The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-07-12
The Farm and the Farmer
BY William r. sanborn

ers refused to bring their wheat II.
On putting the price back to 81 On
tuesday receipts were again liberal.
-FOUR cars had been taken in up to
Tuesday evening. Corn is lookiry
inner than silk" is the way Frank
tells it.
T. c. Loads Two Cars
We are loading two cars this after
noon," was the report from Fountai.
City, on Tuesday. 1t was stated thar
considerable wheat had been comi.-
IN direct from the machines and that
81 seemed to be an acceptable price
at that point Not all the farmers arc
selling, however, nor could such a con
dltion be expepted; still, the move.
ment Is said to be fairly free. The
top paid on the crop at the Fountain
City elevator was $102 up to Tuesday
night, that price being paid last week
1t rained around Williamsburg on
Monday night and on Tuesday morn
ing, and this put the threshers out &C
commission all day on Tuesday, so no
wheat was received during the day.
1t was said that one car was loaded
to go out on Tuesday night. Some
OF that wheat cost $102, the balance
was 81 article.
Sells Hogs by Sample
Edward Houston. of Welfare. Texas.
has built up paying business aad
attained to some local celebrity. by
selling Poland China hogs by sample
and guaranteeing his wares. The
hogs are trucked from one county
seat to another, as time permits, and
are displayed in the courthouse
squares. Orders are booked and the
hogs shipped C. o. d. on the dates as
signed. Mr.. Houston has been follow
ing this method for some years and it
is said that about IS per cent of the
pure-bred hogs around Welfare trace
their pedigrees back to his herd
What has been found to be a paying
proposition in Texas might be tried
by breeders in other states, according
to circumstances.
Increase In Tobacco Acreage
We believe the success of co-opera-
tive tobacco sales, notably in the bur
ley districts of Kentucky, to be large
ly responsible for the increased acre
age planted to tobacco this season
The government crop estimates as Of
July l, show a IS per cent increase
In tobacco acreage in Kentucky and
increases of SO per cent in Maryland,
20 per cent in Virginia, Is per cent in
North Carolina, 35 per cent in Tenn
essee, "A per cent in Ohio and %
per cent in Indiana
They Plan to Celebrate
Celebration of the tenth anniversary
of the organization of the Cape Girar-
deau County farm bureau. August 10
at Cape Girardeau will be marked by
a parade of Missouri county farm bu-
reaus represented by floats, horse
shoe pitching contest to decide the
championship of Missouri and Illinois,
and a speaking program that features
James R. Howard, president of the
American Farm Bureau Federation
A street dance with old-fashioned
country dances and old-fashioned fid-
dler's contest will conclude the night
program.
Purdue's New President
AS much interest attaches to the
attachments of DR. Edward c. Elliott.
president-elect of Purdue, we find the
following article from the Breeders
Gazette, of Chicago timely and well
worth printing Says the editor of
mat we'll huONu live STOCK journal. .
DIR. Edward C. Elliott, president
elect of Purdue University, has a repu-
tation for business ability as well as
high standing in the educational field
A graduate of the University of Ne
| braska he shows a true westerner's
sympathy for agriculture. DR. Elliott
is AZ years old, and a native of Chica-
go. The family moved to North Platte.
Neb., in 1880, where the father oper-
ated the village blacksmith shop.
After graduating from the Univer-
sity of Nebraska DR.. Elliott taught
school. resigning from the superin-
tendency OF the public schools OF
Leadville, Col, to pursue advanced
training at Columbia University and
abroad. He received his doctors de-
gree in 1905, and Immediately joined
the staff of the University of Wiscon-
sin. becoming head of the department
of education and teachers training in
1909. In 1915 he became chancellor
of the University of Montana, from
which position he comes to the presi-
dency of Purdue University.
"Dr. Elliott has done special work
for the Federal Bureau of Education.
for New York City and the Vermont
Educational Inquiries, and is now a
member Of the financial inquiry COM
mission which is making a nation
wide study of educational expendi-
lures. He had charge of the students
army training corps in the northwes:
during the war, and served as an ad-
visor to the war department commit
tee on special training He has been
member of the National Educa tional
Association for % years, and was
president of the department of higher
education in 1917. He also is fellow
in the American Association for the
Advancement of Science"