The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-08-01
The Farm and the Farmer
BY William r. sanborn

lard types will be used, the former to
be represented at the start by
Tamworth gifts and the latter by 1
Poland-China gifts
From weaving time until their first
litters are weaned these s gifts will be
grown and fed on a peanut ration
From the time OF weaving their pigs
will be fed on some hardening ration.
such as corn and tankage, and will be
compared with a check lot of pigs
whose dams were fed on hardening
| feeds instead of peanuts during their
development and CESSATION periods.
| When the pigs have been grown out
and finished, some of each lot will be
/ slaughtered to determine whether
there is any difference In the car
cases; that is, if the peanut ration
| fed to the mothers has made it more
difficult to put hard flesh on the
offspring with corn.
| Mr.. Wallace Talks Tariff
While 1t is true that Henry c. Wal
lace, principal editor Of Wallaces
Farmer, is secretary of agriculture in
Harding's cabinet, and that he dis
claims any responsibility for editor
ials now appearing in his paper, we
find it hard to believe that the fol-
/ lowing editorial does not reflect his
| individual views. And not only is
| this our opinion but we are assured
| that a whole lot Of farmers who think
along broad lines and are well in
/ formed, will agree in letter and spirit
with what Wallaces' Farmer says, as
follows:
/ "Cocoanut oil and soy bean oil.
which in recent years have been sub
i stituted in ever-increasing measure for
tallow, lard, cottonseed oil, ETC.. in
i the making of soap, are to be let in
; free. The senate vote was 80 to "a
in favor of letting these foreign oils
in free. Sixteen of the western re
! publican senators, including Senator
Rawson, of Iowa, voted right on this
proposition. The eastern senators,
who seem to be in favor of high tar
ifs only when they are on manufac-
tured goods or when they don't mean
anything, voted wrong.
with vegetable oils for soap max
ing purposes coming in free, we be-
lieve that the western states have
very little to gain by the new tariff
bill To benefit the western farmer
there must be a high tariff on vege-
table oils, wool and hides. The tariffs
on wheat, corn, butter, etc, occasion
ally mean something, but are largely
ornamental AS the situation stands
today, there is real doubt as to wheth-
er the permanent tariff bill is any
, improvement over the temporary bill
"a CT re he 70
Bundle Bees and Glover
The debt we owe to humble bees
cannot be over-estimated, is the opin-
ion of many agricultural authorities.
! One of these enthusiasts tells US q
i lot about how polarization is caused
) by the bees, and in little talk about
clover, has this to say:
Clover pollen is produced deep
down in the tubes of the blossoms.
In order that seed may be produced,
it is necessary for the pollen TO be
, carried from one flower to another
, AS the bees fly from flower to flower
! in search of honey, they carry little
pollen with them, and thus make seed
production possible. 1t takes a LONE
tongued bee to reach down into a red
clover blossom, however. The ordi-
nary honey bee cannot do it, except
occasionally when a dry season makes
the flower tubes of the second crop
, unusually short. For the most part
we have TO depend on the humble bee
!, to make a crop of red clover seed
! possible. and even he cannot do much
!, with the large flowers of the first
!, crop. That is why we get most OF
our red clover seed from the second
, crop.
Recently, a new wild bee has been
, discovered in central Illinois. 1t is
smaller than the humble bee, but has
, longer tongue, according to men az
the University of Illinois who have
measured 1t. When this new bee be-
comes numerous enough, we may be
able to make seed from the first crop
! of red clover. and get much larger
: yields than we do now, is their opin'
: ion.