The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-12-01
The Farm and the Farmer
BY William r. sanborn

seiss Snpp1ng from the harbor In a
single day, In order to beat the Ice and
to reach winter quarters before the in.
surance on lake cargoes expires By
limitation. And those so ships carried
close to 10000 900 bushels of grain.
mostly wheat, all grown by Canadian
farmers.
The pressure at Fort William is SO
great at the close of navigation that
not a minute is lost in reloading and
clearing the vessels. A report says
that so quickly are the ships cleared
that the nightly list of arrivals and
departures often show ships clearing
that are not recorded in the arrivals
column" Going back q week or two,
we find that on Monday Is boats sailed
with 2,601, 900 bushels; Tuesday, seven
boats with 1856 900 bushels; Wednes-
day, 10 boats with 2,448, 900 bushels;
Thursday, three boats with S63, 200
bushels; and Friday, ID boats. with
1884. 900 bushels.
While lake shipments have been
speeded up with the availability of
more bottoms, eastern dispatch by
rail- thing unheard of before the
close of navigation in previous years,
has likewise strengthened A greater
supply of cars has resulted in the rail-
ways easing up on the embargo, and
now 200 cars day are leaving the
elevators at Fort William, bound for
Montreal and other points.
Their Business Growing
The Darke county co-operators
shipped more live stock In October
/ than in any previous month in the past
16, or from the date of organization.
The condensed report Just to hand
shows that there were 374 shippers,
who shipped So decks containing 4,066
hogs, 20 cattle, 156 calves and 124
sheep. The net weight of the total
was 753,385 pounds and the net value
$73,015.13. The insurance received
was $235.20 and six dead and %
crippled hogs were listed on the
months business. The shrinkage fig
ures show loss of 2.95 on hogs, of
8 per cent on cattle, IA on calves and
| rs on sheep.
Darke county will have four state
aid institutes this winter, as follows:
Gettysburg, February 1918; Versailles,
14-15; williamsburg, 1920, and the
Jackson township institute on Febru-
airy 21-22. In addition to these four
| - Will DC
held, the dates to be announced later.
SrBar Coated Figures.
In the United States department of
agriculture exhibit at the Chicago In
ternational, Dec. 2 to 9, important
statistics are handled in a rather un-
usual manner There are a number of
pictorial booths, in one of which one
may find important data on our live
stock industry in relation to that of the
world. This is presented through the
combined skill of the artist and photo
grapher, and of the exhibit expert.
There are Fl of these painted or illus
trated booths which will dispense sug-
ar-coated information to the hurrying
throngs. For those with more leisure
and desire for figures there are fig
ures, charts and printed information
OF great interest and value, depending
largely on where the visitors interest
lies. The proportion of pure-bred to
our total live stock is pictorially pre-.
sented in vivid contrast and that scene
will be very impressive to the live
stock grower, also to the everyday
farmer
Wallace Draws the Line.
Secretary Wallace's statement on the
proper relation of the extension agent
to private organizations, is clear. I'm.
answerable and invaluable at this
Tune, when there are so many misun
derstandings of what these relations
and duties are. Says Mr.. Wallace:
Extension work is educational. Ex
tension workers are public teachers
Their work covers the entire rural
Held, which includes economic produc
ton, economic marketing, and the de.
Velopment of better home, community
and social conditions.
AS they are public teachers. 1t is
not a part of the official duties of the
extension agents to perform for indi
Vldual farmers or for organizations the
actual operations of production. mar
keting, or the various activities neces
sary TO the proper conduct of business
or social organizations.
In other WORDS as is editoriaIIv oh
served in the New York Extension
Service News, County agents should
not be expected to perform a market
ing service for farmers any more thar
: a production service. They neither
milk mans cows nor harvest his al
falfa Why should they sell his crops
: or operate his organization
: Out here in the middle west the
county agent makes no attempt to mar
ket the crops, nor does he milk the
farmers cows, etc. But Just the same
and although he is not an official O
the farm bureau, he figures largely il
all farming activities, because hi,