The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-09-02
The Farm and the Farmer
BY William r. Sanborn

ouy american agricultural products
out she is unable to pay for them
Europe will need about $4,000 oO0
more bushels of wheat than was i'm
ported last year because of the fall
ing off in European acreage planted
unfaVorable growing conditions and
lack of fertilizers. But Great Britain
is the only country in a condition to
become profitable consumer. We
may give grain to Russia, but we can
not sell to her. France is dependent
financially to large extent on Ger
manys ability to reha bilitate the
mark. Italy will not be a large buy
er and central Europe is virtually
bankrupt
Warning of I. w. Plans
When the attorney general of
state issues statement to the public,
as was done by that official in North
Dakota, on Thursday, in relation to
the /. w. w. and their treatment of
the farmers, it is certain to attract ma
tion-wide attention.
He states that $50 rapid has been
the growth of this organization that
crisis impends in crop raising com
munities." He further states that s.
600 members are enrolled in one city
alone, and that officials of the l. w
w. have instructed their working
members to keep their wage demands
so cents to 81 ahead of whatever the
| farmers may offer.
"In conclusion" says the attorney
| general, destruction of crops and
| property, and terrorism of the nature
/ practiced five or six years ago in some
western communities, is a part of the
! l. w. w program"
The farmers of the entire country,
and particularly of the wide and thin
| ly settled spaces of the northwest,
have had troubles in plenty in the
past two years, without being menaced
| by the curse indicated The picture
drawn by the attorney general of
North Dakota is doubtless true to life,
in view of the action of the l. w. W.
in the far west a few years ago, if
the press reports of their depredations
at that time were true,
New Live Stock Charges
A new set of rules for commission
charges was issued from Washington,
not for the entire country, but for the
Baltimore live stock exchange, on
1 Thursday. This exchange will be per
mitted to put into effect a new SEIZED
ule of commission charges for prorat-
/ ing cooperative shipments of live
i stock handled by its members under
an order of the packers and stock
\ yard administration.
! The order authorizes members of
the exchange to charge. in addition
to the regular commission rates on
I live stock: 81 a car when consigned
by more than one and not more than
five owners: $3.50 a car when con-
signed by more than five and not more
than ten: 81 a car for more than ten
and not more than twenty owners,
I and IS a car for more than twenty
owners. 1t was further ordered that
such rates would be held in effec,
until the inquiry into the matter is
fully completed.
\ Wheat Quality Below Average
The department of agriculture an
nounces that this years winter wheat
I is Al points lower in quality than the
ten-year average and 4S.7 per cent.
of the crop is below grade No. 2, &C
cording to reports and estimates an
nounced today by the department of
agriculture. The quantity grading be-
low No. was 40.4 per cent last year
and 29.5 per cent. in 1920. This years
grade No. l wheat was estimated AT
/ 1873 per cent. against 1877 per cent
| last year and 29.5 per cent. in 1920.