The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-09-01
CLUB SHOW PRIZE MONEY

The fact that about $750,000 is to be
paid as prize money to boys and girls
making club exhibits this year, de-
notes the wonderful development of
club work in the past two or three
years. Nor is the amount to be
awarded more astonishing than IS the
diversity of the source Of the prize
money.
This large sum of money is pro-
vided by fair associations, live stock
and breed associations, bankers, man
ufacturers, packers, land companies,
the farm bureau and Grange, boards
of agriculture, school boards, county
commissioners, seed firms, railroads,
live stock exchanges and boards of
trade, by individuals and by the junior
clubs themselves.
The state fair association donate
$4,000 or more to club prizes, and
rank first among the big donors. The
various breed associations rank sec
ond. Three of the large pure-bred
cattle associations are offering S10,-
600 each, and other associations in &C
cordance with their size and ability.
Newspaper publishers are large con-
tributors to the premium funds OF
their local fairs, as also are the retail
ers and others. The effect of these
agricultural clubs on the development
of the live stock, poultry and farming
industry in general, is more widely
appreciated from year to year. The
farmer of the future will have many
advantages over the farmer of the
earlier day, and will be better and
more scientifically trained.
Interesting Bee Exhibit
Clayton Knight of Fountain City
dropped in on US on Thursday to talk
about bees, and Of his plans to exhibit
! bees in observation hives at the
| Wayne county fair. He stated thai
Fasick and Knight, the concern in
which he is a partner, have 100 or sc
stands of bees on their place at the
northern edge of Fountain City and
| that he was in town to get and fill out
an entry blank for the fair. As bee
| enthusiast he is to show several
stands in 10-frame observation hives
under a tent, judging that town folk
will be as greatly interested as the
! farmers in seeing the bees at work
| This is no doubt true.
In addition to strong and healthy
/ colonies the exhibit will include ''sici
or diseased" colonies, notably those
affected by foul brood. most destruc
1 tive bee disease, which bee keepers
always dread Both single and dou
BILE hives will be displayed.
Was the Biggest Buyer
The sale held by A. ]. Howard az
administrator of the estate of the late
H H Howard, on the Howard farm
three miles northwest of Green's Fork
on Wednesday, ranks among the gooC
ones, so far as prices paid goes. The
total of the sale was a little over 2,400
Corn in the field brought $3.50 al
acre; a 7-foot binder sold for $122.5 81
and one farm wagon, gears only, cos
the buyer exactly 800. |. A. Field
now living on the James Shenk farm
south of Richmond, was the most per
sistent buyer, this being explained By
the fact that he is to remove to the
Howard place this fall. Much of thu
live stock had been disposed of prior
to the sale, including the COWS, thu!
reducing the offering.
The ladies of the Sugar Grov,
church served a mighty good lunch
which included at least one section o.
fried chicken to every plate, ant
which all partakers voted beat tn,
standard "weenie" ten city blocks
Weddle and Hindman were the auc
tioneers and cashier Steers, of the
Green's Fork bank, made the settle
ments.
+ The Auto and the Fairs
A very few years ago it would have
been impossible to have gathered tn,
numbers of people now seen at GU.
fairs and chautauquas, county picnicS
etc Not because trains weren't run
ming but because the automobile
hadn't arrived. And for some time
after its appearance the cost was to;
great for the ordinary citizen to in
dulge in that class of uncertain travel
when one left home with no assurance
of being able to get back. unless pulle;
in. Now it is common for a tours
to eat breakfast in one town and t.
stay for the night at a point 800 o.
400 miles distant, providing an earl1
start was made and the going good.
This, then, accounts for the crowd!
at Dublin, at Connersville, at Green
vile and other fairs, as it will accoun
for the expected crowds which arr
shortly to throng Glen Miller to EMO,
the displays and attractions at on
d
neighbor 20 or 80 miles from you
car is right next door, at least il
pleasant weather. Just yesterday W,
noticed a car parked in front of thi
office which was on its way east Il
Massachusetts, after a trip to Yellow
stone park. Inquiry developed tina
the owners had made bridal tour il
their car and was enroute home Il
set up housekeeping near Boston 1
few days earlier we spied car OIL
Main street, marked Detroit to Seat
tie" The young man said his wifi
had relatives in Seattle and they ha,
sold their belongings in Detroit an,
were on their way TO the Puget Scum,
country, to pick out a new home.
Test Wheat Yields
The test made of wheat productio,
per acre on the Alhambra and Urbana
Illinois fields by the state university
showed but three varieties yieldin