The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1922-03-30

| A group of farmers met at the OF
flee of County Agent Dolan the other
evening to talk over a mutually in
teresting business matter. Later, the
crop of spring pigs and what is hap
pening in the narrowing pens, became
! the subject of discussion, when it de
veloped that farmers here and there
are complaining of heavy losses in
| their pens. Not one of them was able
to assign an acceptable reason for the
/; loss of so many of the new comers,
i though two or three theories were
presented
For example, one man reported a
lot of the pigs coming dead; said
others were too weak to survive; in
fact he had but two live ones now out
of about so recently farrowed. Anoth-
er man ascribed his bad luck to the
male hog used in breeding, but, per
contra, a neighbor who was quoted as
having used the same pure-bred male,
stated that he had thrifty lot of pigs
in his pens and had had no unusual
losses.
Our readers will recall heavy losses
OF pigs two years ago this spring, es-
pecially in spots, and these over a
wide area and in several counties.
This writer then devoted much space
to this subject, using the telephone in
calling farmers in all directions. Many
at that time, ascribed a part of their
losses to the cold weather, also to in
jury to sows from falling in icy feed
lots. This reason can hardly be as
signed this spring, although we have
had little ice in the past month and
several days of chilling rain.
But whatever may be the reason the
fact remains that not only several
Wayne county farmers, but numerous
Preble county hog growers are re-
porting an undue loss of piglets A
few complaints also have come in from
Fayette county
Treating Seed Potatoes.
1t is always well to treat seed po.
tatoes before planting and this is how
it is done: Use formaldehyde, one
pint to 80 gallons of water, soaking
the seed one hour. Or use corrosive
sublimate, four ounces to 80 gallons
of water; also soaking the seed for an
hour. Seed can be treated at any time
between now and planting dates, but
preferably before the potatoes have
started to sprout Spread the treated
potatoes out thinly until dry; then
store them until planted
We often hear complaints CT "scab-
by potatoes, and many are inclined
to blame it on the kind of sol! in which
grown. An Ohio crop specialist says
that no soil is naturally "scabby" but
that the trouble is introduced by plant
ing diseased seed. He says further.
that: "On many Ohio farms the sill
has become SO infested with scab that
clean potatoes cannot be grown"
This probably is equally true of po-
tato ground in other states.
Spraying the Codine Moth.
The codling moth, one of the worst
enemies of orchard fruits, can be sue
cessfully fought if the fruit grower
knows the exact time that the newly
Matched horde of worms will appear
to attack his trees. This can be de {,
says an old apple grower who says:
Roll small piece of ordinary win
dow screen into a cone shaped cage
and suspend it in an apple tree Col !
lect number of cocoons in the spring, |
place them in the cone, where they |
are subject to natural conditions. |
w dICn udlly lOE Tie 6Ul6T-
gencies of the moths. Remember that |
the moth eggs will hatch about seven
days after being laid, and spray with
a poisonous insecticide just when the
spray will be most effective. This is i
better than to depend upon spraying :
calendars, because the cycle of the
codling moth differs in various local |
ities''
Farmers Hold AI-Day Meeting
The farmers of Morgan county held
an all-day meeting at the Grace thea
tre in Martinsville, on Tuesday. Mo-
ton pictures featuring farm life and i
the work of the county, state and ma
t1onal farm bureaus, were shown to |
an enthusiastic crowd Secretary
Crane, of the Indiana farm bureau,
addressed the assemblage on the new
farmers commission firm, just being
established at the Indianapolis yards, I
and C. E. George, secretary of the In
diana dairy marketing association,
told of the plans of his organization. Il
In addition to pictures and addresses Il
4 hne musical program was given.
Liverpool Wheat Prices
Frank Mckee, mani ger of the Far
ners' Grain company elevator at Per-
shing, writes US an interesting letter
n which he discusses and compares
he prices paid for wheat in Liverpool
md in Chicago, stated in both English