The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-03-31

The manager of the elevator at Bos-
ton saws that SO far as the elevator
business is concerned, right now Il
! consists mostly of coal and feeo, as
no grain is coming in. In regard 10
corn he says that it is moving among
farmers and feeders at from gu TO 20
! cents, but that on present market oas-
| Is, elevatormen cannot pay over W
cents and get out on it. With regards
to the crop of spring pigs, he ss.yf
he has heard no complaint OF ally
losses whatsoever; nor of any disease
among hogs in the feed lots.
Warner Fleisch. of Boston township,
| says that while he hasn't an extra
large lot of spring pigs this season.
that they are thrifty bunch and his
sows are doing well. So far as he
knows his neighbors are not COM
planning of the loss of spring farrow-
ings.
If there is any farm news of par
ticular interest it is likely to leak into
a country bank, and for that reason
we called up the bank at williamsburg
with reference to the question: Are
farmers complaining of excess loss of
spring pigs?" This has been truo,
4 at least in spots, as we have previous
ly told Cashier Fulkerson said that
lin his Judgment the hog situation is
normal and o. X, and that not a
single farmer had reported to the con-
trary He knew of no farmer VINO was
planning to curtail either his corn
|
year.
, At the low time last fall, with hogs
away down and corn prices on tne
toboggan, there was more or less asl
tation all over the corn belt for z
drastic reduction in corn acreage, am
, some farm papers are still talking II
favor of more legumes and less cor
in 1922
4 It Raineth Every Day
Il Some man, poet at that. wrote
; verse some years ago in which ~
stated that: THE rain. 1t ralneti
!, every day." which fills the bill rlgn
: now and right here. But what WI
. wanted to say is this: When far
mer from Liberty, New Paris, Hagers
;. town, or elsewhere, phones to tell u
: that they have had an inch of rail-
! within so many minutes, or hours
, that he is telling us that 1O1 tons
. water per acre has fallen over III
/. fields. Seems like a lot OF water pc
/ acre. doesn't it?
vi Fertiizing Potatoes and Corn
What are the most desirable way
e to apply fertilizer to- potatoes ant
r corn, to insure the best results? TIL
j. is question that thousands OF fal
e mers have studied over, and Wnlcl
t hundeds of extension workers hav
t been asked to answer. Manufactul
! ers of seeders have given this matte
much thought and have planned alon
the lines of greatest utility in tn
manufacture Of these machines.
The soil improvement committee Q
the National Fertilizer association ha
Just issued a worthwhile bulletin o.
this subject. They cite the recommer
. dations of the Wisconsin and New Jel
: sey experiment stations, and begin b
: stating that:
1T has been quite generally realize
| that the manner in which fertilizer
placed in or on the soil has much t
= do with the success of the crop, Blu
:. information is only just now becomin
| available as to which methods ar
:, best
THE New Jersey station reports Is
= bushels of potatoes from an all-in-tht
y row application of fertilizer; 1913 bust
! els when two-thirds was used along tn
!, row at planting and the rest as a late
side dressing; and LAG bushels whe
1.-THE same amount of fertilizer wa
: ibroadcasted The check-plot yielde
!. 1879 bushels. 1t was observed that il
: jury following large applications
: fertilizer may be due to the locatio
!, of the fertilizer rather than to tn
= amount of fertilizer.
. IN reporting the results Of thre
= years study of fertilizer applicatio
- to corn, the Wisconsin station state
a that the largest yields were secure
- by placing the fertilizer in the hill {
= along the row-in the case of drille
. corn-slightly above the seed. In fac