The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-02-04
The Farm and the Farmer
BY William r. Sanborn

! Do you remember when we used t.
sing an old song, entitled: Hard
! Times. Come Again No More? And
when we had hard times parties to
which we farmers wore our old
clothes, mostly because our old
clothes We're also our new clothes?
! You do remember, you say? All
right, then. let's get started on our
story, towit: The farmers of Harri-
/ son township are bent upon enjoying
/ a hard times party. They wish TO re-
call the days when they were not only
Younger, but also poorer, and when
they were still struggling to pile up
their first million dollars. Every
farmer knows that the first million
is the hardest to get hold of; also that
the sailing is pretty smooth after that.
After | got hold of a million dollars.
money" said a farmer living close to
the Jacksonburg city limits, Il allowed
| would take life easier. But did |"
Not so YOU folks could notice it.
II remember just as we'll as if II
were Yesterday" said the old man.
I'D driv' over to Richmond to tn
bank to chat the banker a bit.
wanted to know how near my balance
came to being an even million. Wei,
sir. | not only had the million in
bank, but two dollars and two bits
over. Then | celebrated nigh s.
worth, getting a oyster stew for 10
cents. a paper of tobacco, two cora
cob pipes and then spent a dime for
= a shave. Them was the good old
! days, I'm telling you. Why two do
lars would go as far as a flivver can
} travel in a day.
viii Meet at Jacksonburg
But we've been runnin' off tn beat
:. en- track. We haven't told you where
this hard times party will be pulled
off, nor when. In the first place. it
p has been ct for Thursday evening, FEB.
'i9. The scene OF this festive gathering
is the city of Jacksonburg, the me
tropolis of Harrison township. The
assemblage will meet in Odd Fellows
!; hall. ANY old clothes will fill the bill,
: and the men can have just as much
fun in clean overalls as in broadcloth
T pants. Everybody ana his wife and
family will be welcomed.
} Adam Eby's Bee Exhibit
: The exhibit of bee products and ap-
= pliances made at the Boston farmers
institute this week attracted lot of
/ attention The exhibit was made by
: Adam Eby. we'll known farmer and
beekeeper, and the showing was botn
i instructive and interesting. Mr.. Eby
exhibited hives. brood combs, combs
; with foundation stock, honey, strained
and in the comb; bee traps, bee es-
capes. queen traps, etc. He also
? showed a frame containing foul brood
. and one hive in which the honey was
+ oomnIatolv T,IIined nv moth
[ Just why so many farmers who love
+ honey, as do all children IN farm
l homes, do not keep a few stands OF
bees is a riddle to the people in towns.
Bees not only fertiliZe the poisoning
CROPS. greatly to the farmers benefit,
but also supply their own food. Bees
nav most handsomely for the little
:, care and attention they require, and
honey is our most nutritious and
I heaIthful sweet. So far as known,
wild honey was the first sugar known
to humanity. and it is believed thai
/ some form of hiving was discovered IN
+ ancient DAYS. You know that 1t was
said of John. the Apostle, that IN the
Wilderness His meat was locusts and
wild honey" The mention of wild
honey indicates that the people OF Is
rael knew the art of beekeeping, else
whv mention of wild honey? WY not
Just honey
Still Have Wild Honey.
All of which reminds us that we
still have wild honey in Wayne coun-
itv. Every now and again some one
discovers a bee tree" in our woods
This was recently true in Center town
+ shin. where a tree was robbed OF so
4 much honey that hate to tell the ton
- n for
+ pals. tubs and mayhap barrels. Among
! nose present was a man who said :
c THAT honey was a pleasing sight 10
ga honey-hungry man" People who
have sampled that honey say it is de
,licious. We. ourselves, haven't tasted
= If. as one cant get much of the flavor
= of honey through a telephone descrip'
p ton. you know.
n A Business Barometer.
l. The price of hides is business tore
C caster. according to the editor OF Wal
y laces' Farmer. who goes on to prove
: his point, as follows:
: THE Harvard committee on eco
monte research has recently made a
4 very careful study of hide prices as re-
r, lated to prices generally, and to bust
r ness conditions The study extends
p month by month back to 1908, and
n through all of that period, hide prices
4 have gone up and down in almost ex
r. actly the same way as business condi
q tons and prices generally.
# However. hide prices seem to an
4 tiCipate by three or four months the
r changes which later come in other
: prices and in business conditions. Fol
d instance, the pronounced upturn in
r hide prices in late 1904 and early
. 1905 was several months in advance
of the improvement in general bust
n ness conditions following the depres
+ sion of 1908. Again the sudden dror
( in hide prices early in 1907 was con
siderably in advance of the panic in
: late 1907. and so it has gone through
the year since 1908 without a single
notable exception"
= Because of the evidence thus pre-
= scented the writer advises his readers
q to study the hide markets with grea