The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-09-07
The Farm and the Farmer
BY William r. sanborn

at the fair with several other mem.
bers of the herd. This young hull of
the Carnation line was obtained at
Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, in February
last and would be credit to any herd. |
Mr. Hills entries will include both
cattle and hogs
Humphrey MikeseI will compete for
the ribbon to be awarded for the best
farm team" His entry includes four
horses.
AGAIN we repeat, if you wish to talk
to Secretary Hodge in the general
offlce of the fair, ring 2817. Number
IS not in the phone directory so per
maps you had better note it down.
SiIo Filling Days.
If on your travels over the country
roads you note that lot of corn has
been cut and carried off, look around
Tor the silo. A number of silos are
| being filled this week, more than
would ordinarily be filled this early.
perhaps because of the shrivelinz
neat. The fact that the soil is mostly
full of water from the late heavy
rams has tendency to prevent injury
TO corn and to keep the stalks green.
The silo was filled on the Gennett
| farm in the Centerville district, on
Tuesday and on the William Grove
place on Wednesday.
County agent Dolan announces cul-
ling demonstrations at the Walter
Beeson farm, at Webster. on Friday
forenoon, and at the Ora Howell place
north of Dalton, on Friday afternoon.
The culling on the John Haas farm,
just south of Earlham will be done on
Saturday morning. The flock of $50
hens on the Edward Kinsinger farm in
Harrison township, was culled Tues
day. Mr.. Dolan is a pretty busy man
Just now and will be still buster all
of the coming week, because of his
duties connected with the pig club ex-
hibits at the fair. This will preclude
his doing any poultry culling for some
time.
Bankers Asked to Help
A number of Chicago district bank,
ers, men doing business in The II
: counties which supply Chicago with
: milk, listened to a cooperative sales
: talk by Aaron Sapiro, at the recent
milk producers convention, which was
arranged by the new marketing asso-
citation. In his talk Mr.. Sapiro said
that cooperative marketing is not
only the farmers remedy for agricul
tural ills, but is a community move
ment in which bankers and business
men have a leading part and interest
The aim of cooperative marketing
is to merchandise crops, and not tc
dump them, and it is based on the dis
tinction between agriculture and al
other forms of industry. Knowing
that distinction, we, in California
worked out the system of handling
agricultural products in a manner thai
is absolutely distinct from the other
forms of industry.
This great difference between
farming and other businesses hes il
the fact that farm products are pro
duced with individual capital, individ
ual production and individual labor
while in other businesses the products
are the result of group production
: group capital and group labor
The Cause of Dumping
Mr.. Sapiro went on to explain why
5 farm products are dumped" by say
: ing: Wherever you have individual
/ selling, you have dumping, and wher
r ever you have dumping it is foolish to
5 talk of cooperation. No matter how
: much cooperation you may have in
everything else that pertains to com
t munity welfare, you have not coop
e GRAFTON in the one thing that counts
5 for material welfare, and that is co
+ operative marketing. Nor can vol
: have this until you have stopped in
3 dividual selling. When you hav,
: stopped individual selling. When yol
4 have stopped this you have stopped
= dumping by each individual tarme,
against the other"
He then stated that in California the
, product was organized as far as pos
sible, and then controlled, with mer
chandising substituted for dumping
so that the community is moved int
so that the commodity is moved into
e and in such quantities that the mar
r kets absorb them at fair prices.