The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-07-15
The Farm and the Farmer
BY William r. Sanborn

| by William
There is a threshing ring in New
Garden township, which comprises at
least twenty wheat growers this year,
only one of which is in the clear. The
members were in no hurry to begin
threshing, preferring to finish haying,
laying-by of corn, etc, so as to make
rapid and consecutive cleanup of
their threshing, when ready to go.
Well, one fine afternoon the man in
charge of the comparatively owned
rig, got all set and proceeded to
thresh out one crop, possibly his own.
OF this we are not sure but at all
events that single crop is the only
one cleaned-up, at least up to Friday
night 1t is now agreed that the bust
ness shall begin in earnest on Mon
day morning, if no rain intervenes.
Following the final cleanup of the
wheat fields for the season follows
the annual picnic And history re-
lates that it is some picnic" We
have so far been unable to take in
that picnic, but intend this year to
be among those present" Thresh-
ing is a nice, easy, restful occupation,
as the men who do the work and the
ladies who serve the hungry hordes
of threshers with bountiful dinners,
will not deny. But, speaking for our
selves, the picnic's the real thing,
after all It stands for an entire sea-
son of effort; of sowing, reaping and
garnering. and is the happy climax
of the whole important matter.
We must not be understood as in
timating that the ring" mentioned
/ is the only one to picnic at the close
| of the season. Far different. There
will be a number of such picnics held
| in all parts of the state, and particu-
! larly where the rigs are owned coop
eratively and the same people COM
pose the neighborhood ring, from year
to year.
Best Matching Dates
A. G. Phillips, of the Indiana expe-
riment station, says: 81 want my pull.
lets to start laying between October
! Is and November l, and in order to
| accomplish this | find that Matching
about April 10 is best time with Leg.
: horns" He also indicated that Ply.
mouth Rocks, Wyandottes and Rhode
Island Reds should be Matched about
I a month earlier, as the pullets of
| these breeds are slower in maturing.
4 The professor states that where three
! matches of Leghcrn eggs are made n
/ the same incubator, the first hatch
ought to come off about March 20
! the second about April 10 and the
/ third April 80 to May 8. With the
heavier breeds the first hatch should
be taken off not later than March
and the third hatch not later than
April Is to 20.
A lover of good chickens tells us
that poultry fever is a good fairy al
work" In explaining why he says
/ at takes one into the open air, gets
one interested in live things, gives in
terest in something besides bad feel
ings, and puts one in line for bette.
health and longer life. If successful
we'll and good; if failure, more is
! gained than lost"
Animal feeds have a decided value
in ration of laying hens and pullets
Experiments made by Purdue showed
an average egg record of 14O.2 eggs
in a year from a pen of pullets fec
skim-milk; 1859 eggs from those tec
meat scrap; and 61.2 eggs from those
that received no animal feed of any
kind.
n,d Now Strawberry Clubs
4 The latest development OF tne i"i
, club idea seems to be solidly estap
I1ished in Illinois, where 740 boys ant
girls formed strawberry culture ciuo'
land obtained plants last year. Thes'
clubs secured 100000 plants OF th'
Dunlap variety alone in addition U
MANY others. The fact that these
clubs are working on profitable oa
sic insures their growth. The mem
hers are not as young as those IRE
ouentlv found in such clubs, beln;
mostly from IA to 20 years old, am
having their own ideas of the profits
to be made in berry and garden cui
ture.
Twentv-nine states are now cooper
, ating with the United States depart
ment of agriculture in estlmatln'
! crops and live stock.
, Tip Top Melons Moving
t The Vincennes and Decker district
5 of southern Indiana are once more !!
the lime light. Cause, why? Wei
cause they are once more feedln!
l Hoosierdom with their famous tt
| TOP breakfast melons, which may b.
: eaten at any hour, or all day, depend
ing on ones appetite. The first az
7 rivals reached commission row at IN
dianapolis, on Thursday and sold a
/ 81 per barrel. Evansville now re
: ports carlot shipments of cantaloupe
5 from Gibson county, for the first tim
this season, although earlier shlr