The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-25
The Farm and the Farmer
Ry WlIIlam r. sanborn

Elsea, calves and sheep; ]. F. Stewart, |
carlot hogs; E. R. Besore and C. C. /
Gardner, truck hogs. These, as total, |
provide a large and efficient official !
and sales staff, sufficient for the con-
duct of the large business which it is
expected will almost Immediately de
velop.
The co-operatives do not, as a rule,
split commissions, but they do pro-
rate the savings in the cost of doing
business once year The market
governs all their operations and
prices, just as it does all transactions
of other firms, who charge exactly the
same commissions for handling stock
1t resolves itself down to this: Hav-
ing received all the cost of salaries
and expenses out of the commission
charges made, the surplus at account
ing dates is divided among patrons
That constitutes the "nub" of the
whole matter
The new concern at Indianapolis got
off to flying start on Monday, May Is,
and received four cars of live stock,
counting the truck loads. But on
Tuesday it was different, as twelve
cars in all came in, surprise to some
of the oldtimers. At this writing all
hands are declaring that the outlook
for business is all that could be hoped
for
We must not overlook one interest
ing feature of the manner of doing
business by the new cooperative in the
buying of feeders for farm bureau
members. 1t is understood that no
commission charge is to be made for
such transactions. This, we are told,
was the only new feature added by the
plan of the committee of fifteen. Over
in Ohio the county farm bureaus are
sending buyers into the range country
to buy stockers and feeders for their
members, and at the bare cost of the
expenses of the men who travel and do
the buying; such buyers also being in
terested in supplying their own needs
| in the line.
Field and Garden Pests
Bran mash poisoned with good
grade of Paris green and strewn in
small pellets at evening along corn
rows will get cutworms. To get the
| flea beetles that bite holes in potato
| leaves, spray thoroughly with Dor
~
| lead, 21a pounds to so gallons boz
deaux Spraying or busting with a
strong arsenical mixture will take care
| of the Colorado potato beetle.
! Dust melons and cucumbers as soon
as they put out of the ground with
| part of arsenate of lime to 20 parts
! by weight, of gypsum, this to kill and
repel the striped cucumber beetle. Tar
/ paper discs, fitting snugly around the
cabbage stem and covering the ground
! about the plant, are a good way to
avoid maggot injury.
This sums up, briefly, letter OF
special directions on how to combat
| May insect problems sent by extension
entomologists of the Ohio university
! to the offices of the "a county agents
| in the state.
Why Enterprise Lays
] Our old friend Stephen LeacocE
/ once a well known western newspaper
writer but for some years located in
| New York, tells the country why in
dustry lags and why the times are out
of joint. On top of that he tells Us
| what must be done to set in motion
the wheels of industry. If there is
anyone more interested in this prob
i lem than our farm readers we don't
| know who they are, so we are print
ing Mr.. Leacock's remarks in this
column for their benefit. Mr.. Leacocb
/ discourses in Golfers, as follows:
THE world is out of work for the
simple reason that the world has killed
the goose that laid the golden eggs o!
industry. By taxation, by legislation
by popular sentiment all over thu
world, there has been a disparagement
of the capitalist. And all over the
world capital is frightened. 1t goe:
and hides itself in the form of an in
vestment in a Victory Bond, a thins
that is only a particular name for {
debt, with no productive effort behinC
it and indicating only dead weight o
taxes. There capital sits like a bull
frog hidden behind water lilies, refus
ing to bulge.
Hence the way to promote prosper
ity is not to multiply our present gov
eminent departments and government
expenditures, nor to appoint commits
sions and to pile up debts, but to star
going again the machinery of bold pro