The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-07-13
The Farm and the Farmer
BY William r. Sanborn

ers from adjoining counties will need
neither passports or credentials in
order to join in the festivities.
another event of considerable in
terest, especially to poultry growers.
has been set for Saturday. July %
This will be Poultry Field Day in
Union county. and the "doings" will
be pulled off at the A. A. Graham
farm. Mr.. Graham is noted for the
size OF his poultry flock and for the
number of fine chickens on his place.
Monroe Farmers to Organize
Inc farmers of Monroe township,
Preble county, are to meet at the cen
trail school building on THURSDAY
evening to discuss the organization OF
a township live stock shipping asso-
citation. No cooperative shipping as
| sociations have yet been organized in
Preble, but it is expected that Monroe
will be duly organized if not on
thursday evening, then at some early
date. A. F. Potter, who is connected
with the stock shipping department of
the state farm bureau, will address
the meeting on Thursday night.
Fine Stand Of Alfalfa
| There is 80 acre field Of alfalfa
at Reidston, just east of CenterviIle
on the National road, which NAV be
considered as out of the ordinary.
The alfalfa was sown in oats and
since the latter has been cut the al
falfa can be noted as standing higher
than the oat stubble. And more than
that. it is beginning to bloom, which
is unusual thus early the first season.
| 1T is not unlikely said Arthur
| Curme, that we shall get one cutting
! Of the crop this year, the way it now
looks" An inspection of this field
shows that the stand is as fine as
might be seen anywhere in the alfalfa
districts, being very heavy and of a
rich, healthy green color.
Federal Aid to Farmers
| The extent to which the govern
ment assisted in giving aid to the
American farmer and live stock grow
er in the recent period of financial
! strtngency is shown in the report OF
the War Finance corporation for the
fiscal year ended June 80.
In the eighteen months since the
war Finance corporation resumed op-
erations it has authorized loans total
ing s363,000,00O, of which $4,000, 900
was to assist in financing exports
and S310,000,000 for agricultural and
live stock purposes. OF the total
amount S2S4,000.000 had been actual
ly advanced, divided into $246,000, 900
for agricultural and live stock pur-
poses and $50 100000 for export pur-
poses. When the corporation resum-
ed in January, 1921, it had S111.000
600 in loans outstanding Now the
o1
all loans since Jan l, 1921, amounted
to s15S.956, POI.
For Better Field Seeds
For one year, beginning July l,
three of the most powerful agencies
for agricultural progress will work
together under a specific agreement
to make available for Missouri farm
ers larger supply of high grade field
seeds. By this agreement the State
Board of Agriculture, the Missouri
Corn Growers association and the
Missouri college of agriculture are
closely joined in the work of encour-
aging the production of improved field
seeds, in the inspection and certifica-
ton and in the distribution of these
seeds
Stocks of beef in cold storage on
June 1, 1922, were but little over half
those in storage last year and only
slightly more than one-third the five
year-average stock, according to the
United States Department of Agricul-
ture.
Invasion of Grasshoppers
Since late winter the United States
Department of Agriculture has been
advising farmers in the Northwest to
prepare early for grasshopper control
this season by ordering poisoning ma
terial well in advance of Matching
time. Reports received indicate that
grasshoppers are already doing ire
mendous damage in eastern Montana
and Wyoming, over widely scattered
area, where precautions have been in
adequate. The pest will last six or
eight weeks, or until about the middle
of August The Bureau of Entomol-
ogy has four men in the territory
helping in control work
Three breed associations, repre-
sentative of prominent breeds of beef
cattle, have appropriated funds to be
given to the county in Virginia re-
placing the greatest number of scrub
slres with pure-breds, according to
reports received by the Bureau of An
imal Industry. AS a result more than
100 scrubs have been replaced by
purebred animals in the last few
Blackford County Corn Contest
Twenty-Five Blackford County far
mers are enrolled this year in the five
acre corn growing contest which is
conducted each year by the Indiana
Corn Growers association and the
Extension department of Purdue uni
versity. As part of the local contest,
all will show ten ears of corn in a
county show early in the winter.
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