The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-07-29


try elevators have been the busiest
men on the map in recent days. Ideal
weather for threshing, with every ma
chine in action and the general ten
dency being to sell, has resulted in
streams of grain wagons in all-day
professions, ali headed toward the
most convenient elevator. That has
been the rule, at least, as prices have
been on so close q parity that long
hauIs would have been of no benefit.
Members of farmers elevator associa-
lions would naturally drive an extra
mile or two, or even farther, to do
their trading" at cooperative head
quarters, but the number of such ell
evators is quite limited in eastern
Indiana.
The fact that a load of wheat is
headed for the elevator does not al
ways indicate that it has been sold.
Much grain goes to the elevator as
the most convenient place of storage.
If the farmer decides to hold his
wheat for a better price and is not
fixed to do so at home, then the ell
One Ohio elevatorman told us on Fri
day that of the wheat taken in fully
fifty per cent was placed in storage,
the balance he had bought and paid
for The stored whea at country
points may be held for months, or IN
case of good advance in the market
may be sold at any time.
But regardless of the amounts go
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is that the bulk of the farmers have
been selling at the market, from day
to-day. This is neither new nor
strange, however, as it has been much
the same for many years. The farm
bureau slogan-More Orderly Market
ing, has had but little effect, thus far.
Farmers Elevator, New Paris
Joseph " Williams, manager of the
Farmers elevator at New Paris, rath-
er surprised US on Friday afternoon by
stating that he was paying 81 for NO.
2 wheat, and had been doing this
since getting the report of the Chica-
go. July close of S111k. He had
paid CSC earlier in the day. he said.
The Farmers elevator is very mod
ern plant. 1t was built by the Equity
folks within two years, and there are
now between 20 and so farmer stock
holders.
eve have taken in just about $4,000
bushels of wheat up to now said Mr..
Williams on Friday evening, "and a
| large per cent of it is held in storage,
! for sale whenever the farmer thinks
! best to let 60" We understand that
there have been better than average
yields on many farms in New Paris
section, and on into Wayne county,
| from which district considerable
wheat has been delivered, both on
sale and for temporary storage.
Partial List of Sellers
| Among the men having better than
average wheat crops this season, and
T; who have done business with Mr..
| Williams, we find that N. R. Hunt is
| credited with a crop running 32h
! bushels on % acres. o. R. Jordan
| had one field that ran 81 acres of so
| pound grain. 1t is said that Everett
| Hunt threshed a field that ran %
bushels and had delivered 1000 bush
! els at New Paris John King also de-
livered around 1000 bushels; Delbert
/ Funk, 700; Harry Jordan, 700; Edward
! Clark, 700; Jesse Glunt, 500; Everett
Reid. 1900; o. R. Mcclure, 500; Lu-
man Tyler, 600; Edward Bragg, 500;
| Harry Bragg, 500: John Cook, 500;
Delbert Bragg. 500, and Roy Norris,
i 400 bushels. Others who have deliv-
cred wheat within past few days at
| this New Paris elevator, are: E. l..
! Shoemaker, Jerry McCarty, Frank
! Brandenburg, Fred Brown, Ward Mil
| Ter and Fred White Considerable So
/ to 60 pound grain has been received
at both the New Paris elevators and
| the milling quality is said to be Q. K,
The Report From Crete
| Among the improvements made at
| the Crete elevator since the stock
company took it over last year, has
| been the building of a new office and
| the installation of new scale with
| 10000 pound capacity, to accommodate
heavy trucks with large loads. This
| is the first harvest season under the
! new management and there is no COM
plant of the amount of business done
since threshing set in, or from the
/ taking over of the plant, much feed,
coal, fence, ETC., being handled from
| the start.
! We are told that the average produc.
| ton of wheat stands around Is bushels
in the Crete neighborhood, although a
number of fields ran 20 bushels and
up. Norl Anderson was among the
men raising the largest crops, his de-
/ liveries at Crete totalling 100 bush
els, all testing so pounds. The best
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