The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-11-18

as TO the weather this fall, except that
II has been rather dry for wheat and
winter rye, or was up to the rainfall
OF last Monday. Having had weeks of
the pest kind of weather for corn
nusklng, shredding. and baling straw
all OF this work may now be said to
nave been cleared up. or nearly SO.
Commercial Seed Crops.
The aggregate production of yege-
table seeds this year is estimated to
pc considerably larger than In 1921
| With few exceptions the yields per
acre were satisfactory The outstand.
ing increases in the production over
That OF last year are as follows: Dwarf
snap beans. 120 per cent; garden peas.
10 per cent; sweet corn, 100 per cent
garden beet and lettuce, $50 per cent
cabbage, carrot, kale, and parsnip. 50
per cent; watermelon, so per cent.
parsley, radish, and tomato. 100 per
cent; onion seed, % per cent; onion
sets, 10 per cent; cucumber, Is Der
cent.
Watermelon seed production ex.
/ ceeds the million pound mark for the
| first time in history. The production
| OF satisfy increased 300 per cent to
/ R0oAA9, VI dDOul OdlS~QdlI I0E
f1ve year average, and of spinach 1 100
per cent to 318,0 pounds, of abou;
two-thirds the five year average
Marked increases also are noted ir
the production of mangel beet and
Swede turnip, being 10l,700 pounds
and 1880 pounds, respectively, com
pared with negligible quantity lasi
year.
A faw oraDc ho1yara, .Lo-x, +, .~~o,3
4 ~ reduced production from that OF
last year. and of the five year average
Among these and perhaps of greatest
importance, is sugar beet seed, the
production of which is reported to be
only 1,056, 600 pounds compared with
2,575,000 pounds in 1921 and the five
year average of 5,604000 pounds.
i Sweet Clover Prices Up.
i Prices offered to growers of sweei
clover seed advanced 5oc-$1 per 10f
pounds in important producing sec
lions during the last three weeks o.
October. The average prices paid II
4 growers on Oct 81 were $3.50 PEI
100 pounds for country-run and Sos
for re-cleaned seed. These also were
Nebraska, North and South Dakota
and Minnesota.
Wants Bars Let Down.
1.-The farmer has been sentimentalll
in favor of the restriction of immigra
; ton, and most members of the agri
cultural bloc voted for our presen
immigration law. Under the law mor'
laborers have left the country in tbs
past year than have come in. 1t j.
largely because of the Immigration
law that the wages of labor are nearl!
twice the prewar at a time whei
farm products are selling so low tina
the return to the farmer IS less thai
pre-war wages"
!, Thus says the editor of Wallace
: Farmer, in an article supposedly in
spired by Secretary Wallace, though
J possibly not. At any rate, the edito
is in favor of letting down the bars
and the bringing in of labor. On thi
: subject he continues as follows:
with the situation as it now is, j
is common sense policy for the Unite
States to encourage intelligent, able
bodied laborers to come to this cour
try to work in our steel mills and Goa
mines, to labor on our highways, an
; to help in maintaining our railroa
: rights of way. These people will ful
: nish a good market, close at home, TO
our farm products. The ultimate n
) suit of letting more laborers come in
t to the United States should be t
t help to bring farm products and cit
: products more nearly in balance wit
' each other.
: 1--WE believe that organized farmer
: should take an active part in securin
!, the passage of new immigration la
5 unless city labor turns a new leaf an
. becomes so productive that city prot
2 ucts are again brought down to a pa
] ity with farm products"
) Opinions Will Differ
t This subject of restricted immigr;
! ton was threshed out in congress an
t the present law was the result. 1t
hardly probable that the argument al
2 duced by the writer quoted will hav