The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-12-22
The Farm and the Farmer
BY William r. sanborn

of commercial fertilizers when used
in conjunction with lime and Iegumes
IN building up poor Soils"
we may confidently expect that
soils which are regularly fortified and
handled according to methods of good
farming, will give constantly increas-
ing yields up to a point approaching
the yields of these countries
Experiments which have been run
ming at the Ohio experiment station
for seven years show that three-year
rotations of corn or potatoes and
wheat and clover produce higher cash
returns than the corresponding two
year rotations of corn or wheat and
clover. or potatoes and wheat. Each
rotation has had the same soil treat
ment of limestone, manure and acid
phosphate.
Why Milk Costs More
Although the notices to Richmond
consumers simply stated that they had
advanced the price of milk to seven
cents pint and twelve cents a quart,
milk distributors are less reticent
when talking to the press. They say
that with butterfat at So cents makes
IL more profitable to sell cream than
whole milk, and this cuts the supply.
They also say that dairy cotsts are
still high, and that some supplies are
up 70 per cent as compared with last
year. Bottles are expensive and the
/ loss from breakage and disappearance
amounts into a considerable sum an.
nually Creamery labor and the wages
paid to wagon drivers are still higher
than ordinary, every department being
well paid, in keeping with the trend
in labor circles.
CockereIs at Auction
The county advisor in Bradford
county, PENNSYLVANIA, put on an auc
tlon sale of consigned cockerels dur
ing the fall and stirred up much en-
thus1asm thereby. The cockereIs aver
j aged S4.5S each, the top bird selling fol
/ Sl6.25. He says that he expects better
prices next year. Between $50 and
200 poultry raisers attended the sale
and an educational program preceded
the auction. One professor explained
the basis on which the birds were Sc
lected. His figures showed by breeds
how the egg yields had increased il
the floCks from which the came anC
said that rigid culling and proper mat
ing were the causes of the increase
/ - NOSTAOl C4o NeIS uIIcCl Q6SC6nQdnJS
of birds that were banded in their pul
let year and whose egg-laying records
were known.
We believe that such a sale would
prove profitable in Wayne county next
year, in view of the number of fine
poultry flocks owned here and in near
4 by counties. A little advertising would
turn the trick Poultrymen- shoulC
keep this idea in mind next summer
and not sacrifice too many good cock
erels as broilers
Cooperative Egg Sales
The cooperative marketing of egg;
and dairy products has ben taken III
in two Indiana counties, Whitley an(
Wells, by the farmers associations anC
county agricultural agents. The pIa1
has been underway for ten months il
Whitley county and about a month il
wells county and is being taken up il
number of counties in the state.
I Inc products are being handled OF
a quality basis with the eggs bein,
carefully graded and sold in easter
markets. H. w. Fitting of the Poultr7
Extension staff of Purdue visited thes
cooperative shipping stations recent,
|. at the request of the managers to offe
suggestions in marketing their eggs
he assisted them in working out
more definite system of grading an
: nelped them establish the grades to b.