The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-13
The Farm and the Farmer
BY William r. Sanborn

shower there had wiped out a bunch of |
her young chicks and was surprised to |
be told that not a drop of rain had
fallen in Richmond on that day.
Corn Planting Begun
Fred Schlientz of Eldorado says
that they have the usual acreage of |
! wheat in and that it is now making a !
splendid showing. They have been
paying $1.33 for wheat of late but
the crop is now pretty well cleared
up. Flowing of corn land is about
completed and some corn has been
put in during last few days, he said
Hot Days Lower Prices
General live stock trade has been
bit topheavy this week, not because
of excessive supplies, but because the
warm wave cut down the demand for
fresh meats, both east and west.
Seems rather early to talk of hot
weather affecting prices at the stock
| yards. but such is the claim and ex-
PLANTATION. But the slump is not Sc
rlous, in fact ranges but a few cents
under the high time of the week,
either on cattle or hogs. Careful ship
pers will now put their summer light
loading schedules into effect, to avoid
losses IN transit and to insure the ar
rival of stock in good condition.
Tractors in Greenland.
| The dog team and the American
motor tractor worked side by side in
an exploration tour over the farthest
north of Greenland The trip occupied
/ 200 days, and covered ice-capped land
never before traversed by whites The
northern trip was attained and return
made to the base of supplies without
loss of life or serious accident. We
/ hardly think that this experiment will
warrant our manufacturers staging
| tractor demonstrations in Greenland,
but it at least speaks well for the
form of motor tractor used to haul
supplies and equipment If J. D. has
established any filling stations in
Greenland he has kept mighty quiet
about it.
/ S. D. Doty, head of the Ohio state
farm bureau, has resigned and is to
move to Chicago on Monday, May Is.
He has been appointed manager of
the Producers Live Stock Commits
sion association, at Chicago, and this
indicates that it is now planned to
!! open sales company at the worlds
live stock headquarters, as early as
lldy De lOuIlu prdCIlCdDl6.
! April Milk Prices
! Fluid milk prices declined cents
hundred pounds from March TO
April, 1922. according to the average
prices of 81 city markets at various
points in the United States. The April
average was $215 per hundred, as
compared with 1921 for March, 1922,
and S2.62 for April. 1921 An average
of $3.50 was maintained for April in
the New England states, while the low
point of S162 was in the East South
Central states.
When we consider that Chicago
had $500 cars of all grains on track
on Thursday, and that actual deliver
les of May wheat on contracts were
recorded and paid for totaling 2,203,-
600 bushels we must conclude that
:! speculation has not been put out OF
business. The deliveries of cash grain
have been heavy all month and the
filling of these May contracts has
caused the moving of thousands OF
cars of wheat, corn and oats to that
market. What has been happening
at Chicago has been in lesser degree
in effect at ST. Louis, Omaha, st. Paui,
Kansas City and at all primary
future" markets. from coast to coast.
II the face of the transfer OF such
,orld of grain there has been ample
casb tn take care of every ousneI
coming into. sight. Every farmer anu
skinner has been paid within rev
hours promptly on Weighing anu
Grading It is a great system, a sys-
ten, which covers the markets OF CIV
;lization and which it has taken sixty
odd wears to establish. This system
affords proper storage for the crops
of the nation and keeps millions OF
bushels afloat to the consuming mark
cts over seas, every day in the year.
The massine of millions to once more
/ start the crops a moving, VIII soon
again be in order, and regardless OF
; ali industrial and financial conditions
} there will be money and to spare.
n Regardless of when or how the
!. farmer markets his grain, it must DC
! paid for; must be moved by way OF
, the established and regular channels;
: must in part reach world markets,
/, must find storage in the elevators OF
the men owning these great facilities,
inland and by the seaside for loading
into ships. That these facilities are
so ample has been brought about by
necessity and through trade demands.
For Orderly Marketing
But because all of this is true is
no reason for rushing the bulk of the
wheat crop to market within ninety
days of the harvest. More orderly
marketing is the one thing needful
with the bread crop of the world. in
chat with country elevator owner
recently, he stated that comparatively
/. few farm owners really needsto sell
their grain hot from the thrasher, al
so that most of such men are well able
to take care of the interest of the
tenant in the crop, if inclined to do
so. In fact many could we'll afford to
take his share off his hands, or to
advance him money to hold the crop
, intact until it was judged that it was
the right time to sell.
But this being sure Of the "best"
time to sell always has been and is
. likely to always be a problem. But
: the right" time to sell is another
: matter. The right time to sell is
when you are satisfied to do so, re-
CARELESS of the buyers future profit
on the transaction. The man who
, tries to make it all generally loses in