The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-08-05
The Farm and the Farmer
BY William r. sanborn

ment Curtis and Co., crop report, COM
pared with 27O,OOO,ooO bu. harvested
last year. Oats crop estimated at /
S5O,o0o,0o0 Blu. against 1900, 900 Blu. |
last year. Condition of wheat is 83.4.
or 6.6 points less than a month ago,
but 14.4 points better than the five
year average. Oats condition S21. or
II points above the average"
The following brief paragraph, re-
lating to our own crops, is from the
same source and will be read with
interest: Oats are yielding better
than expected, according to returns
to the Price Current-Grain Reporter. |
! Thrashing weights range from % to
| 81 lbs per bu. Winter wheat is of
| excellent quality and yield good, rang
! ing as high as 40 to so blu. per acre
| in some localities. Corn promises to
mature before frost"
Better Live Stock Estimates
! There has been considerable COM
| plant relating to the live stock es-
Inmates given out by the department
of agriculture, and it now appears
! that this work is TO be done in more
dependable manner. In an editorial
upon this subject Wallaces' Farmer
recently said:
"The department of agriculture is
finally getting to work on the matter
of reporting numbers of live stock
more frequently and more accurately.
! The government has always done fair
" we'll in the estimating of crops, but
/ in the estimating of live stock has
often been wide of the mark. Worst
i of all, the live stock estimates as pre-
pared by the government have rarely
been of any value to the farmer in
i serving as a guide to future produc-
ton.
"The May postoffice survey of the
i spring crop and prospective breeding
for fall pigs gave far better results than
anyone had hoped In certain sections
1 where fairly accurate figures were al
ready available, the postoffice figures
4 checked very closely. 1t is now pro-
posed that the Department of Agricul-
ture will cooperate with the Postof-
flee Department in making two sur
: veys year, one about the middle of
May and one the first of December.
: The December survey will deal with
: the prospective breeding for spring
filters. and also with the number of
feeding cattle on hand and the prob
| able date of marketing. Figures Sc
: cured in this way will be checked
against terminal market figures as to
movement of live stock and also
against actual enumeration figures Sc
: cured from some 10000 farmers every
month.
"As the live stock estimates become
/ increasingly accurate, there will be
much less danger of the alternating
; periods of over supply and under sup
ply which have done so much to cause
the alternating profit and loss periods
: in the live stock market"
Federation Activities
: Farm bureau membership cam
paigns have been held up during the
} busy summer and harvest season, but
solicitors are now getting back into
: the various fields. In Maryland, for
: example, Clarence Henry, an Ohio
: man, began lining up the counties on
: July 18th. He began near Hagers-
town. at which point the two local
: papers got out farm bureau editions
: on an advertising basis, as Is usual
: in all such cases. Maryland is al
most virgin territory for the farm bu-
| reau R. C. Pollack is also in Mary
land and is lining up, or will line up,
various counties by getting local farm
ers interested in helping to form coun-
z ty farm bureau organizations.
; c. E. Nelson is still in Floyd county,
; Virginia, endeavoring to complete or
ganization work He IS planning to
l connect Floyd and Montgomery coun-
ties in the one organization. Gin as
much as Floyd maintains its contract
2 with the outside world through Mont
: gomery, by hauling 90 per cent of all
= its supplies from Chritsianburg by
: wagon"
( Solicitors are now at work in Ian
. caster county, Penna., the banner to-
= bacco district of the state. The farm
2 bureau is not widely known in Penn
: sylvania as yet, but the publicity Civ
/, en- to the farm bloc by the papers OF
: the state. and the connection of the
2 bloc with various farm bureau meas
t ures, has resulted in wide spread ad
4 vertising of farm bureau purposes.
The board of directors of the state
I farm bureau of North Dakota met
5 with representatives of the American
! farm bureau on July Is and discussed
: plans for a statewide membership
!, campaign this fall This campaign
! will be started as soon as spring
e wheat threshing operations are out OF
a the way It is said that: THE A. F
B. standard organization publicity
campaign is to be used in its entirety
in North Dakota" IT is also planned
\ to do lot of reorganization work in
/ Illinois this fall 1t is reported that
/ 80 counties are to take up this work
g of reorganization and of signing UP
4 former members.