The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-12-13
The Farm and the Farmer
BY William r. sanborn

self sort of helot kept usy IA hours
DAY on pittance to raise food for
urban workers who keep busy 8 hours
a day and then go to the theatre. If
Smith w. Brookhart came along as
surfing you that something is radically
wrong with the present order and that
it is time to enlist with progressivism
against reaction, would you smile in
credulously and go vote for stand
pattern"
Have Political Sense.
After stating that Nowhere this
year has a third party movement
cropped out, the farmers being con
tent to nominate the more radical
Republicans" the editor says that the
farmer of today is far better educated
imam ne was generation ago, and
can not be so easily misled. He
knows that the chief dependence for
relief must not be upon politics, but
upon the farmers own organizing
ability"
He concludes by summarizing the
work of the farm bloc, stating that
the last congress passed a law to
encourage farmers cooperative asso-
Citations; it enlarged the capital of
the farm loan banks; it brought the
packers Under government supervis-
! ion; gave the department of agri-
culture power to check improper grain
! speculation, and it contained a gen
! erous road building program. Farm
/ ers are likely to support congressman
/ who are engaged in such efforts"
/ Showed Grade Cows
! In a discussion of the dairy inter
/ ests and the showing of grade cows
at the National Dairy show this year,
| Frank o. Lowden, president of the
National Holstein-F'riesian association
stated that this great show had per-
formed its greatest service in 1922
For the first time" he said, 1the
show has shown grade cows. Here
tofore the grade COWS have been
barred while the show was for pure
bred. Grade COWS are less eXpensiv
and have pure-bred blood and in &
way they show the value of pure blood
better than do the pure-bred cows
since they demonstrate how beneficial
is grading of herds.
IN the demonstration of the capa
bilities of the grade COW, believe the
National Dairy Exposition is doing &
splendid service for the agriculturist.
Causes of Corn Rots
The severity of tho root, stalk an.
ear rots of corn, widely distributed dis
eases in the corn belt, can be greatIs
reduced by proper balancing of fer
tilizer, so the department of agricul
ture now claims. This conclusion !.
the result numerous experiment.
made in cooperation with severa
state experiment stations 1t had no
been thought that corn was particu
larly sensitive TO the balance of vari
Gus elements in the soil, but it is now
!. believed that these rots are largely
caused by conditions of the soil, as
we'll as by those of climate.
, Reducing the losses from these rots
Is complex problem. requiring mucF
more investigation and experiment. Il
involves careful consideration of en-
vironment, soil fertility and the ma
ture of the particular strain of corn.
: Wyoming farmers are hoping to Sc.
cure grasshopper law, similar to tina,
effective in North and South Dakota
A number of Wyoming districts were
: seriously ravaged by grasshoppers
, this year, which attacked alfalfa and
OIAiSA iLIipOl tdIlI CIbpS causing H6dVN
: loss. The cost and trouble of inces
: SAINT poisoning is a heavy burden or
: the farmer. hence the call for stats
! law providing for state aid. In the
Dakotas, a petition signed by ten pei
! cent of the farmers in any district
! insures tax levy under charge q
| the county commissioners, the money
t being set aside as a fund for fghting
> the pest. The department of agricul
! ture has promised to do what it cal
, to aid Wyoming farmers in 1928.
: Junior PouItrymen.
/ Nearly 1000 boys and girls wer,
: members of the Massachusetts Junior
Poultry club this year, and under tn,
f instruction of the college extension
/ department many of them made fin;
! records. Twenty club members mad,
: over 500 each and As made records
5 of more than 100 eggs per hen fo
; the seven months of the workins
1 season. The hens kept by the poul
5 try club champion of the state had al
f egg production for the seven months
: of ia eggs per hen, and his 100 hens
5 after figuring feeding costs and payin:
himself 90 cents per hour for hi:
: Working time. netted him s457. l
, is estimated that the poultry industr!
of this state is worth S10,G00.000. ant
e that the value of the annual produc
5 ton equals two fifths of that of thu
0 dairy industry in Massachusetts,.