The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-03

commencement exercises at the Cen
terville school and the school affair
naturally caught the crowd. One can
attend farm bureau meeting at any
old time, but spring school commence
ments are rare birds of gay plumage,
which come this way but once a year.
Mr. Boyle. member of the marketing
committee at Indianapolis, was speak
er of the evening at the farmers meet
ing, the date for his talk being set
weeks ago and the officers of the farm
bureau hesitated to call it off The
speaker said, however, that he would
nave been glad to have arranged an
other date, had they only whistled
The glorious climate of California
IS responsible for the first arrivals of
spring lambs from the Golden State
hitting the Chicago yards early on May
/. These lambs filled IA cars aFd
averaged Sc to II pounds and they
brought from SIS to S1735 per cwt.
California lambs reached Chicago a
week earlier in 1921 and sold around
$12, and brought $40 in 1920, when
they averaged IS pounds.
Too Many Hogs on Sale.
The $4,000 hogs at Chicago on Mon.
day depressed prices 10 cents to Is
cents, and $4,000 remained in the pens
on Monday night. The days average
price, 5000, was S2.10 better than on
the same date last year. The receipts
of hogs were the largest in seven
weeks and the supply of cattle ex-
ceeded trade requirements for the day
which made the market top heavy at
decline of 10 cents to 20 cents. Sew.
eral loads of $50 to 1,120 pound yearl.
ings sold at So while one load of 1874
pound steers topped the market at
S9.l5 and were shipped to New York
The May deliveries are now on and
it is expected that more or less grain
will be delivered daily during the
month. Deliveries at Chicago on Nav
l were: Wheat, 1861 900 bushels:
Corn, 2,055, 900 bushels; oats. 1000, 600
bushels. The delivery of 100000
bushels Of rye represented two-thirds
of the stock of rye in Chicago De-
llVerles were heavy at all important
speculative points Corn and kaffirs
are to be planted on the abandoned
wheat acreage of western Kansas.
When to Plant Corn
The Ohio extension service has iust
sent out a brief summary about the
proper time to plant corn, beginning
as follows:
or May, the tardy farmer is sure to
pay The letter then goes on to say
that; "A bushel day is the price we
pay, for corn planted after the middle
OF May" The crop scientist further
tells US that this is fact as establish
ed by experiment sand sustained by
common experience.
AT wooster, corn planted April "a
to 20 yielded 81 bushels of shelled
grain to the acre. Fields planted May
to 10 produced Ga bushels. Plant
ings made between May IA and II
did a fraction of bushel better than
the early May paintings, but fields
planted May 25 to % dropped down
to yields of SO bushels. Corn planted
June to only yielded Al bushels.
The experiments show that May to
IA has proven to be the best time to
plant in the Wooster section. The
best dates for other Ohio sections can
be obtained by subtracting a week
for each 100 miles south of there and
adding a week for every 100 miles
to the north, says the extension man.
The Indiana farmer can figure out
how he stands in comparison with the
Wooster schedule, if needed, but the
average Indiana farmer is a pretty
good judge of his own soil and wealth.
er conditions and can hit the best
planting dates according to circum-
stances and conditions.
Business According to Hoyie.
We feel like complimenting George
Walton, manager of the Union, Iowa,
Hardin county cooperative live stock
shipping association. In the S3 car
loads shipped within a year the total
loss was but S4S.72 for Grips and dead
ones. He loads lighter in summer
than winter, his averages being 1880
pounds per car. He insists on clean
cars, uses sand for bedding, hangs ice
bags in cars in hot, stuffy weather,
and shippers are warned against over
feeding before shipping and must
bring hogs in early enough to allow
their cooling out before loading. His
losses have been so low that the sink
ing fund now contains 5000, and after
81, ZOO has been accumulated the rate
for that fund will be cut to three
cents per cwt. The yards are in fine
shape and have electric lights Tor
night loading. The Union folks are to
ship to the Producers association, as
soon as established. Chicago being
the central headquarters of the Pro
sucers' association we are at loss to
understand the delay in opening up.
Same as to Indianapolis. They have
been planning for six months to get
a-going at that point, and are probably
now about ready for action
Effects of High Rates.
In his speech before the Academy
of Political Sciences in New York Sec
rotary Wallace stated that: ",rhe
blighting effect of the present increas-
ed level of freight rates upon agricul-
ture can hardly be comprehended" Ac-
cording to Mr.. Wallace present rates
favor the farmers of South America
and Australia ''at the expense of our
own farmers, and all the more so be-
cause of the substantial decrease in
ocean rates. After making out
strong case, covering several angles
of the problem, the speaker summar-
lied by saying:
Il am not making a special plea for
the farmer as against the railroads.
They must work in harmony and I'M
Outstanding. The important point l
am trying to make is this: that this