The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-07-26

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Gated six miles west of Eaton on the
West road, was sold at public auc-
tion on Saturday, July Is, for SAT, 800.
I The sale was made in pursuance to
1.-The Orders of court for the settle
ment of the estate and Col D. G.
Schwing of Eaton was the auctioneer.
| The tract contains $50 acres, which
makes the price bid by Joseph Wead-
lex a little better than s168 per acre.
4 There were numerous guesses before
the sale that the land wouldn't bring
to exceed $125 per acre, said the auc-
tioneer, who had an entirely differ
ent opinion. Col Schwing is looking
for an active farm sale season, be-
ginning in September. He has a num-
,, Der of dates already booked, as he
states.
A. Mr. Lippet. living IL miles
south of Liberty, has some mighty
nice fruit trees and believes in taking
care of them. He delivered a load
of Burbank plums, the big. luscius
kind, in Richmond on Tuesday morn
ing. These pluns were larger than
any from California seen here this
season, and also sight more deli
cious
Living east on the National road IS
another man who sprays and cares
for his fruit trees. As a result he was
in Richmond on Tuesday with ever
so many peaches, a wagon load we
judge. This man, Mr.. S. w. Hayes.
says he has a good crop of Solway
peaches and that this is a peach year.
And this is the universal report,
FRI or-fc Of Ind ybor oh
es are grown. 1t is also a melon
year, year of prolific growth and in
creased acreage in all the melon dis
tricts. And in spite of frosts at the
wrong time and predictions of failure
of the crop, Richmond is now supplied
with home grown apples. No apples
are now being shipped in, the home
supplies being sufficient for all de-
mands.
Country Wheat Prices
Although cash wheat prices advanc-
ed a trifle at market centers on Tues
day, there was not enough of a reac-
ton from Mondays break to stimulate
prices at country points In the
Wayne area country elevators were
paying 95 cents for No 2. Over in
Preble county the ruling price was
81 cents all day at all points report
ing.
The elevator at New Madison re
ports threshing pretty we'll along and
say few more days will see the wind
up for this season. They are paying
81 cents and say that practically all
farmers have sold direct from the ma
chimes. Barn threshing will come la
ter
A. " Mcclure, of Eldorado, says
that field threshing is pretty well over,
and that they were taking in wheat
from four or five rigs on Tuesday.
He thinks that not less than 40 per
cent of the crop has gone into the
barns, to be threshed on, at the con-
venience of the owners. His price is
81 cents.
Paying CSC in Wayne
The report from Pershing is that
about half of the farmers, or a little
better, have been selling, the balance
have put wheat in store The price
on Tuesday at Pershing was 95 cents
and receipts were light 1t is thought
that at least three-quarters of the
threshing is now done
Boston was paying 95 cents on
Tuesday as also was Hagerstown. The
latter point said there was no urgency
to sell since the price got SO low
Virtually the same report was made
by the College Corner Milling COM
pany. This concern is still paying 81
cents.
Big Sow and Litter Club
Edgar county, Illinois, is the home
of the largest SOW and litter club in
the state, with an enrolment of 200
boys and girls, each the owner of a
pure-bred sow and litter with which
the work of the club is being carried
on.
The sows were purchased last
winter by he county club leader
and each gilt was double treated for
cholera as well as bred for spring
litter The banks of the county dis
tributed the gifts to the boys and girls
on condition that they return two SOW
pigs or their equivalent after the coun-
ty fair closes this fall
The choice of breed was left to the
club members with the result that
there are 20 Poland China sows, 6Si
and about 20 of each
of three remaining breeds, the Ches-
ter White, Hampshires and Spotted
Polands.
A BiIion-DoIIar Garden
We count wheat and Gotten as prin-
cipal crops, and yet, in 1921, they
both together were barely equal in
value to the vegetables grown on
farms in the United States. If we add
the truck grown on city and suburban
lots to the garden sass" grown on
farms, we find a total value just about
equal to that of the entire national |
corn crop. Not all of these vegetables |
were sold, of course. but perhaps as |
great proportion of them as of the
corn produced found their way to d |
direct cash market. So far as that |
is concerned, the poultry products !
for last census year 1919) were more
than a billion dollars in value and the |
dairy products nearly billion and
half These figures are interesting
because they show how extremely i'm
portant the garden and the poultry {
yard are to the farmers of the coun- .
try; but because their yield and con-
f,>r,