The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-11-11
FARMER.LARoR- ALLIANCE

Under above headline the chicago
Tribune discusses some of the fea-
lures of the election in parts of the
northwest, where discontinued groups
merged their fights on candidates or
issues. After giving a resume of cir
cumstances against which farmers
have been protesting the editor con-
tinues by saying:
I'VE are not discussing here the JUS
tice of the farmers complaints on all
these scores. There is great deal to be
said on both sides. Unquestionablely
the farmers situation is not what it
ought to be, both from the viewpoint
of justice to him or from that of bene-
fit to the country. We are simply
naming the main phases of the farm
er5s discomfort, and we see that all
tend toward one, objective. Transpor-
tation banking, middlemen's services
are all expressions of what we may
call metropolitan capital and it is i'll
opposition to it that the farmer finds
common ground with labor and
there apears in regions of special
hardship the political alliance known
as the farmer-labor-party.
by an alliance between the farm
er and the industrial wage Garner OF
the cities is not natural Fundament-
ally their economic interests are op-
posed. The farmer wants high prices
for his products which the Industrial
worker wishes to get at low prices.
The wage Garner wants high wages,
although they are incompatible with
the low prices which the farmer wants
to pay for the wage earner's products
What one wants high the other wants
! low"
While it is the purpose of this de-
| partment to talk farm production, and
to print only what is most interest
| ing as well as profitable to the farm
ers. the comment of the editor of the
Tribune contains fact or two of i'm
! portance to farm groups everywhere
| We have neither the space, or the de-
sirey to talk politics in this depart
ment, but inasmuch as there have
| been some alliance between the farm
ers and industrialists of late we con
slider the quotation from the Tribune
of timely interest to all agriculturists
A State Makes Flour
The people of North Dakota have
gone into the flour milling business
| having become involved in that branch
of manufacture through the efforts o.
Townley and the Non-Partisan league
The state flour mill at Grand Rapids
is by no means a strictly farmer en-
terprise, for the plant which cost tn;
/ tax payers S2500,000, is the property
of both town and country. One uni
of the mill, with daily capacity O
i 900 barrels. is now in operation anC
two more units will be ready for op
Grafton along in January. There arr
4 to be but three units, one of which
is especially fitted to grind ~durum
the hardest variety OF. the sprini
wheats.
4 This Zig North Dakota mill has beef
long time in building and has fe
4 ured in state politics from its inceT
1 ton. It hoped and expected that tn
!, people of North Dakota will back tn
enterprise by liberal purchases Q
flour. but as to this the women o
the state will decide, outside of tn
demand from bakers, who, regardless
, of politics, will buy on price and merit
Not only the milling trade and tn
large baking concerns. but the entir
: country will watch the progress an
interest.
The Poultry Short Course
The poultry short course to be staS
: ed at Purdue from December 4th I
18th, will cover housing and fixture!
incubation and brooding, the feedin
of chicks and layers, selection an
} care of the breeding flock, poultr
management and the care of disease
and the culling of non-proftable bird
The work will be given by the colleg
experts and the only fee is a charg
of So to cover cost of materials use
in the demonstrations. Special rate
are to be made for board and room
: the visitors during the session. ThoS
who expect to attend should max
reservations at once, as accofnmod
: tions are limited In view of the eve
increasing interest shown in egg pr
!, duction it is expected that there wi
be a record attendance at the comm
short course.
Perry H. Crane, state secretary
the farm bureau, has asked in til
4 Hoosier Farmer for November, tia
l. members of the organization writ
him. telling in fifty words, or les
lust why they expect 90 renew fl
1923. Right now, he says, every e
fort should be made TO secure reney
ais for the coming year, and he ask
that every member cooperate in tn
5 work. Mr. Crane is now the actin
editor" of the Hoosier Farmer, as a
# nounced on the editorial page.
r The Membership Record
n The ten Indiana counties which al
il leading all others in the per centae
= of farm bureau members based on tt
d total farm population in said countie
i ranked as follows on November 1, a
cording to reports from state hea
/ quarters: Newton county, l. LaPort
j. 9; Shelby, 8; Noble, 4; Wayne,5; U