Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 192, 21 June 1920 — Page 3

HOGS ON HIGH END OF TEETER-TOTTER; CATTLE, SHEEP LOW By WILLIAM R. SANBORN Best hogs sold up to $15.85 on Saturday, at Chicago, with bulk of sales ranging at $14.60 to $15.70. This was an advance of 15 cents over Friday, rnd $1.25 above the low spot in the v-.-eek ending June 12. Good choice heavies advanced from $14.50 to $15.25 on Saturday, June 12; to from $15.50 to $15.85 on June 19, at Indianapolis, the later figures covering the bulk of sales at the week-end. There were 7,000 hogs at Indianapolis Hnd 9,000 at Chicago, last Saturday. Hogs Running Heavier. The average weight of hogs at Chicago last week, 238 pounds, was eight pounds over that of the previous week. Pigs of f0 to 135 pounds advanced liberally during the week. There was a low of $9 on these last Monday and of $11 on Saturday, when the range was from $11 to $14.25. indicating a growing demand for feeder?. Cattle Lower. Iast week's average price of good leef cattle at $15.60 was 55 cents rbove that for the previous week, at Chicago, but there was a slump in half fat steers and Dutcher stock, which were shaded down 50 cents to $1.50, as to quality. Some are predicting a still wider spread between good and inferior grades in that market. Sheep and Lambs Decline. Wooled lambs sold at $16.25 for top and as low as $11 at Chicago on Saturday, these prices being $2 to $2.50 under one week ago. Shorn lambs made a top of $15.25, including both native and western stock. Sheep ended the week from $1.50 to $2 off.

There has been. 'in. extreme break of almost 40 per ct 'f. on lambs at Chirago from the high time of the season. Good and choice lambs ruled at $14 to $16 at Indianapolis on Saturday, with off grades going at from $12 down. Yearlings and wethers sold at $10 down. Average price of Chicago cattle last Wek at $15.60 was $2.10 over that of same week in 1919, while hogs averaged $20.40 last year against $14.S5 last week, a decline of $3.55 per hundred weight. Corn at Record Prices. July corn sold at $1.S1'4; September at $1.71 Ta. and December at $1.52 at Chicago on Saturday. July and September prices made a new high record. Cash corn was a shade easier at $1.89 for number 2 mixed. Cash oats ranged at from $1.15 for number 4 to $1.20 for number 1 white. No wheat was sold at Chicago on Saturday, but price was a bit soft at Kansas City at $2.80 for number 2 red, Kansas now being almost ready to harvest. (Simlb

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New crop oats for July delivery were ma up to $1.0514 at both Ch4ago and Kansas City at the week-end. Farm Federation Officers of the Indiana Federation of Farmers' Associations are busily tngaged in making arrangements for the state-wide conference of grain producers to be held in Indianapolis on June 28 and 29. Representatives of the various county associations about the state, bankers, railroad officials, elevator men and officers of the Indiana Coal Operators' association are among those being asked to attend the meeting. An effort is also being made to have a representative from the Federal reserve bank from this district to be present. General Secretary Iewis Taylor said that the grain producers are facing a serious problem in all parts of the state through the present car shortage and that elevator men are finding it impossible to get the necessary cars to move what grain they have on hand. It has been pointed out that the wheat and oats, much of which will be hauled directly from The thrashing machine to the elevator, will make matters more serious in the way of congestion in the near future. This might mean that the farmers would have no outlet of market. E. E. RICE, Garden Supervisor. Make plantings of vegetables for early fall use. Another planting of gladiolus bulbs may be made now to advantage. Swiss chard is a good leaf vegetable for warm weather. It is also an excellent plant to use for a green food for chickens. It is important in setting a plant in the garden to firm the soil thoroughly about the tips of the roots. Leave the top inch of soil loose. Cultivation is always of more value than irrigation in the garden. When it is necessary to apply water, see that enough is put on to moisten the roots to the tips. PLANT SOY BEANS TO ELIMINATE WIRE WORMS In response to complaints that wireworms have destroyed growing corn, crop specialists at the College of Agriculture, Ohio State University, are suggesting that farmers plant soytvans. The wireworms have been particularly destructive on land that has t..en in sod for a long period. According to crop specialists, soybeans can be planted for hay up until the latter part of June. The Medium Green, I to San, Mongol, Ohio, 90:;,"., Peking, Manchu, and Elton are good varieties for this purpose.

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MORE HOGS' DEATHS ARE LAID AT DOOR OF PATENT MIXTURE By WILLIAM R. SANBORN. j. C. Downard, route seven. Liberty. Monday, said that he had lost 40 fall shoats, weighing from 40 to 50 pounds each, along about the first of the year. They kept dying and there was no explanation. He now ascribes their loss to the tact that he was feeding them a mixlure sent out by a Kansas City firm, and for this reason: A few weeks ago he put a number of brood sows, which had been immuned. on this same tonic." fed in a self feeder located near the feeder containing a grain leed. In two or three days the sows became sick and the mixture was blamed for the trouble, and was taken from them. The Arthur Hannah Case. Arthur Hannah, living in the Fountain City district, recently had 34 fall fhoats sicken, but all have recovered. These were fed on the "tonic" of which Mr. Downard complains. "The hogs became stiff, could not walk." Mr. Hannah states "that his horses seemed to like the stuff, and had nosed over the feeder box, so that his hogs got but little of the patent feed." Six litters of spring pigs which had access to this mixture died "every last one of them, soon after they com menced eating it." C. H". Knoll Furnishes Sample. C. H. Knoll, a neighbor of Hannah's, lost three brood sows and five pigs, "within 24 hours of their first taste of this mixture." He at once brought a sample to county agent Murphy, for analysis at Purdue. It is related that another farmer, in a hurry for some of this preparation, his order not having arrived, borrowed some from a neighbor. Then his hogs also got sick and the tonic was taken from them. The farmers are called to meet at the county agenfs office on Wednesday night, when the whole matter will be discussed. Refuse Payment For Some E. F. Murphy, Wayne county agent, stated Monday that he "had learned that several farmers who had given notes for shipments of the Kansas City hog tonic had notified their banks not to pay these notes. They further stated that they would stand a law suit, if necessary, rather than to make payment." ASK FOR and GET The Original halted Mllh for Infants and In vr l 3 Avoid Imitations and SuVfituter

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The Farm and the Farmer BY WILLIAM R. SANBORN To have five large brood sows raise a single pig each out of five average litters, is certainly tough, but to lose the whole output of six sows, with others, is a trifle worse. This was the experience of Arthur Hannah this spring. There were very heavy losses of spring pigs reported from all directions, complaints that litters were averaging small and that the pigs arrived weak and soon succumbed. Farmers had no explanation for this. Small Percentages Saved. This fact is now recalled because of the statement made by the man who saved but five pigs from five sows, that he had been feeding his sows the Kansas City mixture which has been sent to Purdue for analysis. There are always some losses of early pigs in cold weather, but "it was their coming weak, so few in number, and then dying off like flies, that we could not understand," said another farmer on Sunday, in telling of what happened to his broods. What happened to Wayne countypigs also happened in various parts of Indiana. The crop is short in various states, in fact, but some localities suffered heavier losses of spring pigs than did others. The litters coming in February, March and April, a season of untimely cold, suffered the greatest losses. But so far as the Richmond radius is concerned, some farmers had quite heavy losses of late pigs. Also many complained of the lightest farrowings within their experience. The effects of the lessened pig crop should be apparent in prices paid for hogs later on. FARM FEDERATION. A committee of the Wayne county federation directory are to meet at Mr. Murphy's office on Monday evening for the consideration of Federation business. It is planned to arrange for regular stated metings of each township at least once each month.

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Cost $2 AS A Bushel To Produce Wheat, Report WASHINGTON. June 21. The 1919 American wheat crop was produced at an average cost to the grower of $2.15 a bushel, the Department of Agriculture announced Sunday in making public its recent cost of production survey. The survey covered 14 representative districts of the wheat bolt, nine in the winter wheat areas of Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri, and five in the spring wheat regions of Minnesota, North and South Dakota. The survey further restated, the department said, that to permit a profit on 80 per cent of the wheat produced on the farms covered by the survey, the price would have to be about $2.60. Cost of producing winter wheat was much lower than for spring wheat, the cost being given as $1.87 and $2.ti5 respectively. "Dollar wheat," once the aspiration of wheat growers, would have paid the cost of production on only two of the 481 farms included in the survev. Call Issued to the Farmers County Agent Murphy has called a meeting of all the farmers who hav-p been feeding the mixture that is alleged to have poisoned a number of hogs in this county, to be held at his office in the courthouse on Wednesday evening at 7:30. All farmers are welcome. Sure Relief 6 Bell-ans Hot water Sure Relief E LL-AfrMS FOR INDIGESTION

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