The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-01-24

man well informed as to live stock
and things agricultural, sounds a note
of warning and makes some sane COM
ment which we feel should be passed
along, for what it may be worth to
our readers. There is such a thing
as state of mind aggravating and
exaggerating real troubles to a point
where mental depression is real him
derance to recuperation," says the
writer
THE Gazette warns farmers in par
ticular against overindulgence in what
is sometimes called self-pity. 1t is a
bad disease. Do not give way to it
if you can possibly avoid it. Farmers
generally have no means of knowing
the depressed condition of our manu-
featuring industries. They have no
way of knowing how hard business
men in great centers of population
have been hit. The farmer who fan
cies that he has got the whole charge,
and both barrels at that is therefore
laboring under a delusion. If farmers
knew the load that thousands of bust
ness men and hundreds of commercial
banks are carrying today it might help
them to realize that the farmer is not
the only sufferer"
Farmers Can Come Back
You otter hear farmers say, I
don't want my boys to have anything
to do with farming. They can fit
themselves for any other business
they like And so we see farmers
sons in the universities being educated
to be engineers and everything but
farmers. How many engineers are
making living today? How many
are out of jobs? Plenty, we should
say. Their business is in no better
shape just now than is the farmers,
but just because farming is Temporal
lily in distress a lot of folk talk about
Its never coming back; talk as if any
other line of work is sure to give bet
ter returns for the future Is this rea-
sonable? Is it logical? Is it sensible?
Or is it just the reaction of minds de-
pressed by recent losses?
1T is time for some thinking not for
giving way to impulse. A little steadi-
ness, a lot of patience, and now and
then a smile, will help"
To Cut Corn Acreaqes.
The farm bureau of Illinois took
definite action on the proposition to
L
resolution adopted at the state meet
ing declares that the United States of
American has the largest corn surplus
in its history, "a surplus so far ex-
ceeding the demand that prices are
far below the cost of production"
The resolution declares that income
and soil fertility will both be in
creased by growing less corn and more
Ip0nmpS and tho
record as favoring a minimum cut of
Is percent in land planted to corn
next spring
Getting down to brass tacks as to
how this should be accomplished il
was recommended that the president
and secretary of the state association
the decrease among the
various counties. Special efforts are
to be made to bring other states into
line, so as to make action as nearly
unanimous as possible.
When Farmers Kill Hoos.
The difference between the cost of
home-killed pork and the cost on the
butcher block, also the value of the
meat on the farm as compared to the |
market price of the hog. explains the
economy in butchering and curing on
the farm
Over in Grundy county Illinois. the
farm bureau recently staged a series
OF butchering demonstrations for the
benefit of the membership. Forty
farmers attended the first demonstra-
uon, which was conducted by an ex- !
pert butcher who is also a farmer
Among the points emphasized at the
demonstration, were:
i. secure proper equipment before |
starting to butcher.
Z. For humane reasons shoot the
hog before sticking.
.. Test water for proper temper |
AZURE. 155 degrees, so that the hair
VIII be loosened properly and still nnf |
De set by too hot water.
4. Shave off dirt and hair after
Scraping.
5. Jerk off toes and loosen ribs |
and lard before carcass cools.
b. TRIM frams and shoulders in 4 |
shapely manner. Do not allow meal |
to freeze before cutting UP.
The Illinois university shows the !
economy and value of home butcher |
ing and curing with hogs worth 6 |
cents on the local market, as follows. |
Taking 225 pound hog at 6 cents. |
it would bring $1350 The same hog
will dress out $50 pounds of meat. |
which at reasonable retail price will |
bring $500, thus showing net profit |