The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-08-22
The Farm and The Farmer
BY William r. Sanborn

While eastern Indiana makes no
claim TO being a cattle country and
our annual marketings do not tgure
Importantly in the meat supply or the
nation, our farmers are nevertheless
considerably concerned about cattle
prices. The retail price of meats also
concerns them. The sunday roast, the
fresh pork and lamb chops, and the
occasional juicy steak, makes a pleas
ing and necessary change and VARIETY
in the farm home, even when stocked
with hams and sides of home curing,
and with plentiful supply of chickens
and eggs
But it is very evident that farmers
have not been liberal patrons OF meat
markets. They cannot reconcile the
prices charged on the butchers block
with those paid them for stock on the
hoof. And this detection in farm buy.
ing has helped the downward trend OF
meats at wholesale. And because re-
tail meat prices have been everywhere
considered almost criminally high, city
buyers have also further limited their
purchases.
In the article printed in relation to
the Generalization Of the dressed beef
trade" in The Palladium on Saturday,
il was stated that: The wholesale
price of beef has been steadily declin-
ing, but the retail price has been held
virtually on the same level" The
National Live Stock Exchange claims
that the retailers are profiteering IN
meats and further with forequarters
of dressed beef selling in some places
at cents per pound, retail prices have
not come down
| Advise Holding Cattle.
| And SO, by mail and wire, the en-
| tire country has been advised to keep
/ cattle at home because eastern cool
!! ers are glutted and refrigerator tracks
! crammed with cars filled with dressed
meats 1t is claimed that packers have
offered beef below cost to relieve the
| situation, and with but little effect in
eastern cities
| And for this reason the National
| Live Stock Exchange says that disaster
threatens the western markets unless
! the heavy loadings Of live cattle is ar
rested The solution of all this
trouble is claimed to lie in the hands
of the retailers. They should not only
cut prices but say so with signs and
in the newspapers, thus increasing
consumption" say the packers.
The Farm WoodIot
While a farm woodlot is hardly a
priceless possession it has much real
value, and is a live asset But like
all other assets it is liable to deple.
ton. Suppose we look at the woodlot
this way. and consider it as we would
a deposit in a savings bank. The
annual growth of wood compares with
compound interest. Whenever you cut
more wood than the equivalent of the
growth, you are drawing on your prin
cipal. If you continue this process
there will soon be no woodlot on the
place. Aside from the convenience
and saving by owning generous wood
lot, it means much as a cool and shady
pasture spot for live stock. and also
as a play place for the children.
ITO impoverish and embitter the
farmer is TO dry un and contaminate
the vital sources of the nation" says
Barney Baruch.
A farmer who takes pride in his
home poultry flock, says: Just think
sometimes, what pretty advertise
ment you could write for your bes1
cockerels and consider if they're no.
,as good as outside stock, bought BY
mail
That Asparagus Bed.
! Not great deal of care is required
to keen an asparagus bed alive ant
profitable for twenty years, but i'll
needs in fall and winter are inportan
) and should be carefully looked after.
, Regardless of the age of the plants
it always pays to stir the soil. keel
the weeds pulled out throughout tht
growing season. and apply a 2-6-6 fer
: tilizer in a moderate amount
, From the time the cutting season
ends. usually early in July, the plant
should be kept in a thrifty CROWN;
condition. This is always necessary
: whether the plants are cut down il
f the fall or allowed TO stand.
Then apply liberal mulch of ma
: nure, at the beginning of the white
D season. both for fertilization and t
: protect the plants from freezing
|, fine asparagus bed is a great asset i