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FARMED MAILS EGGS BY PARCEL POST TO MONETARY PROFIT

Clubs to Market Produce Would Give Ready Sale For Output of Wayne Couty Farms. BY A. D. COBB. Since writing the article on the marketing of eggs by parcel poBt last week the Farm Service Department of the Palladium has given the method a tryout. A farmer living about four miles

from town was asked to mail a dozen eggs In a container obtained from a local dealer to the home of one of the members of the staff of the paper. The eggs were carried over a twenty-mile route and delivered the next morning In good condition. The dozen eggs in the container weighed twenty-four ounces and required six cents postage. The farmer received grocery selling prices for his eggs, four cents more than he would receive by selling to the grocer. Since it cost him six cents postage, and the price of the container, he lost money on the transaction. The. consumer, however, was the gainer in receiving absolutely fresh eggs just one day from the farm. This little experiment .brings out just the points we want to enforce on both the producer and the customer. For receiving absolutely fresh eggs direct from the farm to the kitchen the consumer should be willing to pay an extra fancy price. Since he is furnishing a fancy article, the

farmer should not be afraid to ask this

extra price. Advantage of Scheme.

Again, it is cheaper to mail in larger

quantities. It cost six cents to man one dozen eggs, but ten dozen can be

mailed for about twenty cents. Ind

vidual customers will not require more than two or three dozen eggs at one time. By a little skillful advertising

the farmer can overcome this diffi

culty.

Several families in a neighborhood

might be induced to form an egg club

These families would agree to take a certain quantity of eggs each week, and the farmer by mailing all the eggs

to one member of the club, could cut down the cost of postage, and the

transaction be profitable to all con eerned.

The egg club can be effective for the

producer as well as the consumer. A umber of farmers can agree to sell their eggs together, grading them so that they will be uniform in size, color End freshness. The package should ear the club name, and brand name, which should be appropriate to the location of the club and the article

sold. A progressive grocer might be Induced to make a specialty of these eggs, advertising them among his best customers. Parcel post deliveries in

ten and twenty dozen lots will cut down the cost of delivery, and save extra trips to town on the part of the farmer. The Farm Service Department invites farmers to try these plans out, fcnd report results for publication.

SELECT SEED WHEAT FOR M SOWING Farmers Aidvised' to Lay in Seed Obtained Close to Home. This is a good time to select seed wheat. Seed that is obtained close to home is acclimaijed and will usually give better results than seed brought in from another locality. In nearly every community there is some farmer that has been caireful in keeping bis wheat seed pure rind clean. The variety selocted has much to do with the yield of grain, as some varieties are more suitable for the local

soil and climatic conditions than others. Varieties that have given

good results under local conditions are Michigan Amber, Rudy, Farmer's Friend, Senora and Red Fultz. Before sowing the wheat should be thoroughly fanned and cleaned. Only

plump, fullj&erries should be planted. This will mean a difference of as much as five bushels fper acre in the yield.

and the lice coming there for mois

ture, will be poisoned. This treatment

will keep the lice away for about six months.

To get rid of the little red mites

the roosts and walls of the building should be sprayed with a strong disinfectant. The nests and all other lit

ter should be cleaned up and burned.

IMPORTED

HORSES

CREDIT TO FARMS OF -WAYHE COUNTY Belgian and Percherons Imported by Farmers to Raise Grade of Animals Bred for Trade.

Poultry Hints

Chickens like alfalfa pasture. Just a little plot in some Conner will help keep the egg basket full. Fowls that are to be shipped should be thoroughly cooled before packing.

A large amount of buttermilk in the fowl's feed is said to stimulate the growth of feathers. When chicks are fattening the presence of many pin feathers is an indication of good results from the feed. It does not pay to keep the old two-year-old hens over winter. The cost of feeding them will be greater than the return from the eggs they will lay next spring. They should be fattened in the fall and sold on the early winter market, which is usually good. The following fattening ration has given good results: Two hundred pounds of cornmeal; one hundred pounds of middlings, one hundred pounds of ground oats, and fifty pounds of beef scrap. Mix these ingredients while dry. If possible mix the mash with skim-milk or buttermilk, making the mixture rather thin.

The hens should be kept in crates or pens where they can not have much exercise, and fed all of the above they will eat three times a day. Keep the

feeding troughs and pens clean.

Question Box The editor of the agricultural page will answer questions of farmers, truck gardeners and persons having gardens, through this column. Address Agricultural Editor, The Palladium.

SPRAY YOUR COWS. Cows will give more milk and keep in better condition if sprayed each day with some one of the various preparations on the market, for the purpose of keeping flies off. Dairy cows are naturally nervous and the constant attack of flies drives them nearly crazy at times. These fly preventions are cheap and harmless, when obtained from reliable companies and the resulting increased milk flow from a cow that has been treated, will usually more than pay for the material used.

Wayne county is unusually well supplied with imported draft stallions. Two horse breeders in the county have made their own importations at different times. Sylvester Cook at Whitewater has a number of imported mares, several of them with splendid colts at their sides this summer. He also has a good 4-year-old Belgian stallion, and an older horse that is a splendid individual, good enough to make hot competition in almost any show ring.

Frank Clevenger on his farm south of Centerville has a 4-year-old Belgian stallion, that gives every indication of being one of the real good horses of the breed. He has splendid conformation, a good way of going and lots of

life for a big horse. Mr. Clevenger

also has a 2-year-old .that shows lots of type and good development of bone.

All his horses show careful selection,

and mark Mr. Clevenger a good judge of horse flesh. Percherons in County. O. H. Scantland at Williamsburg has

a good string of Percherons. At the head of his stable he has the three-, year-old Carbon, son of Carnot, one j time champion of the breed and sold to Corsa & Son for $10,000.00. Carbon stood third at the Internationl Live Stock show at Chicago, in a class of i

37 when a yearling and Mr. Scantland bought him soon afterwards. Wayne county breeders have a rare opportunity in the use of this horse. Mr. Scantland has a number of good mares and colts and two other good stallions of his own breeding. A .U. Brown of Greensfork, has three stallions, a Percheron, a Belgian and a Clydesdale. Mr. Brown has done his farm work this year with a

stallion team and keeps his animals in I

fine condition by giving them plenty of work. O. E. Fulghum in Center township has a quartet of registered Percheron mares, that are doing his farm work for him and raising some good colts. There are several other good draft horses in the county and these breeders are to be commended for the work that they are doing in introducing

good horses.

PORE BRED CATTLE PROFITTOFARMERS Tillers of Soil Err in Feeding Cheap Cattle on Their Farms. One of the greatest mistakes Wayne county farmers are making is in not keeping pure-bred cattle on their farms. Mr. Cobb of the farm service department attended a sale of registered Jersey cattle nt the J. C. Joliff farm at Muncie last Monday. He reports the sale of a two-year-old heifer at $305. A yearling bull brought $200, and the cows averaged about $150. Four calves a, month, old averaged $51.85 each. Buyers were present from Oregon, Canada and Michigan. It costs no more to raise and keep these cattle than the ordinary scrub cattle we see everywhere. There is a great deal of satisfaction in knowing that your animale are good enough to bring buyers from all over the country, and will sell at a profitable figure.

ARMY WORM COMES TO ATTACK GRAIN Plow Furrow in Front of Moving Swarm to Check Advance.

WHEAT PRICES.

Farmers are warned to look out for the army worm. Reports of the devastation wrought by this pest are being received from all parts of the country. These worms attack lawns, meadows and the different grain crops. Last year a number of alfalfa fields in the northern part of the state were attacked and the fields laid bare in a few hours. These worms or caterpillars are smooth and striped, about an inch and a quarter long and a quarter of an inch thick. The name army worm was given them because they travel in great bands. They breed in dry places, in rank grass and in pasture land that has been, overfertilized. They move out from these breeding

SHORTAGE OF CATTLE SENDS PRICES UP

MELON INSECTS. Small insects are appearing on the tanderside of my melon plants, causing the leaves to curl up. What is the in

ject, and what can I do to gft rid of

them? . C. R. Richmond, Rural Route 8. This is undoubtedly the melon louse (Aphis gossyppi Glov.) also known as the blue louse or midge, and is frequently the source of a great deal of damage. The various species of ladybird beetles are very helpful in controlling melon lice, devouring great numbers of them. The melon lice can be very easily killed by soapy washes or by sprays containing kerosene, but their habits of feeding on the under side of the leaves combined with the fact that they cause the leaves to curl up and still further protect them, makes effective spraying under field conditions a difficult matter. The best known remedy is to watch the field carefully from day to day and destroy affected plants as quickly as discovered, thereby preventing the rapid spread of the pest. ALFALFA SEED. Which is the crop of alfalfa to save for seed. J. S., Richmond R. R. 7. As a general rule alfalfa does not make good seed under our climatic .conditions. I do not know of any one jin Indiana saving alfalfa for seed. At fthe price alfalfa hay brings and the jemall amount of seed that would be produced, farmers here can hardly enjter into competition with western farmers who have ideal conditions for Ifieed production, and receive only :-emall prices for their hay. CHICKEN VERMIN. What do you recommend for chicken ,lice? R. E. S., Economy, Ind.

The little pests that annoy poultry, are divided into two classes, the lice ,that remain on the body of the fowl all the time, and the mites that stay in the cracks and crevices of the poultry house and only come out at jxiight and get on the chickens. For pthe lice, one of the best preventatives tfs to have plenty of dust and ashes in boxes where the chickens can wallow pn them. . Most of the louse powders An Kthe market are good, but too ex

pensive, and road dust will do about as well. A louse remedy that is highly recommended by the Purdue Poul

try department, is blue ointment.

which can be secured at anv drnir

Store. Rub a piece about the size of a pea into the fluff of the chicken

Paper pulp is now being made from bamboo in Formosa.

KANSAS CITY, Mo., July 21. Thus far this year 150,000 fewer cattle have been marketed in Kansas City than in the same period in 1913, the receipts being the smallest of any similar period in twenty years. The decrease is attributed to the drought in the Southwest last summer. July cattle prices are the biggest ever known for this month. The demand now, cattle men and meat packers say, must be supplied mostly from grass-fed cattle. Another crop of prime, corn-fed beeves can not be made, they say, until the corn crop of 1914 is available, probably not sooner than the middle of November. If August prices for corn-fatted steers are as much higher than the July level as they were in 1912, next month will see prime beeves bringing $11 a hundred pounds in Kansas City. Beeves of the sort mentioned sold here yesterday at $9.85.

A good many farmers are in the hab

it of saying: "When the crops are poor i

we have nothing to sell and when they are large we get next to nothing for them." This year the wheat crop in the United States will probably be the largest ever known, but the Indications are that the prices will be good. There seems to be a prospect that the demand will be unparalleled. The international agricultural bureau renorts that the total wheat crops of the three largest early producers, Argentina, Australia and India, have fallen far below last year's yield. Wheat harvesting is now about due In Southern Europe, and the reports are not favorable as a whole. According to late cables from Europe,- spring wheat in Russia, which is about twotnirds of the entire yield, promises unfavorably over a wide area; Roumanian crop promises to be 25 per cent below normal it was 82,000,000 bushels last year; Austria reports the outlook unfavorable, with a prospect that Hungary's imports will be 64,000,000 bushels against 32,000,000 bushels last year, and France, it is asserted, will have to import 96,000,000, or perhaps double this season's imports, to make up for its losses. There have been several attempts on the exchanges to bear the price of wheat, but European buyers have quickly come into the market and

' checked j.ny serious fall in prices.

Another thing is being considered. The moment that wheat falls below 70 cents, it comes in competition with corn as feed stuff and will be used for that purpose rather than be sent to market to further force down the price. From every point of view it seems that farmers are to get a good price for their enormous crop of wheat. That means prosperity for every industry whose products the farmers purchase.

NOTICE

For the next 30 days, we will re-rubber your vehicles with high grade, 7-8 inch Rubber for $12.50. . This is the same quality rubber that we have always been using on our $100 buggies, and for which we charge regularly $14.00. Bring Your Rigs In During This Time The Company U-13 South 4th Street Richmond, Indiana

You-Farm

should use

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that is mined especially for you during the THRESHING Season That kind of Coal you are sure to find here. LET US give you the best price you ever had on Threshing Coal. U I) BULLERDICK &S0N Yards South 5th St. Phone 1235.

I've Got Cement LTj Facts JfSfl YonjfflJL

You are about to build a Silo, barn, roadway, sidewalk, fence posts, troughs, etc., and if you want these to last, build them of ce

ment. But see to it that good cement is used. Lehigh Portland Cement has a national reputation for strength. Even sky-scrapers are built of LEHIGH. Progressive farmers all over the country are using it. There is a difference in cements. Buy LEHIGH and be sure of getting the best, Hackman, Klehfoth & Co. South G St., between 6th & 7th. Phones 2015 & 2016.

places in large numbers, usually at night, but as they Increase ' in num

bers, they grow bolder, and-in their

increased demand for food, travel by day as well as night An effective way of stopping the advance of the "army" is to plow a furrow In front of them, throwing the furrow in. the direction they are traveling. The worms fall Into the furrow and are unable to crawl out They may be killed by spraying with

kerosene, or by dragging a log np and , down the furrow. In lawns or other small areas, before the worms have spread much, the worms may be killed by spreading bran poisoned with pari green and mixed with molasses to attract the worms. Or the lawns may. be sprayed with a mixture of one pound of arsenate of lead in twentyfive gallons of water. This spray is of course poison to man and beast and should not be spread where animals are pasturing.

LET ME BUY AND SELL YOUR DAIRY CATTLE. JERSEY CATTLE A SPECIALTY Have made a special study of this breed and know the fashionable lines of breeding. Tell me what you want and I will get it. This week I have a registered heifer from a cow testing 9.2 fat when nine months in milk. ThlB heifer is bred to Sultan's Noble Raleigh 114,239 A. J. C. C; will be fresh In December. Price, 1100.00. Also one high-grade Jersey cow, to have second calf in early winter. Price, $75.00 This week only. A. D. COBB, Richmond, Ind. Phone 36S7. after 6 p. m.

Testledl Ifai rM You want the best. We have it and furnish the innoculation "Nodogen" free. Best seed $9.00 per tra. (CflDW IPOS Sow them now and get a crop of hay or good fall pasture, and in addition enrich your soil. Clays Mixed, per bushel $2.25 Whiporwills, per bushel $2.90 All kinds of field seeds. The reliable place to buy seeds. Wo EL (Gar w Phone 2198 911 Main

The Miller-Kemper Co. GOOD SEGFJS WHEN farmers bring their teams to town, and then drive home again, their heavy wagons loaded down with boards and joists, why, then, it is a sign that things are well, the goose is hanging high; and you may safely dance and yell, for better times are nigh. All farmers who are safe and sane like handsome cribs and barns, and for old shacks that let in rain they do not give three darns; but when the hogs are dying off, of cholera or mumps, the farmer, with affliction filled, looks on the old shacks near, "and says, "I can't afford to build until some other year." But when the hogs are feeling gay, and everything serene, and all the oats and corn and hay present a healthy green, he hitches up old Kate and Dick and journeys off to town, and then comes homeward pretty quick, with lumber loaded down. And when I see the wagons drill along the country road, each one a-creaking, loud and shrill, beneath its lumber load, I know the country's on the boom, and things will hum once more; and any man who talks of gloom is just a misfit bore. Some people read the Wall Street news to see which way we head, and some keep tab on Henry Clews, to see if we are dead; some follow up what congress does, and think therein they'll find the signs that business will buzz, or maybe fall behind. And some are making frequent notes upon the tariff law, to see if it will get our goats, and dislocate our jaw. But when I want to know the truth, about our future fate, I pass up all such things, forsooth, and sit on my front gate, and watch the farmers going by, upon their way from town, and if with lumber piled up high, their carts are loaded down, I know prosperity's op top, good times are here, you bet; and I go forth and whip a cop and chase a suffragette. Oh, when the farmers spend their hoards for lumber, we enthuse; the granger's wagonload of boards tells more than Henry Clews. Walt Mason. By permission Curtis Sash and Door Co. THE MILLER-KEMPER COMPANY Sell the Best Lumber and Building Material at Lowest Prices. We specialize in good Barn Siding, Shingles, Posts, Cement and all Farmers' Needs. N. W 2nd and Center Sts. 3 Phones-3247, 4447, 4347

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