The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-06-05


pooling of wool in Wayne county this
year, simply because the clip has all
been taken off and wool buyers have
been active enough to have secured
several thousand pounds. They began
buying early, as reports in this column
have shown, and have bid steadily
advancing prices AS matter of fact
considerable wool has been sold in all
adjoining Indiana and Ohio counties,
one concern in Eaton having secured
close to five carloads, some of it COM
ing in distance of almost fifty miles.
This firm has been buying from farm
ers and also from independent buyers
and spectators, who have been TAX
ing chances on a rising market and on
the effects of the wool tariff now be-
ing so strenuously debated.
Now, many farmers, not all of whom
are wool growers, are of the opinion
that cooperative selling should not be
overlooked or allowed to go by de-
fault, now or at any time. These IA
vor pooling of wool so that fleece own
ers may get all their wool is worth
where there is competitive buying by
representatives of the various mills.
Wayne county, as is we'll known, has
a wool committee" of which Theo-
dore Davis, of Green's Fork, is chair
man. Mr.. Davis has just mailed out
a letter to flock owners, in which he
/ states that owing to recent market
advances" the price of raw wool at
the factory is now running an average
of 40 cents or better for various
grades. On that basis Mr.. Davis in
sists that wool buyers over the coun-
ty are not paying up as close to the
market as they should"
The Davis View on Pooling
| The letters going out contain re-
turn postals, asking report on the
number of fleeces shorn, and asking
whether Richmond, Cambridge City,
, Hagerstown or Centerville will be
their most convenient delivery point.
the favored point to be checked on
the card We quote the heart of the
Davis letter on Pooling, as follows:
"The plan we have in mind is to
have the wool growers assemble their
wool in one. two, or possibly three
central locations over the county, and
then either send the wool in carload
lot to the State pool at Columbus,
Ohio where other counties in Indiana
are selling their wool or to keep the
wool in the county here and invite
wool buyers from the mills to come
here and bid on the wool. Two mills
in Indiana are very anxious to buy
our wool right here in the county.
Surely we can get better bids on 4
large amount than can the individual
farmer on his small lot The highest
bidder will be the person who gets
the wool"
Look Out for Chinch Bugs
If the fact that man hasn't looked
for chinch bugs and hasn't seen bug
on his place, insured him against the
pest, we would advise farmers who go
out to inspect their fields to walk in
the middle of the road and to view
the landscape as a whole, rather than
to wade around in his wheat and oats
to make close inspection.
But if bugs are there, Why there
they are. whether you know ABOUT
them or not: so it will be best to be
informed right at the start, so that
YOU can act as conditions direct
Right now is the time to investigate.
After YOU have done so. we snail De
mighty glad to hear from you, by pos
tai or phone call. In case of the lat
ter call 1859 and charge this oftlce.
At the same time you can tell US now
your crops are looking; how your
hogs are coming on and the prospects
for fruit on your place, if you have
an orchard.
But in any event tell US about the
bugs, if you discover any. We also
have an idea that ]. L. Dolan, county
agent. will be anxious to know the
facts. he being curious and inquisitive
as to all kinds of crop pests. He seems
built that way and is in the habit
of piling his swivel chair into a cor
ner and then taking a nose dive in his
flivver out through the country to see
what is going on He tells US that he
has met-up with quite few chinches,
of late, and while they are now shy
and retiring and are taking life easy
that their tribe may increase and do
some talking back, bit later.
Pay Premiums on Sound Hogs
Farmers who produce hogs free
from tuberculosis in the future will be
paid a premium by Chicago packers.
The five big packers-Swift, Morris,
Wilson, Armour, and Cudahy - and
many of the small packers, have
agreed to pay 10 cents a hundred
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shipped to the Chicago live stock
market providing they are free from
tuberculosis and come from a farm
where both cattle and hogs are not
infected with this dreaded disease
This agreement was reached on
June at the Saddle and Sirloin club.
where a Joint session of packers and
representatives of the live stock eX-
changes was held. Everett G. Brown.
president of the National Live Stock
exchange and Prof H. R. Smith. live
stock commissioner of the national
exchange and originator of the idea,
urged the packers to agree to pay 10
cents a hundred above the market
price on carloads of hogs shipped
from counties certified by the federal
and state sanitary officials as free
from tuberculosis.
Packers Are Liberal
The packers not only agreed to this
but said they would also pay this pre-
MUM to any farmer, whether he lived
in a disease free county or not, if his
herds of cattle and hogs were free
from the disease.
The farmers cattle have to pass two
tuberculin tests one year apart and
the entire herd Of hogs must be free