The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-01-31
The Farm and the Farmer
BY William r. Sanborn

Country elevator men are having
few farmers are selling grain of any
kind and the retail demand is never
heavy in a small town. Luckily the
elevator men have more than one
string to their bows, and there is al
ways something doing in coal and feed
lines during the winter.
The recent cold snap had stimulat-
ing effect on the coal trade, is the gen
eral report. Not that there has been
any rush." said one of the elevator
fraternity, but the demand has been
heavier from our town trade, not all of
which put in enough coal to run
through the winter, being sure of get
ting coal as needed from our bins"
AS matter of fact people com
planned of the high prices for coal at
the seasonal time for stocking up, and
| many bought sparingly on that ac-
count. The feeling was that very lit
tie could possibly be lost by waiting,
and something might be saved on later
purchases.
Paying S1.o7 For Wheat
Several country elevators in this
section are still paying around $1.07
for wheat, in spite of the moderate ad-
vances in the big markets. These
! men are buying on a shipping basis
and not as millers who can make d
!. profit on their flour. Mondays prices
( at Boston, Kitchell, Wits Station and
Fountain City were on a par, we I'M
derstand, at the following quotations :
Wheat, SLOT; corn, 43c and oats CSC
! per bushel. Fountain City announced
oil af L
| per ton from the car and $3.50 de-
! liversd from the bins. Anthracite is
still going at SIS per ton. Manager
| Hockett says that so far as grain buy,
! ing goes it is mighty dull, but there is
| some coal and feed moving right
along.
Sales of Farm Horses.
! In little. chat with banker-farmer
with relation to the sale prices OF
farm horses in January, that gentle
man stated that, in his opinion, the
tendency had been downward, and
that the outlook wasn't favorable from
the sellers standpoint. When we cited
the prices paid for good farm teams
at recent sales, he remarked that
farmers who knew the teams might
bid up a trifle, especially when bu,
three to five horses We're on sale
But at a farm sale where a raft q
horses were put up, it was a different
proposition. The choice is broad
and there is more competition said
he. but the buyers lack knowledge
of the real merits of the horses ara
also the neighborly feeling which
helps prices at a farm sale"
Horse dealers are mostly of the
opinion. that the February sales o.
farm horses will be at advancing lev
els, as the need for horses on the farm
will be more pressing in that month
J. H. Clements, who has a farm neaI
Williamsburg and a sale barn in town
seemingly does not share that view
He holds that farmers are short o
money and cannot pay the prices gooC
farm horses should bring. Mr.. Glen
ents said that January was his bes
month last year, running conSiderabl!
= ahead of February, and that he looket
= for no better demand or higher price
in February than he has experiences
this month. To him, he said, ''th'
outlook for an active horse market i
the poorest in 20 years" Mr. Glen
ents realized from 500 to $3.50 at hi
horse sale last Friday. He sold
bunch of good Jersey cows at from
l $50 to $75, which, he said, shout,
? have brought more money.
/ Prof. Harper Talks Wool
At the district meeting of count
agents at Newcastle last week, Pro
: Harper of the sheep husbandry depar
+ ment at Purdue, shed a little light o
/ the wool pools in Indiana for the yea
+, 1920. Taking the state as a whole
Prof. Harper had learned that tn
: prices realized, averaging the hig
and the low of all the grades, was
cents per pound. He stated that tn
total cost of handling and selling tn
wool, from the wagon box to the pa
check, was 4 cents per pound. d
Quoting this cents leaves an averag
net of Is cents per pound for the pr
Queer.