The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-08-05


large city, daily, for local use and re-
shipment as desired, may be CLEANED
from this statement of Wednesday, !
receipts at Chicago. After stating
that prices on potatoes were &c higher
on bulk carloads, and % cents lower
on barrelled stock, the reporter says
there were receipts of 35 cars, with
178 cars on track" He next reports
the arrival of 80 cars of peaches, 125
cars of watermelons, 104 cars of can
taloupes, 10 cars of apples, 33 cars of
onions and 81 cars of oranges, all on
track on Wednesday"
Nor was this at all out of the ordi-
nary: as matter of fact the receipts
for the day were light, compared to
many days of the year. When it is
further considered that Chicago is in
the very heart of the trucking district
and that thousands of truck loads of
vegetables and melons are now truck
ed in from nearby farms every week,
together with fruits in season, the
immensely of it all is most impressive.
We all are familiar with the Hamp-
shirt Belt type of hogs, with its broad
white stripe, but the dutch Belted
dairy COW is almost unknown in the
west. In fact there are comparatively
few of them in the entire country.
Still they are in sufficient numbers to
warrant an association and national
secretary, the latter being j. A. Kirby.
of Covert, Michigan. A number of
these COWS have been on official test
and among the records hung up was
one by Ferndell, of Florida, who pro-
duced IS, 448 pounds of milk and 501.9
pounds of butterfat in one year. An
other COW of this breed, Fritzie, owned
by a Maine dairyman, has a record
11,347 pounds of milk, produced in
1921. 1t is interesting to know that
the first COWS of this lineage were
imported from Holland as circus ami
mails.
Farm Bloc Will Grow,
John Snure, a writer on agricultural
topics, sees evidence that the farm
bloc in congress is not only going
concern of considerable importance,
but that it is destined to grow. He
intimates that the fall elections will
furnish proof of this contention. Writ
ing in Farm Life Mr.. Snure remarks:
Glib political talk followed by non
performance is not passing muster
with the farmers today as we'll as It
formerly did and there are indications
of increasing political mortality in a
good many parts of the Union as a re-
suit.
In the last year, there has been
much criticism of the agricultural
bloc in congress-criticism proceeding
from interests hostile to agriculture
or out of touch with agriculture. But
this criticism has weighed little with
the country as a whole. Proof of it
will be seen in the new congress
which will take office in March of next
year and will be elected in November.
The new congress will be more pro-
nounced in favor of giving a square
deal to agriculture and the farmer
th"~ the present congress.
ct is worth while taking note of the
fact that the Esch-Cummlns transpor-
tation act has been an issue in a num-
Der of states and congressional dis
tricts. The farmers have been insist
ing for many months on the over
hauling of this law.
Numerous men in congress, senate
and house, who have sat silent and in
active when they might have done
something effective to get helpful
railroad legislation will be found in
due time to be quietly passing out of
public life and back into private ex-
istence. And while this congress will
evidently do nothing to help solve the
troublesome railroad and freight rate
! problem most vital one for the
farmers and shippers-the new con.
gress is quite likely to feel called on
to do something"
Great Horse Shoe Pitching
You may think you are some horse
shoe pitcher. You should consider the
records made by G. E. Snyder of Itha-
/ ca, New York, the other day In three
fifty-point games he threw forty-six
! ringers, and eight double ringers
! These are the figures furnished US by
fDirector Mann, of the New York State
| College of Agriculture at Cornell Uni
versity and they must be accurate
though they seem amazing MrSny
| der is a fruit grower at Albion, and he
was the Empire States champion al
! the national tournament in Florida
| last winter.
at is not generally realized that
many vegetables can be planted this
month with good results. Beets and
]
/ er crops, will mature before freezing
Celery can be set, spinach sowed an6
bunch beans planted. A favorable
/ fall will mature them ALL says q
gardener who claims to know all
about late planting.
] Canadian Grain Crops
Much interest centers in Canadian
grain production, as for export con
sumption we are practically one coun
try, foreign buyers wanting spring
wheat bidding for cargoes from boil
countries freely, and this regardless
of the states or provinces where
! grown. 1t is merely a question o.
price and shipping rates.
For this reason American grair
j dealers and spectators watch tht
Canadian fields and markets closely
some of them going to the expense O.
] keeping crop estimators in the Cana
dian provinces in the growing season
In quoting a report received from the
! representative of a Chicago house, tn,
market editor of the Chicago Tribune
i says:
j "a wheat crop of 320.0O0,000 blu. II
the three Canadian northwestern prov
inces is shown by the detailed Gle