The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-06-27


tracted for one crop of wheat, which
was to be threshed on Tuesday, and
to be marketed directly from the ma
chine, the price being 81 if as good as
No. g This wheat has already been
sold for shipment" he said" at a
price which lets us out with profit.
So far as we have heard the above
crop is the first to be threshed in
Preble county. Up to Monday night /
we had not heard of single machine I
that had gone into action in Wayne. /
The Farmers elevator at Camden is
still holding 5000 bushels of 1921 |
wheat in storage for the farmers, and |
it is said there is still a little old
wheat on the farms in that section.
They are paying SIS cents for corn at
Camden, for local use, not for ship
ping out.
Manager Schlientz of the Equity
elevator at Eaton said on Tuesday
morning that he had bought a few
crops for July delivery at 81 per-
bushel. He has heard of no thresh-
i, ing being done and doubt that there
will be any threshing until the week
end, if then. He says that work is
now proceeding on the new elevator
and the contract provides that it will
be completed by September l.
( A. " Mcclure of Eldorado is an
other Preble county man who admits
picking up a few crops of wheat at
! ST. He does not expect to see any
! threshing machines in action around
| Eldorado until the beginning of next
week, or possibly not until after the
GLORIOUS Fourth" His idea is that
when the machines start the thresh-
ermen want to see all the wheat in
the ring in condition to thresh so as to
go from one farm to the next, in con-
tinuous procession. He says that
many farmers are just beginning to
cut wheat.
/ Left Threshinq Rates Open
At the meeting of the Preble coun-
ity threshermen at the courthouse at
Eaton, on Saturday night, the attend
ance was comparatively light and af-
ter some debate it was decided that
it was best to allow the machine own
ers to fix rates to suit individual cir
cumstances and localities. This was
the rule, it seems, in 1921, and in con-
sequence prices ranged unevenly. In
the main, we have been told prices
ruled lower in Preble than in Wayne,
some oats being threshed at 4c and
|. 41ac, while other farmers paid sc. A
lot of wheat was threshed in the West
Manchester district as low as &c, one
man tells US, while VIM. Everding, of
Eaton, says there were crops which
cost their owners as much as &C per
bushel for the threshing. Mr.. Everd-
ing says that there are a raft of
threshers in Preble but that not over
% are in the association and that this
rh1-it hos har I'd n
a rate agreement for this work.
Producers Action
The Producers Sales association,
which opened at Chicago on Monday,
, June 10, is accredited with handling a
, total of % cars of live stock in its
, first five days. On its opening day
, the receipts consisted of six cars
, from Iowa On Tuesday 81 cars from
Illinois and one from Indiana made a
, total of % cars. On Wednesday, Ill
! inois, Indiana and Iowa were the
shippers with a total of II cars
Thursdays receipts were nearly all
from Illinois, although Iowa showed
'on the bills of lading in a small way
. and on Friday the total handled fol
all states was Is cars. No mention
was made of any receipts on Satur
+ day, although there may have been q
r car or two; Saturday receipts being
!. always light at Chicago, the cleanup
: day of the week, when leftovers, il
!. any, are disposed of.
!. From the Other Angle
r While it is not to be expected thai
the New York Journal of Commerce
would get the farmers viewpoint or
Ford's Muscle Shoals proposition, still
: the editor makes a few remarks which
will bear reprinting. He says:
Congress would do well to give
thought to the recent words of the
e president of the National Fertilizer
association. According TO that officia
Mr.. Ford may, if he wishes, go into
the fertilizer business without acquir
8 ing the Muscle Shoals property. HI
= can, indeed Conversely, Muscle
S Shoals, if acquired under reasonable
: terms, will bring the manufacturer NJ
power to produce fertilizers for thc
farmers at the prices apparently ex
pected in rural districts Special laid
y for farmers can come out of Muscl'
Shoals only at the expense of the tax
payer. That fact = for fact it is =
ought to be frankly faced.
There is, of course, no reason VIII.
U Mr.. Ford should not secure the use o
~ IQo IdClllIleS anu the power DIT I'LL
v site if he is willing TO pay the govern
o ment as much or more for them thai
d any one else is ready to pay. Blu
It there is no reason why this pric
IS should be turned over directly or in
!; directly to the farmer. Most of al
there is no shadow of justification 70
deal" whereby the people of tn
!; country pay Mr.. Ford or any one els
&c to use the power for his own profit.
II Effects of the Tariff
e, AS one example of how politician
:; will differ on legislative matters W
b. cite the views of senators McCumbe
5, of North Dakota and Walsh, of Mas;
IS achusetts. Senator McCumber ha
a been telling the farmer that the enc
TO gency tariff is responsible for tn
:, comparatively high prices now prevail
ing for numerous farm products II
looks upon the tariff as an harbinge
of better days and another era of pro-
W perity for the farmer.
se Anent the new tariff measure b.
2. fore congress, one patterned largel