The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-06-13

Our wheat growers who have not
been favored with showers In recent
days are beginning to watch the
skies rather anxiously. A little rain
at just the right time is a great thing
for wheat and lack of sufficient mofs-
ture at filling time is apt to make
considerable difference in the yield;
the same being true, Of course, as to
oats.
William Grove, of Center township,
said on Monday evening, that he has
about 40 acres in wheat, which has
seemingly almost come to stand
still, at least wasn't developing as fast
as hoped. He thought a good shower
would help a lot now. He says his
corn is looking fine. Asked as to
chinch bugs he said that an. inspection
of his wheat showed quite few OF
the last years crop, but with no ap-
parent damage as yet. Mr.. Grove has
number of cattle on pasture.
Farmers in this section were consid-
erably disappointed on Sunday. With
overcast skies all day long, with the
wind full of moisture, not drop of
rain fell close to Richmond. The dis
play of tightening to the south all
evening indicated rain and the reports
on Monday showed that showers had
fallen in spots in the extreme south
of Wayne, also in Union county and
on south.
Mr.. Grove got his rain on Tuesday
morning. That is true of any number
of Wayne farmers, who NEEDED rain.
Wheat receipts have been heavy
during the past two weeks at all pri-
mary markets, in fact have ruled so
per cent above the average at this
season. Right now, at the lowest
point in years, farmers in the winter
wheat belt, with new crop almost
ready for the binder, are marketing
their reserves of old wheat freely to
make cleanup and possibly to pro-
vide space to store the new crop
Farm Bureau Pageant
The first countrywide farmers or
ganization, from which the Illinois
Agricultural association grew, and the
| farm bureau long afterward emerged,
twas formed at De Kalb, Illinois, in
| February 1912. Henry H. Parke is
accredited with the inception of the
! association, and with making the first
move looking toward practical farm
! organization in a speech made from a
wagon to a group of harvesters and a
thresher outfit, on his farm near &C.
noa, H., some years earlier. 1t was
after dinner and the men were resting
in the shade. The men sat around a
/ grain wagon out back of the Parke
| barn, as the story runs, when Parke
mounted the wagon tongue at the
coupling and told his neighbors that
the courses and agricultural meetings
or Institutes they had been having
were valuable "but what we farmers
in De Kalb county need more than
any other one thing is to organize, to
raise funds, and to found some sort
of permanent organization"
The first step was a club formed
at Sycamore, followed by similar
farmers club in few other counties
Mr.. Parke did not think these were
enough so he worked two or three
years for a county wide farm organi
cation, which came in 1912 when the
leading business men met with the
farmers at De Kalb and the plan wa;
put over A few other counties organ
lied about the same time. The origi
nal body was christened the De Kali
County Soil Improvement association
and from this the movement spread il
Illinois and to other states.
i After a time the Illinois countie;
were federated, and six years ago
when there were more than twenty
counties organized, the Illinois agri
cultural association was organized a
Urbana. Now there are 95 orgrNizeC
tcounties in the state.
De kaIb to Celebrate
While the De Kalb County Soil I'm
provement association is now known
as a county farm bureau, the early be
girnings of so many farm association:
and cooperative bodies is to be cele
brated at De Kalb on Friday, june
80. 1t will be some celebration, spon
sored by the American farm bureau
and by at least IS counties in Illinois
which will be represented on tn;
stage and in floats in the pageant
1t is said that nearly 1000 farm men
women and children from 13 north
ern Illinois counties are to be actor.
in the pageant under the tutelage o
: Miss Nina Lamkin, of New York City
! ]. D. Billsborrow, of the Illinois U
says it will be the greatest gatherin:
of farmers ever seen in Illinois. Mr.
. Parke will be the central figure o
the program, and the leader of all Ger
, emonies. He and his neighbors VIII,
began the farm uplift will be tn,
principal characters in the cast.
f De Kalb is preparing to entertain
the hosts who will make June 80
: gala day in their midst. The Illinoi
: Agricultural association will CLEAN
whole lot of glory and get considerable
advertising, in all of which tn
American farm bureau will share, a
the program is advertised as the de
cennial celebration of the farm bu
/ reau in the United States. 1t is ex
!. pected that the big guns of the farm
: bureau, and the most widely know
! men in our cooperative circles, will
+, grace the occasion by their presence
also that the movie camera men vii
: be on hand to take pictures.
; 1t is we'll to state that at that Fet
:. ruary meeting in De Kalb funds wer
guaranteed to run the association 70
i three years and that William G. Eek
5 hardt, first treasurer of the U.
3 Grain Growers, Inc, was employed a
the first county advisor.
F. M. Simpson, Manager
The board of directors of the Ns
f tional Live Stock Producers associs
D ton at their meeting in Chicago las
lweek appointed F. NJ Simpson genel