The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-08-12
The Farm and the Farmer
BY William r. Sanborn

not cakes, nearly 100 bushels being
sofa locally on THURSDAY. They are
also selling home grown apples. nice
ones We are told at around two cents
d pound by the bushel. Peaches win
De rucked in daily for some time. so
tbs promised.
Certified Potatoes Paid
The report of G.. A. Roser NJ F-,rk
I'm county, Ind, is good evidence If
the value of planting certified seed
potatoes. Mr. Roser dug 236 bushels
OF potatoes from each acre where he
used early Ohio seed and only )
bushels e acre where he used the
pest OF his own seed of the same va
rlety. T. C.. BeaI, county agent
weighed the potatoes as they wer :
Jug rom each row and recorded 1
exact figures.
Club and Extention Work
The two following items, which ara
" ee1eraI interest to our farmers
nave been furnished us from Wash
Ington' IN connection with a lot of
o1aer matter relating to farming:
rarm women enrolled in agricuI.
IurdI extension poultry clubs last
year raised 2,0S3,127 STANDARDIZED
chckens. They received for chick
ems n poultry products sold, s1.617..
So IN ADDITION to the supply pro-
ouced for home use.
One ndr and thirty-six thous-
dnn1 our hundred and forty-one bows
and girls were enrolled IN apricn,tT,.I
unsion clubs IN 1921 for training
~ various phases of livestock work.
1nese junior farmers owned, last wear
76,14S head of farm animals and ss
286 fowls, representing a total vsIna
of s3.605,176." ue
Orange Judd Farmer Editori.I
There is so much truth and so,r3
sense In the following editorial fror,
the Orange Judd Farmer. of Chicago
mat We take pleasure in printinq II
1or the benefit of our readers. This i
d ume for serious thought not alone
oy the suffering public, but on the mar
or strikers who have brought Ioss ard
suffering on SO many and are threaf-
enlng to still further impoyerisb
thousands of their fellow citizens
VINO nave no part in their quarrel II
tnrough me tying up of trains fruits
are lert TO rot in the orchards and
melons IN the fields, who is benefit
teo No one. And if coal cannot he
mined, or If mined, cannot be moved
ana labor is made idle what Them
MS Is what the Orange Judd edjtox
says about it:
Inc coal strike and the railroad
strike have reached a point where tho
partlal dlsc~ontinuance of of labor on
these TWO basic industries. is seriously
lnJurng the farmers of the countrv
Trans are being discontinued move
ment OF grains DELAYED or prevented
al the critical thrashing period. and
general marketing conditions disturb
eo- Inc government is moving TO
Iorce maintenance of as much service
as possible and has already issued
orders looking to control of coal dis
and to coal r~ationing in ac-
cordance with paramount necessities.
AS the situation grows more acute
there is an increasing disposition on
the part of the public to demand !
settIement, any kind of a settlement
and this Impotence is likely to loss
sight of fundamental things and urge
action that is not only economicaJIv
unsound but will give US permanent
injustice as the price of temporary re-
lief"
h Basis of the Trouble
The basis of the trouble is the de-
termination upon the part OF those
employed IN r~ailroading and coal min
ing not to join with the rest of the
people in accepting an adjustment
from war time to peace time condi-
tons. When we talk about wages.
if we will just remember that the dol
lars received are important only as
they represent what other people pro-
.duce and have for sale. we will get a
clear view of what is involved.
When the coal miner or the rail-
road nan or the mine owner or the
railway stakeholder demands tho>
same income in dollars that they {
Joyed two years ago they are asking
for more bushels of corn or wheat.
more pounds of meat or quarts of
milk, h a they were getting two years
ago. The reverse of this is hat the
farmer for his labor in producing these
things is getting less coal and less
transportation than he is entitled to
under any fair exchange of labor eff
fort.
Their can be no general prosperity
and no just settlement of this contro-
versy until the purchasing power of
industrial labor comes TO a basis OF
equality with the purchasing power
of farm labor