The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-02-21
The Farm and the Farmer
BY William r. Sanborn

not be said to be an unreasonable cost
TO our membership, especially in view
or the importance of the whole farm
| bureau movement and of it's accom-
pllshments in aid of the farmer As
matter of fact we know of 20 state
farm bureau working on a smaller mar
gin, per member, while several of them
collect considerably more.
Built on Conservative Lines
In his comment upon federation
aims and activities Secretary Crane
says: THE Indiana Federation of
Farmers associations is built on very
conservative principles and is very
thorough in its organization. Each in
cividual member has a vote and is
represented in the conduct of the
affairs of the organization, from the
local unit clear through the county,
state and national departments"
Mr.. Crane goes on to state that In
diana is fortunate because of the
thorough manner of its organization,
and because all farm organizations are
cooperating to build up the agricul-
tural industry so that it will take the
position it should occupy, in a manner
that will mean more to the develop
| ment of prosperity for the entire
country"
The Farm Inventory
! There is no law compelling a farmer
to take farm inventory, and the near
est to doing so on the part of the ma
! jority of farmers is in the preparation
/ of their tax schedules. Nevertheless a
farm inventory is desirable and we
! know of no better time to take it than
on March 1. A careful listing of the
! property on the farm, with correct
| valuations, would often prove enlight-
ening, and comparison from year to
| year be interesting. The taking of an
| inventory pre-supposes the keeping OF
| books. crop records, sales made, cash
received, etc. Farming is a business,
most important business, and book
keeping and inventories are a part of
every business worth classifying.
| New Ohio Bulletins
| Many of our Ohio readers will be
glad to learn that the extension sery-
ice at Columbus has issued a new bull
/ letln on the ohio Colony Brooder
House" also revised and reprinted the
Ohio Poultry House, also "Comput-
ing the Dairy Ration" two very pop
uiar bulletins. Farm wives may also
desire a copy of The Homemade
Dress Form, for some time out of
print, but now out in a new Illus
trated edition.
| Self-relfance Is the key to success
and Ohio farmers understand that
fundamental fact" says the Ohio State
Journal. I'VE wish the self-seeking
forces behind various Hobbies now
whining for special favors at Wash
Ington might comprehend it."
! Attendance exceeding 145, 900 at the
al state-aid farm Institutes held in
Ohio in January, shows increasing in
terest in this old-established rural in
sutuuon. 1t is predicted that in addi-
ton to the 352 state institutes to be
held up to the end of March, more
than 200 Independent institutes will
have been held this winter, when the
season closes.
The Users of Nitrate
! An Adrian, Mich, farmer writes TO
tell us that farmers do not need to
buy nitrate, and says: 1T is surpris-
ing that in all this talk about Muscle
shoals nitrate for the farmer no men
| ton IS made of the fact that the real
| farmer has no more excuse for buy
ing 1t than to buy milk of the milk
man or vegetables of the truck grow
(, ef. The latter, as we'll as the fruit
grower may proftably use commercial
nitrate, but for many years the agri-
cultural colleges have taught, and pro-
Sresslve farmers have proved, that
clovers and other legumes, used in
rotation, can pump nitrogen from the
air for fraction of the cost by cleo
triclty, and at the same time supply
humus, which in most cases is needed
| even more than fertilizers. Is it true
economy for the agricultural bloc to
advise spending S40,000,000 for a pos
| sible reduction in price Of a soil lux
ury in these hard times?"