The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-07-21
The Farm and the Farmer
BY William r. Sanborn

98 cents on Thursday. Considerable
wheat was taken in during the dav.
Lightning struck a hog pen on tho
Charles Leisure farm in Rush county.
Monday evening, during the heavy
rain storm, killing Is shoats which
were huddled around the building.
The barn on Delbert Cameron's farm
was set on fire by lightning at the
same time, and was burned. Some
live stock was lost and hay and tools
destroyed, and the total damage was
much greater than the insurance Gov
cred.
Melons in Carloads.
1t is reported from Evansville and
surrounding towns that Indiana break
fast melons are in great demand in
the north and east and are now NOV
ing in carloads, notably over the Big
Four road. Eastern and northern
markets are paying good prices this
season and the melons are shipped
long distances. Samuel D. McLeish,
general agent of the Big Four at Ev-
| ansVllle, says there is no present
shortage of cars.
South Bend advices are to the eff
feet that the largest crops of canta-
loupe and watermelons grown in
northern Indiana in the past 20 years
will be harvested this season The
weather has been unusually Favorable
for melons this summer The claim
is made that home grown melons are
| now meeting the local demand at
South Bend
Crop Conditions Around kokonro.
The Kokomo correspondent of the
indianapolis News gives a summary
of crop conditions in that section of
| the state, as follows: Grave concern
| is being expr essed by farmers of this
| locality in regard to the condition OF
| young clover in the wheat and oats
| fields. 1t is said that the recent dry
| spell almost destroyed hopes of
repetition of this years bumper crop.
In most oats fields no clover is seen,
while the condition is little better in
the wheat fields. Pasture fields are
dead property in most cases, little
green grass being available for stock.
Many farmers are bridging over the
| for $1010. The total freight was
| S381.7S, and the commission fee
| S105.go, a part Of which eventually
will be prorated back to President
Howard. The cash received repre-
Sents the met" after all charges.
! Mr.. Howard is an honest-to-good-
ness farmer, even II he doesn't ira
verse the country with soil upon his
boots. He is man of liberal educa-
ton and has given years of thought
| TO farm and cooperative problems.
Farmers and Pittsburg Plus.
j. r. Howard, who claims to repre-
sent more than one million farmers.
| as president of the American farm
/ bureau, recently testified at the fed
eral trade commission hearing at Chi
cago that there are 1925, 900 farms
averaging 1872 acres each in the IL
states of Indiana, Illinois, Michigan.
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri,
North and South Dakota, Nebraska,
and Kansas. Average steel consump-
ton for farm implements alone on
each of these farms is slightly more
than a ton year, in addition to other
articles of steel. With the practice
of fixing prices on the Pittsburg base
plus the freight to Chicago, Moline or
Racine, the centers of manufacture of
agricultural implements, these farm
ers are taxed from $3.50 up on i'm
plements they use containing a ton OF
/ rolled steel in the aggregate.
In commenting on Mr.. Towards
statement, and after figuring on the
results to farmers in the cost of ma
chinery and steel used on the farms
IN these II states, the Chicago Tri-
bune says:
THE total of such implements nor
mally sold in these II states brings
the total cost of "Pittsburg plus" IN
farmers to s25, 000, 900 or more They
can eliminate this tax if 'Pittsburg
plus is eliminated. Certainly a farm
bloc which can put through a tariff
schedule for the more or less uncer-
tain protection of the farmers, can
bring influence to bear which will
eliminate this handicap to farmers.
not to mention the equal or greater
handicap under which it places nearly
all manufactures and building in this
section of the country"
Pest-Poisonine Campaign.
In the course of 26 poisoning demon
STATIONS held in Lane county, Wash,
between March and June, to show the
method of controlling the "gray-dig-
ger" about 5000 pounds of strychnine-
coated barley was fed to the ground
squirrels. Thousands of moles, pocket
gophers and skunks also were DESTROY
ed. The encouraging feature of this
campaign from the point of view OF
the Biological Survey and the exten-
sion agent who co-operated in the
demonstrations was that the Lane
county authorities and the local agri-
: cultural council each provided $3.50
toward the undertaking. and business
houses. railroads and farmers all CO
operated in the substantial manner
, known as going down into their poe
kets," with the result that the county
is now almfSt CLEANED nm