The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-09-03
The Farm and The Farmer
BY William r. Sanborn

A. E. Billman, who recently sold his
farm on the Eldorado and Whitewater
pike, had farm sale on Thursday.
The Billman place is located two miles
west of Eldorado, in the heart of a
good farming section and his friends
and neighbors were out in force. In
a brief chat Mr. Billman said that
there was a good class of buyers pres
ent and that fairly good prices were
realized Three horses, 80 head OF
hogs and 13 head of cattle went un
der the hammer. OF the latter the
six cows sold at from $50 to $65, The
Jerseys bringing the top dollar. Two
Duroc sows, with two families of nine
each, invited competition, and bunch
of 100 pound feeders brought every
dollar the market would stand.
Col. J. A. Troutwine auctioneered
the Billman sale, H. B. Sell made the
settlements, and the Women's ALI
ance of the Universalist church at FL
dorado, furnished a tempting lunch.
The interstate commerce commits
sion has given western and southwest
ern roads authority to reduce the rates
/ on grain for export from Mississippi
| intermediate points between the riv-
ers. Reductions were also authorized
| for the territory west of the river
ranging from l to 51a cents per hun
! dred, if shipped to gulf ports.
Want Tariff on Hides
/ Cattlemen are in Washington max
ing a fight for a tariff of 20 to 25 per
cent on hides. They claim that the
putting of hides on the free list was
a body blow The Fordney bill, from
| which hides were transferred to the
I free list, provided for Is per cent
/ tariff, and this the cattle raisers claim
i was too low
/ Rural Butter Making
/ The farmer is not as active a COM
petitor with the creamery in the but
ter industry as formerly. He is either
selling more fresh milk or is selling
butter fat instead of butter, as the fol-
lowing figures show:
Farm butter-making dropped from
1894 $50 900 pounds in 1909 to 100000
900 pounds in 1914 drop of twenty
Z eight per cent. Creamery butter jump
ed from 624764,0 900 to S66,850,000 in
the same period-an increase of thir
ty-nine per cent. People ate lis
pounds of butter per head in 1909
: only 148 per head in 1873 decrease
, of fifteen per cent.
, The heavy buttereating states are
Massachusetts,, Rhode Island, Pennsyl
vania, Delaware, Connecticut, New
York, New Jersey, Maryland. Much
of the milk in these states is used
! fresh, and hence the butter must be
, imported from the big creamery
/ butter producing states of Iowa, Wis
consin, Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska
5 and the Dakotas. These seven states
{ make more than half our creamery
| butter.
( Twin and TripIet Calves
: Twelve calves in seven years is the
record of Grace Darling Hengerveld
' COW owned by the Ohio Experiment
} Station. There were five sets D
} twins and two single calves. Besides
, Grace has a record of 500 pounds o
butter in a year.
, Ruth Mcdonald, young lady livins
4 at Scotch Hill, Nova Scotia, Canada
D reports an invoice of .yiplet calve
+ from her favorite Holstein. She mail
= pictures of the trio, "all as lively AM
: frisky as can be-" as she tells tn
a editor of the Farm Journal. The Obi,
: COW noted above as having . recort
of II calves in seven years also is
Holstein.
q Farmers Cutting Corn
I Reports from Pike county are Z
:, the effect that this years corn GRO
. is likely to equal the bumper yield o
o 1920. Considerable old corn is nov