The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-07-24
The Farm and the Farmer
BY William r. sanborn

If you have driven over many coun-
try roads in the past two or three days
you have observed the large number
of grain fields with wheat and oats
, in shock, awaiting the advent OF
j threshing machines and their busy
crews. Monday, July II, was an ideal
| day for threshing, but the wide spread
/ downpour on Monday night put hun
! dreds of machines out of commission,
mostly until Thursday forenoon. Not
| only was this true of a number OF
! Indiana counties, but also of many
counties in Ohio, for the rain extended
| over a wide area, and on south as far
as Louisville.
Doubtless every threshing outfit in
| the local radius was early at work
this Monday morning. The rudy
skies on Sunday evening promised q
fair day, which was encouraging to the
| crews and to the farmers having
wheat or oats to thresh. AS a matter
of fact, considering the early harvest,
threshing has progressed but slowly
and there is still much of it to be
done. But threshing operations are
rapid and members of the numerous
rings always work like beavers. With
favorable weather from now on it will
not be long until the machines will
be hauled into winter quarters and the
threshers be able to find little time
to spend some of the money they have
made.
I'VE have taken in so much wheat
that our bins are pretty we'll filled
and we have but little space for grain
for future flour making" said Charlie;
Carpenter, of the Richmond Roller
Mills, at noon Saturday I'VE hav,
been paying 81 all week, but now tha
we shall have to ship wheat out Of
stop buying, we have had to cut oul
price to 81 cents. This is the bes
price we can pay today, our bids thi!
morning not warranting a higher fig
ure'
Mr. Carpenter said they had asked
for cars. but got no definite promis'
from the railroad, the agent Stain!
> that he might be able to supply car
Monday"
Country elevator men are now il
1.-THE heart of their busiest season. TIL,
: receipts during the past week mad
d up an almost continuous procession o
S wagons, arriving direct from the ma
/ chimes. Very little complaint of in
; ability to get grain cars had bee,
noted; still there are places wher
e lack of cars has slowed down opera
: tons. The grain will keep, but shout
y the railroads be tied up in the frui
r and melon districts at time of heay
t lest movement, great losses to farm
r ers will result.
I Officially Endorsed
Agricultural producers should b
: encouraged to develop co-operativ
/ | associations to hasten the standard
e ization of agricultural production, in
prove the distribution processes an
g reduce their costs"
> This is the principal conclusion c
o the congressional joint commission c
agricultural inquiry in its report O
{ marketing and distribution.
= There are a few farmers who sti
hesitate to get back of co-operativ
marketing organizations. Endors'
= ments like this ought to help owe
: come their hesitation" says tn
:, Prairie Farmer.
= A Spotted Poland Center
A correspondent at Warsaw. Ind
o states that there are now 125 pure
, bred herds of Spotted Poland Chin
s hogs at Milford in that county. H
g gives credit to the Farmers Stat
Il bank at Milford for much of the d.
velopment of hog feeding in that Sc
ton, and states that in 1918 the casl
Ter of that bank started an endles
chain pig club for boys and enrolle
- members. The club has continue
from year to year and in the sprin
Of this year there were so member
in the SOW and litter club. The ban
has financed these clubs to whateve
extent needed.
Fathers of some of the boys an
girls in the clubs, realizing the prof
accruing to the club members (the
haven't been so big since the wal
saw chance to market their 10:
corn crop at least above the mark
price, which was well below the CO
of production
Accordingly, a number Of the me
called on Mr.. Shepard and asked tn;
club be formed for the men. BeiI
interested himself in the Spotte
Polands, Mr.. Shepard arranged to pl
out a number of brood sows of til
breed. Some men purchased the ar
mails outright, some gave their note
or agreed to return choice gifts in pa
ment for the SOW. This work gre
rapidly and this year, the numb,
of registered sows which Mr.. Shepal
had distributed on this basis totale
125, and with many requests which
had been unable to fill. merely b
cause he ran out of hogs.
Chicken Film and Lecture
Indianapolis poultry fans will be gi
en- treat Wednesday evening, Ju
26, at o'clock, when Albert Ange
Jr of Chicago, poultry expert. W
deliver a lecture at Tomlinson hall {
the subject Scientific Poultry Fee
ing and Management" In this co
nection Mr. Angel will show so
feet of moving picture film illustrs
ing in detail the care and manag
ment of poultry, from chickhood
maturity A thousand feet of the
films show the worlds greatest S.
. White Leghorn farm, Tie Oak Da
farm at Austin, Minnesota. The pii
} ures of this great farm and its met
: DDS of operation are very interestin
One scene shows $4,000 youngsters
the course of development.
Mr.. Angel has for years operat
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