The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-08-24
The Farm and the Farmer
BY William r. sanborn


cattle are concerned Mr. Parker
SAID he reduced his wheat acreage
last fall, only sowing 80 acres, which
produced but light yield of good
wheat He says that his SIS acres of
corn looks fine and that the rain on
Wednesday was great help, as rain
was beginning to be needed up his
way.
Butter, Eggs and Cream
The various country cream stations
IN this district are paying, OF the ay-
erage, 81 cents a pound for cream,
and retailers are taking in eggs at 20
cents per dozen, as rule Chickens
remains at low level, country deal.
ers paying 16c to tic a pound for
mems and 21c and &c for broilers.
from the farmers viewpoint eggs
nave almost been given away this
summer, but the professional poultry
men are complaining the most, as they
oQy regular egg producing rations,
winch are still high Eggs, however,
are now up cents from the bottom,
winch was 16 cents, in Richmond, and
IA to l6 cents in the country. This
is the moulung season and most OF
the layers are on strike. It is not
lnougnt that eggs will again decline
| tnls fall. 1t is fact, however, that
there are millions Of cases in cold
storage at the principal storage cen
ters. Eggs are being handled and
shipped comparatively in large way,
! IN some states, to the substantial ben
eft of the producers, and the idea is
! spreading in farm bureau circles.
Russia to Export Wheat
&c al
intends to export a portion of he-
wheat crop this fall, not because the
people do not need every bushel. but
! because their principal crops are
grown III Southern Russia, and their
transportation is so completely wreck.
ed that they are unable to ship the
grain to northern Russia, which is al
ways a large importer from the south.
1T is now stated that Russian authori-
ties plan to sell all the grain not need
ed in the sections where grown and to
buy grain from Liverpool, also other
foodstuffs, from which point the sup
ply can be laid down close to the
points where needed. The grain taken
/ to Black Sea ports could be shipped
! to Greek, Italian and other markets,
sold for cash and the money used to
tons of the empire 1t is expected
that the United States, Canada and
South America will furnish most of
the grain that Russia will import
much of it going direct to that coun-
try.
i Iowa State Fair
Entries in the live stock show for
1922 at the Iowa State Fair indicate
by wide margin. In some of the
classes the increase has been as much
as 100 per cent over 1921
The increase has been especially no.
ticeable in the boys and girls classes.
One hundred and sixty calves were
entered in 1921, while there are 300
/ this year. The pig clubs of the state
have entered over 500 head Other
classes in the junior department are
similarly setting records
i Eat More Pork Campaign
In view of the great number of hogs
reaching market, and the recent large
decline in prices. Wallace's Farmer
advocates an Eat More Pork" cam
paign, giving its reasons, as follows.
Il while it is probable that hogs will
Jcontinue for some time to sell much
I
becoming increasingly evident every
week that an over-production of hogs
is coming on. The packers have be-
gun already to predict six-cent hogs
for this next winter. Ordinarily we
have very little faith in packers pre-
dictions. the packers being notorious
ly wrong In the winters of 1916-1917
and again last winter This winter,
however it seems almost inevitable
that there will be a much larger sup
ply of hogs on the market than was
the case a year ago, and that the only
thing which can keep the price from
going dangerously low is a great in
Icrease in consuming demand.
Eve began last February talking
about the need of an Eat More
Pork" campaign in the fall of 1922.
The national meat board, which should
presumably put on this campaign.
seems to be organizing very slowly.
If the national meat board can not be
made to function in this matter, we
suggest that the American Farm Blu
reau Federation take up this matter
directly with the Chicago packers. An
Eat More Pork" campaign is one of
the most important problems before
the corn belt farmers at the present
time During the past year, fairly
good prices for hogs have kept corn
belt farmers afloat in spite of the low
corn prices. If we are to have low
hog prices and low corn prices this
coming winter we shall face an al
most unbearable situation. No stone
should be left unturned in putting over
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