The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-07-17

Following the heavy rains early
last week came sufficient warmth and
sunshine to permit a little threshing
at odd points, on Friday afternoon,
although elevator men very generally
complained on Saturday that the
grain was being received damp" and
that few more hours of the drying
! process would have helped a lot
! The manager of the elevator at
Economy said on Saturday that he
| had taken in some grain on Friday
evening which had tested but Sc
pounds, which would have tested
much better had it been in proper
condition; also some So pound grain
on Saturday which looked like a sc
pound article, if thoroughly dry. The
elevator at Economy shipped one cal
of wheat early in the week and loaded
another on Saturday. The elevator
at that point has an estimated capac
ity of one-third of the crop in the
territory of which Economy is tbs
natural center.
The report from Pershing on Sat
| urday forenoon was that a few rigs
went into action early in the day, anC
! some grain came in before dinner
The threshing reported was in the
Jacksonburg district.
Hagerstown reported little thresh
ing by impatient farmers on Friday
from 2 o'clock on, and couple of rig
at work on Saturday morning.
Edward Price reported on Saturda,
afternoon that some threshing hat
been done around Boston, Wits Sta
ton and Fountain City, and that al
four Of their elevators had taken il
some wheat during the day. TIL
price paid was 81 for No 2, this be
ing the figures paid by all the els
vators heard from, practically all @
! last week.
State Fair Emergency Loan
> In commenting on the recent loa
made to the state board of agricultur
the Indianapolis Star editorialy says
THE state board of finance has len
to the Indiana board of agricultur
the $500 needed for the completio
of the horse barn to replace tn
structure recently burned. The boar
took the funds from the Purdue un
versity endowment money The stat
J will pay 5 per cent to the universit
for the use of the money. The loa
? makes possible the early completio
of the barn and opens the way of e.
cape from an unfortunate compile;
ri ton in which the recent decision {
/ the Supreme court had involved tn
' affairs and finances of the state fai
2 organization.
+ 1T is cause for congratulation thu
: those in charge of the states affair
have hit upon a solution so satisfa
; tory and that the reconstruction wor
: will not be hampered. The Indian
/ state fair is one of the leading inst
tutions of its kind and a great benef
t to the cause of agriculture in til
state. Its success should not be eve
threatened because of a legal tang
into which the Legislature has invol
ed the board in the effort to place til
state fair on a new and better fou,
dation"
Sizes of American Farms
The 796,534 farms under 20 acre
as reported for 1920, comprised 20.3E
! farms under three acres in size, 26S
: 422 farms from three to nine acre
\ and 507,762 farms from 10 to 10 acre
i More than six-tenths of the farm
i under 20 acres in size are in II
: Southern states. OF the farms fro
: 20 to 4S acres, likewise. a very lars
:. percentage (71.2 per cent in 1920 a.
found in the Southern states.
:. More than As per cent of all tt
s farms in the United States are
4 tween so and TIA acres in size. TIL
group contains, of course, those farm
d which consist of a quarter section
q land or half of a quarter section.
q In the group of large farms WEI
included in 1920, 530.975 farms of l.
i to $50 acres, 475,692 farms of 260
+ 499 acres, 1889 of 500 to 999 acre
=, and 67,387 of 1000 acres and owe
The above official census figures a
t from The World Almanac.
s., The Downturn in Hogs
s The week end proved somewh
1t disastrous TO live stock shippers
IS all markets. The break in hogs
Indianapolis and Chicago on Frid;
was followed by a further downtul
t on Saturday With 1000 hogs at l
S dianapolis on Saturday morning, Il
IS bulk of sales were made at from $40,
Y, to $11, with few making a top
d s11.10. Cattle were barely steaC
/ while calves made a drop of so cent
IS in some cases.
r. Including the nearly $1,000 hoi
carried over in the pens on Thursd;
d night, Chicago had close to $4,000
4 handle on Friday. This was conside
e ed an excessive supply for Frida
and the bottom fell out of the marke
d some classes of hogs losing a full
q to SIS cents. Although shippers i
y vested in 5000 head the market Gle