The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-12-17

III lOtdllHS friday feCelpLS we HHu
10000 hogs; 900 head of cattle; 600
| calves and 700 sheep The result was
a drop in hogs to s765 for top lights,
with pigs at $7.75 and down; mostly
down. The whole line shrunk under
that pressure.
We have previously referred to the
fact that order buyers and spectators
have literally supported the hog mar
ket at Chicago, in the face of the
strike and heavy receipts. Just now
there is a strike on in number of
eastern pccking houses and that out
| let has been partially closed. which
makes the western situation still more
! precarious. The strike is said to be
! sympathetic, and a fight against the
! big five by some of the independents.
Believe Salary Too Small.
| The American farm bureau does not
| believe that $4,000 per year is suffic-
lent salary for the active administra-
tor of the Act governing trading in
grain futures. This bill provides ma
chinery for the regulation of this trade
and the man at the head should be
experienced in the business and quail
! fled to decide in any controversy.
Moreover, the law limits this salary
to but one man, the assistants to get
even less. Farm bureau folks are try
! ing to get this sum increased.
! Compared With Bureau Salaries.
| Compared with our farm bureau
salaries that $4,000 per year does look
small, especially in view of the impor-
lance of the government office. AS
matter of fact practically all the heads
and executive officers of corn belt
state farm bureaus are paid from
$4,000 up, the up" being considerable
in some instances. They also travel
for the good of the order, on business,
visiting and lecture engagements at
the expense of the farm federation.
These salaries are paid to state presi-
dents. secretaries, and treasurers. At
the Chicago headquarters are a num-
Der of men drawing salaries around
$1,000 per month and not so long ago
there were two men drawing $4,000
and $4,000 per year, the latter figures
being paid to President Howard.
About three months ago a number of
these officials Voluntarily reduced
their salaries $1,000 or more per year,
which fact was widely published.
How Expense Is Met.
= In this connection we should Re-
member that SO organized farm bureau
: states were represented at the Atlanta
convention by voting delegates, and
that the entire cost of running the
American farm bureau is divided be.
tween these states, and is paid in the
form of a small per capita tax. The
load, thus divided, isn't at all burden.
some. Able men are always needed at
the front And it is just this that the
bureau folks are contending. They in
sist that the properly equipped man to
handle this option business, or regu-
, lation. would be worth much more, in
that trade, than the salary so far pro-
vided for.
The Indiana Wool Pool.
Directors from the ten farm bureau
: districts met at Indianapolis on Thurs
' day for the transaction of business of
!, Importance to the federation; Presi-
dent Brown presided. The session is
to close on Saturday evening. In d
= discussion of the wool pools of the
a state, it was decided that members
who wish may now ship wool to the
+ cooperative marketing association, or
! as the marketing committee may di-
! rect, the same to be made up into fin
= ished wooden products for home con-
: sumption only, and not be offered for
= sale in competition with the stores.
q 1t was suggested that a statewide
meeting be held on some date in Feb
/. ruary at which the counties may be
:, represented and delegates instructed
+ on the progress of the cooperative
= marketing system. The causes of the
shrinkage between farm weights and
p warehouse weights on wool, and thu
Of in,
! cidentals will then be explained.
81 Cost of Growing Oats
: Seventeen Portage county Ohio
, farmers held cost account meetings
: last week to arrive at a conclusion as
- to what it had cost them to grow oats
:. this year R. F. Taber, an Ohio U
;, specialist, and C. r. SUBWAY, the
. county agent, took part in the meet
ings. 1t was decided that the average
: oats crop of these farmers was q
;, bushels per acre and that the cost
9 was 81 cents per bushel, or more thar
: twice the going market price.
AS &c bushels was much below the
| average production for Portage coun
!, ty, the farmers agreed on 40 bushel!
:. as their average yield and next fig
g ured as if their yields had come W
to this. The answer was AZ cents pc
: bushel. The conclusion was that i
= took II hours of man labor and 1!
g hours of horse labor to raise an acre o
!. oats, and on this basis the labor cos
u was figured.
= To Standardize implements
A committee of four on standardiza
, ton of farm machinery is to be ap
pointed by the American farm bureau
;, The appointment of the committee wa,
= requested by conference in the gen
eral offices of the farm bureau OIL
Dec. 2 In addition to the farm Blu
! reau, the National Association of Farm
= Equipment manufacturers, the Ma
= tional Implement and Vehicle Dealers
, association and the American Associa
ton of Agricultural Engineers had REP
: resentatives at the conference. TIL
: committee was instructed to work GU
:. q program of development for stand
: ardizing farm machinery and to repor
to a larger meeting of all groups inter
!, ested in effecting Standardization say
] ings of farm implement costs