The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-01-25

What do farmers find to do these
wintry days." asked Richmond man.
We'll, the chores alone on the average
| farm constitute bigger days work
than many city man does for So to
| So in cash." said we. HE is up feed
| ing and milking before daylight, and
has the same thing to do over by
evening lamplight. He has wood to
cut, or to haul or pile. There are
stalls and pens to clean and silage to
throw down and distribute to the ami
mails; fences to go over and mayhap
/ fodder to be brought in. The water
! supply must be looked after and the
ice chopped out of the troughs, and
water holes be kept open in the shall
/ low streams where stock may go II
let to range in midday. Chickens
which are properly cared for in cold
weather require considerable time and
attention. Laying poultry need
plenty of water and the ice must be
cleaned out of the pans and fresh,
unfrozen supply provided all day long.
| Plenty of clean scratch litter and
sanitary conditions in the chicken
houses also mean lot of work.
The industrious farmer finds plenty
to do in keeping things snug and ship
shape in cold weather and in the
proper care of his live stock. If the
farmer milks a number of cows and
sells his milk to distributor in town
his work is cut out for days a week.
But why continue? Although he has
his breathing spells when he comes
up for air, or attends a sale or runs
to town for supplies, the farmer is
never free from the responsibility of
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few hours at time. The farmers
work goes on forever during his walk
ing hours, regardless of profit or loss
The Ever-Busy Farmer
The only manner in which a farmer
, can get rid of his duties is to dis
charge" them This broadly applies to
the rest of us, of course, but mighty
few of us have as many separate daily
| duties staring us in the face as does
the man who runs a well kept farm,
either as owner or tenant.
Cold Day for Sales.
There were three farm sales in the
Richmond district on Tuesday, and no
doubt the bitter weather made the
/, home fireside so attractive that the at
tendance was cut down in each in
stance.
At the Ira Thompson sale on the Joe
. Fennel farm, three miles south of
Lynn. the lunch was served indoors,
greatly to the comfort of the buyers.
Mr.. Thompson is quitting farming and
with the exception of a couple of
stoves, a table and few chairs for
, the accommodation of the sale crowd,
/. the house was vacant. Weddle and
, Hindman, who tempted the bidders to
:. spend their money, report net of
, about $1,000. Some Big English Glow
er hay sold for $3.50 and the corn
brought 1872 cents per bushel. Cows
sold up to $50 and brood sows made a
; top of $35.
Hogs Still Higher
Il In spite of the fact that the six larg-
est packers at Chicago stayed out of
, the hog market on Monday, light re-
! ceipts and free otside buying caused
a runaway market, light hogs touch
>, ing S9.05. Another advance was made
to top of $3.50 early Tuesday. Since
the low day in December the general
average price of hogs in the west has
advanced more than 50 per cwt., and
is the highest since August of last
year. Choice lambs are up about
, $4.75 from the low of last fall Hogs
went as high as S1025 for Workers at
.
Tuesday
Four Weeks For Preparation.
The setting of the corn show dates
E on Feb. II and %, gives exhibitors and
management four weeks in which to
get ready to put on the best show OF
= its kind that Wayne county has ever
, staged. But four weeks is none toe
long a time for effective action and
. there is but little time to be wasted
1t is not likely, however that an hours
=, | time will be lost, as two large, vel
. selected committees are already a
: work. Purdl< promises to send some
u speakers to lend interest to the two
l. day program.
Our Crops and Exports
In 1921 this country raised NOR
e than six times as much wheat as i
Il exported, and exported more thai
$ twenty-seven times as much as it in
u ported. We made five times NOR
: -four than we exported, and exporte
70 eleven times as much flour as we in
q ported. We raised 191 times as muc
IL corn as We exported, and exporte
i one and one-half times as much as W
> imported. We exported more than ST
times as much beef as we imported
and S39 times as much pork and por
products as we imported.
~ This digest of crops and exports
o. from the Chicago Tribune's analys
10 of the situation in its editorial devote
er TO the tariff and our foreign trad
l. The Tribune's conclusions are:
u 1T should be obvious that the ia