The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-06-10

We understand from chat with I
Foster Campbell. agricultural agent
for Union county, that smut is more
widespread than common in Union
this year Not that 1t is a generally |
serious menace TO the crop but taken |
in the aggregate there may be an APP
preciable percentage of loss at harvest
time. Regarding conditions generally
4 Mr.. Campbell states that owing to
rains and other early unfavorable con-
ditions some wheat growers are now
counting on but 20 per cent of an av-
erage crop. Some others claim that
their wheat is heading out in fine
shape and that they are anticipating
a satisfactory harvest
The manager of the elevator at
Kitchell Is not over-sanguine as to
some of the wheat in his immediate
section Of the country. He said on
Friday afternoon that there was COM
plant that much of it was not head
ing out as we'll as had been expected
earlier. Says that in several instan-
ces the wheat is not only heading
short but that grains are few, and, as
he says, such wheat cannot show well
> in the threashing machine. He says,
however, that not all the wheat in his
: district, or in the county, is subject
to that description. There are some
fields that are showing up better than
, others, which is, of course, the usual
? condition in any wheat country.
+ Gustafson For Senator
: The members of the U. S. Grain
Grower family in this section, as well
! as co-operators generally, will be in
e terested in the announcement that c.
H. Gustafson, head of the Grain Grow
ers and American farm bureau Off
: cial, is being entered in the senatorial
l. race by his friends in Nebraska. j.
y A. Crawford, representative of the
d Grain Growers at Lincoln, announces
l. Mr.. Gustafson's candidacy for the
e Republican nomination at the July
l. primaries. Mr.. Gustafson headed the
S committee of seventeen out of which
J. the Grain Growers emerged, also the
o committee of fifteen which put over
t. live stock marketing by the farm bu-
y reau, and has been erstwhile response.
a BILE for Farmers Equity wheat pools
e in the northwest.
e His Greatest Need
We have an idea that Ebenezer
Podstarter isn't the young farmers
real name, because of all the thous-
ands OF farmers we know, there is not
Podstarter in the whole shooting
= match. Be this as 1t may the editor
= of Pathfinder relates the following
, IAN Ohio farmer received this letter
from a young man who had been pay.
ing attention to his daughter: deer
e sur: / wood like to marry your daw'
e ter Maybe. she IL in luv with me and
d j need a wife no more at present from
Il yures trewly Ebenezer Podstarter"
e The farmer In reply wrote him this
n letter: Friend Ebenezer: You don't
II need wife: what you need seems u
n be a spelling book. Get one and study
n it for a year, and then write me
st again"
a. A story of that caliber is somewha,
1t of libel on the young farmer Of this
st generation, but in some offices joke
on the farmer is always in order.
1t Heavy Steers at High
st Packers bid the highest dollar o.
n, the year for heavy steers at Chicago
'e this week Armour paid $3.50 for tive
y loads averaging 1,475 pounds, or
Thursday, which was 10 cents over the
previous high for steers of this class
Yearlings averaging 1,O43 pound:
brought 1856 on the same date, while
common to fair beef steers ruled II
III cents lower on the day. A small
y bunch of hogs sold for $11 at Chicago
on June s. Owing to excessive sup
ply sheep and lambs have been on thu
n of the week.
: Board Of Trade Objects
~ Representative Board of Trade mel
are in Washington to fight the provis
~ tons of the new Capper-Tincher grail
ut law in the hearings being held by tn
ne house committee. E. L. Gates, of tn
re Chicago board declared that ''the nev
bill carried a degree of control tina
ba Is unwarranted; that it an attemp
no through the commerce clause of tn
tn constitution to put future trading ur
in der the control of the secretary Q
"a | agriculture, and that the measur
would enable the secretary to bull
,s. I'D a powerful political machine"
a Senator Capper has his war paint or
nd He says that the new bill will use tn
"a same weapon that was used TO pu
ho the Louisiana lottery out of business
cb inasmuch as it denies future trader
X the use of the mails. Capper call
them gamblers"
In this connection it will be pc
hn tinent to mention a resolution adopte
ed by the Millers' National federation {
ng its meeting held the first week
aw June. as follows: I'VE oppose unr
It'll stricted speculation in grain as harm
al full to the farmer, miller, the distrib1
In tor and the consumer" To this W
wv may personally add the baker" who's
he contracts for flower are frequent
made months in advance of its us
This refers to bakers who buy in ca
lots. Sometimes the flour is conside
ably lower in price on date of deliver
than on the day the purchase VIZ
w made, and vice versa, flour being {
| speculative as wheat, or nearly so.
For Live Stock Comfort
The humane farmer always seel
md to minimize the worry that inse
,,iil pests cause the animals on his plac
wv Now that the season when flies w
ms poster cattle, horses, and even Il
On. family dog. is at hand. mention
tho remedies which afford relief is tim
yed ly.
tho A man claiming to be an authori
contributes the following prescrlptio
fer and says it will provide absolute pr
var lection: Alcohol, two ounces; penn
cir royal, one ounce; fish oil, one-hs
M. pint. These ingredients can be bong
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