The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-06-27
The Farm and the Farmer
BY William r. Sanborn

Senator Walsh of Massachusetts. I
says: Increased prices of agricultur /
al products which will follow enact !
ment of the tariff bill will mean a
tax on the American people amount |
ing to more than one billion dollars. |
annually"
His Hens are Paying
A preliminary statement covering
the first four months of records on
the poultry demonstration farm of
Frank Stephens in Pulaski county,
shows that his 1913 White Leghorn
hens have given him a net profit of
S35.55 per month Mr.. Stephens is Co
operating with Purdue university and
the county agent in keeping records
of his poultry flock Considering the
fact that these four months are the
hardest months of the year to secure
a profit from poultry this record
shows good management. The total
number of eggs laid by the flock was
6,537, while the egg production per
hen has been 1923 during the four
months. Electric lights were used to
stimulate egg production. The total
receipts have been s24O.73 while the
, expenses were $3.50. All feed was
! bought. Expenses We're: Feed, S63.3S;
man labor, So hours at 30c, 1880;
horse labor, 512 hours at lac. TIC; in
terest on the investment, S15.54.
Too Good to be True?
! 1t seems almost too good to be true.
4 and yet we are aware that the right
kind of rain at exactly the right
time will drown millions of chinch
bugs, if there are millions of them to
drown. The moral is this: "Chinch
! bugs should learn to SWIM" if they
would live long in the land This is
the story from Missouri:
While a committee of Schuyler
County farmers were at Columbia re
Gently presenting an urgent appeal tc
the College of Agriculture for assist
ance in combating the chinch bugs
that were swarming over their young
corn, soaking rain visited theil
i County and when they reached home
not bug was to be found"
State Potato Show CataIou.
Il The catalog for the third annual
Indiana Potato Show to be held al
i Purdue next January in connection
with the Farmers Short Course, has
been sent to large number of Indi
ana growers so that they may see the
attractive premiums offered. It was
sent out at this early date so that the
growers may know what varieties to
select at digging time. and keep in
| mind the state show. Several hun
dred dollars will be given in cash
prizes besides large number of i'm
plements, spray material and other
things needed by the potato producer
: The Indiana potato show has come tc
be regarded as one of the best in the
country and is showing the value O.
the Indiana potato crop.
The PIank-Framed Barn
That the plank frame barn takes &
third less lumber, saves labor in rails
ing. and better withstands wind anC
+, snow than the old timber frame struct
, ure is the leading statement of bull
| letin, "Braced Rafter B~rn Framing.
to be issued from the Ohio state uni
versity, July 1.
81 Other advantages of plank frame
l construction which are mentioned BY
l the author, H P. Twitchell, are the
fact that it takes only stock sizes anC
? lengths of lumber and that it has
!. large unobstructed NOV.
This bulletin contains a number O
l pages, has several illustrations and i.
; designed to do away with the nee,
r for blue prints. It will be mailed fire,
4 of expense to our friends in Ohio, ans
: most likely for sc or 10c to farmer
4 outside of Ohio, although no mentio,
3 of that fact is made. Address tn,
? Ohio university, at Columbus.