The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-03-07

Corn for the Hungry-Machinery ReE
If you are so fortunate as to be
living in that golden era of youth
when you are eligible to share in the
joys and achievements Of pig clug
and corn club contests, you have moth
ing more to ask The world is yours
by right of Inheritance; the divine
right of each succeeding generation.
This is just little aside" for the
benefit of Wayne county farm chill
dren. Not that the city youngsters
do not also inherit the earth. for they
do, but are not just fixed to plant and
tend an acre of corn, nor to care for
pig. The town girls and boys have
other fish to fry.
We wonder if we have gotten off on
the wrong foot? Perhaps we should
have delivered a broadside of informa-
ton to parents as to the 1921 oppor-
tunities for farm children, in pig and
corn club work. But we are not 60
ing to change a single word of what
has been written. We are simply 60
ing to ask that fathers put themselves
in their boys place and then talk it
over with him.
IT YOUR boy wants to try and raise
the best acre of corn, or the son or
daughter would delight in rearing a
purebred pig for the next pig show,
give the youngsters the chance.
Corn and Pip Clubs.
The Wayne county farm bureau is
ambitious to have a record pig club
this year, and all the breeders in the
county are willing to furnish spring
gifts to the limit 1t is up to the con-
testant to select the breed desired If
you want a Chester white, well and
good; if red-coaed or a black one,
hat is up to you.
But get a pig for the boy, and while
the getting is good. If you want
! prize pig and also a prize acre, get
| into the game. The breeders are to
| make most reasonable prices on pigs.
The county banks will loan the boy
money on his note. if desired. All you
! can do just now is 20 decide on the
/ breed you want, but you should make
early application If you tell your
troubles to J. L. Dolan, county agent.
he will advise in due time of when
pigs will! be ready to go to their new
summer houses, which will be around
| May 20. There will be ribbons and
prizes galore, next fall and a great
hog show at which the club pigs will
be star attraction. The pigs con-
sidered worth while may also be ex-
hibited at the state fair. On top of
all this there is the sale at the close
Of the show. Some pigs will bring
some youngsters bunch of money on
| sale day.
! Those Walls of Corn.
Not merely the farm folks. but also
the people OF Richmond will be greatly
interested in what the girls and boys
of the county may accomplish in hog
raising and corn growing contests
next summer. They would be gratified
to discover that the first prize pig and
the banner one acre corn crop in In
diana were produced in Wayne coun-
ty. Club work is coming to the front
! in Indiana. Interest is being shown
in practically all the rural schools of
the state, and the young folks are be-
, coming more than ever interested in
advanced methods of agriculture. The
winners in these contests this year
will have achieved something worth
while. County Agent Dolan will tell
you of the approved seed to be plant
ed
Corn For the Starving.
The farmers Of Indiana are not only
invited but are urged to contribute
corn to relieve the sufferings of the
starving peoples in Europe and Asia.
President Brown of the farm fedora
ton asks that at least one car be do
mated and shipped from each county.
We feel that this appeal will be
promptly and literally answered.
Cards are going out to all members
and President Davis says:
Fill out the inclosed card and mail
it to the county agent a once, arrange
ments will then be made to order and
loan the car. When the car arrives
you will be notified by telephone, then
the corn will be collected, shelled and
loaded, all in one day. The railroad
company hauls the car free to the sea-
board.
Mail the card at once: then watch
for the day and the hour of loading
the car"
1t is likely the car will be loaded at
Centerville during the week of March
1918, although the loading point has
not yet been fully decided on.
Machinery Repair Week.
Make the old machine last another
year." is the slogan of the Wayne
farm bureau just now, slogan which
the machinery dealers will do no
cheering for.
Well. anyway. regardless of the
new machinery which must later be
purcha sed there ale doubtless a lot of
farm tools out of repair which will
give a lot OF service when fixed up.
The farm bureau has set the week of
LEGAL NOTICE
ADMINISTRATIONS SALE
Notice Is hereby given that the I'M