The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-06-08


| places just now. The excess rain de-
/ layed spring field work then, but the
/! lack of it now and during few com
| ly than any delay in planting could
have done.
The Scriptures tell US that the rain
falls upon the just and upon the un-
| just, which is true enough. But there
are times and seasons and places
where the rain falls upon neither.
Then it is that all people suffer; that
| is all the people in the rainless dis
tricts. Should such districts be suf-
| ficiently large then the entire nation
suffers
A shift in the direction of the wind
and drop in temperature with new
barometric readings, is likely 10
| change dry area into a wet terri
tory within a few hours, providing
water and hope where whiting crops
and anxiety prevailed Favorable
crop and weather reports came out
of the Mississippi basin states the
first part of the week. At the same
time it was stated that rain was badly
needed in northwestern Iowa, north
| eastern Nebraska and South Dakota,
where already some damage had been
done to wheat, rye, oats and barley,
also to berries and gardens. Drench-
ing rains are needed for the salvation
of potatoes, truck gardens and corn in
sections of the states named, accord
ing to weather and crop reporters.
The Ever-Chaneing Weather
1t may be that this condition is
changing, or has partly changed, and
that by the time this meets the eye
of the reader rain may have fallen
over much of the dry area above re-
ported. All will hope so. An abund-
ant harvest and cheap foods are es-
sential to the return of prosperity.
this year. At the best it would seem
that a large percentage of the labor
element will be able to buy sparingly
next fall and winter. This will apply
to thousands of miners, presume bly,,
also possibly to a still greater num-
Der of railroad workers. as a result of
the strike votes now being taken.
While the Richmond territory is far
from being drought-stricken, there are
spots and fields and gardens where 4
good shower would be of considerable
benefit right now. This is also true
as to the whole berry crop, both
strawberry and bush fruits.
Fruit Crops and Sprays
AS if frosts and freezes to kill bios
SONS and thick weather at blossom
time, making likely a heavy June
drop, were not enough. it now appears
that the cool. damp weather which
persisted in May will be likely TO in
crease the seriousness of fruit tree
diseases
Nothing favors troubles such as
scab and the frog-eye leaf spot more
than that kind of weather, say fruit
men of the agricultural extension ser
vice. Scab is showing very seriously,
except in the orchards where the
owner was able to get on his pink
or predecessor spray properly and at
the right time Nothing much can be
done about it now, or until the bios
SONS begin again to show pink next
spring.
The peach leaf curl. too, has turned
out to be a serious epidemic In the
Cincinnati and Lake Erie districts
where most of the Ohio peaches are
raised. Farmers who get on the IT
lime sulfur spray last fall after the
leaves had dropped, and the few who
spring before the buds cracked, are
the only ones who seem entirely free
from the trouble. The fruit men be-
lieve that fall is the only practical
time for such spraying. since peach !
buds start so often in the spring be- |
fore a sprayer can be got to the tree. !
They urge spraying this fall.
As to fruit in general, reports from !
orchard men all over Ohio that trees
which bloomed early, such as Yellow
Transparent and Duchess apples, and !
peaches in general, got off relatively !
light as to frost injury, and promise |
to make a nearly normal crop.
Germany Trades For Cattle
The fact that two important govern
ments have resorted to the primitive |
method of barter. and that this bar
tering involves the transfer of $50 900 /
head of cattle annually from South .
America to Germany, may have some ,
bearing on our own cattle markets, !
if not for a year or two, then later. !
is an item of interest to agriculture
A cablegram from Buenos Aires re-
lates that the Argentine foreign min
lister at Berlin has closed deal with
Hugo SHINES for 10000 head of Ar
gentine cattle, annually, in exchange
for German manufactured goods. The
cattle will be shipped to SHINES on
credit, and SHINES will repay in cred
its for iron and steel goods and rail
way material, the same to be shipped
to Argentina
The two countries have been expe-
in direct barter for more
than a year, notably in Argentine
wool and German railway supplies.
These experiments indicate that bar
ter" offers one practical solution f0-I
the complicated credit and exchange /.
in more than one European |,
country. The Argentine government
will arrange matters locally to the sat-
of the cattle owner. whose +
herds are sent across.
z. c. w. Asks a Question
In writing to Chicago editor about
price fixing" a correspondent. who
signs e. c. w." asks a rather peril 4
nent question, which any reader NAV
answer in his own way. This cues 4
ton has been debated, discussed and 1
chewed over for years, but aside from
some outstanding examples Of cooper
alive selling and buying, which have