The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-28

where, but in any flat country Inc oTy-
ing out of the fields is a much slower
process than in this section.
James Tilton, farmer near hopes
ton, H., who has been spending week
with his folks on North Twelfth street,
dropped in on US on Thursday. MI:
Tilton says tat the lands around
Hoopeston are so flat that 1T was
found necessary to make survey IN
order to find the direction to run
bitches to get sufficient fall to drain
the land Only small oats acreage
has been put in so far and the SOIL
has been entirely too wet, he said, TO
do any breaking for corn.
Moldy corn has done much damage
to live stock in central Illinois this
season. While cattle have mostly es-
capped many horses died early from
foraging in the corn fields. This hap
pened principally before the farmers
realized what was wrong, said Mr..
Tilton, who lost couple of good four
year-old drafters before sensing the
true situation A neighbor also found
two good horses dead in his pasture
one morning.
Bought Percherons in Wayne.
A pretty choice bunch of Pereheron
horses were auctioned in Richmond on
March l. A fine stallion and two
mares which were in that sale are now
on the Tilton farm in Illinois, and it is
claimed that they are the best horses
in that section. The purchase was
made by one of Mr.. Tilton's boys who
shipped the horses to the home farm.
Horses are scarce on western farms
and will be still scarcer and in greater
demand later on, said Mr.. Tilton. 1t
is his opinion that this is favorable
time to raise colts and to buy and take
good care of brood mares. Harking
back to moldy corn he thinks that
much of the loss of spring pigs and
the advent of small and often weakly
filters, may have been caused by the
percent of diseased and moldy corn
eaten by the sows.
Once More In the Field
The crew of enthusiastic farmers
who have been helping to put the U. S.
Grain Growers organization on the
Wayne county map are back on the
job and hard at work. They opened a
conference of all the solicitors at work
in Indiana at Indianapolis last Satur-
day, at which the new contract re-
garding the work and pay of the soil
citors was discussed and accepted. The
boys in this field are making no COM
plant. of the new schedule, but are
going right ahead to sign up as large
a wheat acreage as possible, the num-
Der of bushels being considered more
| important than the number of signers,
as one of them stated. This crew plans
| to clean up every township in the
| county before moving on.
The next general meeting of the
| Grain Growers is to be held at Chicago
/ in June. In. the meantime James K.
Mason of Milton and who was elected
active vice president at the convention
/ in March, is also acting as treasurer.
| He has been succeeded by T. l. Ferris
as Indiana director and state organ
| iZer, who is now pushing the member
ship campaign. A total of S,107 in this
state was shown by the returns sent
out on April 10. on that date Ne
braska reported 10,0S7 members. A
hot campaign is now being made in
Iowa in the hope of reaching the 10000
mark by July 1.
| News of the Crops
| A decrease of Is per cent in the oats
acreage in the so-called surplus states
| is indicated by returns to. the Price
Current-Grain Reporter. Corn acreage
will probably be the same as last year
in the aggregate. In Ohio % per cent
of the oats acreage has been seeded
so far; Indiana, 10: Illinois, 20; Mis-
souri,, "a; Iowa, Sc; Minnesota, %;
South Dakota, As; North Dakota,
inone Nebraska, 70; Kansas, 60; Okla
homa, 80 per cent.
Seeding of oats and spring wheat
made good progress in the central and
western portions of the belt, according
to the government weekly weather and
crop report Progress of winter wheat
was generally very good from the great
plains eastward except for flood dam
age on lowlands. Crop still lacks vital
ity in western Kansas. Preparation oil
corn land made better progress in cen
trail districts as a result of improved
soil conditions. Planting has begun as
far north as Oklahoma, Tennessee, and
North Carolina.
Don't Plunge on Hogs"
We are printing the following advice
not plunge on hogs recently set ou
by Ohio university. as a matter of in
terest to our readers, without com
ment. The reader is amply able tt
Judge for himself as to the. value of the
information given, as follows:
Comparisons of corn and hog price:
. over a period of years confirm rura
/ economists of the Ohio State univer
sity in an opinion. previously express
ed that the farmer is wise who re
fuses to plunge on hogs at this time.
, According to economic history
high point in hogs when opposed to
/ low point in corn prices means a re
, versal within IS MONTHS says R.
| Taber, extension economist, who con
Quoted the study.
ut is explained that hog and corr
price ratios are figured by ASSUMING
11.2 bushels of corn equivalent to 10
pounds live weight in hogs under Obi
conditions. On this basis, hogs soil
: in 1915 al nine times the corn equiva
: lent, and in 1916 at II times this price
D For succeeding years the ratio raj
1 around 10 and IL up to 1921, when
: jumped to IA.
Last February hogs were quote
: at a price 10 times of corn. Thi
+ IS the widest ratio between corn an
!, hog prices that has existed in tn
Y past u years" Mr. Taber says. "Als
= chart of hog prices shows them hi'
n ting bottom once every four to ST
years. The last low mark was 4
e 1917.
: Again, the crop and carry-over c
e corn last season was the largest i
:. years, and government statistics shoV
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