The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-12-12
The Farm and the Farmer
BY William r. sanborn

today, agriculture would not be under
going the depression it has pulled
through in the last two years" The
secretary was on hand to see the
crowning of the corn king, and he also
addressed 900 boys and girls at the
club banquet given by the Chicago
Board of Trade to club members, at the
central Y. M. C. A.
Purdue Dairy Ration
Here is presented a single example
Of the many benefits afforded Indiana
dairymen who cooperate with the
dairymen associated with Purdue. The
university men are always at work
trying to solve problems affecting ev-
cry branch of agriculture and the dairy
interest is far from being overlooked.
University dairymen recently visited
membes of the Ripley county COW test
ing association, in company with V. t.
Oxer, county agent, and on returning
to Lafayette reported as follows:
"One member of the association had
been feeding bran and shorts to his
dairy herd, along with the pasture and
ensilage. He had been induced previ-
ously to change this to the Purdue
grain mixture, 4-2-1, four parts ground
corn, 2 parts ground oats or bran and
one part of linseed oil meal. His feed
cost had been reduced by the change
from $40 per month to $3.50 and the
flow of milk had been increased mate
rally Other members who had
changed their methods of feeding re-
| ported similar results"
Grain Prices at Top
At this writing the prices of all
grains are at practically the high of the
season. Decembepewheat, which sold
as low as $1.161s last week, and as high
as $1.221s last Saturday, advanced to
S1.22A on Monday, but closed lower on
reaction The range in the same week
last year was from $1075s to a high of
$1.1355, or range of 6 cents for the
week
December corn has ranged above z:
cents during past two weeks, against
high of 48A in the same weeks in
1921. December oats sold at 42c tc
45kc last week, as compared with g
top of S2& a year ago The distant
options of all grains are on a cor
respongingly higher basis, by com
parison with last December Lard anC
ribs are also considerably higher thar
one year ago.
/ A Chicago engineering firm has beer
awarded contract by the Bank of Ag
riculture of Bulgaria, a government
institution, for the design and con
struction Of an entire national sys
tenn of elevators on the American plan
The initial program provides for ;
capacity of around 100000 bushel
and an outlay of about $10,000,000.
BY an Imported Bull
4 Cattle raisers will be interested j
the statement that Chenoweth Jock
grand champion steer at the Interna
: tional, was pure-bred and was sire
, by an imported Shorthorn Scotch bull
Haverstown Grandee, which cost hi
Kentucky importers $4,000. J. N
Strickland, the cattle Judge from Ems
{ land, said: That's the best calf
| ever saw-the best fatted calf I hav
ever seen in any show ring" as h
turned to pat the roam on his plum
, back. Jock was 1856 days old, or les
| than 19 months of age when he Ell
t tered the show ring, weighing 1,01
pounds. In addition 10 honor ribbons
? Jock won $500 cash prize for tn
owners of Chenoweth farm at She
byvilie, Kentucky.
r Joseph Reid, herdsman at the farI
5 for the past four years, tells of ho'
r Jock" was fed and cared for, as 70
4 lows: 'We just let Jock run with hi
q mother until last spring and then pI