The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-22
The Farm and the Farmer
BY William r. Sanborn

Manager Schlientz of the Farmers
Equity elevator at Eaton, announces
the awarding of a contract for the
construction of solid concrete, 10000
busheI elevator, adjoining their pres
ent structure The contract has just
been let to the Burrell Construction
| company, of Chicago and member OF
that company Is now in Eaton. 1t Is
promised that work will begin within
| a week, or at most ten days, and 1t
is expected that the structure will be
| completed by mid-August.
Mr.. Schlientz says the new plant
will be absolutely fireproof and Ell
| tirely reinforced concrete from top to
| bottom, including the roof. The con-
i tract price at SIT 900 is less than 81
| per bushel of capacity, and Is consid-
cred very reasonable, especially as II
will be modernly equipped and down
| to date. The old elevator will be
utilized as long as may be necessary.
| 1t is claimed that our farmers own
about one-third of the autos in the
United States, approximately 11,00O,'
/ 900 machines at the present time.
| This estimate was given out at the
! opening session of the American Auto
mobile association, at st. Louis, on
Friday 1t was further stated that
| there is at this time surplus of 500.
| 100000 gallons of gasolene in storage
also an ocean of crude oil in the tanks
and reservoirs. This makes the re
cent advance of cents on gasolene
look like profteering, to a man up &
| tree, or even on a farm.
Has Just Begun to Fight
Senator Capper tells the readers o.
Capper's Weekly that: THE decision
of the Supreme court knocking ou
section of the Futures Trading act
and thereby virtually multiplying the
law. is great disappointment t.
champions of this legislature. 1t mean:
that we have lost the first round in tn.
battle to curb the evil practices of thu
grain exchanges" He says the f1gh
isn't over, but is only we'll begun.
For Live Stock Financing.
i Under the stress and strain of the
calling of cattle loans and the pres
sure of unfinished cattle on the cen
trail markets, a financial corporation
with a capitol of $4,000, 900 was
formed. less than two years ago. No
quite half of the money subscribed
| was ever loaned. only about $21 ,000
, 900, in fact and it is now stated tina
fully half of these loans already hav,
been paid off All of this is encourag
ing. of course, but the pity of tn,
while matter is this: So many of tn,
feeders of cattle and sheep were 81
closely crowded that they were pu
out of business before relief could b.
given Many a solvent feeder wa
: ruined because new money was no
obtainable to clean up his old mort
gage paper, which the banks claimed
10 be unable to carry longer.
Last week a farm block senator in
troduced a bill providing permanent
machinery for financing the live stool
industry This bill rests on recog
milton of the fact that three yea
; loans are an essential need of tn
: live stock industry, as conducted il
the plains states, in particular, al
though the money is to be everywher'
; available. The loans are to be handled
by live stock loan companies, tn
capital to be subscribed by the LOAF
companies and in part by the fedora
government and all transactions ar
to be supervised by the farm LOAF
board. All western live stock asso
Citations endorse the measure.
About Arkansas Strawberries.
I Can YOU imagine thousand car
loads of Strawberries, in a single train
all shipped from a single county il
the Ozark region of Arkansas? o.
top of that output of berries, imagin
3O,0G0,OO0 strawberry plants ais
grown in the same county, and ship
ped out to all parts of the country Il
the same season The shipment 0
this vast number of plants assuredl
curtailed production of berries thi
wear. but that single hilly count
should market 1000 cars of straw
berries in four weeks, and at the sam
| time supply the rest of us with sue
world of vines, sufficiently recon
mends the thrift and enterprise G
the people who. from several state:
have settled in White county. ArkaI
sas, one of the favored spots for grow
ing strawberries.
The CARLOAD movement of Whit
county strawberries began on Apr
%; the earlier berries being sent GU
in small lots by express. This wee
1.-THE movement reached its height an
now is the time to buy Arkansas be-
ries By June l the shipping seaso
will be practically over, at least a
far as CARROTS are counted. klondike
and Aromas are the principal proc
ucts of White county, although sma
percentage of Excelsiors are grown.
A Great Crop of Soys
China produces about so per cent {
the worlds output of soy beans, an
of this Manchuria alone raises almos
20 per cent The 1921 soy crop {
Manchuria was 100000 tons. write
the American consul at Mukden, Will
inner Mongolia, nearly unknown Ian
to the rest of the world, raised 431,0t
tons. The soy is one of the food st
pies in parts of China. 1t is used
soups, in the form of meal and ais
is pressed for oil, in which it is ricl
When Field Seeds Climbed
Prices of most of the seeds were CO.
siderably higher during the World We
than prior to it, but it is very diff1cu
to determine how much of the increaS
was due to the war and how much
n unfavorable climatic conditions. Hie
1t prices for food and hay crops we
K. largely responsible for the reductiC
n in the acreage of grasses and Glove
) cut for seed purposes. and, with yiel'