The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-05-10

pig club is May 20, and if your boy
or girl is DESTROYS OF taking a little
pig to raise, now is the time for your
decision and action. A list of entries
in the corn and pig clubs, up to Mon
day evening, will be found elsewhere.
Mrs. Porter Pike of Centerville,
speaks enthusiastically of the round
up" at Purdue, May g. 4, S. She was
accompanied by her little daughter,
Ula, Ivy Duff, and Miss Elizabeth
Lashley. teacher in the Centerville
high school. The party visited friends
in Morgan county, and did not get
| back until Sunday. Mrs. Pike says
that the spring work is just as late in
Morgan county as in this section.
Very much blowing remained to be
done and only here and there could
| one discover a field where the corn
was in.
The boys and girls living in the
Fountain City district are making a
| brave showing in the pig and one-acre
| corn club lists at the county agents
office. There are still ten days left
for enrolling.
Elevator Situation Unchanged.
The cooperative committee who
have been discussing the taking over
of the elevators at Boston, Kitchell
and Wits Station have as yet come to
no conclusion. Mr.. Price said Tues
! day that they were taking in consid-
cradle corn at these points now.
Prices quoted are: Wheat, $3.50; corn,
SO cents, and oats 81 cents. These
prices also govern at Fountain City.
What Will Happen?
| What will happen if the boards Of
fro6 de- ,f - 20
or national legislation and the farm
bureau marketing plan should fail?
This question is being discussed in
numerous dailies at this time. Many
of the farmers are confident that the
! plans of the marketing committee of
tw enty-one are sure fire and will do
the business completely and econom-
ically. The members of that commit
| tee arr not so sure; simply hopeful
! They are hopeful of full cooperation.
Hopeful of being able to borrow
money from every state headquarters.
first of all, and next of being able to
borrow $1,000 up from each county
unit. We understand that it is prob
| able that the L. S. Grain Growers
Inc. will ask Indiana county farm bu
reaus not merely to loan but to donate
$1,000 outright, to start the wheels re.
volving.
An Editorial Opinion
The editor of the Chicago Tribune
asks What if we have no grain mar.
ket? What if the marketing plan de-
signed by the farmers, should fail ?
Students of the proposed legislation
insist that if passed it will virtua lily
put our board of trade out of business
If then the substitute machinery fails
to function successfully the grain
producers will find themselves in dit
ficulties.
IF the farmers are left holding the
bag they will not forgive the men
who passed the law.
No reasonable person objects to the
development of a farmers marketing
organization, if it is based on sound
economic laws and business expert
ence But it is doubtful that such an
organization can spring perfect from
the heads of farm bureau managers
Many Problems to be Solved.
| TOO many problems are to bet met
They must be overcome gradually. II
this is done and the system proves its
value by the elimination of expenses
in marketing, with larger proportional
returns to the producer and lower
costs to the consumer, there will be
. no need for legislation to restrict the
board of trade. SO far as the farmer
is concerned, at least, the evils he
compla ms of cannot reach him.
i The "Cocoanut Cow"
Perhaps you have never figured or
the 'cocoanut COW of the South Sea
Islands" Well, cocoanut oil enters
largely into the manufacture of arti
fetal butter, and the convention O
dairy farmers at Chicago last weel
passed resolution to ask congress tt
, prohibit the displacing of 40.00'
dairy COWS in such manufacture.
Milo D. Campbell told the convention
that there are today but 23,000,00'