The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-06-20
The Farm and The Farmer
BY William r. Sanborn

The state farm bureau sent the sec
Growers, Inc, at Chicago, on Thurs
day June 16 Indiana is standing by
the American Barn Bureau in this,
having now loaned the Grain Growers
end of the enterprise $4,000 on six
months paper, as a starter. That's
real cooperation brethren, regardless
of the final outcome of all the loans
and donations being made TO start the
work along. The money will be used
10 complete the organization work and
new marketing plan" according to an
Indianapolis daily.
And now comes E. c. McCullum. Of
Indianapolis, with the statement that
| two or three men could take care of
all the grain being received by the
| Indianapolis Board Of Trade daily"
! This was said in his speech before
nearly so farmers at Anderson, on
| Thursday evening, June 16. in session
to discuss plans for a cooperative ele-
| vator. The implication was that
| farmers indirectly pay the expenses of
/ approximately 40 board of trade firms,
needlessly. To this statement men,
! bers of the board may reasonably be
expected to object.
Sells All His Live Stock.
The correspondent of the Indianapol-
| is News AT Elwood, Ind. is responsible
! for the following, which was dated
, June II:
! O. H. Waymire, one of the wealthiest
| farmers of this part of Madison county,
! is offering for sale 104 acres of hay,
! timothy and clover mixed. in the field.
| saying that at present prices it is not
worth while to cut it. He recently
I shipped out tWenty-eight carloads of
cattle and hogs and is not feeding,
! saying that there is no longer a profit
/ in stockraising.
! Wheat Deterioratinq.
/ John Inglis, Chicago crop expert who
has been covering Indiana and Ohio
states that wheat has steadily declined
! from its early promise. AS to Indiana
he gives it as his opinion that the
yield will be 100000 below the last
government estimate, which was So,
100000 bushels. He puts Ohio's prob
! able cut at 100000. or about 5000,
600 under the government estimate.
/ Why Shippers Complain.
That lives took shippers have ample
cause for complaint of the high rates
charged on mixed" shipments, anc
the little. narrow. arbitrary rulings Of
the railroads relating to same. is
shown by "a plain farmer and stock
dealer" T n. Corbett, Waverly. w
Va, writes in the National Stockmar
and Farmer, as follows:
Before the war freight on a car Of
, cattle from Waverly, w. Va, to Pitts
burg. Pa, was Is cents per hundred
pounds, with permission to load al
the calves that we wished in a car
Now the rate is 261a cents per cwt.
and if we load one calf in the car Will
/, the cattle, the rate is 81 cents PEI
hundred. or, or SO or S12 more or
? the car just for this one calf that may
weigh only 100 pounds, and the ship
, per bears all risk of loss by injur!
= to it. This is unfair to the shippe
: and producer. We may be moving
t load of cattle to the road and b,
F loaded light; one of our customer
|. may have a fresh COW to sell but W.
can not. buy her and pen the littlt
cali UP in the corner of the car un
. less We take off so or s12 below he
( value. The same thing applies on
, few veal calves. We must reduce th'
Y value or not buy them. Also witt
, sheep. Before the war we could loaC
: ten calves in car of sheep, but nov
if one calf is loaded in a car of sheer
the rate is increased, though we hard
t ly ever get our full weight per car.
e Il discussed this matter with on
/ of the members of the livestock e2
Y change of the Pittsburg market an
I requested him to take this matter u
l. with his board, so they could use thei
Y influence to give us relief. but UP t
g this time nothing has been done"
$ Currants and Gooseberries.
, Time was when no garden wa
8 complete without its rows of curran
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