Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 282, 27 November 1922 — Page 9

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND., MONDAY, NOV. 27, 1922.

The Farm and the Farmer . By William R. Sanborn

i GOOD OLD TIMES? I Just recently an article baa been ! making the rounds of a -whole lot of newspapers that are not well Informed as to what farmers are complaining 1 about, nor what their troubles are, to the effect that: Twenty-ive years ago corn was telling at 18 cent a bushteL hogs at three cents a pound, fat cows at two and one-half cents a pound, steers at the same price, wheat at 80 cents, eggs 10 and 12 cents a dozen, and butter at 12 cents a pound. These were surely hard times, prices and days when nobody prospered. Men of middle age can well remember them. But the man who collected this depressing data of the '90s overlooked at least two important facts, which should have been added. In those "good old days" carpenters were paid about $2 a day and other building trade workers in proportion. Farmers work shoes sold for $1 to $1.25, and dress shoes at $2.50 to $3. A good, durable suit of clothes could be bought for $12 to $15, and the owner of a cot1 tage could put in his winter's coal at the cost of two Jons at today's figures for best soft grades. Nor did the compiler of those gloomy figures state that during those days of low prices thousands of farms

were lost on mortgages, and that agri

culture would have gone broke had these hard times continued. That was the most critical period the farmer had

ever experienced up to that time, the

like of which we hope never to see again. Producers in the Lead. There are 19 commission firms doing business at the Indianapolis yards and for the week ending Friday, Nov. 24,

they handled a total of 1,104 cars of live stock. Of the total 72S ioads came in by rail and 378 by truck, counting 70 trucked-in hogj to a carload. Of the total receipts at Indianapolis the Producers handled 236 cars, or 21.4 per cent of all arrivals. The next two high firms handled 106 cars each. Indiana farmers are to be in the thick of the fight at the International grain and hay show at Chicago and the corn growers are going out after the crown of the corn king, once more. J. W. Workman, of Maxwell, Illinois, took home the crown last year, and that was the first time in the history of the eight national and three international grain shows that some Hoosier did not carry off the honor of being Corn King. The corn growers of Indiana will display hundreds of samples this year, in the determination to capture the big prize, also a lot of the smaller ones. Experimental Feeding John Riddle, a Monroe county farmer, has been experimenting with the mixture advised by Purdue, and'which was fed from a self-feeder In the open, while the hogs cleaned up a field of corn and soys. On Sept. 22, his lot of twenty-live hogs were weighed and turned into a field of corn and soybeans. Twenty farmers were present to see the demonstration start By Oct. 31, practically all the corn and beany were gone and the hogs were weighed again before a large number of farmers. They tipped the scales at 183 pounds apiece,

average, against lo9 when they started on the corn and bean patch. In the thirty-nine days they were on feed, they pnt on 74.1 pounds of gain per head or 1.9 pounds per day. Figuring corn at 50 cents a bushel, these gains cost $4.35 for feed alone, or figuring pork at $8.50 per 100, as It was at that time, they brought $1 a bushel for the, corn they consumed. All the time they were in the field, these hogs had free access to the mineral mixture which has driven best results in feeding trials at Purdue. This Is composed of ten parts of acid phosphate, ten parts of wood ashes and one part of common salt by weight. Farmers and Taxes '

In his comment upon the taxation of

farmers in France as compared with the load the American farmer is now called to carry, Arthur Brisbane says: "The raising of income for govern

ment use is difficult everywhere and

aurerent.

"For Instance, in France cities conv

Plain because the government does

not dare collect from farmers their share of taxes. The farmers are pow

er im.

'In the United States -we have no

such difficulty. But here we are un

able to collect the full taxes from the very big people who calmly tell, you

'high taxes won't be paid, -whatever

you make them."

"And, very convenient for the well-

to-do, we have created 15,000 million dollars of securities that cannot be

taxed by the government. For their

further convenience our highest court has decided that when they pay them

selves stock dividends worth teni of

millions instead of cash, that, Btock is

not income.

"The French farmers may escape

taxation to some extent but they could learn something by coming over

here and visiting our prosperous class

in America." Protect Your Bees.

An apiarist writes: "Man, live stock and poultry all require winter shefler and protection, and so does the honey bee. Missouri's bees this year stored ap

proximately 600 tons of honey worth

close to $3,000,000. The bee Industry is therefore a real asset to the state and .every colony should be given the

necessary winter care and protection." The modem hive affords a certain amount of protection, but that alone is not sufficient in an average winter. When the air hovers at or. below zero the bees are unable to keep warm. But first make sure the bees are supplid With winter food. If a colony has less than the equivalent of six standard combs or 40 punds of honey it is safer to give the colony some additional combs of sealed honey or feed it a gallon or two of sugar syrup. At this season a syrup containing 12 pounds of granulated sugar to one gallon of boiling water Is satisfactory for feeding bees. It may be fed in a shallow pan set down in an empty super over the brood chamber. Place leaves or clean chips in the pan of syrup for the bees to stand on while lapping up the syrup. As winter protection, provide first of all an effective wind -break. For this boards, fodder or similar materials

CHILD ER3 EXECUTED.

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Erakine Childers, who was tried before a military conrt at Porto bello Barracks, Ireland, charged with being In possession, without proper authority, of an automatic pistol when apprehended by a party of the , national forces at Annamoe House. County Wicklow, was found guilty and executed. Many people anticipate much more trouble in Ireland.

may be used. Then for each hive or

group of hives add dry insulation.

Cheap boxes filled with leaves and

set down over the hives will eive very

good insulation. Groups of two or four

mves may be surrounded by a large

case ana packed with dry insulation,

Some prefer to group all stands in a row facing south and then provide insulation around and over all, this being held in place with boards or a long

case. T. B. Test for Cattle.

Thorough work in the T. B. testing

of cattle is now going on in St. Joseph

county, and has been continued for a

year. Here the work is done on the area basis, that is to say an entire township is cleaned up at a time. The farm bureau and the county agent has co-operated and Purdue has lent a -hand as needed. Up to Nov. 1, 9,137 head had been given the initial test and 584 head reacted, indicating they were tubercular. These reactors came from 200 herds and represented 7 per cent of all cattle tested. Then, as the agreement for testing specifies, a retest was made in six months, 1,097 head having been given the restest up to Nov. 1. Of this number, only eight animals reacted, or three-fourths of 1 per cent, showing the thoroughness of the first test Impetus to the testing work was given by the Farmers' Dairy company, which controls most of the milk supply for Mlshawaka, adopting a ruling that after Nov. 1 no milk would be received

except that from herds free of tuberculosis. LAST WEEK'S LIVE STOCK The $8 hog, which suddenly disappeared at Chicago in the middle of last week, came back on Saturday, three lasses selling as high as $8.20. Brisk shipping competition brought hogs up 40 cents above the low point on Wednesday, this bemg true also as the average run of sales on the day. But in spite of thlsv reaction the general "average" of all sales last week was but $7.70 against $8.15 for the previous week and $6.80 for the same week in 192L Cattle averages lost 40 cents on the week, being $9.45 against $9.85 a

week earlier. Lambs gained 10 cents at a $14.35 average on the week, against an average of but $9.40 one year ago.

Indianapolis sold a few hoes as high

as $8.35 last Saturday, against a top of $8.15 on Friday, and a top of $7.70 on the same date in 1921. The top at Pittsburgh was $9. or just 90 cents

higher than last year. The East Buf

falo top of $9 was 75 cents above that on same day in 1921. Armour and company, report the demand for all packing house products as being

good." The top of $8.25 at Cincinnati last

Saturday was just $1 higher than in 1921.

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Called by Death

Births

HUNTSVILLE. Ind.-Mr. and Mrs.

George Gordon are t,he parents of a

son, Kichard Marsielle.

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TURKEYS SCARCE RUSHVILE, Ind., Nov. 27. Thanksgiving turkeys will be scarce In Rushville this year, poor Quality and small numbers of the birds being the cause for the scarcity.

MRS. LEE VAN ATA , GREENVILXS, Ohio, Nov. 27. Funeral services for Mrs. Lee Vanata,

living two m'ilea south of Gettysburg, were to be held at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon at the Abottsville church. The Rev. Snyder of " Arcanum, will officiate. Burial will be in the Abbotsville cemetery. Besides her husband, Mrs. Vanata is survived by two sons, one sister, and two brothers. WALKER W. CAMPBELL CAMPBELLSTOWN. Ohio, Not. 27. Walker W. Campbell, 68 years old, died Saturday evening at 5:30 o'clock, at his home in Campbellstown, Ohio, after a long illness. He is survived by his widow, one son. Earl Z. Campbell, of Richmond, a granddaughter, grandson and great-granddaughter. The funeral-services will be Tuesday morning at l(h30 from the Campbellstown Christian church, the Rev. Mr. Pleasant officiating. Burial will be in Mound Hill cemetery at Eaton. Friends may call at any time.. -

HENRY COUNTY GAS WELL PRODUCING STRONG FLOW NEWCASTLE. Ind., Nov. 27. The second gas well brought in-by the Blue Valley Gas company is now giring a flow equal to that of the first which is 40 rods distant- Gas was struck at a depth of 855 feet. A third well Is being drilled and probably will be finished by the end of this week. Two other wells on the Hosier farm, adjoining the Blue Valley company's lease, also are producing., Were It possible for an airplane to fly from the earth to the moon at the rate of 200 miles an hour, it would take seven weeks to make the trip.

NOTICE! To Depositors in the Second National Bank's Christmas Savings Club This is to remind you that in order to earn the interest on these accounts they must be paid in full by the end of next week. Those in arrears should be paid as promptly as possible. Second National Bank Richmond's Strongest Bank

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Fleeced Gowns One lot of Fleeced Gowns, long sleeves, high neck, regular $1.49 Gowns; special during twxHlay selling event'

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