The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-12-26
The Farm and
The Farmer
GREAT BUTTER COW
BY William R. sanborn


A new queen of the dairy world has
been crowned at Austin, Minnesota.
This marvellous mixer, May Walker
Ollie Homestead, completed her one
year test on December 18th, with a rec
ord of 1,21S.59 pounds of butter fat,
OF the equivalent of 1922 pounds of
butter, from 31,610.6 pounds of milk.
The new dairy queen, over all breeds
and ages, displaces the former Ameri-
can record held by Duchess Skylark
Ormsby. and is owned by the Mime
sofa Holstein company of Austin. The
new champion is a seven-year-old and
weighs 1865 pounds. Her milk tested
3.S5 per cent.
Her grain ration during this test
year consisted of bran, ground oats,
distillers' grains, hominey, oil meal,
gluten and cottonseed. with salt and a
limited amount of mineral compounds
She also was fed liberal amounts of al
talfa hay and during the later part of
her test, corn ensilage and beets In
40 calendar month did she produce
less than so pounds of butterfat, or
1000 pounds of milk Nor did she pro-
luce over 5000 pounds of milk in any
month. She carried a calf for almost
six months of her test period
IT will be observed that this great
cow produced nearly her own weight
n butter in twelve months.
Packers Make Money
To say that packers make money
means but little to the average farm
sr. He expects the packers TO make
4 profit. His only concern is that they
10 not make too great margin in the
turning of his live stock into meats.
This also is the concern of the con
sumner, which means the entire public.
But packers do not always make
money; in fact. the big houses took
some tremendous losses during the era
Of reconstruction and falling prices.
Our figures for 1921 showed that to
De true. Take the Cudahy report
Tor example That firm showed
an operating loss of S1,570,000 on their
business in 1921. And while they re
port profits of 1921, 800 in 1922, ii
Will be seen that the losses of 1921
have not yet been evened up. After
payment of dividends on all preferred
stocks at the end of their fiscal year
there remained a net balance in the
treasury of $652.964. The dividend on
the common stock was passed and the
amount carried to surplus account.
The Cudahy company is one of the
smaller in the big Five" combination
and its year ends with October. as does
that of all the others, Wilson anC
company excepted The Cudahy sale.
in 1922 totaled $160, 164,00
On their weekly trade review Ar
mour & Co. report the beef trade a:
lacking snap" except for fine Christ
mas beef Pork trade and that il
cured meats is excellent and cOllec
tons are good.
The packing industry is expectin!
4 the Armour Morris merger to go int,
effect during the coming year. Moth
ing new in relation td that proposition
has come out of Washington lately.
Sows Less Winter Wheat
The Nebraska state report of tn
acreage Of winter wheat soWn last fal
shows it to be $50, 600 acres less thai
in 1921, and 235,000 under the five
year average The total for 1922 i
placed at 1919, 900. acres.
According to the report of Secretar
Mohler of Kansas, the crop of winte
wheat this year totalIed 100000
bushels, or 100000 bushels below tn
final estimate of the government.
Senator Moses, of New Hampshire
says that the senate is an Arcadia
body The remark was made in hi
address before the New England 81
ciety at the one hundred and sever
teenth anniversary dinner last weel
Il speak of it deliberately as that A
cadian body" he said, because it
ruled by an agricultural bloc made Il
of IS lawyers, one editor and a we
digger
Senator Capper is the editor,
course, but the identy of the well dii
ger is not disclosed.
No More Free Seeds.
Representative Langley, Of Kentuck
offered an amendment to the agricu
tural appropriate bill, to add $3.50
600 for free distribution of seed /
members of congress, last Friday, an
the house voted it down. This came {
a surprise and upsetAa precedent {
{, long standing, the usual course in Il
pasthaying been for the appropriation
0 committee to eliminate the item ar
the house to vote it back into the bi
Advocates of the Langley amendmel
were so certain of victory that the
cut off debate and voted down a pr
posal by Begg, of Ohio, that no FIRE