The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-08-30
The Farm and the Farmer
BY William r. sanborn

due, will likely buy 100000 tons this
year, provided the rail strike does not
Interfere with deliveries. According
to the state chemist many improve
ments are taking place in Indiana's
fertilizer. OF the 1914 shipments of
fertilizer inspected during 1921 it was
found that 1910 shipments were equal
or above the guarantee in value, 227
shipments were only slightly below
the guarantee in value, and II ship
ments were 10 percent or more below
the guarantee in value.
Fertilizer manufacturers, with only
very few exceptions, are giving In
diana farmers the best service they
possibly can," said Mr.. Proulx. The
last few years inspections show the
average ton OF fertilizer SOLD in the
state contains approximately SITS
more plant food than was actually
guaranteed by the manufacturer. 1t is
interesting to note how the fertilizer
! inspection has made this possible.
Give the Children Milk
1t is generally admitted that poor
! food makes poor soldiers, but it is not
| so generally appreciated that poor
food also makes poor civilians, But
/ it does. The war proved that the mat
ter as we had thought. 1t proved, too,
that people may get enough to eat, as
to bulk, and still hunger for the prop
er foods, when there is a lack OF
cream, butter. cheese, green vegetab Ies
and fruits. In such cases the vitality
Of the whole population declines, and
the bodies of the children are stunted
in growth and often are emaciated and
twisted for lack of a balanced ration.
When this thing happens, as in
Russia and the Balkans, the pity of it
stirs US to send whole Armadas bear,
ing gifts. We send what we know
these foreign peoples lack, dairy and
vegetable foods. That was the great
need over there.
And that to less degree of course
but crucially enough in many cases
is the need over here. Not that We
lack milk, vegetable foods, ant; we
have these foods in abundance. Only
We do not know how to use them"
Who says we don't know now te
use these foods, do you ask? Well
in this particular case we have quoted
, from the Ohio Extension Service
|, News, issued monthly by the state
university. In the August number con
siderable space is given to this ques
, ton of proper nutrition in the home
diet, and to the matter of warm
lunches and whole milk served II
? school children. From the way the
| specialists and women of the home
5 economics section write one Nigh
: conclude that skinned milk has NJ
r place in the family diet, and that moth
! ing but whole milk and cream is sat
isfying TO the growing child
? After stating that we have dair.
Y products and fruits in abundance
: only We don't know how to use them,
$ the extension writer goes on to partic
/ ularize, as follows:
This is as true in the country as
: is in the city. Probably it is more tru
in the country. A garden is lot @
e trouble in summer, and to put up fresI
u vegetables for winter is thing to
Il often crowded out by the business q
y feeding the hands and the husband: G
! keeping the house, the children an
{ the chickens in order
Again, and particularly on dair
., farms, the milk so often goes to max
;, up an even five gallons or fifty gallon
for shipment, rather than to make II
= a more evenly balanced ration for tn
- most important livestock on the plac
:, the family
i That is one reason why in rura