The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-10-31
The Farm and the Farmer
BY William r. sanborn

ILL.,, started the movement. and the In
ternatlonal Apple Shippers association
is cooperating with growers to make
the week success. One has to but
take look at the apples displayed
Wherever fruit is sold to note the
abundance of apples shown and that all
the favored varieties are on offer.
Growers have been taking I'D cooper
alive marketing Of apples of late and
IL seems certain that when the next
crop of apples come on the market the
great bulk of it will be sold in that
way through fruit associations which
VIII supervise and direct shipments to
al parts of the country. Pacific coast
ooxed apples are now all handled
through association pools which have
much to say about prices.
Roses Along the Roadway
An idea worth emulating has been
put into effect by the Riley club of
Ierre Haute. Now be it known that
the Riley club is composed of women
VINO formerly lived in Riley, which
lies southeast of Terre Haute, and
these ladies have decided to beautify
the Riley road with rose bushes. The
citizens of Riley have also fallen into
line and already ten miles of the road
has been planted to rose bushes. One
profuse display of 300 rambler roses
mas been planted near the spot where
Honey creek passes under the road
ana TINS will present gorgeous mass
OF color when in bloom next summer.
suppose this example was followed
between Richmond and the numerous
towns IN this radius; or that this plan
was carried out along every mile of
the National road in Indiana within
the next few years. Just imagine the
beauty of it all and its effect upon the
tourists who travel within our borders.
! FRED Seng, experienced in rice grow
| ing IN Louisiana, is now living near
! Jenersonyille and has satisfied him.
| sell that rice can be profitably grown
IN southern Indiana He planted 30
acres to an experimental crop last
! spring and harvested 100 bushels TO
the acre, now worth $3.50 per bushel.
Against this income is a heavy ex-
pense Tor irrigation on his tract of
Dottom land, so the net profits were
not large. Had the rice been grown
on larger scale he figures the propo-
sltlon as money-maker.
The Gunther farm of 80 acres. 10.
| Gated near Brighton, in Lagrange
county was purchased last week at a
cost OF $4,000 by Nicely and Leonard
OF Cincinnati. This farm was origin.
ally owned by Samuel Burnell, who
sold 1t to Charles F. Gunther, of Chi.
cago, nationally known candy manu-.
1acturer, the farm going to his widow
at his death. The farm was so broad.
~ advertised that around 500 prospec.
tive purchasers inspected the property
before the day of the sale.
rms being the tenth year of county
| agent work in Indiana the people OF
Laporte have decided to celebrate the
tenth anniversary of the event in a
lifting manner. The chambers of com.
merce of Laporte and Michigan CITY
are taking a hand in the preparations
and the date has been set. It will be
a three-day program, opening on Nov.
/ ~ and Purdue will cooperate in max
In gthe affair a success. Agricultural
addresses and other features calling
attention to the progress made by
farmers In the past 10 years under au.
spices of county agents, and the eff
forts OF the extension department of
the university, will lend special inter
est to the occasion. T. A. Coleman,
state county agent leader, says: I'm
diana has made wonderful progress in
an agricultural way during the last 10
years, and no small amount of the
credit is due to the effective work of
the agricultural agents. The Indiana
farmer is awake and is up and coming.
/ He is after new ideas, which he is an.
/ plying, and county agents are passing
along the newer and better things for
his benefit"
Largest in Five Years.
The receipts of grain at the primary
markets last week were the largest
for the season for five years, aggre.
eating more than 25 million bushels.
That there should be such a showing
in the face of complaints of car short
ages over such a wide area shows that
interior holders and farmers are sell.
/ ing more freely than in former years.
1t indicates that were more cars avail.
able the marketing would be still
larger. December wheat on Monday
closed fully cents higher than Oh
the same date in 1921, with December
corn almost 20 cents higher.
But while the situation as to grain
is more favorable to farmers, and we
have had fairly liberal advances in
recent weeks, that as to hogs is moi
so satisfactory. The top price of hogs
at Chicago last Saturday was 500
against 1915 on on Monday and So 81
the previous Saturday The days av
erage was $3.50 and that on the pre-
vious week was 1855. In the same