The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-19
The Farm and the Farmer
BY William r. sanborn

Once more Kansas flashes into the
limelight, anent the wheat crop. Last
fall the report was that the crop was
not getting a good start, for lack OF
rain after seeding. Then western
Kansas said that the seed wheat in
that end of the state had disappeared
in dust storms and was filling the
creVices and canyons of the Rocky
mountains. This was bad enough in
all conscience, but along in the winter
came a report from central Kansas
that wheat was dormant, hadn't had
enough rain to wet its feet.
But we have never given up hope,
having had experience with Kansas
crop killers, of yore. We still be-
lieved in Kansas and that she would
grow a few carloads of wheat, and
later on would mature enough corn to
fatten billion pigs. 1t now looks as
If we were right. 1t now looks as if
Kansas X to produce wheat in mile
long train Noads; say about 100000
bushels, mole or less. In proof Of
that anticipation the Kansas board of
agriculture is notifying the country
at large that it expects to need 10000
! harvesters from outside the state, and
| day.
The world will need every bushel OF
wheat and rye we can grow this year,
or that will be grown anywhere; at
| least that is the present outlook. We
are glad that in spite of so much aban-
| doned wheat acreage in the west and
| southwest, that conditions are shaping
SO favorably.
Russia Still Hungry.
! An estimate made by the famine
relief indicates that Soviet Russia viii
have to import 1000, 900 tons of grain
of all kinds during the 1929 season.
| Under the best of conditions the crops
are expected to fall so per cent under
requirements. One of the reasons as
signed for this is the fact that owing
1 to transportation conditions only about
one-third of the spring grain for seed
arrived at distribution points in time
! for planting.
The Winnipeg grain houses who
have been making a survey of the acre
age planted to spring wheat in the
three northwestern Canadian prov
inces report that about 100000 acres
less were sown than last year. This
would indicate total sowing of about
/ 20,500,000 acres.
! Nineteen Noxious Weeds
Purdue has just issued circular on
noxious weeds, especially describing
and picturing the nineteen varieties
| listed in the new seed law. A. A. Han
sen, the author, tells US there are nc
rocking chair or push button methods
of getting rid of weeds on the farm
or any place else. They all require
work" Farmers should find circular
LOG of value and will receive it free on
request. Prof. Hansen states that the
application Of a few sound principles
in farming and the use of some of the
information worked out by his depart
ment will go a long way toward solving
the weed problems of Indiana farmers
One of his suggestions is that you NOV
the fence rows, roadsides and other
waste places in mid-June and again in
mid-August, and to NOW weedy pas
lures before the seeds mature. He
advises the rotation of crops and the
. planting of smother crops, such a:
: hemp, cowpeas, soy beans, etc. Taker
: as a whole, the bulletin is rather meaty
; and should prove helpful to the farm
er who is determined to cut down hi:
weed crops.
Care of the Orchard
The average farm orchard seldom re
ceives treatment of fertilizer and too
: few of them are sprayed as they shoulC
be- In such cases it is not the fault o
, the orchard that the farmer has to bu,
fruit, this simply results from the lacl
of ordinary care, which includes prun
) ing and spraying and. on occasion, suit
able fertilization with nitrogen.
: Apples and peaches in particula
! quickly respond to care and fertiliza
t ton. Several of the experiment sta
4 lions have been able to determine tha
| fruit-bud formation can be defnitel
: increased by an application of quickl
i available nitrogen at the proper tim
in the spring. Our leading horticu
! turists discountenance the theory c
|, biennial. bearing and hold that an o,
chard which is properly fortified ca
e and will bear annually
d The New Hampshire experiment st;
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