The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-11-06
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Hoosier ton-litter clubs, as reported up
10 Oct. 81. On that date 80 hog rails
ers had made the rifle, having raised
filters of spring pigs weighing one ton
or more in the prescribed feeding Inn
its. On above date there were several
more filters to be weighed up. me
winners in this contest will be award
ed a gold medal by the Indiana Live
Stock Breeders association. =. w.
Schwartz, of Berne, led all the rest, up
to Oct. 81, this exhibit bling litter OF
II Poland Chinas which weighed o,UfV
pounds at the age of six months. me
"runt' of the lot weighed 247 POUNDS
and the heaviest hog $50 pounds ms
litter reached six months on OCT y, on
which date it was officially weighed
in.
This record caused the county agent
to call meeting of farmers, at which
number of Purdue extension men
were present, and the result was a Wis
it of inspection to the Schwartz farm
by $50 interested visitors. To these
Mr.. Schwartz told his story. In con-
GLIDING Mr. Schwartz said: Il dldn I
do anything but what other farmers
can do. l just gave a good SOW and
her litter the best chance | could and
they rewarded me handsomely. He
said that the sow had always been a
good producer and that after breeding
Hast fall she ran in a stalk field with
the rest of the sows until February.
Soy beans had been grown in this field
and there was plenty of forage Tor
them all
starchy Corn For Hogs
The chemists and feeders are discov-
ering that there seems to be more diff
ference in the feeding values of the
various kinds of corn than has been
suspected Actual feeding tests, for
example, have not only proved that the
superiority of yellow corn over white
corn. under many conditions, but the
Illinois experiment station now says
that for hogs a moderately starchy
corn may perhaps be superior to flinty
corn in feeding value. At any rate
Illinois has found that ordinary Silver
Mine white corn, when fed in connec
ton with tankage to hogs, gave consld
erably better results than the flinty
Democrat white corn.
There is much difference between
the several varieties of corn with re
spect to flintiness. Many so called
dents, especially those on the northern
and southern borders of the corn bell
have a decidedly hard and flinty text
Ure. with very little white starch. Or
the other hand Reds Yellow Dent
and most other standard varieties, car
~ a considerable content of soft white
,, starch, in the center of the belt.
Corn breeders will do well to note
the texture of both cob and grain II
order to produce corn which will give
us the utmost feeding value for botf
hogs and cattle.
New Farm Bloc Program
Two bills which are already report
ed out of committee, and therefore
should have the right of way On thu
floor, are the Ford proposal to leasi
the dam and operate the fertilize
plants at Muscle Shoals, and the bill
providing for an intermediate form o
credit running from six months t.
three years The agricultural bloc
have definitely decided that their pro
gram will include the Ford tender, in
termediate credit and the anti-fille'
5 milk bill, which already has passed the
: house and is now in the senate agr1
cultural committee, and the bill rails
: ing the maximum amount that ma.
: be loaned to any individual by fedora
= farm loan banks from $4,000 t
7 $4,000.
In November Days
? An editorial writer on the Chicag
, Tribune is given to writing poetry il
l prose regarding the changing seasons
) and from month to month. This mont
he makes his usual appeal to natur
lovers and the farmer who looks on
e over his russell fields and the glorie
0 of the woodland colorings, will appre
t ciate the spirit of what follows:
e October has given November fey
I wild asters and the yellow wych-haze
S blossoms. The hunters moon at flu
$ shines on lanes which are russell VI
e der foot and which rustic crisply a
q rabbits come out of the brown gardeI
With every wind, yellow mapl
: leaves take fight and are caught b
the prickly barberry. which is brigh
Z with red berries. The night is a
/ golden as the day. The oak is turnin
or has turned to that brown which wi
be its robe when the north wind bring
: snow and even when the south win
again waves the catkins.
: November is russell month when a
but the oak has been stripped bare {
the October colors, when the turf
: carpeted, and when even the nicotian
: is bIackened, but 1t Is month
. gusto. 1t is the beginning of the il
: tensive life when the vision which ha
L been wide and cursory become
/, focused and confined.
A streamer of light from a windo'
{ reaches out the footpath to the gat
> with its kindly limitations OF shelte
/ of home at the end of a road, gained {
S the end of day. Dead leaves rustic q
/ the dead days, but the pot boils an
e the shaft of light along the path is
sign to the unflagging belief of ma
$ that all roads lead to shelter eve
J. when the days are all underfoot
/ The Worlds Butter Trade.
e The trade in butter between DR.
II ducing and consuming countries hs
II experienced as great an upheaval Z
n did that in other commodities on a
g count of the war. Wartime shippin
e restrictions and the prevailing &c
e nomic conditions in buying and sellir
g countries having been main factors
le bringing about very substantial Gu
e tailment in the worlds butter trad
ID This decrease was so great that eve
D. as late as 1920 the total volume
butter entering into information