The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-06-07

Plans are being made to organize
the cigar leaf tobacco growers OF the
Miami valley district into a co-opera-
tive body. II is hoped to include all
the leaf producers and to organize a
pooling and sales association on the
lines best suited to get results. The
work will be done under farm bureau
auspices, as the tobacco growers are
first of all farmers and already allied
with the farm bureau or the grange.
All the counties in which cigar leaf
is grown will be given the opportunity
to ioin with the view of building up
an effective organization. "The re-
cent marking down of cigar leaf TO as
low as six and eight cents at the close
| of the selling season on the 1921 crop,
is big incentive to getting together
comparatively" says one important
| Preble county producer. Such an
organization cannot be built up with
out effort and some campaigning will
be needed in every tobacco township.
but it should not be difficult matter
| to put across" said he.
! All this reminds US that Wisconsin
tobacco growers, also the growers of
/ Connecticut leaf, are likely to be in a
strongly organized condition by the
time the next crop is ready for mark
ct. The recent marketing of Burlev
by cooperative methods has stimulat-
ed interest in all tobacco districts. 1t
now looks as if all American tobaccos
will some time be pooled, according
to districts, class and qualities.
Electricity on the Farm
Green's Fork will presently be light
ed by electricity, as will a number OF
! farm homes along the way. between
Green's Fork and Richmond. Substan'
/ tial and powerful lines are being con.
structed over a considerable territory
in Wayne by the Liberty Light and
Power company as distributors OF
Richmond produced current. Farmers
living accessible to these lines will
have the opportunity of lighting then
homes and premises by electricity and
rates will presently be quoted over
quite a wide area, which will expand
rapidly as extensions proceed.
The farmers of Webster township
and the citizens of Webster, will meet
at the school house in Webster, or
Thursday night, to hear the PROPOSE
ton explained by Mr.. Fortley, of the
Liberty company. Many of the Web
ster folks are in favor of having the
line extended across to Webster fol
i both farm and local lighting, so we are
told
Are You Going to Build?
If you are planning to improve your
farm by adding new structures of any
character you may find it profitable
to consult the farm mechanics depart
ment at Purdue Not all the plans o.
buildings of which you can obtain blue
prints at the cost of making them
were made at Purdue, but most o.
them were. These blue prints cove!
farm homes, barns, hog houses, poul
try houses, sheep, cattle, implement
and other sheds graineries, cribs
garages, etc These blue prints no.
only represent plans" but are dupli
Gates of buildings now in actual use
on hundreds of Indiana farms, which
were built according to the specifi
cations furnished by our State uni
versity.
/ Purdue Holds Field Meets
4 The series of field meetings whicf
are held in June of each year on tbs
various experiment fields operated
/ by Purdue university, are on this
week. The fields near North Vernon
Indiana, were inspected on Tuesday
and the Scottsburg field was listed fol
in spection on Wednesday afternoon
The most important event in the lis
is the all day picnic and field day ex
ercises on the Moses Fell annex farm