Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 35, Number 162, 18 April 1910 — Page 6

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THE RICH3IO JfD PALLADIU3I A!fD SUN-TEI.EGHA1I, MONDAY, APRIL 18, 19MK

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IThUr' matter must not" hi Mpriaiad wfthL est special paraolMion. CO-OPERATIVE MARKETING. - Producers as a class bars mads la late years long strides along- the line of more intelligent and systematic methods of marketing their ; stuff. Time was . when they were the lock less rlctims of commission - men, too often unscrupulous, who extracted a fat commission and turned over as little as their generosity dictated. But producers grew weary of ; the holdup game, and organised themselves Into co-opera tire associations whose chief object was the securing of a better tnarlr Tkla mAmnMnt waa trmwht bitterly by those who had waxed fat under ' the old system of individual buying, but it was of no use. The cooperative movement is here to stay, and its success is assured. - First grain growers organized; then followed the organization of growers of oranges, apples, grapes, small fruits and garden truck, and In almost every instance , market and price conditions have improved as a result in those sections where such organization has been effected. Not only does such organization make " possible . the establishment of a standard of excellence in the grade and quality of the produce marketed, especially true in the case of fruits, but It makes possible the hiring of experienced men whose chief business it is to look after and report on market conditions in the various distributing centers. One may give bis stuff the most scientific and painstaking care, but if he is held up when it comes to selling It It avails him little, and It would be decidedly to bis interest to organize. Producers In any locality who are still marketing Individually should look into the possibilities of this co-operatlvo movement, not for the purpose of exacting extortionate prices from the consuming public, but to insure fair returns for themselves, who endure the sweat and bear the brunt of production. A TIMELY WARNING. The Rocky Mountain Husbandman, ens of the pioneer agricultural papers of Montana, has lately been publishing some timely words of caution for the benefit of the bomeseekers thronging Into the state from the east and are filing on the bench lands away from the river valley with the Intention of raising wheat It states that these lands must be worked by dry farming methods, which many of the newcomers know . little or nothing about Of the advice and suggestion which recent Issue of the Husbandman contains the following Is worthy of reproduction for the benefit of those who are about to go to the semi-arid sections of the west to make their homes: "The worst mistake It Is possible to make is to try to raise a crop of grain on sod land the first season. The man with as much money as our dry land farm experts recommend is all right anywhere, for he eaneat and his family, will have plenty, but the man who undertakes to build a dry land home ' without ample .funds will find it different zrom a mce unuertaa- ' lng on irrigated land. For the wife and children of the dry land home builder who Is short of m year's maintenance our heart bleeds. The dry land home Is not meant Cor such. The proposition Is essentially one for the well to do class." ' The advice which this paper gives is brave and honest and its suggestions cannot be charged with having been dictated by a selfish Interest when, the natural tendency would bo to minimise rather than give 1 at face value the difficulties with which the settler on the dry lands would be confronted. CARE THAT COUNTS. As showing that it Is scientific care of orchards rather than an alchemy of oil or climate that Is the largely determining factor in raising high quality and prise winning fruit it is worth noting the fact that it was a southwestern Iowa grower who won some of the best prizes offered at the Denver apple show In less than carload exhibits, and that too. In competition with the best box fruit of the west It Is doubtless true that conditions are better In Colorado. Idaho, Washington and Oregon for the production of ap ples than In Iowa. Missouri. Arkansas, Michigan or Mew York, but notwith standing this it is the care which the western fruit ranchman gives his trees that Is chiefly responsible for his splen did success. Were methods that are at present in vogue in some eastern orchards te be adopted in the western fruit valleys there would not be enough marketable apples produced on the ranches to pay taxes and cost of till age from season to season. As we have before said in these notes it Is the painstaking care that the west- . erner gives his fruit ranch, and that as his primary and chief occupation, that makes , his - labor so profitable. Many an eastern orchard owner has learned this fact and is profiting thereby. Many more should profit by it If arrangements were' not made at the time the Icehouse was built and filled for the drainage of the water 'therefrom, this should be attended to before the warm weather sets in. , Those who have tried it recommend hot soapsuds as an excellent means of ridding cabbage and cauliflower of the green worms which infest them, a strong resin soap and soft water give good results. Ground tobacco placed where the beep can get what they want will rid and keep them free from attacks of stomach worms. This seems to be a case where the acquiring of the tobacco habit la really an aid to health. Bather oddly, while dairy cows seem to show an Instinctive aversion to profane and rough language in their caretakers and will shrink' In their ta&k If this becomes the rule, they do : not mind whistling or a song in the least but seem rather to enjoy It Dampness, blight and rot funguses C9 hand la hand, On this, account cr JUrlsa tel. jwctloas of .lbs seml-

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arid west are almost entirely free from these pests, due to the bright fine weather which prevails almost uninterruptedly during the growing season. A dollar a bushel is a good price for wheat but the first prize bushel which was recently exhibited at the meeting of the Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment association brought $64. It was of -the winter variety and will doubtless be used for seed in the growing of prize wheat for next year. The spraying of previously untreated orchards can be counted upon to Increase the yield of fruit from three to four times as well as to remarkably improve its quality. What it will do for a given orchard can easily be worked out on the above basis. The cost of spraying good sized bearing trees in materials, labor and machinery should not exceed 20 cents annually for three or four sprayings. The shakes, or long split shingles, which have been used in many sections of the west in place of the ordinary shingle, are cut chiefly from the sugar ; pine, which possesses a remarkably straight and even ' grain. The water follows the grooves of the grain very closely, while the method of laying them insures a good circulation of air and tends to check the rot which is so destructive of closely laid common shingles. -The Delicious apple when tasted fully bears out its name, being juicy and of ft delicious flavor and possessing a red color that is hardly surpassed by the Spltzenburg. However, it is tender like the Jonathan and of about the same season and should be put on the market by Christmas time if the consumer is to get it at its prime. The Delicious apple has been on the market but a few years, being originated by a southern Iowa nurseryman. Many a municipality has a bad blot on its reputation because of the wretched condition of the thoroughfares leading thereto when timely work done with a road grader and drag would greatly Improve their condition. In too many cases these same "rocky" roads are found - in townships and towns whose road supervisors or street commissioners are drawing good salaries for taking care of the highways, while the equipment for keeping them in order is acquiring a coat of rust in some vacant lot or alley. With a view to doing some advanced work along the line of developing Improved strains of standard American .varieties of potatoes and to develop new ones the experiment station at Fort Collins, Colo., a state where the Irish potato finds a remarkably congenial home, is seeking to learn the history of well known and established varieties for tho purpose of knowing of the inheritance which lies .behind them. , Blanks will be furnished to any person who is able to give the information, while those who aid in the work will be given copies of the publication on the history of the potato. Not one of the numerous spring vegetables is more toothsome than asparagus, a small bed of which will be sufficient to furnish all a family will want and some to spare. In starting a bed small plants may be used or portions of the roots of an old bed secured before the sprouts start The plants should be set to a depth of about eight Inches in soli made mellow and enriched with a good supply of well rotted stable manure. Asparagus Is a gross feeder, and the ground can hardly be made too rich. The bed should be well watered, and if the rainfall is not enough it should be Irrigated during the growing season. Statistics which have been compiled by the department of agriculture at Washington contain some Interesting figures relative to exports of farm products during the past sixty years. They show that these exports, consisting chiefly of cotton, grain and grain products and packing bouse products, have increased In value from an average of $150,000,000 a year in the five year period from 1851 te 1855 to an average of $875,000,000 a year in the period 1901 to 1905. while In two subsequent years. 1907 and 1908. they have exceeded In value the above average, totaling $1,000,000,000. The statistics show that the Increase in the volume and value of agricultural exports has far outstripped the Increase In the country's population. itecent investigations into the life habits of the mole show that his chief diet when he can get It consists of the large white grub and the larvae of the June bug. which do much damage to lawns, flowers and strawberry plants. , On this , account alone the mole la entitled to man's protection. The disk drill is generally recognized as the standard machine - for sowing small grain. Not only does it mean economy in the use of seed, but it puts the grain at an even depth, covers all of it and thus Insures a uniform germination and even stand, which means uniformity of growth and ripening. The end gate seeder is a relic of a bygone era and should be relegated to the scrap pile. As a result of the heavy freeze of last December It is estimated that 10.000 cars of oranges were damaged In southern California. This is about one-third of the annual : output and will constitute a very heavy loss to the growers. Where the fruit was not entirely ruined Its quality was so injured that It not only will not pay for the expense of marketing, but -tends to seriously demoralise the prices for good stuff. As a general rule, sires of merit of either dairy or beef types are high priced. But rather than buy a low priced sire of little or no merit a better plan Is for two or three neighbors who are breading the same type and strain , of cattle jto . unite Jn .the taint

purchase of a" really geSd hertf anlma'i When he has been used as long a time as Is feasible arrangements could be made to exchange him for another sire equally good, but not related.

In sections where clover and alfalfa are the chief forage crops many horse are lost annually as a result of the feeding of a ration too rich in protein, and the loss, is especially heavy during the winter months, when the animals are taking the least exercise. A partial means of obviating this trouble lies in substituting for a good share of the leguminous ration clean, bright straw and timothy or wild bay where available and allowing the horses to have dally exercise. The agricultural department at Washington, after making tests with them, recommends yantias, taros and daabeens r for culture In portions of : the south where the land Is too wet except for the cultivation - of ; rice. .These plants comprise salad plants, tubers which are excellent for table use and as stock feed and roots which are valuable sources of . starch and from which alcohol can be made. They have been the staple food of native Hawaiians and an important food crop in Japan. China and a number of other countries. Nothing is thought of paying from $1 to $1.50 for enough oats or other small grain to plant an acre yet many a fellow will balk at paying more than $2 a bushel for seed corn. This seems a bit Inconsistent for at the unusual price of $10, a figure which prevails in some sections of the corn belt this season, the cost of seed for each acre would be but $125 on the assumption that a bushel will seed eight acres. In determining how much a fellow can afford to pay for his seed corn this spring It is well for one to keep these figures in mind. As a result of extensive experiments which he has made Professor Bolley of the North Dakota experiment station presents the view that flax does not do well after flax, not because of an exhaustion of the fertilizing elements of the Boil, but as a result of the development in the soil of root rots and other blight producing funguses, which attack the plants and greatly reduce their vitality. He holds that the same conditions apply to spring wheat and some other small grains. His remedy for this situation is the planting of the seed of blight resistant, varieties of flax and grain, the formalin treat ment of seed and a rotation of crops, which will prevent the several funguses from getting a foothold in the soU. It is generally considered that 343 cubic feet of wild hay will make a ton, 400 cubic feet of timothy and 512 cubic feet of clover or alfalfa, the hay being settled in each-case not less than a couple of months. One who has measured much hay in the stack has found a convenient method of measuring to be the following: t Take one-third of the over distance from the ground on one side of the stack to the ground on the other for the square of the stack. This would" give the number of cubic feet in each running foot of the stack. For example. If the over were thirty feet one-third of this would be ten feet, which, 'squared, would give 100 cubic feet as jthe contents per running foot If the stack were thirty feet long it would 'contain 3,000 cubic feet, from which (figure the number of tons could be easily ascertained by dividing by the number of eobic feet per ton for the different kinds of bay. MILTON, IND. Milton, Ind:, April 18. Mrs. A. M. Gibbons, who has been visiting her mother, Mrs. J. I Wlke, returned to Columbus, Ohio, yesterday. Miss Emma Gingrich was at Connersville Saturday. Mrs. C. H . Wood returned from her visit to Winchester, Saturday. Andrew Fink died at his homerin Connersville Thursday. He was aged 64 and formerly lived here. Chas. A Mueller and daughter. Miss Amelia Knauf attended the funeral of the late Andrew Fink at Connersville Saturday. Word has been received here by rel atives that Albert Williams and sons have moved back to their own home in Richmond. ' Mrs. Sarah Hussey has returned from the country where he visited Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Baker. Prof. C. H. Wood was the guest of Newton Lamb at Richmond, Saturday. 'Mrs. Louise Shissler has been visit ing friends at Cambridge City and albo Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Kimmel east of Milton. The program for the township insti tute of Sunday schools to be held at Doddridge chapel Sunday afternoon are being gotten out . v Mrs. Ed Schepman and children have gone to Columbus to visit relatives. Mr. and Mrs. O. II. Bee son, Mrs. Chas. Kinese and Miss Lora Beeson formed an automobile party to Richmond, Saturday. Mrs. J. I. Wlke was 83 years old Thursday Mrs. Wlke Is one of our highly respected ladies and has lived here over fifty one yearst She was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. ! Carl Benninger, Will Benninger's lit tle boy is sick. Richard Sills was S3 years old Fri day. Mr. Sills was born In Amesberne, Germany; and has lived at Mil ton near fifty years and is one of our highly respected citizens. Mr. and Mrs. Covalt of Kansas, have been guests of Mr. and : Mrs. Hiram Crook. Mrs. Kitterman of Jacksonburg is also visiting Mr. and Mrs. Crook. ' The state accounting committee wa3 in Milton Saturday and examined Trustee W. H. Miller's books. They found everything in a satisfactory con dition. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Kirlln spent yes

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Mrs. E. T. Jordan of Stamford, Conn., and her son. Edward, who is seriously ill with scarlet fever, and for whom she is allowing no treatment except by Christian Science practitioners. The mother declares that the child is improving under this treatment, but the case has been reported to the authorities and the house 'put under quarantine. Neighbors are expressing Indignation at the refusal of the mother to provide medical attendance-but she is firm in her refusal.

lin, parents of Oscar, living east of town. Mr. and Mrs. John Kellam of Rush county spent yesterday with Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Kellam. Word has been received from Miss Minnie Griffin that she is now in Denver, Colorado. Mrs. Lucy Adams and friend, of Indianapolis are visiting . Mr. and Mrs. Will Wallace. Miss Florence Land's of Muncie, is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Shank, east of Milton. She came to attend commencement. . . Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Miller attended the township commencement at Doddridge Chapel, Saturday night. The Richmond orchestra furnished the music for the township commencement Saturday night ! if Albert Newman of Milton was the cornetist Miss Ruby Kellam returned Saturday from a visit with Centerville relatives. Miss Mattie Locke accompanied her home. "- A large crowd attended the township commencement at .Doddridge Chapel Saturday night. There were fifteen graduates: Verna - Preston, Wlllard Cook, Howard Cook, Anna Lammott, Lois Dailey, Oro Dailey, Edna Semler, Paul Garrett, Harvey Shank, ' Rosella Weaver, - Vernon Doddridge, ; William Huddleston, Howard Hurst and Nettie Shank. The 1 last : two named were high school graduates. The Rev. Thos. Kuhn delivered the class address. Miss Dean Van Winkle entertained Robert McDaniel, Louis Johnson, Ver non Thompson, Ralph Moore, Albert Ferris, Miss Mary Sills, Irene Crook, Lillian DuGranrut, Mildred Warren, Lora ; Beeson, Friday evening. The young people enjoyed the old fashioned game of hide and seek. Cured by Lydia E. Pinkham'sVegefableCompound Park Ranids. Minn. "I was sick fox years while passing through the Change I of life and was hardly able - to be around. After taking six' bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham's vegetable Compound I sained 20 i pounds, am now sow co ao my own work and feel well." Mrs. Ed. (LA Dot, Park Bap. ids, Minn. Brookville, Ohio. "I was irregular and extremely nervous. A neighbor recommended Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to me and I have become regular and my nerves are much better. ' Mrs. R Knonsos, Brookville, Ohio. Lydia . Pinkham's Vegetable ComKound, made from native roots and erbs, contains no narcotic or harmful drugs, and to-day holds the record for the largest number of actual cures of female diseases we know of, and thousands of voluntary testimonials are on file in the Pinkham laboratory at Lynn, Mass., from women who have been cured from almost every form of female complaints, Inflammation, ulcerationvdisplacementMbroid tumors, irregularities, periodic psina, backache, indigestion and nervous prostration. Every suffering woman owes it to herself to give Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound atrial. If yoa want special advice write HrfcPkham.LynMaawforlt.

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New Garden Schools Will Hold Commencement Exercises April 23. THERE ARE 21 GRADUATES The program for the ninth annual commencement of the New Garden township high school and graded school commencement exercises, to be held , at the : Knights of Pythias temple, Fountain City, April 23, has been announced by C. S. Keever, township trustee. There are ten high school graduates and eleven common school graduates. The , program and list of graduates are as follows: Music. "Santa Lucia" Double Quartet Invocation Rev. J. W. Zerbe. Solo Mildred Davis. Class' Address Walter ManselL "Stars of the Summer Night." Double Quartet. Presentation of Diplomas County Supt. C. W. Jordan. "Sweet and Low" Quartet Benediction Fannie Elliott Music. (Music furnished by Fountain City Orchestra). The -graduates are as follows: High School Harold Barnes, Bussell Hiatt, Wilbur Hiatt. Merrell Huddleson, Marie Pegg, Freda Reynolds, Gertrude Lane, Marie Shoemaker, El ma Alexander and Fred Mitchell. Common School Wallace Reynolds, Lettie Hatfield, Olive Hunt Ada Alexander, Mary Thornton, Esther Lamb, Bessie Jones, Mabel Harrison, Edith Adams, Cecil Lacey and Bertha Thomas. . His Stubborn. Do not blame the ass for being stubborn. He would not be a perfect ass If he were otherwise. HOUSEHOLD CLEANING NEEDS You will find that we have anything you might need during the houeecleaning days to beautify the home, such as Jap-ai-Lac, Gold and Silver Paints, Enamel, Feather Dusters, Moth Balls, Etc Clem Thbtlcthvaite DrcgStexcs 8th A N. E St 8th e S. E St E. D. riK01XBHC2C& i

A BUSINESS REVIEW OF THE PAST WEEK BY HENRY CLEWS

New York, April IS A decided change took place in the stock market last week, owing to the decision of the Supreme Court to reargue the Standard Oil and Tobacco cases. This means that it will be practically a year before a final decision can be rendered upon these highly important cases. A great deal of uneasiness and uncertainty had been raseeT concerning the outcome of these problems; and much of the recent depression and hesitation on the Stock Exchange was due to this influence. The unexpected removal of such an incubus gives the market fresh life and activity. Delay is evidently the result , of Judge Brewer's death and suggests a division of opinion in the court which necessitates waiting until the new appointment is made and the cases have been reargued. The belief, also that the supreme court was not wholly antagonistic to corporations has had quite as much to do with the revival of confidence as the actual delay. In any event an adverse decision had been fully discounted, and this unexpected action proved the turning point of the market Another element of encouragement came through reports from the agricultural districts. It is now well understood that damage to winter wheat was not as severe as reported and it id generally believed that the coming season will be one of full crops. ; Such a result would be the natural sequence of existing conditions. Prices for all farm products have been very high, and it is but natural that producers will increase their output as far as pos sible. No very material increase In acreage can be expected, for the reason that nearly all arable land in the United States has already been taken up; but some gain in this respect will' no doubt occur; and the farmers are likely to put forth every effort to enlarge their output, using the best methods of cultivation. The idea of increasing the product by intense cultivation has already been actively circulated and is showing its effect. The interior is particularly dependent upon good crops, and Western business men show a more positive hopefulness, based upon their belief that conditions warrant expectations of a large harvest during the coming season. A crop failure would certainly be a serious calamity. Another very favorable indication Is the declining tendency ' of staple commodities; which should eventually stimulate exports and rectify the present unsatisfactory conditions in . our foreign trade. Wheat and flour have already declined considerably from the high level, and corn and oats likewise seem to' have taken a downward trend. Provisions are weak. Cotton, too, has fallen; while iron and wool are declining. Copper is already low in price. The explanation of this tendency is that economic excesses, are working out their own natural correction. The long period of very high prices is at

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last stimulating production and checking consumption, thus bringing about a natural and Inevitable readiusUnent through increasing' supplies. Need less to say, concessions in the price of such commodities will stimulate business; at the same time modifying the basis for the present popular outcry against the high cost of living. From now on there should be less heard of . the latter grievance, although time must elapse before consumers get the advantage of the lower prices which producers are now obliged to accept. The process of readjustment has been a painful one. producing much friction and dissatisfaction. Y Complaints against the high cost of living sr being corrected, not only by the reaction in prices just referred to, but also by advances In wages. The moderate ad vances made by the railroads and many large corporations will materially aid the purchasing power of those classes, and thus act as a further stimulus upon business. ; In the West conditions are generally satisfactory. There has been some uneasiness over excessive speculation in land and irrigation schemes; but this movement does not yet appear to have gone to any dangerous excess, and our Western bankers are confident of another season of prosperity provided they have full crops. Railroad managers are equally hopeful, and are preparing for a heavy traffic during the coming summer and autumn; some

officials anticipating that their facllt ties will be taxed to the utmost In the money market the outlook is improving.. From now on funds should return from the interior with increasing freedom and assist in restor lng depleted bank reserves. European demands for gold need cause no un easiness. Thus far only about SI 1,000,000 have been shipped, though it is an ticlpated that the efflux may run up to 125,000,000, Considering that this country produces between $90,O0Oj000 and $100,000,000 of gold every year, and already has an ample supply of the precious metal, any demand which Europe is likely to make will not prove a serious matter. On the cotrary. a Inasmuch as it will strengthen weak' points elsewhere, preventing reactions there Mch could only be reflected in juriously here. If this concern- you, read carafanyt Dr. Caldwell's Symp Pepsin Is poaMvatr asaraateed to car hidtrc-tion. coaHprttos. tes S ach. offo-iv breath, maiari. and afl d4M iriaimc from itomach traiiM. . . PALLADIUM WANT AOS PAY. DAVID E. ROBERTS ' Expert . :. Piano Tuner & Repairer All Work Fully Guaranteed .Phone 3684. i 181S Main St Of) Stamps with a pound of A. P. Blend Coffee Stamps with a pound of Tea 4g Stamps with a pound of Tea .............. gj Stamps with a pound of Tea .............. 25 Stamps with large bottle of Extract ........ 25c 50c COo 70s 25c lb ces L k T. EtesJ Ccffts, 25c IS. Afl livJ OSS 070 C70 CCD ceo ceo Iczn Co. Richmond, Ind.

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