Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 248, 29 August 1921 — Page 9

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND., MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 1921.

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GRAIN, LIVE STOCK, FINISH WEEK WITH TOP QUOTATIONS By WILLIAM R. SANBORN Two years ago this month the government was guaranteeing $2.26 for No. 1 northern wheat at Chicago and it was bringing still more money on the sample tables. This resulted in a very free movement of wheat to all primary marKets, just as is happening

now, the amounts leaving the farms up to the end of August being about the

same as the movement in 1921. It is estimated that farmers have al

ready marketed 200,000,000 bushels of wheat, and that 130,000,000 bushels have so far arrived at central markets,

the rest being in country storage to come forward as convenient. This is 60,000,000 bushels more than was marketed last year, and indicates the financial pressure farmers have been under. Otherwise the low prices paid for this crop would not have brought out so much wheat, nor would have so much corn and oats been marketed at this summer's price levels. At the recent low point on wheat, since which there has been some advance, wheat was 25 cents under the range In mid-July. Looking for Higher Prices. Despite the heavy receipts the milling and foreign demand have prevented heavy accumulations. Exporters are free buyers on all dips and millers are doing a fair export business in flour. This inclines the trade to look for higher prices during the winter, and particularly so after the Canadians have exported the part of their crop which presses to market. Much of the Canadian crop will be stacked and will not move until next spring. With a moderate wave of outside buying of futures the market could be readily advanced, but the nation-wide fight on speculation has cooled the ardor of speculators, and the only supporters of prices, in the main, are the men that so many have been trying to put out of business. What of the Farmer. In the best informed circles the impression that we are due to see much better prices on all grains, still persists. Whether the . farmers are to reap any benefits of this, and in what degree, depends upon how much more of their holdings they will let go durins this period of depression.

September wheat, now practically cash, ranged at from $1.13 to $1.21 last week. December wheat made a low of $1.14 and a high of $1.23 and both options closed at the top figures of the week. December corn had a three-cent range for the week, the top being 55 and Saturday's close 54.

December oats made a gain of two cent sand closed at within of top at 38 cents. Hogs Close at Top When the Chicago live stock market closed on Saturday the pens were all cleared and the last sales of the week were made at the week's top figures. This left traders in a bullish mood and there was a manifest feeling that we should see still better figures the first half of this week. This is somewhat encouraging, tis true, but we have quite a hill to climb before getting back to pre-loss levels. For example, the week's average price at Chicago, at $8.15, was $1.10 below the average for the week ending August 20, and within 25 cents of the low average of the year, some two months ago. Cattle Doing Some Better

Cattle broke badly the forepart of

last week, also toward the end of the previous week, so much so indeed that a call to reduce shipments was sent broadcast on Friday, August 19.

Receipts dropped accordingly and

from last Thursday on prices stiffened. But even so the average price dropped to $8.10, which wa3 65 cents under the average figure for the week ending August 20.

The pressure of an over-supply of

lambs last week cut the average price for the week 95 cents per hundred pounds, at Chicago, which condition was reflected in all other markets. Poor to fancy calves ranged at from $8 to, a top of $13 on Saturday.

HER EAR MADE PROVERBIAL SILK PURSE

DARKE COUNTY FAIR BOARD WILL SERVE ONE YEAR LONGER

INDIANA POTATO CROP REPORTED VERY SHORT

Photo shows accommodating lady who gave her ear for the silk purse experiment. Don't let your prandmother tell you any more that "you can't make a eilk purse from a sow's ear." It has been done. Dr. Arthur D. Little, a well known chemist of Cambridge, Mass., recently made an artificial silk purse from just such material. He upset the age-old theory that t could not be done and the solemn looking animal in the picture lent hir her ear for the experiment.

The Farm and The Farmer By William R. Sanborn

IOWA CROP WILL GO AS LIVE STOCK FEED SAY FARM EXPERTS

(By Associated Press) DES MOINES, la., Aug. 29. Iowa's corn crop, estimated at 403,229,000 bushels, will probably be fed to live stock on the farms of the state, according to farmers and farm experts. The main reason for this is that the cost of marketing corn is so high that there is no profit for the farmers at the present market price, the experts declare. Corn is the basic ration for live stock in the middle west, and under

normal conditions Iowa ships only 22 percent of its corn to outside markets. The 1921 crop is 92 percent of normal, according to the government report. Indicating that if conditions were normal only 83,150.380 bushels would be shipped out of the state this year. More Profit in Feeding. It is pointed out that there is a wider margin between the prices of corn and of pork at this time than has recently occurred hence farmers believe that the only logical thing to do with their corn is to feed it to their swine and thus realize a real profit by shipping their corn to market as meat products. Cheap corn means merely that feeding operations can be handled with more profit to feeders. Investigators at Iowa State college at Ames have found that corn would, at best, be expensive fuel. They declare that it does not burn well," gives comparatively little heat and if used as fuel would have to be replaced with

more expensive feed for live stock.

These Investigators state that the price of coal would have to be doubled to make corn a profitable fuel. The total number of live stock now on Iowa farms is estimated at 16,078,000 head. This year's corn crop will furnish about 25 bushels a head for these animals, or about 30 percent of their feed. Hay, pasture, oats and other grains make up the balance of the feed.

AID VICTIMS OF MOORS SANTIAGO. Chili, Aug. 29. Spaniards here have - collected 1.000.000 pesos in aid of the Spanish wounded

and orphans resulting from the fight

ing in Morocco. Spanish volunteers for service in Morocco are crowding tbe legation here.

"We want every Grange in Ohio to look upon the county agent as one of its leaders and defenders. We feel that the county agent has rendered in the past and can continue to render an unlimited service to organized agriculture." This is a extract from a letter sent out some time ago by L. J. Taber, state master of the Ohio Grange, in which he says: "This letter is written to assure you that the State Grange appreciates the

service that many county agents in

the state have rendered our order, and

to assure you that the Grange desires .

the growth and welfare of every organization. There is room enough for all. and if we do our task3 well, there will be honor enough for all." Master Taber is correct; there is work enough and room enough for all, if we are to accomplish what farm organizations. usually set out to do. After Fourteen Months. From June, 1920, until August, 1921 is quite a time to wait for a collection on produce shipped, but such delays sometimes have their compensations. For example, a number of Illinois farmers are now getting' their checks for 1930 wool. The Bloomington Pantagraph states that the farmers of the Peoria district are receiving a profit of from six to fifteen cents per pound, above the prices offered in Peoria last June. If these figures include the cost of freight, storage, shrink and commission the farmers did well to pool, but the Pantagraph does not make this point clear. The Peoria wool was shipped to the same warehouse as was the 1920 Indiana pooled clip, and at about the same time. This concern sent some checks to Wayne county a few weeks ago. These were mailed to President

Theodore Davis, at Green's Fork, who promptly sent them out to the shippers. No Details Given. This letter had a type-written signature. It gave no information whatever as to how much wool had been sold or remained unsold, nor how many pounds had been received. It mentioned no grades nor prices, nor made any comment as to freight or sorting and commission charges. In fact, not even the name of any man connected

with the concern was given, the letter

being the nearest thing to an absolute

blank, the checks excepted, that we

have ever read from a business concern, where real money was involved. This, however, is not important now. Doubtless all the facts, whether satisfactory or otherwise, will be given with final settlements. Preparing to Burn Corn. During a recent investigation by the Inter-State Commerce Commission as to the almost prohibitive freight rates on some farm products a representative of the Minnesota farmers said that high freight rates make a reason

able return on corn shipped out of his

state impossible. He added that, "because of this Minnesota roads would not only lose traffic on corn, but also on coal, as farmers were fixing to burn corn and were maturing the largest crop in the history of the state." The idea of burning corn doesn't set well at the first blush. But on after consideration there is no real reason why a farmer in a treeless and coalless country shouldn't raise his own fuel, if he can profitably do so, and he finds' it ruinous to ship whatever he can burn, also to buy coal, even if able to get coal. It takes a lot of land to grow wood, remember. Extracting Phosphoric Acid. With the installation of a new hightemperature oil-burning furnace now being installed on the experimental farm at Arlington, Va.. the Bureau of Soils, Mill continue investigations Into the extraction of phosphoric acid for fertilizer from phosphoric rock by the

application of heat.

Experiments will be continued with a view to establishing methods which

will permit the use of much phosphate

rock which now f.oes to waste, and also to a material reduction in freight

rates on commercial fertilizers. A Land Bank Record.

The federal land bank of Louisville,

with which the farmers of this district do business, will keep open house in the horticultural and agricultural building at Indianapolis during fair week. Treasurer L. B. Clore has given out some figures which show the remarkable record of the bank in the few years it has been in operation. Its capital stock is $2,535,250 and its total loans in Indiana amount to $12,433,700. The net income is $390,876.12. The bank has returned $139,388.69 in divi

dends to its farmer stockholders and has retired Government stock amounting to $159,720. In the last 29 months the bank has made 30,000 collections, amounting to $2,500,000, and there are now no delinquents. "In time," said

Mr. Clore, "the bank will have paid back to the Government the money it advanced to start the institution and the farmer stockholders will have a big, going bank of their own." Progress of Grain Growers, Inc. The September number of the Hoo-

sier Farmer speaks encouragingly of the membership drive of the U. S. Grain Growers. It states that up to July 30, 195 elevators had become affiliated. It enumerates as follows: "Up to July 24, Nebraska has signel 57 elevators, North Dakota 74 elevators and grain growers' associations, Missouri, 38, Illinois, 16, and Oklahoma, 10." The work in Illinois was not started until August 1, and was first begun in LaSalle and McLean counties. It is cShimed that "approximately 4.000 grain farmers have signed pool contracts in North Dakota. The Hoosier Fanner gives the number of contracts signed by Missouri farmers at 264, and in Oklahoma there were 175 signers, at the time of making this report. No mention is made of progress in Indiana, the work not being well under way. Farmers Own the Earth. An important member of the American farm bureau says that the farmers of America could, if necessary, finance the national debt. Just note the farm assets on which this statement is based: "The latest report shows that in the United States there are 6,448,306 farms 955,675,545 acres. The value of land and buildings is $67,795,965,384. This is a tremendous figure, even exceeding the national debt of Germany by $13,000,000,000, and yet it represents an average valuation of only

$10,514 per farm, and only $70.94 per acre of land in the United States."

GREENVILLE, O., Aug. 29. A tabulation of the votes cast for members of the Darke County Fair Board, reveals the fact that the five old members had been re-elected by a majority of three to one over their opponents. The following are the men who were re-elected to serve for another year: J. E.- Folkerth, Norman Teaford, Robert Howell, Bert Hufford and L. N. Reed. It was announced Saturday that the total receiDts for the fair this

year will be$2,000 in excess of the receipts last year. Balloonist Lose Wife. Two divorces were granted in common pleas court here last Saturday by Judge Miller, who occupied the bench in the absence of Judge Teegarden. Mrs. Florence M. Eibes was granted a divorce from Harry Eibes, a bal

loonist and parachute jumper, on the

grounds of gross neglect of duty ana

wilful absence. Mrs. Eibes was grant

ed custody of their minor child.

A divorce was granted to Martha Fowler from David Fowler on her

cross petition to her husband's peti

tion for divorce, on the grounds ot gross neglect of duty. The property rights of the couple were settled out of court.

Rope Breaks Windshield. Carl Ross, demonstrator and auto salesman for the Knupp Garage, this city, was painfully injured at the fair grounds while driving his car from the grounds. A rope had been stretched across the roadway, and Mr. Ross drove his car into this without seeing it. The windshield was broken off, and Mr. Ross pinned beneath the rope and broken windshield. His hands and arms were severely cut by the broken glass, and it was necessary to take ten stitches to close the cuts on the right aand.

Cars Clash at Cross Road. Clyde Whittington, of this city, was

badly injured Saturday, when his car collided with a fruit truck owned by

M. Amato, of Greenville, a mile north

of Beamsville. The accident occurred

at a cross road. Mr. Whittington was badly cut about the head by the glass from the windshield, and was also scalded by water

from the broken radiator. Physicians

were called from this city and Beamsville, and dressed the injuries. Several small arteries in his head were severed, and he bled profusely. Mr. Whittington's car was badly smashed up. Lawrence Trial Wednesday. Lester Lawrence, who was arrested recently, charged with transporting, has been released on bond, and his trial set for Wednesday. It is alleged hat a number of people secured liquor which was transported by the defendant. Bond was fixed at $500, which was given, and the young man released from custody. New Cases Common Pleas. The West Side Lumber company vs. the Meguiar company; money. Amount

WHAT IS IT?

The weekly crop report of George C. Bryant, agricultural statistician for Indiana of the United States Department of Agriculture, is as follows: "Climatic conditions have been favorable for plowing and much has been accomplished. Not as much rainfall as last week, but no section of the state is now suffering from the drought. "Corn cutting is getting more general as the crop nears maturityV Some

reporters think the late corn shows considerable improvement, but this is doubtful, although weather conditions have been more favorable. "Wheat, oats and rye crops are moving to market very slowly. Unsteady prices are generally given as the reason. "Late potatoes 6how a slight improvement, but the crop will be very short. Tomatoes and other truck crops continue fair to good. The melon crops are holding out exceptionally well and are of splendid quality. . - "Meadows and pastures have improved materially and the latter are now of considerable feed value. "Tobacco has made considerable im

provement and the growth is now more

even. Some cutting has been done, but generally the crop is not fully ma

tured.

"Apple picking is progressing very rapidly. Peaches, pears and grapes have all been harvested, with the latler giving fair results. "All live stock is in good condition with the exception of a few scattered cases of pink eye in cattle and horses. '"The farm labor supply far exceeds the demand."

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Here is the strange result of u harvard mesalliance. This odd-look..-.; critter, whose mother was a turkey and whose father was a rooster, goes pecking its wy around the poultry run of Dr. Thomas Ross, of Portland, Oregon, with a rooster's comb, turkey wattles and an undershot bilL

ALL FARMERS JOIN PRERLE FARM BUREAU

IN ISRAEL TOWNSHIP

claimed. $293.07 and interest from June 23, 1921. L. E. Harvey, Bradford. Ohio, and W. S. Rhodehammel, Dayton, attorneys for plaintiff. The Patterson Tool and Supply Co. vs. the Meguiar company; money. Amount claimed. $432.09 and interest

from June 23,1921. L. E. Harvey, Brad.1 ford, O., and W. S. Rhoedhammel, Dayton, attorneys for plaintiff. The People's Savings Bank. Greenville, vs. J. E. Abbott, et al. Cognovit note. Amaunt claimed, $1,850 and 8 per cent interest. G. W. Porter, attorney for plaintiff. Vida C. Heaton vs. Lincoln Metzcar. Damages. Amount claimed, $25,000. Orian Hoffman, of Marion, Ind., attorney for plaintiff rtiff Cable vs. N. C. Tritz, Eliza Tritz and J. H. Hannan. Money. Amount claimed. $98 and 6 per cent interest from October 19, 1920; balance due on promissory note calling for $415, dated April 23. 1920. Also

$78 and 6 per cent interest due Clin' Cable, dated April 23, and due on April 23, 1920, one year after date; also $206 and interest at 6 per cent due on a promissory note dated April

23, 1920, and payable two years after date; in all $490 and interest from maturity at 8 per cent. Mannix, Crawford and Bilingsby, attorneys for plaintiff.

EATON, O., Aug. 2D. Nearly a hundred percent membership of farmers in the farm bureau is reported from Israel township of Preble county, as a result of a clean-up drive Just completed in that community. State solicitors assisted the local organizers. The membership campaign last

year enlisted members for three years, and this year's campaign was for the J purpose of getting those who had not previously joined. Farmers are being signed up for two years this time. The membership fee is $10 a year. Total membership of the farm bureau from last year's campaign was about 900 and it is expected that this number will be materially increased. Gratis, Somers and Israel townships, where this year's campaign has been completed, furnished 75 additional members to those who joined last year. Work started in Gasper township on Aug. 29. An order for 3,350 pounds of picric acid has been placed with the authorities who have the distribution of this salvaged war material It is being distributed for land clearing purposes and the cost to Preble county farmers

will be 10.6 cents a pound at Eaton. It is more powerful than dynamite, a

six-ounce cartridge of acid equalling an eight-ounce cartridge of 40 percent dynamite. The Preble county shipment is expected to arrive about Sept. 20.

INCREASE IN FARMS . ,' WORKED BY TENANTS IS SEEN IN CENSUS WASHINGTON, D. C, Auj. 29. "The proportion of land operated by, tenants increased between 1910 and 1920, while the proportion operated by managers and owners decreased," says a statement issued by the census bureau, in an analysis of tbe figures on farms in the United States. The figures show 66.6 per cent ot the land in the country was operated by owners in 1920, against 68.1 per cent so operated in 1910. while tenants fanned 25.8 per cent of all land in 1910 and 27.7 per cent in 1920. The land

acreage operated by managers has increased also from 5.6 per cent to 6.1

per cent while the number of mana

gers increased by half of one per cent.

More Tenant Farms Figures for Indiana show a decrease in acreage from 21,299,823 acres in 1910 to 21.063,332 acres in 1920, a decrease in the acreage farmed by owners of one million acres from 13,938,925 in 1910 to 12.870,464 in 1920. The acreage farmed by tenants has increased by nearly a million acres, from 6.877,429 in 1910 to 7,719,953 in 1920. The average 6ize ot farms operated by owners has decreased by one tenth of an acre to 93.8 acres and the size of farms operated by tenants has increased from 106.3 to 117.7 acres. Ohio also shows a decrease in acreage from 24,105,708 to 23,515.888 in 1920, acreage owner-operated, 16,031,6S2 in 1910 decreased to 15,000,053 in 1920; acreage tenant-operated. In

creased from 7,569,390 in 1910 to 7,954,111 in 1920. The size of farms operated by owners increased from 83.5 acres to 84.3 acres, while tenant operated farms had a smaller Increase than in Indiana from 98.1 in 1910 to 105.2 acres in 1920,

RESULTS ARE SHOWN

BY POULTRY CULLING

EATON, O.,- Aug. 29. "Results of a few of the poultry culling demonstrations have been reported," says County Agent E. D. Turner of Preble county, O. ,and show definitely the practicability of the work." The reports are as follows: James Foley, Dixon township. Barred Rocks, number of hens culled in flock, 18, number of hens retained in flock, 46. Egg production week before culling, from entire flock, 159 eggs, week after culling, from the 46 good hens, 131 eggs; from 18 cull hens, 10 eggs. Jesse W. Higs, Jefferson township. White Leghorns,, hens culled. 22. hens retained, 56, egg production, week before culling, 102, week after culling, from 56 good hens, 129 eggs, from 22 cull hens, 11. Mrs. W. A. Ulrich, Lanier township. White Rocks, culled, 20, retained, 32; egg production, week before culling, 99 eggs, week after culling from 32 good hens, 95 eggs; 20 cull hens, 7.

Farm Sale Calendar

Tuesday, Aug. 30. Mrs. L. Kirchet, 4 miles west of Arcanum. 6Ja miles south of Greenville, sale of real estate, 52 acre farm with six-room house, sheds, crib, etc., at 1:30 o'clock. Wednesday, Aug. 31. - W. N. Oxer, six miles south of Richmond, C2 acre farm with standing corn.

Thursday, Sept. 1. A. E. Billman. llollansburg, O., general farm sale and threshing machinery, 10 o'clock.

Monday, Sept. 5 Joshua Brown, on Dairy farm. 1'-

miles southeast of Whitewater; on the

Hollansburg pike; stock sale: 10:30

o'clock.

Tue'sday, Sept. 6. Simon Parks, farm, 10 miles southwest of Eaton, administrator's sale, three farms, personal property, implements, and household goods. Carl F. Wilson, on Benny Thorn

farm, two miies north of Green's Fork.

Closing out sale. Thursday, Sept. 8. Ollie Hodgin. on National road. 5 miles East of Richmond, 1 mile south of New Paris. General farm sale. Friday, Sept. 16. Amanda Harry Thomas and A. J. King on Amanda King farm, 3 miles east of Green's Fork on Green's Fork pike, general farm sale, 10 o'clock.

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