The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-09-01
The Farm and The Farmer
BY William r. Sanborn

A team of horses, one mule, one COW
and a flock of Leghorn chickens conf
prised the live stock put up at the
Clarence Heaton farm sale at Bethel,
on Tuesday. A lot of implements, 10
tons of timothy and seven acres of
standing corn were sold. 1t isn't often
that one notes farm sale where no
hogs whatever are on offer Mack
Constable, Sr., was the auctioneer.
Daniel Kitchell and John Bright the
latter from College Corner, are report
ed as the only bidders on the w. y.
Oxer acreage on Wednesday. The farm
contained fraction less than 81 acres
and was awarded to Daniel kitchell at
S145 per acre. The IA acres of stand
ing corn sold at $11 per acre. Simon
Weddle was the auctioneer.
A small lot of corn in crib brought
| 20 cents per bushel on Tuesday, at the
Morris Sherry farm sale. A bunch of
feeder hogs sold high, few running
| but little over 100 pounds bringing
| SIS per head. The sale netted Mr..
| Sherry $3.50, according to the report
of Weddle and Hindman, the auction
| GERS.
The John A. and Edgar Locke farm
sale, held three and one-half miles
north of Hagerstown, on Wednesday,
drew a large crowd, so large indeed,
that the ladies of the Friends church
| at Economy, ran out of lunch supplies,
before all present were satisfied, as
| reports tell it. The Lockes are in re-
ceipt of about $500 on account of the
sale.
| Pure-Bred Hogs Top Market.
AS an evidence that pure bred hogs
pay best, we cite the case of w. 5.
| Corsa, a breeder of Berkshires, near
Rockford, Ill OF the nine cars of his
Berkshires shipped to Chicago this
season eight cars topped the market
| on day of arrival. Choice offerings not
only bring top prices but their own,
| ers never have to hunt a buyer. And
more than this; the pure-bred animal
makes better gains and at less cost
than the scrub. Mr.. Corsa raises pure
bred hogs, chiefly as market propo
sition.
Registers Name of Farm.
! Ledru C. Willis, an Iowa farmer, Is
the first man to register the name OF
his farm in the U. S. Patent Office
Gazette. The name chosen is Hawk
eye," and this registry prohibits the
name Hawkeye being used for farm
in any state in the union. Mr.. Willis
is a breeder of registered hogs. Sew
eral states have laws authorizing reg
istering names of farms, but the laws
protect only within the state.
Saws There are Rural Slums.
THE countryside has slums as vel
as the large cities" says L. o. Lantis
professor of rural social science at the
Ohio State University. And this the
professor proceeds to demonstrate as
follows:
Houses occupied by tenants and la
borers are often too small, and in pool
repair. When a part of such house
is closed in winter to save fuel, anC
four or more persons are crowded into
one badly ventilated room, condition.
become as horrible as in the WorS
, New York tenement.
The remedy lies in proper educa
ton by the health authorities, The
schools, and the press. Tenants mus
Irealize that good housing and santa
ton pay in dollars and cents. and the
: landlord must come to see that if he
wants efficient tenants and laborers
: he will have 10 provide decent homes
for them"
The Ohio Wool Pool.
:, In addition to 100000 pounds o
wool stored in the Ohio wool poo
warehouse at Columbus, 80 carloads
are now stored in another building
This is double the amount of WOO
previously handled by the Ohio organ
ization, in any year.
Indiana contributed 9S9,224 pounds
of its 1921 clip to the Ohio pool
Fulton county shipped 64,095, Gran
62,70S, and Henry $3.50 pounds t