The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-01
The Farm and the Farmer
BY William r. Sanborn

purchasers, near Indianapolis. to make
tne cooperative marketing office de-
cided success.
Mr.. Armour's Experience
A special from Kansas City to a
Chicago paper tells of j. o. Armour's
testimony in the live stock hearing at
Kansas City, as follows:
THE packers don't control hog
prlces.' Mr.. Armour asserted. Euro
pean conditions do that. You can't
dominate prices for any length of
time against world conditions. We
have tried it. We tried buying all the
corn and all the wheat in the country,
tying up all our money, and the effort
wasn't worth it,
Says There's No Limit
Commenting on the functions of the
department of agriculture, in his issue
of March 25 the editor of the Grain
Dealers Journal says: There is no
i limit to the U. S. Department of Ag-
| riculture's wandering from its legiti-
mate function of improving plant and
animal production. Besides advising
the farmer to quit the farm and en-
gage in marketing, the department in
January printed a circular, No. 207,
entitled the paper dress form, contain
| ing, it states, directions for making
gummed paper dress forms. and suit
able for general distribution. What
has dressmaking got to do with agri-
/ culture?"
AS matter of fact the department
| has not advised a single farmer or
1 n or IN
go into marketing, except in a CO.
operative way AS to the paper dress
forms these have to do with household
economic and extension work, car
ried on in most of our states, for the
benefit principally of rural women
but available to the women every
where who may be interested
It's seldom that we hear of farmers
going on strike but that sometimes &C.
ours in fights between landlords and
tenants in the Old World. But farm
| erS' strikes are new to the Americas,
except as to tenant coffee farmers in
| Brazil The latest strike threat comes
| from the wheat fields of Argentine,
where it said that 10000 farmers are
/ threatening to strike for lower rentals.
/ This strike has now assumed such
threatening proportions that the gov
eminent has been aroused to action,
and is trying to persuade the tenants
not to abandon their farms, pending
a conference. Committees have been
named to confer with the government
in an effort to settle the differences.
These 10000 farmers are grain grow.
ers in the Yampa territory. But there
has been similar agitation in other
parts of the country and the large
landowners are worried. If the strike
should actually go into effect in the
great wheat and corn districts the
effect on the demand and prices
of American grain would be very
noticeable.
Big Packers Hold Off
The spectators who plunged in the
Chicago hog market on Thursday were
the "life of the party" They bought
freely at the opening at 10 cent ad
vance over Wednesdays averages
then pegged prices up another Is cents
, Some shippers and the smaller pack
ers felt compelled to follow the ad
, vance, but the big packers held of
until late in the day. AS it happened
many hogs were held off the market
and several packers, including the Ar
+, mour houses, did not get hog. Ba
/ con weights struck $1,000. At the
same time Indianapolis made top o.
$1065 and East Buffalo. the high spo
l on the map, scored SLIPS for top