The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-12-18
LIVE STOCK PROFITS

ton was held at Nashville Ienn-, last
week and Everett c. Brown addressed
the exhibitors at the dinner on Thurs
day evening. Mr.. Brown seems to be
a man, who, right or wrong, expresses
his mind freely and lets it go at that
In the course of his remarks he said: /
During 1922 farmers feeding live
stock have made more money than
during any other year in the last TWEEN
ty. Corn fed to cattle, hogs and sheep |
made from 80 to 70 cents bushel |
more than if marketed as grain. Range |
cattle sold in 1922 at from SIS to SO |
per head higher than in 1921 and the
value of live stock on our farms in
creased approximately $1,000, 100000"
After reviewing grain prices along |
the same line he concluded by attack
ing the statements of Calamity howl |
ers," professional statisticians, ETC., as
follows. He tells us that these have
ruined the farmers credit, in these
words:
professional statisticians and liars
for the last two years have done their
best to ruin the credit of the farmer.
One of these $4,000 publicity farm ex-
perts last week scattered broadcast
the report that the average income
per farmer was $465. | will bet that
there are over million farmers in
the United States who spend more
than that annually on the upkeep of
their automobiles. A farmer can not
be 'bunked' as readily now as he could
twenty years ago. In these days of the
radiophone, telephone, farm weeklies
and dailies the farmer is not swallow
ing the knockout drops from the high
Salaried reformer that he did two
years ago"
Having read Mr. Browns conclu-
fsions as summarized you will weigh
them up in the scale of your individ-
ual experience. But that there are
number of men who are making polit-
zeal and other kinds of capital out OF
their efforts to hang on to or climb
aboard the farm bureau. farm wagon,
can not be denied. 1t isn't to be ex-
pected THAT all men and everybody
connected with any great, progressive
movement are heart-whole philanthro-
pists, laboring without reward for the
common veal. Don't forget that there
are loaves and fishes on the table. But
even so, we can't build up and sustain
anything worth while without money.
Wheat Price Insurance
Representative STEVENSON, Repub-
lican member of the house from Min
nesota, has introduced a bill providing
for a bureau of wheat price insurance,
to protect farmers from unreaSonably
low prices at primary markets. This
bill would create revolving fund OF
500, 000,0 900 for buying, selling, trans
porting and storing wheat, flour and
other wheat products, whenever nee
essary to prevent undue depression or
unjust market manipulations, which
would tend to increase the liability of
the United States under the insur-
ance policies
The bill cites that: 1.-THE secretary
of agriculture, before the planting sea-
son each year, won determine the
insurable value of the various classes
and grades of wheat to be raised the
following year, based on the average
cost of production for the preceding
three years. The bureau would then
fix rates of insurance premiums and
publish them.
Mr. Stevenson does not intimate
how many more men would be needed
at Uncle Sans feed trough to carry
out the provisions OF such bill, no
how many millions it would cost t
run the machinery, nor the effect
upon the consuming public or in TIL
worlds competitive markets. Has any
reader anything to offer on the sub
ject? What do you think of the
scheme and do you think it possible
to pass such bill? Let's have you
opinions, gentlemen.
The Real Foundation
When G. K. Chesterton, the Englisl
author, returned to England from hi
visit to this country, he wrote bool
on What l Saw in America" In i
he said: Wooden houses may no
last; but farms will last, and farmin.
will always last. TIE American cal
SOW and pillow and reap and live b.
those everlasting things; nor shall thu
foundations of their state be moved"
This is offered as a thought 70
today" to the discouraged tiller of tn,
soil.
Because of the large number Of con
testants and an exceptional closenes
of choice between first and secont
prize winners in many instances clu'
officials at the Ohio state universit
have announced a list of reserve stat
champions in each of the IA farm an
home junior projects on which stat
championships We're announced.
As in stock shows, the term ere
serve champion" indicates secon
place in the final choice. In othe
words, these II club reserve chan
pions are the second IA among tn
10000 farm boys and girls who di
club work in Ohio last year. Lik
state champions, reserve champion
were selected during Winners Week a
- tho Ohio university, which brougt
u 594 county champions to the universit
two weeks ago.
Owners of farms in Decatur count
will find the soil survey report pr,
pared by the department of agricultur
and the extension department at Pu
due. a mine of information on til
various soil types and definite sugge
tions regarding the farm practices an
fertilizers needed.
In the second part of the repor
which was prepared by the experimeI
station. each soil is taken I'D in tuI
and discussed from the standpoints
its needs in organic matter, nitroge
lime. drainage crop rotation, fertiliz
ton, and the kind of farming that wi
best keep up the fertility. With Il
aid of the colored map. which show
the location of the various soils, Il