The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-10-18
The Farm and the Farmer
BY William z. sanborn

TO bring the cityman and the farmer
INTO closer contact, to get them mutu-
any acquainted and to consider CO.
operation OF town and country in the
upoulio!ng of the entire county. 1t is
a laudable idea. Prof. vivian has had
oroad experience in matters agricul-
tural and is a man of ripened iudg-
ment His address will be of more
than ordinary interest and importance
at this time, when cooperation is the
keynote of prosperity for the farmer.
The more prosperous the farmer the
better and more profitable the busi-
ness in town We are all one people
and the common welfare should be- the
concern of all.
Earl Robbins, Of Horace, md, paid
the top price at the Clark and ShaffeF
sails of Sholthorns, last week His
choice was an imported cow, which he
bid up to $685., The 26 head which
showed in the sales ring brought to-
tai of 1886, making the average 1927.
Among the buyers at the sale, were:
R c. Chenoweth, williamsburg, $40;
Grant Hawkins, Lynn, $125; L. s.
White, Ansonia. Ohio, $3.50; Lee Cook.
Winchester, $115, also another cow at
$147.50; Bruce Shade, Winchester,
800; Sam Rabe, two cows at $145 and
| $145.50.
Miller, Carr and Ellis, who conduct
ed the Hampshire hog sale held by
Conway and Utesler, on Monday, says
it was one of the best sales of the sea-
son. Arthur Knolte of Newcastle,
picked out a dandy boar for which he
paid $50. A total of So head were dis
posed of and Hampshire fanciers from
Wayne, Randolph, Union and Preble
counties were among the buyers. The
bulk of the offering went at $40 or bet
ter.
Grain Trade and Prices
Farmers are encouraged by the fact
that the men who sold wheat short
when all grains were at the lowest in
late August and early September have
found that there was really a bottom
to the market All markets were
heavily oversold at that time, and de-
spite the considerable advance indica-
lions point to a great shortage still
outstanding, and to higher prices dur
ing the winter. Shortly after harvest
the world was deluged with reports of
a large surplus of American and Ca
madam wheat, so both foreigners and
the home trade in general took the
short side of the market, in an effort
to find bottom. Foreign markets
which were the most depressed two
months ago, have been leading the up
ward movement, while foreign wheat
stocks have decreased heavily. A re
duction of 81 100000 in the worlds
wheat crop, as compared with early
estimates, has had a strengthening in
: fluence, the estimates not including
: Russia and Mexico.
!, From the low of the week ending
October corn moved up 61h cents
for May and nearly cents on the De
cember delivery This was an advance
/, of 1415 cents from the low on De
cember. and 1914 cents on May. De
cember oats have advanced IL cents
from the low on December and 121
cents on the May option, both options
now being above 40 cents. Cash wheat
in Liverpool is up 25 cents and corr
20 cents from the low of the season.
Courses In Marketing
Two-day short courses in co-opera
tive live stock marketing is the --latest
announcement in extension circles
and Missouri is the state taking the
lead in this work. The courses arr
to be put on at ST. Joseph, Mo-, OF
CShODCi 81 anu GO at INdhooo Sli0I 4NO
vember and g. and at ST. Louis or
November and 10. To these shorr
courses all managers. officials anC
members of live stock shipping asso
Citations are invited The first day O
, each meeting will be known as Better
Business Methods day and the second
as Better Grading day. The discuss
ions will be led by stock yards experts
! shipping association managers, b.
, market specialists and commission
men. College specialists from thre'
or four states tributary to those mark
cts will be present Printed programs
will be provided.
Swine Feeding RatIons
After the average farmer has read /;
> treatise on feeding he looks over hi
: supply of feeds and uses them accord
, ing to circumstances and his own idea
: of the best thing to do, all of which
! is according to Hoyle. Nevertheless
much may be learned from the report
r of feeding experiments at the variou
( stations and from the experience o
, men who are versed in scientific feed
ing and who know why they use thi
formula or prefer some other
q One expert who devotes his time Z
!. the matter has just issued new bu
= letin on Swine Feeding for the Obi
: extension service. The feeder is give
Q the choice of two or more mixtures i
Q a series of rations for weanling pig
0 and up to heavy hogs. The write
@ saws:
Sucking pigs, 5 to 40 pounds: 8
pounds corn, 20 pounds tankage: O
v 70 pounds corn, 10 pounds middling:
!. 10 pounds tankage; or 80 pounds corr
n 80 pounds ground barley, 25 pound
Q screened oats, Is pounds tankage.
]. Weanling pigs, 30 to 100 pounds; 81
/ IS pounds corn, 1920 pounds tankage
d or 1880 pounds corn, 10 pounds nit
i dlings, 1915 pounds tankage; or 5
pounds corn, 35 pounds ground barie,
Is pounds tankage.
Shoats, 100 to It's pounds: 85-e
pounds corn, 1915 pounds tankage c
Z 1873 pounds corn, 1915 pounds mi.
U dlings, 10 pounds tankage; or :
s pounds corn. 40 pounds ground barrie,
s. 10 pounds tankage
Z Hogs, It's to $50 pounds: 92-s
e pounds corn, As pounds tankage; {
> so pounds corn 35 pounds ground ba
e ley. five pounds tankage.
sr These rations may be handled {
il settled. Intelligent hand feeding
h. the bulletin rernarks {" will 1af &C oor