The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-06-30
The Farm and the Farmer
BY William R. Sanborn

Wayne county elevatormen are still
a bit conservative in their bidding for
new wheat Only here and there has
a crop or two been purchased or a
price been made This is not true as
to Preble county. From reports made
on Thursday we judge that most OF
the elevatornen in Preble have taken
a chance. An it is a chance in view
of all conditions, because it is the
unexpected which usually happens and
railway strike may occur, although no
one seems go expect a real teup.
Early in the season the elevator at
New Hope bought few crops, paying
as high as S110 for their first pur-
chases. This price was quickly low
cred. but it marked the high spot IN
new wheat bids in this part of the
| country.
| Right now Preble county mfllers
and elevators are buying for July de
livery at 81 per bushel. inns price
is quoted at Eaton, Eldorado, West
Alexandria, New Madison, ana from
Camden. In fact it may be SAID 10 pe
the top and bottom figure PAID IN inc
past ten days. AS one man reInarkeu
"a farmer who wouldn't thlnk Oh sen
ing at csc or at 99c, Will accept y
and look pleasant.
Glen Karn has contracted Tor mum
her of crops this week at even money
and the grain is TO come direct tton
the machines. 1t IS all we can dlloI
TO nav. said the elevatorman, anu w
are taking some risk at tnat' IN VleN
+, of a possible railway ue-up anu "
2 y, och season
delay in deliveries. They were Daal
! in need of rain up that way put u
!. downpour on Wednesday, added TO IN
J Iiobter shower on Tuesday, has re
freshed the country. Harvesting /
about complete around Glen Karn an
!. williamsburg, although few belate
4 crops still await the binder. 1t Is nc
e exnected that any threshing Will D
done until next week.
Buyinc at New Madison.
The elevator at New Madison WI
lhaya a few cars of wheat to snip VIII
in a few days, all contracted at ,
S Seems to be a low price, sald IN
q manager of the elevator, but its e
8 erv cent we can afford to pay rlgf
/ now, and it is all our neighbors al
q having" The generous rain in u
n New Madison district were neede
Il and have done much good. There
n plenty of coal at this point for thresl
o fers. and for all present uses. This
q true of all of Preble county, viii
: tWayne has coal for all demands.
Four or five crops of wheat hay
been bought at Green's Fork in tt
past two days, price 81 per bushe
The manager of the elevator says a
purchases to-date were made on II
basis of delivery on or before July l
Green's Fork was in the rain belt IN
week and the country is looking fin
y The dollar price is to be paid for SO
/ wheat, that being understood by Il
seller.
re The bank at Milton reports all Il
u rain needed this week, the rain
y Wednesday being regular soake
+ Corn has taken a new start and
ID looking first class. The cashier sa
~ on Thursday evening that it was sta
d ed that one farmer in the Milton d
trict had already threshed but this w
W merely a matter of hearsay, nor w
re the farmer named by the party makil
i'll the report. A lot of threshing will
lie done from Milton south, immediate
O. after the Fourth.
ut Wheat Not Ready to Cut.
II, Wheat in northern Illinois is n
It. yet ready for harvesting" said Jam
Of F. Tilton, of Hoopeston, H., who is
~ Richmond on a brief visit to his foil
ly mo doubt a great deal of grain b
been cut in the southern part of t
state but not as far north even
Hoopeston. Some rye has been cut
our section but up to last Monday n
binder had been seen in a whe
field. A letter from the farm tells I
this morning that we began cutti
wheat on Wednesday afternoon, a
h- were among the first to harvest
II Mr.. Tilton says that wheat has h
It, plenty of moisture, looks good and
kept green longer than would ha
er been the case had the weather be
10 dry and hot. Corn is looking fine
tn Central Illinois, he says, and that {
ne spite late planting because of a "
spring, is fully as tall and growthy
% is usual at the end of June.
en- Cooperative Results.
ed In a review of cooperative wo
ed done in Nebraska, by the state bure
of markets, the bureau found that p
nm ducers' organizations are more wit
In spread than consumers association
on and that the former has been the me
profitable. Only 26 percent of the :
cooperative societies were stor
lis while farmers elevators made up
So percent, the balance being shipping
ny ISOLATION and creameries. A summs
,rv of the survey may be condensed as I
ap- lows; says Wallace's Farmer: