The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-10-03
The Farm and the Farmer
BY William r. sanborn

preserve the civilization of Europe.
mat force is the farm owners. When
say farm owners, / mean the man
who owns and operates his farm. and
not absentee farm owners.
In almost all of the 10 countries
laws have been passed that make it
possible for the renter to secure a title
to the farm he has been operating at
a reasonable price. In some of the
countries the large estate or land own
ers nave co-operated with the govern
ments; in other countries the owners
have not appreciated that world con-
dltlons have changed and they have
opposed the land laws"
New Leghorn Record
A dispatch dated at Santa Cruz. Cal,
on Sept. 80 gives the following ac-
count of a new record made by a White
Leghorn hen. The report states that
The worlds laying record was broken
mere Saturday according to officials of
the state farm bureau, when Columbia
Belle, White Leghorn hen laid her
3z4th egg on the last day of the egg
laying contest. The contest has been
in progress for a year The former
record was 80 eggs in year. made
IN 1921 by White Leghorn from the
Hollywood poultry farm, at Hollywood,
Washington"
We are under the impression that
the 315 egg record has been surpassed
here in the east, notably in Lancaster
county, Pennsylvania, also at points
farther west, in agricultural egg laying
contests.
The annual meeting of the Indiana
State Poultry association opened at
Purdue on Tuesday afternoon. in the
agricultural building. Members of the
Purdue poultry staff and successful
poultrymen from all parts of the state
are taking part in the four day pro-
gram. A general discussion of the
egg-laying situation will be held on
| Wednesday afternoon and a banquet
will follow at Hotel Fowler in the
evening. Reports on all Indiana egg
laying contests for the year will be
presented on Thursday and officers
will be elected on Friday forenoon.
Pike County Pig Show.
The Pike county promotion pig
show to be held under the auspices of
the county breeders association will
be given at Petersburg, on Oct 1920.
More than 5000 will be given in pre-
miums. The SOW and litter club will
make an exhibit at the same time. The
| Pike county folks will also have a
chance to show their dogs, not for
money but for ribbons.
! 1t is reported from Hartford City
that the price of milk was advanced
from 10 cents TO Y cents a quart, on
Monday, poor pastures being given as
the cause of the increased price.
The Fertilizer Industry.
In the latest issue of the Journal Of
Industrial and Engineering Chemistry
DR.. W. H. Waggman has a very inter
esting contribution devoted chiefly tc
a discussion of the increasing impor
lance of chemistry in the fertilizer in.
dustry. Chemical control originated
at the Connecticut experiment station
in 1876 and has broadened its influ
ence until, says DR.. Waggaman, 1.-THE
manufacture of fertilizers is now ris
ing from the plane of a big business
conducted largely along rule oil
thumb lines to that of a true chemical
industry founded upon sound scientific
principles, which make for higher eff
ficiency, greater economy, and better
service to both the individual and the
nation.
The trend of the fertilizer industry
today is toward the manufacture anC
use of more concentrated products.
Along with the direct manufac
ture of phosphoric acid and the syn
thetic production of ammonia mus
come the wider use of definite ant
relatively pure chemical compound:
for fertilizer purposes, for these two
fertilizer ingredients must be com
bined with base and an acid, respec
lively, in order to handle. ships, anC
distribute them successfully.
The logical procedure is to combin,
the phosphoric acid with ammonia t
form ammonium phosphate or will
potash as potassium phosphate, ant
where both ammonia and nitric acic
are produced, combine them to form
ammonium nitrate. In every case.
salt is obtained wherein both the acit
and base contribute their share to tn,
market value of the fertilizer"