The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-10-17
The Farm and the Farmer
BY William n. sanborn

farmer, 1t will be well to remember
that the worlds crop and the worlds
demands figures more largely in the
making of our home prices than does
any possible tariff law that we could
enact Were we now to have a tariff
OF IS per bushel on wheat it is a prac-
tical certainty that it would not add
one cent a bushel to the price at New
York, Chicago, or on farms in Wayne
county.
This is because we are not import
ers OF wheat. We raise enough and
to spare, in fact are heavy exporters
of that cereal. True it is that heavy
import tax on Canadian wheat pre-
vents dumping of surplus Canadian
grain at our milling points. But that
matters but little. The Canadian sur
plus will all be marketed and this
too In competition with our own. We
must meet that competition in Eng
land, and on the continent, the final
market of the surplus wheats of ali
export countries, including Argentina,
Manchuria, India, Australia, Canada,
etc.
American Farm Labor
With reference to the efficiency of
American farm labor as compared VITA
farm labor and production in other
countries, E. c. Young of the farm
management department, of Purdue.
recently said:
'The European farmer has been
held up as an example to the Ameri-
can farmer because of the high yields
of crops obtained per acre. In Amer
lea land has been plentiful and labor
has been scarce and high prices; in
Europe the opposite has been more
largely true. The result has been that
the American farmer sacrificed high
yields so that one man could care for
more acres of crops"
In statistics recently published by
the department of agriculture it was
shown that the highest yields of crops
obtained in Europe were in Belgium.
The yields of crops per acre in Bel
GUM were approximately two times
the yield per acre in the United States
as whole. But the production OF
crops per man in the United States
was approximately two times the pro-
duction per man in Belgium; five
times that in Italy and two times that
in the United Kingdom and France.
Human beings are the nations greatest
natural resources. 1t is just as i'm
portant to conserve labor as it is
to conserve land, forests or any other
natural resource. The wealth of a
nation is largely measured in terms
of the production of days labor.
Negro Farmers Progressing
A colored farm community in Lee
county, Arkansas, furnishes an exam
pie of substantial progress made by
negro farmers who have benefited
from agricultural extension work. OF
the rs families in this community, so
own their own farms, comprising al
most 1000 acres and valued at about
100000. In accord with the safe
flaming system advocated in extension
workers in Southern states, these fam
lilies for the most part raise food and
feed sufficient to meet the needs o.
themselves and their stock each year,
by growing corn, legumes, hogs, poui
try and good gardens, in addition to
their cotton crops
Peas Grown for Windbreaks.
To use peas as windbreaks to pro
tect growing plants from the heavy
winds which occur in that island is an
idea of the experiment station, in
Gaum, Philippine Islands. The depart
ment of agriculture is responsible for
this statement. 1t says that the pigeon
pea, grown in such experiments, is
planted around the garden in double
rows. 1t makes thick growth, reach
ing height of 10 to Is feet, bears
large quantities of edible peas, and is
effective without replanting for two
or three years. 1t is not stated wheth-
er or not the pigeon pea would grow
in North America, but it seems not un-