The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-29
The Farm and the Farmer
BY William r. sanoorn

he claimed that the Grain Growers
had borrowed in excess OF $250,000 to
carry on the work up to that time.
The organization has been accumulat-
ing some cash, however, and for two
or three recent months have taken in
more money than was paid out. 1t is
expected that such condition will now
continue.
Pooling Indiana Wool
P. H. Crane, Claude Harper and T.
/. Ferris, committee on Indiana wool
pooling within the farm bureau men,
bership, have issued little booklet
devoted to that subject. Farmers in
terested should write Mr.. Crane at lat
East Market street, Indianapolis, for
a copy.
The booklet tells how to organize
local wool pools and how TO prepare
wool for shipment. The committee
favors a continuance of the system
established in 1921 and the marketing
of Indiana wool through the sheep and
woolgrowers' warehouse at Columbus,
Ohio. The committee states that In
diana pooled 1,281,152 pounds of wool
at Columbus in 1921, (which is approx
imately one-third of the Indiana clip"
Farmers interested in having their
wool, or a part of it, made up into
blankets or bats will find brief ref
erence to that subject in the wool
booklet. In this connection we may
state that the Cooperative Wool Prod
uct company, at Newcastle, have add
ed wool mattresses to that line. U. S.
Abshire, the manager, says they deal
direct with farmers, both in taking in
their wool and manufacturing and de-
livering to them bats, blankets, ETC.,
as farmer desires.
Cooperative Egg Marketing
The local agent at Tower Hill, Shell
by county, Illinois, for one of the. Big
Five packers, woke up one morning to
find that he wasn't getting many eggs
at least as many as he thought he
ought. Upon investigation he found
that many farmers who had formerly
been selling him their eggs were now
shipping through a cooperative egg
shipping association. just started by
! the farm bureau.
The agent also found that said far
| mers were netting 20 cents per dozen,
after paying all expenses, says the
Prairie Farmer, which continues the
STORY, as IOllOWS. Inc agent CdIloU
the Chicago headquarters, received his
| instructions and Immediately his price
went to 81 cents. The next day he re-
ceived a letter confirming the instruc-
tions, plus the Illuminating statement,
"You ought not to be paying more
than Is cents for eggs"
What happened at Tower Hill hap
pened with variations at all Shelby
county points where the egg shipping
associations we're in action
An Editor Talks Blocs
| Last month New England organized
a Congressional bloc to protect itself
against the encroachments Of the
West; and now there is announced
from the senate a tariff bloc, consist
| ing OF some twenty-five senators who
favor the American valuation plan, and
most of whom are in sympathy with
| the purposes Of the farm bloc. Thus
one bloc leads to another, inevitably
and Uncle Sam will find that Williams
was right in his cartoon on the cover
| of Farm Life last month. These groups
each intent on serving its own ends
rather than the national good as 6
whole, will increase the muddle at tht
national capital The blocs are mo-
uniform enough to make good buildins
material
The time to plant corn is when al
conditions are right, as every corr