The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-03-30
The Farm and The Farmer
BY William r. Sanborn

The Indiana farm federation has fin
ally organized every county in the
state. The last four counties to be
taken into the fold are Ohio, Switzer-
land. Brown and Elkhart. each falling
into line in the orcer named, accord
ing to c. F. Patterson, of Upton, who
helped organize two or three of them.
MIR. Patterson spoke at the meeting
at Williamsburg on Monday night.
Mr.. Patterson says that Idaho, Ari-
Gina and New Mexico are still outside
of the federation pale, but that in all
other states there are at least groups
of declarations, while in the corn belt
states the organization is growing
from day today. Asked as to me act
ual number of members in Indiana he
thought that it figured pretty close to
100000 at this time, but said that all
counties had not reported to head
| quarers completely to date since last
fall.
Lewis Taylor, former secretary of
the Indiana federation, is now at work
for the American federation and is
PROSECUTING in Georgia just now. Mr..
Taylor is an Indiana dirt farmer who
| is among those who find it profitable
to give farming rest while they are
employed as pioneeRs in wider fields
for the good of the order"
To Elect New Secretary.
Maurice Douglas, of Flat Rock, vice
| president and present secretary OF the
Indiana federation, has been appointed
! member OF the public service board
| by Governor McCray, and is the first
farmer in the state to hold that lucra-
| tive office, it being a four-year ap-
| pointment paying $4,000 annually
| This leaves the secretaryship vacant
as soon as Mr.. Douglas is indicted
! into office and a meeting will shortly
| be called of the district directors to
| elect his successor. Some Wayne
county men are backing Earl Craw-
ford of Milton for the position, who is
one of the district directors. John Nc
Ardle of Montgomery county, and G.
| NJ. Barnhart of Newcastle, are the
other members of the Public Service
commission trio.
Favor Higher Grain Prices.
| The business men of the country
seem almost unanimous in the belief
that good, well sustained advance in
the price of grain would be a tonic
/ to all kinds of trade. But the grain
/ trade seems to be of the opinion that
nothing less than serious injury to the
growing crop of winter wheat can pre-
vent still further decline. These
men argue that the present prospect
! is good and that sufficient acreage to
supply a t00,000,000 crop, against an
actual harvest of SIS, 100000 of winter
wheat harvested in 1920. The range
! in March wheat at Chicago last week
was S1.49 to $1.57A, with a close oil
$1.53A. May wheat ranged at $1.39
! to s1.46A and finished the week at
| $1.4112.
The low on corn at Chicago last
week was: May corn, 631a; July corn
665s; September corn 68A. Oats
struck bottom on the week at 1914 for
May; at Al " for July, and at AIS fol-
the September option. Oats rallied
some at the week end, as also die
! corn.
An offer of $4,000 bushels of 1921
wheat, for loading the last half OF
August was offered on the Chicago
board on Saturday, at $1.40 per bushel
| to be shipped to a Gulf port. Nossat
| isfactory bids were offered. This
looks like an effort to bear the mark
ct, to affect present cash wheat prices
! Fruit Damaged by Frost.