The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-20
The Farm and the Farmer
BY William r. Sanborn

The high spot on country elevator
purchases of wheat on the late adj
vance does not show up on the Wayne
county map, nor has the outside price
been reported at any point in Union
county. Speaking of this fact and cit
ing prices paid at Eldorado and New
Madison elevators during the bulge,
Richmond man explained that
Preble county had the edge on Rich
mond as to the Cincinnati freight
rate on grain and thus could afford to
pay a cent or so more for wheat, and
still make the usual profit.
We have been told that little
wheat was taken in at Eldorado at
top of $1.35; just load or two, how
ever. New Madison has taken in
few loads this week at top of S1.S4
per bushel. The elevator manager at
New Madison says that the grain put
into store in past two or three weeks
| cost them from SIPS up. At this writ
ing they are paying $1.34 for wheat,
/ so cents for corn and SO cents for oats
at that point. 1t is claimed by farmers
in that district that some of the wheat
| on low ground has been damaged by
! water, also that wheat in spots prob
| ably will be plowed up. This acreage
| will be small. Taken as a whole Preble
| county wheat fields look very promis-
! ing. Wet weather has materially re-
duced the acreage sown to oats and
| the bulk of the corn land yet remains
| to be plowed.
The elevators at Boston, Kitchell,
Wits Station and Fountain City were
bidding $1.32 for wheat on Wednesday,
according to Ed Price, who says he
is now in shape to ship around 10000
| bushels of wheat, accumulated at var
ious costs in recent weeks
Duties of County Agent.
| Karl I. Woodward, agricultural
agent in Meigs county, Ohio, contrib
utes letter to the Pomeroy Demo
crat, from which we copy the follow
ing pithy paragraph:
Realizing that one man can do lit
tie personal service among from 1000
to 1000 farmers, the logical thing to
do was to form an organization
through which the agent might work
and reach more people. This organi-
cation took the name of the farm bu-
reau, and no county is given an agent
without having a farm bureau mem
bership of at least 10 per cent of its
farmers Since the original concep-
ton of the organization it has taken
on other activities, some of a nature
which might be termed commercial
which have been made possible by in
creased membership dues. These &C
tivitieS, however. are separate and
apart from the county agents line OF
work, and must not be confused. The
farm bureau supports an office and
help for the county agent, but his time
is totally employed with strictly edu
cational work, and the farmers them
selves and the farm bureau must take
care of the actual doing
The Growing Wheat Crop.
The News-Sentinel of Fort Wayne
discusses wheat crop forecasts as fol
| lows:
1.-THE wheat crop three months age
declared to be a complete failure il
Indiana, is now reported as the bes
! in years. Which merely goes to SHOW
), that a r1idwinter forecast isn't wortl
I much. In fact, no forecast is worth
! much, for even after the wheat is il
! the milk, the crop may be ruined b.
{ hot, dry weather. Count not on ;
wheat crop until it is harvested AM
in the sacks"
While it is a pleasure to know tina
- the outlook for wheat is conSidere,
y favorable in this state, favoring a GRO
: of $4,000, 900 bushels, or better, w
are reminded that there is consider
y able anxiety as to the outcome o
l. present conditions in the winter whea
. southwest area.
q From the Chicago Tribune
!. This fact is emphasized in the Oh
cago Tribune which prints a numbe
= of reports on conditions in the whea
+ fields. We reprint as follows:
mo improvement in the outlook 70
winter wheat in the bad sections {
the southwest are shown in reports t
t Clement, Curtis & company. Seaso
b is now so late that correspondents ar
r afraid that the weeds will take tn
a fields which were expected to develo
0 fair crops. Based on the official acre
age seeded last fall reports indicat
J. an abandonment of So per cent of tn
d area in the western half of Kansas,
L per cent in Nebraska, SO per cent i
/ Oklahoma, and 20 per cent in tn
l. Texas panhandle. The latter embrace
the important wheat territory of tina
state.
"In his report from Denver, Col /
|, F. Thompson said that state had ha
h to 20 inches snow during the pas
week, which is very beneficial at thi
time. There is some uncertainty as
the outcome of winter wheat in tn
II northeastern part of the state. FIT
s. per cent of the wheat in this territor