The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-10-19
The Farm and the Farmer
BY William r. sanborn

afternoon, gets supper, milks the cows
again, feeds the chickens once more
washes up the dishes and gets to bed
sometime as early as 1890. No won
der she gets fat"
Corn and Melons
man belonging to our country
staff walked into this Office on Tues.
day carrying big, dark green water.
melon, which he deposited on our
desk. In brief confab we discovered
that said melon was grown at the edge
OF Economy, by A. w. Swain, a read
er of The Palladium, who had sent
it to the farm editor in token of friend
ly appreciation 1t had been duly plug
ged, was found ripe and sweet, then
loaded into The Palladium car for its
flnal journey. Mr.. Swain Is noted as
corn grower up his way and as a
man who does not unusually sell a bu-
shel OF one crop until the next one is
months old. We understand that he
grew banner crop this season.
Strange as it may appear, Mr.. Swain
does mighty little feeding. He lets the
other fellow feed to his hearts con-
tent, while he himself supplies what.
ever corn is in demand for that mr.
pose. He further maintains that he
has made money at it and that farm
ers come from miles around to buy
corn, where they are sure to find it.
Still Sowing Wheat.
According to the weather and crop
man at indianapolis, not all Indiana
farmers have completed sowing wheat
late as it may be. In regard to this.
}. H. Armitage, of indianapolis, said
on Tuesday, in his regular weekly
summary:
Wheat sowing has been completed
in many places; considerable of it is
up and looking fair to good. Some re
ports of increased acreage were re
celved, and blowing continued. Rye
made good to excellent growth.
Corn shredding, husking and crib
bing continued, with some complaint
of chaffiness. White and sweet DO
tatoes are being dug, the former vary
ing considerably in yield and quality
Buckwheat is being threshed. Apple
picking continued; few reports in.
Winter pears are plentiful Beans are
good
THE rains improved materially pas
lures and meadows, which greened ur
considerably, but are still very short.
Beats All Former Records.
At the recent annual meeting of the
Lake Shippers Clearance association
Captain Tilt, president, announced
that during 1921 the organization had
handled total of 270,000,000 bushels
of grain by vessel and rail These
! figures, he said, exceeded by 70 900, 00C
bushels the amount handled in 1920
and was 142 600. 900 more than tho
tonnage of 1919. Mr. Tits figures are
| interesting as showing the amount Of
grain moved into consumption last
! year, by lake and rail, from the north
west.
At last prime beeves have crossed
the $13 line in Chicago, where fivt
carloads brought $1325, from both
| packers and shippers, on Tuesday
The beeves bringing the top price OF
the year up to that time, weighed from
1926 to 1886 pounds.
| Not so long ago hogs sold above
! fancy steers, both as to tops and av
/ erages. The situation is now reversed
/ The top on hogs Tuesday was SO. 55 al
/ Chicago, with the general average for
the day, $3.50. This is not so bad
compared with the average price OF
4 the same dy lst yer, when it figured
I but. $40