The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-06-09
The Farm and the Farmer
BY William r. sanborn

There were showers in Wayne and
Preble counties on Wednesday night
and early on Thursday morning,
showers which were much heavier IN
some places than others. East OF
town and across the Ohio line 1t seems
they had a real rain on THURSDAY
morning. Stephen Kuth says his place.
was drenched, for example. Going
west of Richmond about the same
distance. taking IN Centerville, the re-
mort was that only a light shower had
fallen. enough to wet the shade trees
and sprinkle the lawns but hadn
spread enough into the country to do
farmers any particular good. ms
held true southeast of Centerville, &C
cording to Gilbert Morgan, who says
there was hardly rain enough to make
the ground sticky Mr.. Morgan says
that smut Is showing in the wheat In
his section and that there is some
smut In his wheat and on adjoining
tplaces.
But getting back to the rainfall, the
|
age got their full share. A farmer
living near Eldorado says they had a
dandy rain on Thursday morning
and it drenched West Manchester. as
well. Richmond had a refreshing rain
at the same time but a phone call to
| Williamsburg on Thursday noon said
that not a drop of rain had fallen on
| that town. But we don't need rain"
| bod
rain last Saturday night" Mr.. Will
son says that the new stock yards
pens are not quite finished, but are
nearly so, and that they hope to ship
a car of live stock within a week or
10 days.
/ Chinch Bugs are Scattered
/ Reports from Preble county are to
the effect that there are chinch bugs
scattered throughout the county
"about as usual" as one farmer puts
it, but no great invasion has been sc
far noted on any particular farm. AS
=, to smut, county agent Turner says
that where certified wheat was plant
ed last fall the crop is practically free
from smut, with only an occasional
field showing a trace. But the general
run of wheat is rot thus escaping, as
several fields examined show pros
pective loss of from to per cent
Several Preble farmers hame beer
harvesting sweet clover during the
last few days.
Purdue Lambs Show Profit
: A load of lambs fed at the Purdue
:. experiment station and marketed :
fnw days ago is said to have returned
the largest profit ever received on an!
load of live stock fed at that institu
: ton The net profit is given at 81,
203. This contrasts with a load o
: lambs fed in 1921, which resulted ir
the largest loss ever sustained on {
car of stock fed and marketed at the
station:
The lambs were fed to test the val
ue of clover hay and oats straw a:
roughages for fattening lambs and t.
secure information on the most prof
: table quantities of corn to feed to sucf
animals All lots received corn sill
!, age.
: The results show clearly that clovel
t hav or some other leguminous rough
: age is far superior to oat straw OF
!, other nonleguminous roughage fol
;, lambs. If leguminous roughage is no
5 available a liberal allowance of nitro
s genous concentrates like cottonseet
r meal or linseed oil meal is great ben
2 eft to the ration.
J., Limiting the amount of corn fe'
:, was not as profitable as allowing a
I much grain as the lambs would eat
The lambs on full feed gained NOR
rapidly and more economically thai
: those receiving q half feed of corr
: or those fed corn during the latte
n part of the feeding period only. TIL
I advising that the offer of $2,500,00
!. for the Gorgas plant had been sui
r mitted, leads US to wonder if the CON