The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-08
The Farm and the Farmer
BY William r. sanborn

Many farm families usually found
| in the Richmond shopping district on
Saturday afternoons were conspicuous
| by their absence last Saturday, the
men folks remaining in their fields to
! take full benefit of every hour OF sun
/ shine But the streets were thronged
! in the evening, many cars being head
/ ed for town as soon as the chores
were done.
The regular monthly meeting of
| farmers il the Bethel district will be
/ held on Monday evening. W. H. Set
tie. district farm bureau director and
! the head of the new Producers Com
mission association at Indianapolis,
will discuss the advantages OF cooper
alive live stock shipping and market
ing in the interest of the new sales or
ganization. Every farmer is invited.
While tomatoes take up considerable
room in the garden nearly all farm
gardens are amply large to accommo-
date enough plants for use when
fresh and for canning. But if your
garden is small and you want lot of
| tomatoes, either in town or country,
plant some of the climbing varieties
along the fence, fronting either south
or west. All tomatoes will do consid-
cradle climbing in a season, if stakes
are driven and they are tied to them.
also the tendrills may be tied to board
fences up which they will climb and
where the fruit will ripen in the sun.
Northwest farmers had borrowed
$784,743 up to April 80, from the ST..
100000 appropriation made in the
seed loan act for the relief of the
farmers in the drought stricken area
| n
cants and the chairman of the seed
relief committee said that the entire
sum appropriated would likely be is
, sued by the middle of May.
Farm Loan Bond Issue
A farm loan bond issue of $4,000,
900 was offered for subscription by
the Federal Farm Loan bank, at Chi
, cago, this morning May 8. This is
one of the largest issues so far offer
ed and the interest rate is Az pei
cent. Several previous issues are
paying per cent but a cut was made
7 because of a general fall in rates, bu
the tax exemption feature makes the
! bonds a desirable investment, regard
less. These bonds will be sold at par
are to run 20 years, but are redeem
able after 10 years at the option O.
Iu0 government.
The interests which are fighting TO
free hides say that the proposed dut,
would react on the farmer and chief!
S benefit the packers, as cattle art
bought for meat rather than for leath
0 er. Shoe manufacturers say that while
0 the tariff would add less than $4,000,
8 900 to our revenues it is likely to in
3 crease the cost of heavy footwear
2 such as farmers and workingmen use
0 possibly $150,000,000, and would ais
O increase the cost of harness leather
2 This doesn't seem reasonable; i
6 means that American hide dealer
would advance the price of hides her
at home to the figures brought by dut.
paid foreign product, and that the tan
ners would add their bit accordingly
:. This means that every user of leathe
is to be held up, and particularly tn
farmer and cattle raiser who woult
!. get very little benefit of the advanc
r in hides and leather and would pa,
!. much more for shoes and harness. |
/. is figured that we annually impor
+ about As per cent of the hides tannet
!. in this country. We are speaking nov
+ of heavy hides and not of the goat an
sheep skins for soft feathers used b.
women and children. America Pre-
duces many sheep skins, of course.
9 Corn and Soybeans.
Tests at the university of Ohio con
pairing corn and soybeans with cor
alone strongly favor the corn-and-soN
e bean combination. Growing the tw
crops together has reduced the yiel
of corn six bushels to the acre, bu
eight and one-half bushels of soybean
&c have been produced instead, so tina
D. the feeding value of the mixture wa
g considerably higher than that of tn
corn alone.
For silage, the mixture has prt
duced as an average for three year,
, three tons more silage than cor
alone, and 1925 pounds more dry m;
terial. The tests indicate that drill
ing the corn and beans is better tina
t. checking them. AS to varieties, fo
t, Columbus and south, Peking, Virgini
W and Wilson are to be recommended
Is No difficulty has been found in ha
Wrestling the combined crops with