The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-06-20
The Farm and the Farmer
BY William r. Sanborn

The next local cooperative shipping
association to fall into line completed
tentative organization for Jackson
and Washington townships at Cam
bridge City recently Lindley Baker
submitted a constitution and bylaws
which was adopted. Mr.. Baker heads
the committee of three which IS en-
powered to select site and construct
yards. suitably large and convenient
for the business. Amang other busl-
ness transacted at the meeting was
the appointment of Cal Davis ana
Curtis Harris as a committee to Sc
cure a band to represent jackson
township at the first annual farm bu-
reau picnic to be held later this sea
son.
It was decided at the meeting that
the managers salary shall consist OF
fixed charge, not to exceed 10 cents
a hundred: also that an additional
charge of l cent an animal for gen
eral expense and of cents per cWt.
for insurance. shall be exacted. La
| ter on the directors will elect man
ager to attend to running the plant.
| It was being definately settled that
| the Dublin Free Fair will open Wed
nesday, August 80 and continue until
Friday evening, September l, We can
settle down to harvest operations with
vim and vigor Will it be great
fair? 1t will, gentlemen; it surely
will; just as usual, only more so.
! The district Duroc Jersey show is
to be held in connection with the
county fair at Muncie this fall. Ten
prizes are offered for the best club
pigs in the district, ranging from $40
| to 81; also five prizes for best record
books of club members, running from
IS to 2
C. Sumner Beard, Poet
| It is possible, of course, that the
law abiding people of Economy, are
unaware that they have poet in their
midst, but truth to tell, they have.
Said poet is roaming at large, has a
sharp leadpencil and plenty of white
paper and there's no telling the next
subject of his muse. This poet, {.
| Sumner Beard, submits the following
anent the pesky chinch bug, which we
pass on for perusal. You can sing
this to any tune that comes handy:
Here we go fellows:
The chinch bug roams among the
wheat, and runs along the corn
His appetite is hard to beat, from
night to early morn;
To stop the pest is our desire, We wish
to get your views;
To end his Bolshevik career, what
cuss words must we use?
Passing from poetry to threshlng
lore we arise to remark that Wayne
county threShermen in convention as
sembled at the court house mutually
agreed to make the same charges as
last year, to-wit: five cents for thresh'
ing oats, eight cents for wheat and
twelve cents for rye. 1t is stated
that Rush and Union county thresher-
men are also to stand by last year
price schedule.
Producers Open Up at Chicago
The Farm Bureaus Weekly News
Letter of June Is says: Watch Chi
cago next Monday morning 19th) for
interesting developments in the coop
erative marketing of live stock. Each
evening the farm bureau will radio
the news of the company's progress
to the country" This means thai
the co-operators began handling live
stock at Chicago on Monday, follow
-. ing a decision of the committee of fiji
teen, in August, 1921, at which time
the decision to open sales offices al
East st. Louis, was also made. The
st. Louis office was opened in Janu
airy, the first of the three now in op
Grafton Big business is now reported
weekly from both the St Louis and
Indianapolis Offices, and it is expected
that still larger business will shortly
be reported from the worlds live
stock center
Fly Got Early SoWn Wheat
Report comes from the extension
, department of Missouri that the farm
ers who last year paid no attention tC
the warning not to SOW until after the
fly-free dates, have lost three-fourths
of their wheat. Some fields were al
most killed by the fly within foul
! weeks of the sowing, in Nodaway coun
: ty,' says the farm advisor. The mer
who sowed early gave the excuse
that they needed grazing land. They
got it but lost their wheat, or mos
of it. So far as we are aware the
farmers in the Richmond radius were
very careful to observe the fly-fre'
dates and often sowed even later thar
Purdue said would be safe.
Load Hogs Carefully
The transportation department o
Chicago Stock Yards issued a warnins
! to hog shippers early in May, whic!