The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-07-28

Know all men by these presents that
the farmers living in Wayne county,
state of Indiana, S S. are hereby COM
manded to appear at Glen Miller park
early on the morning of Wednesday,
August g., A. D. 1922, for the purpose
of then and there enjoying an all-day
picnic, they and their wives, children
and friends. You are to. gather in
the friendly, cooling shade of the great
trees, you and yours, to make a day
of it, an enjoyable day spent in social
converse and in the meeting with
friends, a day long to be remembered
with much pleasure
Il is the opinion of the court that
these annual county farm bureau pic
mic days should be Red Letter days,
to which the farm children will look
back in coming years, and which they
will later emulate Or surpass, for the
benefit of their own youngsters. Pic
| mics and harvest home festivals are OF
ancient origin, but farm bureau pic
MICS are new, because the farm bureau
is itself new and still in knickers. 1t
is, however, a lusty youngster, with a
| vast ambition and a lot of go" in its
system The farm bureau came in re-
Spouse to a real need for farmers TO
get together in a eloser-woven rela-
ton for the benefit of all and the up
building of cur agricultural interests,
from every angle
Under competent, thoughtful and
we'll informed leadership, the farm
! h,-o,,, Gf;- horo ~ cfopD A rnT2 m hlp
for the offices, or the putting over OF
visionary schemes, has no part in an
endurance test made in the crucible
of time The farm bureau movement
from a small beginning, is spreading
rapidly over the country. II has had
great influence in the betterment OF
conditions, here and there. 1t has
brought the farmers closer in a social
way. also in a business way through
cooperation. 1t has made a lot of leg
lislative and progressive history in a
very short period, and its work is JUS
we'll begun
/ To Meet on Saturday Night.
An important meeting of Wayne
county farmers is to be held at the
courthouse on Saturday evening. Each
township will be represented and the
farmer and his wife are both to be
present. The meeting has been called
in order to set all wheels in motion
toward making the picnic an affair
worth while and the best ever
The township organizations will takf
care of matters at home, and the gen
eral picnic committee on arrange
ments will work out the details OF tn
days program. The idea is TO brlns
out a crowd and to provide entertain
ment. 1t is, of course, a basket picnic
and there will be plenty of good things
to eat. The speaker of the day, ex
Governor Harding, of Iowa, also vii
furnish considerable food for though
and there will be an additional speaker
or two who will talk briefly during
the afternoon.
Don't overlook the picnic date. Pre-
pare to be present and then get there
with the entire family. The poe
asks: What is so rare as a Gay il
June?" Our answer is this: County
farm picnic days" There is but on
of these in a whole year and there arr
thirty days in June.
Threshes 2o-BusheI Crop
Gath Freeman, attorney and Owne
of a farm on the South E street road
had his wheat crop from a 22-acr'
field threshed this week and the result
was a 20 bushel average, testing 81
pounds. Mr.. Freeman said that h
had sown bearded wheat and that b.
had purchased the seed from Supt
Scott, of the East Haven farms, las
fall. He says that his wheat is o
such fine quality that he has reserves
about $50 bushels for use and sale a
seed. The Freeman family has beel
living at the Westcott for a consider
able time and are now getting read,
to move to the farm within a day o
two.
Rains Cut Honey Crop
Oscar Johnson, living three mile
east of Jacksonville, and who has
world of bees, complains that the eS
cessive rains washed much of tn
pollen out of the clover and variou
blossoms and thus reduced the hone,
flow very considerably. He admit
that there are plenty of blossoms bu
says they contain but little necta
upon which honey making depends
He states that because of the rains hi
supply of honey has been shrinking
rather than increasing of late.
A surprising statement has been full