The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-07-22
The Farm and the Farmer
BY William r. sanborn

Well, finally, the oats harvest is on.
Hundreds of acres were earlier cut
for hay and now the crop" is falling
before the binders. In the main the
straw is short and farmers find it
necessary to drop the binder plat
forms rather low in order to get
enough straw for proper binding. But
as short as the straw may be there
are a number of productive fields
from which the threshers will get sat-
isfactory returns. But at best our
oats crop will be light Speaking 10
cally the oats for sale for home con-
sumption should bring fair prices, as
against the shipped in article, with
all attached costs.
Andrew Kerber, living south of
Milton, has a couple of Poland China
! brood sows, and two of their litters,
of which he has pretty good opinion.
The sows are litter mates of the Po-
land China pig club champion last
year, are out of Yankee Girl and we're
sired by "The Topic" male with a
creditable history in Poland China cir
| cles. Yankee Girl is now owned by
, Jerry Meyers, of Hagerstown. Mr..
| Kerber's sows were bred to Frank
Williams boar, Clansman Lunker,
which was state grand champion in
1921. This boar was put in the Will
liams sale and bought by Mr.. Kerber,
who says he has a few outstanding,
typy boars and gifts of his get.
! Regardless of what the weather may
have done to the threshing industry
| or how seriously the rains interfered
with a portion of the hay harvest, not
a farmer complains of the results to
corn. Corn was duly cultivated, laid
! by" and rained on sufficiently to in
sure a good crop, according to al
present indications. Admitting thai
corn is not yet made" it is still head
ing toward a first class finish.
County Marketing Agents
At the meeting of Tenth Distric'
farmers at Marion q. few days ago. il
was decided that each county in the
district should have marketing
;agent whose duty it will be to sci
fertilizer and other commodities which
are handled through the federated
marketing bureau. Meetings are to be
held in each county to consider the
matter. This does not mean that the
county agricultural agent is to be
drafted for that duty, but that some
man be selected to attend to such
buying transactions for the farmers o.
the entire county.
Railway Postoffiee at Fair
| A railway postoffice car with full
force of clerks on duty will comprise
one of the exhibits at the Indiana
state fair this year. Arrangements
for the exhibit are being made by
Otis X. Harms, chief clerk of tbs
Seventh district. fifth division of the
railway mail service. The car viii
train which the Monon railroad is ar
ranging to have on exhibition at the
fair.
Washington officials of the railway
mail service have approved the plans
submitted by Mr.. Harms for display
of the postoffice car. These plan:
call for a fully equipped car in which
mail for exhibitors and employees a
i the fairgrounds will be handled the
same as if it we're on a regular mai
train.
! Crop insurance under a permanen
government bureau or commission is
proposed in a resolution offered b!
i Senator McNary. He would have ;
\ joint congressional committee deter
mine the advisability of providing :
dependable insurance of this kind
/ capper's Hard Luck Story
i We find the following hard lucl
story in Capper's Weekly, but doub
that senator Capper is the author
But anyway, as a hard luck story i
] takes the bun, so here goes:
i Richard Luze, driving his car t
town skidded into a telephone pole
trains effected will run into East Han