The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-09-01
The Farm and the Farmer
BY William r. Sanborn

gan Amber. The lowest production
was shown at Urbana by Jones Gil
max, at 304 bushels.
At the AIhambra field both hard and
soft wheats were grown On this
field Black Hull lead with 1877 bushels
TO the acre, while the lowest producer
in the list, Harvest Queen variety
produced exactly II bushels.
Red Top Seed Combination
The Egyptian Seed Growers Elk
change is now a going concern. It
was organized to market red top
seed comparatively. When we remem-
Der that 80 per cent of the worlds
production of red top seed is produced
in eight southern Illinois counties it
is easy to see how that crop can be
tied up tighter than a drum by the
producers in a narrow territory.
Robert n. Clark, one of the men re-
sponsible for the organization of the
sales exchange, says that for many
years red top growers have been at
the mercy of the large seed dealers,
because they did not know the amount
of seed produced each year, what the
demand had been, or the carryover
from previous crops. Thus they had
no idea what their seed was worth
and have been in the habit of unques-
I tingly taking whatever was offered.
/ Nov they propose to know these
facts, and to weigh, test and clean
/ their seed and market it cooperative
/ ly."
! Red Top is harvested in late July
and early August, being cut with a
mower, and stacked as hay, or cut
with binder and shocked. The COM
mon thresher makes no pretence of
! cleaning seed to a No. l grade. From
one fourth to one half of the bulk Of
/ seed from the thresher chaff or
/ screenings, the balance being fancy
or "silver" seed, the former two lots
being recleaned. Warehouses for
storage and fitted with recleaning ma
chimes will be built and within a short
time the crop will be handled entirely
by the cooperative growers.
This seed not only supplies the do
nestle demand for lawn and goll
! course grasses. but is also used for
pasture mixtures and is shipped to
Europe.
Southern Farm Population
The announcement is made by the
department of the census that in the
! southern states there are nearly H.,
100000 farmers. In this showing are
included the border states-Delaware
Maryland, District of Columbia and
West Virginia. The exact figures, as
set forth in the census report, reveal
the fact that the total farm popula
ton of the South is, or was in Janu
airy two years ago, 16,S27,S34. OF
this number 11,730,848 were white, 5.
044,489 colored and 50, 497 of other ra
ces. The white farm population OF
the south in 1920 constituted 48,6 pei
cent of the total white population OF
that section and the colored farm pop
ulation formed 56.6 per cent of the
total Southern colored population
The colored farm population exceeded
the white farm population in two
states. South Carolina and Mississ
ippi, but the largest colored farm pop
ulation was shown in Georgia, 1925
The Russian Corn Belt
] Ukrainia, the big farming section
of Southern Russia, is a corn bell
from now on. Where in former years
wheat and rye were the standard
crops, with an occasional splatterine
of barley, it is almost certainty
!, that American corn will quickly be
one of the leading crops.
Il DR.. Joseph Rosen, who is working
in cooperation with the American Re
lief Administration to feed the famine
victims in this section of Russia, is
authority for this belief. THE aver
age corn acreage in the past" DR.
Rosen said, was $4,000 This yeal
nearly 5000. 900 acres in the Ukraine
has been planted with corn. 1t is
certain to become a popular grain"
The many advantages of a corr
I crop, DR.. Rosen believes, were 4
great influence, quite apart from the
I fact that seed corn was the only
available planting in many districts