picnic of the Grange ant
farm bureau folks of Preble county
is being arranged for, to occur some
time later this month. Among thu
speakers of the day will be Mr.. Rob
| inson. head of the farmers termira
| warehouse at Cleveland, also tn
| speaker of the Ohio house of repre-
| sentatives. An ambitious program i
| planned for and it is expected that ;
| is being arranged for, to occur on thu
18th of this month. Among tn,
! the contests of the day will be den
constructions by the girls clubs, tn
| winners to be honored by selection t
represent Preble county at the stat
! fair
A Long Contract.
J A farmer complains that it tool
him one hour and twenty minutes t
read the Grain Growers pooling con
! tract. Well, it is quite voluminou
| document and covers a large subject
the pooling of surplus wheat and othe
grain crops for a period of five years
The length of time it takes to reat
this document depends largely upol
the time given to the study of it
many paragraphs. 1t is nevertheless
a pity that this matter was not pre-
scented in briefer and simpler form
Cooperative Creameries Pay.
i There are now upwards of 500 &C
operative creameries in Minnesota
more than half of which have bee
in operation for 20 years or longer
: With few exceptions these institution
were successful from the start an
that they have so long continued i
business is proof sufficient that the
have been of service to their con
munities.
For the high-priced year of 1925
the average cooperative creamery re
ceived 10000 pounds of butterfat
and the average net price for the er
: tire year was 65.5 cents per pounc
The highest price of the year pre-
vailed in March, when the averag
mounted to "a cents. Years ago farm
ers seldom invested more than $500
in a plant, but during the past te
years their investments have NOR
/ generally run at from $4,000 up.
number costing from $4,000 to $4,000
. Heavy Butter Importatons.
} The creameries are the butter mal
ing plants of this country, and butte
| is in universal demand. We are nc
, overlooking the butter made on tn
) farms and consumed in the countr,
J running into millions of pounds. Blu
country butter is not product fo
export; it is not packed for tina
purpose and millions of pounds of thi
: product is consumed in the vicinit
: where produced.
America being a land of milk an
honey. it would seem that we might b
: able to spare little butter to the re:
of the world. But how much?
Well, for the year ending May
1921, we exported 2,000,000 pound
Just think a moment. That 100000
pounds wouldn't furnish America wit
: enough butter for single day, scarc'
" indeed for a single meal. On tn
> other hand we imported during tn
same - months nearly 100000
pounds of butter, from far away Ne
Zealand, from Holland, Norway, Del
mark, etc, for which we paid tn
: highest prices ever known in tn
worlds butter market.
And in the same Il months we col
sumed mile upon mile of carloads {
Oleo and various imitation or subst
tute buffers, these along with impor
, ed butter being an absolute load upc