The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-08-04

nesday to discover the boys and girls
club picnic party, which drove up from
Liberty to enjoy the day in the forests
of Glen Miller park, that they returned
to town late in the evening, without
having discovered a man, woman or
child from Union county. Worse
still and more of it, a Wayne county
farmer named Deitemeyer also jour
neyed hither and yon through the
trackless forests of the park on the
same quest most of the day, with like
fruitless results. Finally giving up
the search he consulted his trusty
compass and headed south and west
in the hope of striking the National
road. Being a woodsman right he
later reached the road and headed for
home, where he arrived during the
night, in a dilapidated condition and
more or less tuckered out.
That being the story told US Thurs
day by the trio which went out on
this voyage of discovery we very
naturally became alarmed for the
safety of our friends from Union coun-
ty On calling up the county agents
office in the courthouse at Liberty
we were told that the whole kit and
caboodle had arrived safely at home
on Wednesday evening, none the
worse for their adventure. This re-
lieved the tension and so we told a
brief story which covered the facts,
| in The Palladium on Thursday even
| ing.
! 1t now appears that the Union coun-
ity club members pitched their tents
j and spread their eatables in an unex-
pIored portion of the Glen to the south
! of the play grounds. Here they en-
loved the contents of numerous we'll
| filled baskets, next listened to few
remarks by assistant state club leader,
Austin, and then sailed forth to have
a good time at the play grounds, in
! boating on the lake, etc.
Peach Orchards Worth Seeing
| Both Martin and Wesler, of the
Martin-Wesler Orchards Co, of New
! Paris, dropped in ct the Palladium of.
flee on Thursday afternoon, where
they displayed and distributed sam
| pies of their fine Carman peaches,
just recently beginning to ripen. A
section of one of the branches, closely
laden with large peaches, remains in
the office as a reminder of their visit
and also of the fact that some mighty
nice peaches may be listed as home
grown" this year.
In this single ten-acre orchard may
be found rows of Carman, Champion
Miami Ross, Capt. EIDE, alberta and
]. H. Hale peaches. The Carmans
are the first to ripen and the Hales
the latest TO come to market. This
extends the season from August l
into September and gives the house
! wife a choice of variety and time as
to the preserving and canning of hel
/ winter supply. Mr. Martin states thai
they estimated the crop from this sin
! gle plot at around 1000 bushels Of
200 bushels to the acre. This com
ipany owns several orchards, we are
told. and will have a liberal suppl
of late apples and a world of grapes
consisting of four or five popular va
rieties.
A visit to these orchards will i'm
press one with the advantages o
proper pruning, spraying and fertile
ing fruit trees. Many farmers will b.
further interested in the fact that b!
making a trip to the orchards the!
can secure fruit of which they ar
| short at home.
Fine Wheat Around Carlos
w c. Shoemaker, manager of thu
Farmers grain elevator at Carlos, re
. ports that wheat threshing is abou
done in his section. and that it raI
from Is bushels to as high as 81
bushels to the acre. He says that tht
average quality was good, mostl,
grading No 2, and that a liberal pc
cent of the crop has already beer
. marketed 1--WE are beginning t.
thresh oats" said he. "but both the
, yield and test is light. No corn Il
, coming to market but we are grindin;
:, lot of grain for feed"
How the chigger chgs
While entomologists of the Ohit
state university, professionally, know
little or nothing about chiggers, on
of them has been blackberrying ant
has come to know a little somethini
| about them, personally So he ha
done little reading on the subject
and passes on the results TO the publi
as follows:
Flowers of sulfur literally busted OF
I the hosiery will act as a certain pre-
ventive of chigger bites. This is tn
T opinion of H. E. Ewing, entomologis
I of the United States department o
{. agriculture, who has done special CHG
ger investigation work, and who is tn
best known authority on the littl
: pests in this country.
DR.. Ewing contradicts two genera
{ beliefs about chiggers. In the frs
!. place, they do not live on vegetation
: but on the ground Second, they
not bury themselves in the flesh; the
simply bite and drop off again. Ais
!, this investigator finds no one perso
- naturally more susceptible to Chi
gers than any other. The reaso
some get bit while others escape, b
n holds, are that some wear high shoe
d puttees, or tight garters below til
J. knee Again, some folks pick blacl
@ berries sitting down while other
IF stand.
If Charcoal For Chickens
ri chicken fancier raises a poil
about scattering ashes for the use {
a chickens which is seldom note
n After stating that chickens shoul
j. have an occasional feed of charcoa
r, which is obtainable on most farms /
e simply sitting the wood ashes an
n giving the chickens the charred WOO
le he writes: 81 do not favor thrown
II the ashes where the chickens may d