The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-01-11

The farmers of Franklin township
met at Bethel on Monday night Dial
ton held a meeting on Tuesday night
and Clay township federationists are
slated for gathering on Wednesday
evening. Webster, Washington and
Harrison have each set Thursday of
this week as the date for their regular
monthly meetings. The report Of the
drive in Franklin township shows an
enrolment OF 80 members, and they
promise to make it par at 100, or even
better The farmers of Boston held
lively meeting on Monday evening.
A little eight-acre plot, modestly i'm
proved, situated off the Henley road,
about three and one-half miles south
east of Richmond, sold for $4,000 at
public auction, Monday. Edgar Will
liams, the seller. is going to Florida,
so it is said. The buyer has not been
named, but the clerk of the sale said
that he considered better than $500 dn
acre a good price.
Fred Elliott Buys an Elevator.
Fred Elliott. of Arba, has purchased
| the elevator at Deerfield, a few miles
north of Winchester. Mr.. Elliotts
! farm lies just north of Arba and his
! farm sale of chattels was held on Mon
| day. Nearly 1000 bushels of corn was
| sold at an average of As cents, and 50
! tons of timothy was disposed of at
from $40 to $11. The tractor and i'm
plements went at prices according 20
use and value, and Mr.. Elliott reports
| the sale as being very satisfactory
Arrangements have not yet been made
! for the farming of the Elliott acreage
| this year.
President Browns Addresses
John G. Brown, as president of the
National Live Stock Producers asso
| citation. should be addressed at the
central offices of the association, al
sos South Dearborn street, Chicago
says the American farm bureau News
Letter. With relation to Indiana state
federation matters, President Brown
should, of course, be addressed at state
headquarters as usual. The state off
ces are at LAT East Market street, In
dianapolis, where an entire floor now
houses all the representatives Of state
farm activities.
Have Gone Into Action
The first of the terminal market
sales associations, under the plan O.
tlt COUlullIltt vi nlIttIy Hdo OpCICN
for business at he National STOCK
Yards, at East ST. Louis, H., and is
just getting into action. Western farm
ers and shippers to that market arr
particularly interested in this expert
ment, as will Indiana farmers be il
the establishment of a similar sale!
agency at Indianapolis. Just when The
new live stock association will be or
gained in this state has not yet beer
decided, but we Judge from what Johl
G. Brown is reported to have told al
indianapolis reporter that it may no
be in action until next May. Brown
said that the dairy marketing boarC
and the live stock sales association
| probably would be ready for business
in May, in a recent interview.
The organization at East st. Louis Is
we judge, q two-company interlockin!
concern. First, in order, comes tn
: Producers Live Stock Commission as
sociation, and then the Producers
Stockor and Feeder company, with en-
5 tirely different functions and wit
7 separate managers, H. f. Fike of Der
} yer, and E. R. Devine of Illinois.
Must Capitalize the Farmer
In writing to the American farm bu
reau officials at Chicago, according t
the farm bureau" Weekly News Let
: ter" George A. Mansfield, president O
the Oregon state bureau, said: 81
} 1922 We must capitalize the sellin
power. the buying power and the Unfit
. ence of the American farmer, in orde
that he may receive just and fai
treatment. Can We make the grade
Yes
Mr.. Mansfield indicates that the Ore
1 gon farmer is in bad way. but wer
D he to come east he would find
mighty hard to convince consumer
! that the growers of Oregon prunes an
/, Oregon and Washington apples ar
c not favorites of fortune. These seen
:; ingly have an unlimited market, g
z their own prices.
= Cod Fishers to Cooperate
Il Here is another cooperative idea o
q large scale, to market one of tn
!. crops of the sea, and with governmer
/ backing. The crop is the Goldfish cate
of Newfoundland, Canadian PROVING
e Fishing is the greatest industry of tn;
province and the fisherman's part
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