The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1922-01-30
The Farm and the Farmer
BY William r. Sanporn

The fanciers of the good red hog,
otherwise the Duroc breeders, are a
likely bunch or enthusiasts to attend
ing meetings where ham and bacon
on the hoof is discussed, and good
things to eat is on the menu.
The second annual meeting of the
Muncie District Duroc Breeders asso-
citation will be held at the Hotel Rob-
erts, at Muncie, on Saturday, Feb. 4,
beginning at $50, at which hour the
directors will hold a brief business
session. J. E. Green of Muncie will
deliver an address of welcome, to
which Bert Wilson of Cambridge City
will respond, to be followed by talk
by r. ]. Evans of Chicago. Willis
Tappan of Alexandria, Charles NJ
Trowbridge of Mays and Charles F.
Sprague of Lima, Ohio, are on the
afternoon program. There are six coun-
ties in the Muncie district: Delaware,
| Wayne, Jay, Grant, Madison and Ran
dolph
That Muscle Shoals Deal
Henry Ford never loiters along the
way; he is ever on the move. When
w. B. Mayo sprinted directly from
Washington to Detroit with the con-
tract for the lease and purchase of
the Muscle Shoals plants owned by
the government, Mr.. Ford glanced over
! the documents, affixed his signature
! thereto and started Secretary Mayo
back to Washington. Mr.. Mayo wasn't
! in Detroit long enough to get a shine:
| The document now Is in the hands Of
Secretary Weeks, ard will now come
before congress for final decision.
Cheap Farm Electricity
! A cheap, wind-driven outfit for fur
nishing electricity seems to be in
sight. A windmill has been devised
which at variable speeds produces a
constant voltage. A light wind of 7
miles per hour will generate enough
electricity for all general purposes.
The new plant, the result of year or
more Of experiment, can be made to
run on 50 volts or on 16 volts, by
means of a switch.
! About Early Hatching
| Taking the average general purpose
| farm flock, it is the most satisfactory
! to let the hens do the Matching, and
/ that is usually the farm wife's plan.
/ 1t saves her a lot of work But to
insure eaTuy layers and plenty of
chickens incubators are necessary, and
/ these are coming into more general
use from year to year.
A letter from q woman who makes a
| success of the poultry business tells
I that she mates her hens on Jan. l, US
/ ing layers of good size with vigorous
male. Il start my 390-egg incubator
in the middle of February" says she,
using a hard coal heater in a house
II by "a to brood the chicks. The pull
laying the following winter, while the
cockerels are penned when seven
weeks old, then fattened for ten days
and sold. After I am through setting
! eggs in the spring | Gull the hens and
sell the culls to make room for the
pullets. l Gull again in the fall and
sell the poorest layers"
Too Much Exaggeration.
Because you see something in print
does not insure it to be true. One may
read all sorts of wild statements, fol
: example, in relation to farm prices, as
compared to the cost of daily supplies
and family needs in the way of shoe!
and garments. Some writer uses the
/, farm page of a periodical to illustrate
the disparity between the price o
corn in the country and the costs o
various supplies. This clipping" ha!
been sent us for review, or to print.
The writer captions his article: 81
we used corn for money" and pro
ceeds to say: Il am asked by a woman
on a little western farm. whethe-
times are going to get better. I thinl
we have been thru the worst and from
now on there will be gradual improve
ment. But neither business nor farm
ing conditions can be restored to nor
NAL as long as pound of coal Il