The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-07-25

other towns in cars were too great to
be counted. A great many folks seem
to know just where to find the berries
and head for the right spots early in
the day. Most farmers do not objec.
to the pickers helping themselves, pro-
vldlng they do not breakdown fences
or fail to close gates, so that stock ,
cannot go astray. But the blackberry
season is nearing its end and those
VINO want to do their own picking
nave but few days to get a supply
Tor jelly. The roads in Center town
snip showed hundreds of folks out
after berries last Sunday. and the
roads south of Hiser's Station were
also very popular, there being many
good patches along these south roads
and on number of farms. AS one
| farmer remarked some of these folks
| nave been coming this way Deriving
for several years, SO we have gotten
to know them
1t is reported from Franklin, Ind.
that the record crop of wheat in John
son county this year was grown on
the j. E. Terman farm, in White town
, ship, and ran 377s bushels. This was
the record of small field, but the
entire crop on this farm averaged %
bushels to the acre.
A number of Pike county peach
| growers are said to have laid in a lot
| OF feeder hogs, in order to make pork
j from peaches. in case the strike pre-
vents free shipments of fruit.
Culiing and Late MouIters
That cuiling the poultry flock to get
rid OF all except the vigorous, prolific
layers results in noticeable improve
ment In the progeny is shown by re-
cent investigation at the experiment
farm, Beltsville, Md The late moul-
/ tiers selected from a flock of 100
Rhode Island Reds in the fall Of 1920
laid seven more eggs per bird during
their second year than the original
flock as pullets. They were used as
/ breeders the following spring, and the
/ first Red pullets to commence LAYING
in the fall of 1921 were found to be
! the offspring of these late-moulting
hens Their pullets in a period OF
seven months have already averaged
about two dozen eggs per bird more
than the original flock
But it is not alone in number OF
! eggs that the late-moulter's progeny
excel, but also in the value of the
product, as the distribution was more
even, much larger proportion of the
i eggs being laid during the wintnr
months In the last seven months the
! daughters of the late moulters not or
! ly averaged two dozen eggs per bird
more than the original flock, but the
value of their product was, figuring
a hn 81
bird more during the same period 1t
/ is expected that this margin will in
! crease during the next five months
/ Big Saving to Sheepmen
i The Interstate Commerce commits
! sion's decision effected a freight saw
| ing of SIS to $40 car on sheep when
the sheep minimum was reduced for
| cars SO feet inches in length from
I $4,000 pounds to $4,000 pounds, an
i nounces the National Livestock ex-
l change. The decision effects sheep
! men in the territory east of the Mis-
f; sissipDi river south to New Orleans.
including Illinois, on shipments NOV
ing east of the Illinois-Indiana state
! line.
I A $4,000 pound minima for cars So
feet and inches long, and less than
40 feet, and 10000 pounds for cars
over 40 feet long, was established BY
the decision Railroads are required
/ to maintain the minima prescribed
after Aug. 10.
] Everett c. Brown, president of the
T! exchange, said that a reasonable esti-
mate of the saving to producers made
/ possible by the action of the national
+! exchange in this decision, coupled
with the decision in the mixed car
case reported recently, is $4,000, 900 to
! 100000 a year.
! Potatoes Damaged Greatly
The potato aphis during the early
! part OF June caused serious damage
on the eastern shore of Virginia. in
some cases reducing the crop Weld
one-half, according to estimates of
! growers reported to the Department
of agriculture. A specialist from the
Bureau of Entomology found on Wis
iting the region that in fields where
the insects were abundant just before
the potato had blossomed, the young
tender shoots had in many Instances
been completely killed Control by
natural enemies and fungous diseases
was doing much to reduce the num-
bers of the aphids Two applications
i of per cent nicotine dust made at
the Onley branch of the Virginia
Truck Experiment Station, under the
direction of the officials of that sta
ton, provided successful.