The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-01-14
The Farm and the Farmer
BY William r. Sanborn

The blanket of snow over the wheat
fields will be welcomed by the farm
ers. also by the millers interested in
a supply of wheat at their doors. By
! the same token we are all interested
The size of the wheat crop from yea:
/ to year not only figures in the food
supply and the cost of bread but also
! in the prosperity of all winter wheat
| producing sections, over most of which
snow has fallen this week. A good
! layer of snow is more than protec
I ton against sevevre freezing weather
and high winds; it affords warmth and
moisture, and in a measure acts as
! fertilizer, as many OF our farmers
aver.
The farmer who isn't feeding a. RAFT
! of stock or working hard on his wood
lot, can 90 little resting up and Wis
iting just now. The chores" at morn
ing and evening take but little Of his
time, compared with the time put in
during the busy seasons, the first OF
! which is several weeks away.
Randolph County Institutes
The regular winter program of Ran
dolph county farm Institutes began
with the Green township institute,
Dec. IS and 16 This was followed by
( the Washington township institute at
( LYNN on Dec %. The next institute
of the series, that of Jackson town
. ship, at the Jackson school, on Jan. "a,
/ will be followed by the West Monroe
institute on the 25th.
I Ward township institute is billed for
/ February 2; the Nettle Greek insti-
tute will be held at the Modoc school
on the 3rd, and the next institute in
order will be that of West River town
ship, to be held at the Huntsville
= school on Feb IA.
The Green's Fork township farmers
institute will be held at the Spartan
burg school building Wednesday, Feb
Is. The conclusion of the series vii
occur at Winchester, where the coun
ty institute will be held Feb. 16 anc
II. Some interesting programs have
been provided and these are printed il
o very neat booklet edited by the coun
ty agent. r. A. Fields.
Those Virgin-WooI Blankets.
1t evidently takes IA pounds of raw
wool to make six-pound virgin WOO
blanket. Illinois farmers are notified
that 10000 such blankets are now
ready for delivery. at a cost of SO pei
pair. These are double blankets, were
made by the association, the officers q
which report 100000 pounds of WOO
ued in their manufacture.
Why Wheat Broke.
The affairs of the world are inter
locking: they are wheels withl-
wheels. This partially explains why
I oF Dr;o hic oh
met in Paris. on Thursday, checked ;
strong and advancing market. No
only so. but wheat broke nearly tw,
] cents and closed at the low OF th'
= day. Corn weakened with wheat BIZ
= the price range was very narrow.
I Hogs reached the highest price
, since last September, during the pres
= ent week, and this applies to al
western markets. The daily averag
= price at Chicago at the week end wa
! up $3.50 or better, compared with tn
7 low day in December Indianapoli
!, made top of So, against $3.50 as tC
, for Cincinnati on Thursday. on whic'
date Pittsburg and East Buffalo pail
tops of 1925 Thursdays advanc
was partially lost on Friday.
From Iowa and Kansas
We are not we'll informed as 10 IN
status of Kansas farm organization:
but a Topeka special to a Chicag
daily states that farmers are indignan
n over the failure of their leaders
n bring out merged grain marketin
: plan This reminds us that the Anne
: lean Farm bureau makes no mentio
l. of the grain powers attempting to &c
+ members in Kansas, not that we hav
q ever noticed 1t is further stated tina
II Kansas bankers failed to appear o
It Wednesday at the statewide farme
It banker conference at Topeka. Ralp
Snyder, president of the State FarI
n bureau, complains that there is
u feeling that Kansas is not getting it
u share of the war finance corporate
= funds
2 At the annual meeting of Iowa farm