The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-12-08
Lux COMES BACK

To have grown the best 10 ears of
corn ever shown at the Chicago Inter
national Hay and Grain show may be
considered great honor and this re-
CARELESS of the prize money and rib
bons won, and the national publicity
therefore attained. This honor re-
fleets first on the farmer, then upon
his state, county a1d township, as
we'll as upon the particular strain of
corn represented in the winning.
AS all corn growers are aware Peter
]. Lux, of Shelbyville. Ind, was crown
ed corn king in 1918 In 1920 c. E.
Troyer, of La Fontaine, Wabash coun-
ty, Ind, succeeded Mr.. Lux as corn
king and this year the fight narrowed
down to the Lux and Troyer 10 ear
exhibits of white corn, both of these
having outclassed all exhibits of vel
low corn in the fight for sweepstakes
henors at Chicago on Wednesday.
Illinois carried of the grand cham
pionship in 1921, and J L. Workman,
of Sangamon county, was the winner
After two years the blue ribbon is
returned to Peter Lux and to Shell
byviIle, in the Hoosier state.
The Lux exhibit was grown in a
field that averaged aighty-three bush
els to the acre and that of Troyer
from one on which the average was
seventy-nine bushels.
Frank Lux, IA year old son of Peter
Lux, won the junior championship IN
1921, but this year Glen Phares, OF
Shelby county, Ind. annexed thai
honor. Glen is the son of schoo
teacher and is 13 years old.
More than one hundred club boys
and girls are now touring the city anC
are taking in all the sights and point:
of interest in Chicago. The young
sters are the guests of the Board o.
Trade, the packers, implement makers
and bankers and are surely having the
! time of their lives. A number of chap
erones from the home states are il
charge of them.
Available Farm Lands.
The department of agriculture ha!
just issued bulletin entitled. Farm
Lands Available for Settlement,
which shows that il you are in ques
Of good farm land you will find rathel
slim picking, as the era of free frs
class land in this country has ended.
But the bulletin is interesting never
theless. 1t tells US a whole lot abou
our farm acreage, the dry spots. deser
lands, cut-oyer acreage, irrigated pro
jects, etc.
The writer goes on to state that
while much Of the unoccupied land Il
suitable for some kind of agriculture
use, the prospective settler should real
lie that the undeveloped land nov
available for settlement can be bough
under cultivation at gradually increas
ing cost and effort and in many cases
with comparatively small return from
the land itself"
"Of nearly half the area of contin
entail United States not in farms 40
100000 acres are absolute desert o
too rugged to cultivate; 270,000,00
acres are forests or cut-over land, ant
100000 acres are in the semi-arit
west and suitable only for grazing"
The bulletin points out and de
scribes briefly the land in the United
States available for settlement, anC
tells the prospective settler something
about the conditions he may expec
to meet, the types of farming prevail
ing in the different districts, and thu
agencies to which he may apply TO
information. 1t states that the settle
who is willing to undertake making
farm from logged-off or cut-over LAM
will find cheap land-s10 to $50 pc
acre-in the Great Lakes section, il
:. the southern pine section. and in TIL
&Pacific northwest, but that clearin
costs from $25 to $35 per acre in tn
Great Lakes and southern regions, an,
from $50 to 5000 per acre in the Pa
cific northwest.
Secretary WalIace's Report
Our readers in both city and cour
try should find a digest of Secretar
Wallace's report of interest. The pros
perity of the farmer is the prosperit
of the nation. broadly speaking, an
for that reason the entire report of tn