The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-01-09
HOG PRICES AT TOP
IN SEPTEMBER, SAYS
REPORT FROM OHIO

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 9.-The
market price of hogs generally is high
est in the month of September, accord
ing to a record of Chicago hog prices
over a 15-year period, recently com
pleted at the Ohio Agricultural Expert
ment Station. This shows the monthly
and weekly average of prices during
the period.
September tops the list with an aver
age price of S10.52 per hundred. June
t is second, with s10.43 January is low
est, with an average price of 1899,
| followed closely by December, with
1901.
The last two weeks of Septembe-e
averaged the highest, at s10.56. Ths-
first two weeks of January are lowest,
with sS.SS and 1892, respectively.
| Taking the year in quarters, the av-
erage of the first quarter over this
period was s9.43; second quarter,
s1025; third quarter, s10.41, and the
last quarter, 1896.
| Pork prices are going to be very
| low next fall, in the opinion of Prof.
J. S. Coffey of the department of ami
NAL husbandry, Ohio State university.
! Hold On to Pigs
! Farmers are holding on to pigs now,
he said, because of the great differ
ence in the selling price of corn and
hogs.
MANY farmers are stocking up with
brood sows. due to the present profit
. ableness of swine, and indications
point towards a large crop of pigs on
next falls market" Professor Coffey
said.
This" he continued, will result in
no 20 of RI
market"
Farmers in Ohio regard the value
of barnyard manure too lightly, accord
ing to investigations carried on by the
department of rural economics at Ohio
university. 1t is disclosed that the to-
tai value of manue in the United
States from the combined numbers of
cattle, horses, swine and sheep is
, 1924, COO. 900.
Combining these figures with the
amount spent for commercial fertilizer,
makes a grand total of S2.052 100000.
More Rented Farms
An increase in the percentage OF
rented farms in Ohio in the last 20
years is noted in figures given in cen
sus reports. In 1900, the percentage
of farms in Ohio titled by tenants was
PA, while in 1920, the number mad
, jumped to 29.5.
The increase, according to Professor
J. l. Falconer of the department OF
rural economics at Ohio State univer
| sity, is highest in Madison county
= where the percentage of farms rented
e is 514. and is lowest in Meigs county
Il where it falls to 11.2.
Y A feeder for poultry, devised to in
t., duce a heavy consumption of dry mash
? has been designed by D. c. Kennard OF
the Ohio Experiment station at Colum
bus. It consists of an open, rectang
" ular box, 80 inches long, Il inches
| wide and inches deep, mounted or
n a frame "a inches wide, and 80 inches
IS long, which is elevated IS inches
s above the floor. A reel is mounted
4, lengthwise on the feedbox to preven
E. roosting.
+: Made For so
Z: Such feeder will accommodate 81
n. birds; for 100 birds, a four-foot feedel
J. should be made.
j 1t is declared that the feeder com
bines all qualities necessary for feed
n ing device, being waste-proof roost
Il proof, dirt-proof and easy to make
" Ohio farmers are using more valu
n. able implements and machinery OF
r farms now than they were 10 year!
s. ago, according TO census statistics
h The total valuation of all implement
q and machinery in 1920 was $146.575
IL 269, an increase of 1862 per cent owe
the valuation in 1910.
at The first labor organization in thi
70 ! country appeared in New York in 1891