The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-10

farm bureau speakers. in a condensed
form.
New Produce Exchange
The Farm Bureau Produce ex-
change is the name of the produce
sales department of the Michigan
state farm bureau to be opened on
the Detroit market this month under
the direction of Frank L. Bloom as
manager. Mr.. Bloom has been Mich.
gan manager for the American Fruit
Growers, Inc, for several years.
The Produce exchange will handle
produce for member associations only
and will notify them when it is ready
to receive produce. 1t proposes to
provide without profit and on a pure
ly cooperative basis a reliable dis
tribution and sales service for pro-
duce-such as fruits, vegetables,
poultry, eggs, butter, cheese, dressed
hogs, veal calves, etc-handled by
farm bureau units and other cooper
alive associations of producers which
are now or later become affiliated
with the State Farm Bureau.
Kansas Apples for Kansas
The Kansas state farm bureau is
organizing a system to distribute
Kansas apples to the people in Kan
sas who have no apples, or who do not
grow fruit enough to supply the home
demand. The marketing committees
of the county farm bureaus, where
such are organized, will provide the
marketing machinery This process
will save on long haul freights and
cut out some OF the expense of buy
| ing apples from commission men who
pay the lowest possible price when
| buying outright, and then are in the
habit of charging the last cent the
consumer will stand for That is
, what farmers have found to be the
rule in the cities, at any rate. 1t is
to be sincerely hoped that the newly
organized national fruit sales associa.
ton, organized by growers and coop
orators, will be able to get little
| larger portion of the consumers dol
lar for the man who grows the fruit
this being exactly what the associa
ton is designed to do.
AS an advertisement of the fact
| that the owner is a member of the
farm bureau an enterprising firm at
| Plano, Illinois, is manufacturing an
emblem to attach to automobiles
The emblem consists of an aluminium
shield Gin silver, blue, red and black,
with Farm Bureau across the face
and the letters A. F. B. F. below" as
we are told.
Plant Potatoes July
According to letter just received
| from the Missouri experiment sta
ton the best yields of potatoes il
that state are from late paintings
Here is what the experiment station
man said:
ut is next to useless to underav
erage Missouri conditions to plant pc
/ tatoes during May. Yields four times
as great usually result from July
paintings if the seed potatoes are held
in storage at thirty-four to forty de
j grees. Storage in an ordinary COO
cellar has been successful at the Mis-
souri, experiment station"
i Inasmuch as no mention is made Of
June paintings We wonder if July L
isn't a misprint?
i About Peanut-Feed Hogs
Cooperative soft-pork experiment.
: conducted by the Department of Agri
culture and the State experiment sta
tions of Georgia, Mississippi, Nortl
Carolina, and South Carolina during
the last three years have shown con
clusively that when hogs, starting a
|. a weight of approximately 100 pounds
: are fed on peanuts in the dry lot o.
graZed in the field for period of 6,
: days or more, soft carcass is pro
, duced, and that it is the impossible
: to produce a hard carcass by feedinE