The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-26

When the meeting of farmers in the
county agents office Tuesday evening
approved the idea of a countrywide
shipping association, they took a step
in the right direction Wayne county
isn't SO tremendously large that there
IS need for dozen little shipping
associations, each acting as a little
community unit; unless that unit is a
part of a larger unit where the bust
ness can if need be, centralized to a
better advantage to all concerned.
The county headquarters for ship
ping can be used as a clearing station,
point for grading and selection into
classes and into straight carloads &C.
cording to quality said Ed. Deite-
meyer to the writer, some time ago,
and that is exactly the county ship
ping unit idea as expressed at the
Tuesday night gathering.
The meeting prepared to get action
by the appointment of committee to
devise ways and means of bringing
all the shipping associations in the
county into one complete, central
body, otherwise a county shipping
unit. The men named to complete the
job are: Harry Caldwell, of Milton;
Arvel Daley, of Centerville, and Wal
ter Strong, of Fountain City, each of
which are cooperative shippers who
have given considerable thought to
the subject. County shipping units
have proven so successful and popular
wherever tested out that we may feel
assured that once a going concern,
it will be equally popular in Wayne
Shipments can then be made more
frequently and at regular intervals, to
the great convenience of the small
and infrequent shipper But the town
ship shipping association has its place
and has proven its value, in hundreds
of instances
Highest Prices of Year.
When the average price Of good
beef cattle at Chicago struck $3.50, on
Wednesday, it touched the highest
figure of the year, to date. In some
instances steers were full half dol
lar higher than on Monday, while in
others the advance was but 10 to 10
cents. But for this the general "av-
erage price" would have been still
| higher. Eastern and foreign interests
were good buyers, more than 1000
head being sold for export, the first
| half of the week The bulk of the beef
! steers sold at $S25 to SO, but Wilson
and company paid 1885 on Wednesday
! for a number which averaged SLIT
pounds.
Don't Slight the Garden.
"a half acre garden will equal 10
acres of wheat in value. In the so
luton of the marketing problem, here
is one place where the middleman can
readily be eliminated, as the slogan
of the home garden is-direct from
producer to consumer"
| Thus discourses a letter from the
North Dakota experiment station. But
the writer referred to a good garden;
real garden which is properly plant
ed and cared for AS a matter of fact
some folks do make successful gar
| deners They manage to get world
of vegetables from a small patch OF
| cultivated ground, also to grow one
crop after another as the season ad
vances From early spring until frost
they have greenstuff continuously
growing and their gardens are real
helps in providing fresh table sup
plies, at practically no outlay, except
the labor.
Again quoting the North Dakota
man, we find that he talks on popu
| lar subject-Vitamines Here is his
idea: in these days, when so much
| is heard about vitamines and when the
! papers are full of advertisements OF
patent foods and patent medicines
which claim to supply these valuable
| elements, it is we'll to consider thai
vegetables are the original vitamine
carriers Such vegetables as lettuce
which we once thought to be of little
food value, are now found to be chuck
full of vitamines. Vegetables should
make UP at least one-third of our diet
We can produce enough from the gar
den to go a long way in feeding tn;
family. which. at time when makins
ends meet is a problem, should result
in a garden BOOM
Costs of Milk Production.
Studies in the cost of producing
milk, Just concluded on 10 Medina
county, Ohio farms by workers of thu
rural economics department, indicate
a short cut by which any farmer whC
keeps books can quickly figure hi:
own production costs, and not be yer!
far off.
]. l. Falconer, head of the depart
ment, says: Our survey shows tina
during the past year such costs o
keeping a dairy herd as depreciation
and shelter are about balanced b.
credits such as manure, added TO tht
farm and stock sold. This includes
consideration of young stock.
Therefore, roughly to get at hi
final production cost per hundred
weights by the cost of feed and Ia
Dor"
The Medina county study disclosed
incidentally, that of the total feed AM
labor cost of keeping a herd, abou
two-thirds is for feed, and third TO
labor.
To Market L. S. at Chicago.
Indications favor the opening of
sales office at the Chicago stock yard
some time in June, by the Nationa
Producers Live Stock association.
there is any place on the entire ma
where the co-operatives should be abb
to get action, and plenty of it, CHI
, cago is that identical place. The in
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