The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-07-02

The manager of the elevator at
| Fountain City says that Will Barnes, |
living just east of town, probably |
! would be the first New Garden farmer
to thresh wheat this season. He will
start Tuesday morning.
A price of $104 for new wheat !
! opened the ball at Fountain City Fri !
| day morning OF course, there was
| no wheat threshed for delivery, but
, that was the contract price to those |
wishing TO deal.
The people of Boston township are
| hoping to escape a chinch bug inva-
sion, and up to Saturday morning no
reports of any pests whatsoever had
come in from that section. The Kitch-
ell elevator reports the last of thel
wheat being cut today, and says that
! threshing will begin on Tuesday, July
5. Il do not think we own a single
| threshing outfit in Boston," said the
elevator man Richard Davenport
owned machine last year, but think
it has been sold. Theo. Roberts, liv-
ing east of Richmond, on the New
Paris pike, does a lot of threshing
down this way, Boston being his old
home township"
| Farmers tell us that oats in the
district south of Richmond have been
filling fast since the last rains and
that, while the straw will be short,
there will be much more grain than
could have been hoped for three weeks
ago. Union county farmers are tell
ing the same story where oats do not
stand too thin on the ground.
Will Meet on nth
The Center township farmers will
meet on Monday, July II, the second
Monday of the month, and thus pass
up business on the night of the
Glorious Fourth" that being a bad
evening on which to get out a crowd.
There has been some inquiry as to
the total cost to wool growers con-
signing to the Ohio Wool Warehouse
corporation, where most of the lndi-
, ana wool is now pooled. w. w. Rey-
: holds tells US that the total cost to
growers on the 1920 clip was ga
cents. This is divided into two
charges, cents for labor in grading,
cost of selling, etc, and three-fourths
of a cent for warehouse stora &c per
, pound.
Should Save Money
The fact that the Grain Growers
Finance Corporation has been incor-
porated under the laws of Delaware,
and that its officers and directors
comprise the same group as that form
ing the U. S. Grain Growers, Inc, may
have been overlooked. This keeps the
whole machine in the hands of the
Committee of Seventeen, authors of
the plan" This should a saving to
the farm bureau, for it is not expected
e that two salaries and two expense &C
/, counts will be asked or allowed the
members of the committee for doing
: business under two titles. Be this as
; it may the expenses of the American
3 farm bureau are already very heavy
1t is no longer a matter of thousands
but of hundreds of thousands of dol
+ lars for the current year.
A Million Contributors
In the meanwhile the funds are con
tributed by more than a million farm
U ers, and the list of donors is constant
i ly being added to. The federation
I membership is constantly growing be
: cause of the hope of future benefits
q in national way. The bureau is now
d spending money to speed up organiza
ton work, an expense which in later
i years need not be incurred, providing
e there is finally worthwhile accom-
plishment. This is matter of time
and circumstance in every broad en-
+ deavor.
Il Aside from the money the nationa
federation is spending the cost to the
q states looms into important figures
Based On the claimed circulation o.
y the Hoosier Farmer Indiana farmer:
will have paid out fully 100000 fol
membership dues alone by December
l. Our dues are but s., but in Hi
! nois they are SIS per year. A large
- percentage of these payments is KEEP
in the county treasures or used il
the home field. A lot of productive
community work should be possible a:
n these funds accumulate.
p Secretary Wallace Talks.
i. When the secretary of agriculture
d talks to 400 millers, as he did at Chi
Il cago on Wednesday, he is apt to say
much of interest to grain growers
also to board of trade men every
o. where. The Chicago Tribune quotes
. him as follows:
o. 1T would be national calamity fol
the United States government to take
o. over the grain exchanges and packing
Q institutions OF this country" declared
Henry c. Wallace, secretary of agri
~ culture, yesterday before 400 miller
meeting at the Drake hotel.
To- He spoke on The United State
. Government and the American Whea
~ Crop" He referred particularly to tn
. proposed laws which would give tn
,, department of agriculture supervisor,
- power over the grain exchanges of tn
3 whole country.
o The establishment of REASONABLE
government supervision over grain eS
changes would be most helpful in do
8 ing away with much of the violen