The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1922-07-07

took in nearly 1000 bushels of whea;
on wednesday and said that a number
OF wagons were waiting to unload
When we called them on THURSDAY
afternoon. 1t was said that the wheat
i received was not of prime quality
mostly grading No. 3, and the WELD
IS placed at 10 to Is bushels. The
Elkenberry's paid up to $103 for No
I on Wednesday and at least up 10
noon on Thursday. The drop at Chi
cago before the close on Thursday
may have lowered their price on Fri
day morning, but as to that we are not
advised.
Our inquiry developed the fact that
the Camden farmers seem inclined to
sell at once, rather than to hold "It
looks as if very few of our farmers ex-
pect to put their grain in store" said
the party answering the phone.
Not Threshing at Modoc
I'VE do not expect to begin thresh-
ing around Modoc until the middle of
next week." was the report from the
manager of the elevator at that point.
on Friday morning. He further stated
that none of the farmers seem anxious
! to sell in advance of the output from
the machines, nor had he yet bought
a single crop on contract
Practically all our wheat is testing
No. 2 red" said Mr.. SchIientz. mana.
ger of the Farmers Equity elevator
at Eaton. The yield is not extra
large" said he, but the quality is yerv
satisfactory, so far as our receipts
to date show. We have taken in over
5000 bushels and have contracted for.
/ several crops to come in as threshed
All the threshing rigs now seem to be
in action and we expect a liberal
movement to market, right from the
machines. Our top purchases were
made at $1O2, early, but our present
price is 81 per busheI, owing to the
break at market centers. on Thurs
day" said Mr.. Schlientz. He also
stated that the present tendency was
toward immediate sales, rather than
TO hold to await market developments.
Lively Buying at Milton
Manager Stone, of the Milton Grain
company, with elevators at Milton.
Beeson's Station and Bentonville.
states that threshing has been pretty
lively in his domain all week and thai
they had bought $4,000 bushels or
more, since Monday noon "The grain
has not all been delivered, said he.
''but will be as fast as threshed." Mr.
Stone said on Thursday afternoon
that he had paid 81, mostly. so far.
but might lower his price to CSC on
Friday, depending on the trend of
p~ices at central markets, which were
weak on Thursday He reports the
best crop yet heard of as running 20
bushels to the acre, and the smallest
crop so far threshed as being 1915
bushels. The 20-bushel crop was
grown by Marshall Hughes. Mr.. Stone
says that the wheat threshed around
Beeson's Station ran at 5S to sol
pounds, while in the Milton neighbor. !
hood lot of the grain is testing about !
81 pounds
Reports a 23-BusheI Crop
The Hagerstown flour mill has been !
paying 81 per bushel for wheat test |
Ing 58 pounds. They claim the quail
ity of the wheat coming in is satisfac- !
tory but say the yield is irregular.
The best crop so far reported at the
mill threshed out % bushels to the
acre. The marketing of grain has just
fairly begun in the Hagerstown dis
trict
The College Corner milling COM
pany is paying 81 for wheat and say
that the farmers are selling rather
freely at that price. Threshing re-
turns show a range of from u to Is
bushels and the miller thinks that II
bushels will be about the average run
for the district, so far as threshing
returns up to Thursday indicated.
Russian Crops improve
A telegram dated at Moscow on
July 5 states that Russia's 1922 grain i
crops are immensely larger than
were harvested last year. According
to estimates the bread crops will
reach a minimum of $500 900 600
pools (63,000.000 tons), or 1000 OOO.- Il
BOO poods more than those of last ,
year, acting Premier Kameneff told
the correspondent today. Il
From practically all sections of
Russia, except the north, reports are
pouring into Moscow showing that
he grain is flourishing in ideal wealth
er beyond the fondest hopes of early
spring. If the yield is as large as ex-
'ected it probably will be Russia's
greatest crop since the war
What Culling Tests Proved
In Knox County, Ind, half the num- :
per OF flocks of hens culled under the
of the county agent. were
standard bred and the other half mix e
d breeds, SO their comparative merits
,ould be considered through culling. !
The standard bred fIocks number :
ID 1,O87, while the of mixed flocks
1,103, or 16 more hens. The
week before culling, the standard bred :
lens laid 2,906 eggs and the mixed :
'reeds 2,547, or 352 less. In culling, :
"a standard bred and 355 mongrel :
lens were removed from the flocks, +
eaving 773 standard bred and 73S
nongrels, or 35. more standard breds. !
TWO owners of the standard bred 4
locks, being breeders, culled much |
loser than the owners of the mixed |
locks. The week after culling the /
tandard bred hens laid 1924 and the /
nongrels 2.433 eggs. II
The figures show that among the |
,OS7 standard bred hens there were
1 less culls than among the 1,103 of t
he mixed flocks, and that they laid /
59 more eggs the week before GULL
1g and POI more the week after. II
New Types of Tomatoes
TWO entirely new varieties of toma- I
D have been developed at Pennsylva-
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