The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-09-06
The Farm and the Farmer
BY William 4. Sanborn

said Theodore Roosevelt. Following
that quotation Purdue says: Indiana
still has isolated sections where life
on the farms offers handicaps to com
Portable, happy living, yet farm life
as whole is rapidly evolving from
this condition, into one in which the
farm family is enjoying all the bene-
fits of the city dweller, besides the
joy of living in the wholesome at
mosphere of the woodlands and open
spaces.
THE farm no longer presents hap
hazard way of making a living nor is
it place of drudgery; it is rather a
place of great opportunities. Farmers
have been slow to awaken to the fact
that farming is a great business, but
the awakening has come.
THE little cabin, the dilapidated
farmhouse, the tumble-down barn, idle
fields and the "hay-seed' farmer are
rapidly passing away, and in a few
years will be unknown. The old house
| is being replaced by the neat, mod
ern farm home, we'll heated, we'll
lighted, with running water and all the
conveniences Of a city home; the
''hay-seed" farmer is now a business
man; modern machinery makes it pos
sible for him to do his work better,
more quickly, and cheaply, thus giving
him better profits with the least waste
OF time, money and energy"
Southern Rural Problems
/ State experiment stations of the
southeastern states-North and South
Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama.
Louisiana and Mississippi are CO.
operating in investigations of regional
importance TO agriculture in that sec
ton. Through this cooperative work
these stations are attempting to dis
cover effective means of combating
the ravages of the cotton boil weevil.
controlling cotton anthracnose; pre-
venting soil erosion; graduating the
cattle tick; aiding the production of
native fruits and vegetables of market
value; and developing generally a
more diversified and self-sustaining
system of farming.
Oldest Hereford Herd
There seems to be little doubt as to
the location and ownership of the
Oldest Hereford herd in the country.
The herd owned by J. H. Underwood,
kent's Hill, Maine, was established in
March, 1858, by the grandfather of the
present owner, and il has been owned
and managed by the Underwood fam
lily during the So years of its exist
ance- By common consent this IS the
oldest herd of whitefaces in America
Many members of this herd were
shipped into the west at the time that
section was first stocked with Here
ford cattle.
1t is related Henry Clay imported
the first English Herefords into this
country, for his Kentucky farm This
was in 1917, which indicates that the
Hereford family are now in their sec
ond century as American cattle The
first Herefords to reach Maine arrived
from England in 1886 and it was from
this foundation of two calves, Kimrce
and Kitty, that the Underwood herd
was established seven years later.
The Herefords shown at the Cen
tennial exposition gave impetus 20 the
general introduction of the whitefaces
!, in the west. Western breeders visit
ing the exposition started a wide de-
mand for Hereford bulls for the range
. country. A few herds were started
in the corn belt as early as 1868. and
one of these is still in existance, and
Thomas Clark, the original founder.
still owns and manages it Mr. Clark
claims the distinction "of being the
Oldest living breeder in this country Or
England"
: RUSH YOUR ENTRIES
Secretary Charles Hodge. of the
4, Wayne county free fair, is located AZ
Is North Ninth street, in the Palladium
: building. He is a very busy man Just
now but says he is not too busy to
! take care of your entries and the
sooner you register them the better
There are just seven days left before
the fair opens-this being the sixth,
/ and the opening set for the thirteenth
so exhibitors haven't an hour to lose
The secretary's phone is No. 2S17
; You are invited to use it whenever in
need of information relating to the
fair