Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 93, Number 23, 26 January 1923 — Page 16

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THE K1CHMU.ND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, 1ND., FRIDAY, JAN. 26, 1923.

The Farm and the Farmer By William R. Sanborn

THE SALE SEASON Once more are we in the heart ot the winter season of farm sales, and while not quite as numerous as during the hijih time a few years back there are enough of them to tempt the average farmer to take numerous days off to see what's doing, what farm tools and live stock are .bringing and who is doing the buying. These farm sales are not peculiar to any single locality. They are in evidence all over the corn belt. As we come nearer to spring farm tools and implements are bringing

more money than they would have done a few weeks ago, and there is more competition for them. There is a buyer for every implement that is in usable condition and has had proper care. It is on such occasions that the careless farmer who doesn't cleanup his tools and put them in shelter, discovers that he is penalized by buyers on just that account. He takes in less money because of his neglect and none are quicker to sense this lack of care in upkeep than the farmer who goes to sales in quest of things he hopes to find satisfactory at a price he can afford to pay. A fair crowd of buyers attended the Pan Boyer farm sale, three miles north of Richmond on the Chester pike, on Wednesday. The offering was not particularly large, 'tis true, but the general verdict was that it was "A good sale" and that the chattels brought fair prices according to value and condition. Four horse3.

three cows and 19 head of hogs went under the hammer; also 800 bushels of corn and 7 tons of mixed hay. A rair of good farm horses wa3 taken

home by D. R Miller at a cost of $327;

the other team fell to Elmer Hartman, who gave a check of $250 for the right to take them with him at the close of

the sale. Corn Brings 77 Cents The top on cows was S.ti, paid for a "red." John Rosa and Carl Hartman got the remaining two for Hs .-. money. Tforge Bullerdick, Fred Hartman. VV. Banks and John Ross were the best buyers of hogs. Mr. 'Ranks paid $S0 for four gilts; Fred Hartman bought three shoats at 510 each, and George Bullerdick secured two sows for $61. HarrVarnauff got the cheapest lot pf corn, at 75 cents. George Iliatt took his share at 76 cents, while P. Tomson bid in 200 bushels at 77 cents, the top of the sale. Mixed hay sold at from $10.75 to $11.50, or at better prices than at recent sales. Among the buyers of implements were: Charles Alexander, gang nlow, $27.50; corn planter, Harry Bond, $.',9.50; spreader. Frank Martin, $46; hinder. Arthur Fope, $100; tandem disc, Earl Fudge. $40.50; cultipacker, Mr. Parker, at $"5. Francis E. McMinn of the Dickinson Trust company made the settlements. He Fays the sales were made mostly for cash and that the total net was approximately $2,400. Lunch" wa? sorved by the Ladies' Aid of the church at Chester. Eastern -National Forests Results of 10 years' progress in deyrloping our eastern national forests r.re shown in the annual report of the

?iational forest reservation commission! Inst issued. Over 2,000.000 acres have j already ben acquired by purchase for

forests in 11 eastern states during the 10 years that this commission has functioned. O! this area 440,000 acres are in the White mountains, 74,000 in northeastern Pennsylvania and 1,640,000 in the southern Appalachians and the Ozarks. Although the greater part of this land has been recently cut over and has no timber immediately halable. the income for the last three year3 bas averaged more than $100,000 a year, of which more than one-third bas ben turned over to the states and local communities for roads and f-chools in lieu of taxes. Such timber as is being sold is practically restricted to supptving the needs of local in

dustries and to removing over-mature i

trees. The report also calls attention to the value of these forests for recreation and the extensive use that is being made of them by tourists. An additional use to which the federal area3 are put is for breeding wild srame. There are now 10000 whitetail deer on the White Mountain National Forest, and 2,000 on the Pisgah. Klk have been placed on several forests and buffalo on one. On the Shenandoah national forest in Virginia and

West Virginia, more than 30 bars were killed during the past season. Many of the streams have been stocked with fish. 26,000 C;r of Tomatoes. Earl Parsons of the agricultural department has written Farmers' Bulletin No. 1291, exclusively devoted to tomatoes, mostly as to the best plan of grettin? them from field to market. Incidentally, we are told that there was a fifty per cent gain last year in the shipments of tomatoes as compared with 1921. which shows an in

creasing demand for tnis field product, now so largely entering into our food supply. 'Average shipments of tomatoes have been less than 18,000 cars per year, while in 1921 there were more than 26,000 cars reached the cities. The bulletin mentioned that it is becoming increasingly important to use approved methods of harvesting, packing, grading and

loading for best and most profitable

results. The shipments to cities are mostly for use as "fresh" tomatoes. The bulk of the canning is done with

in easy wagon haul of the fields where grown. This is also true of all fruit

and vegetable packs. Wben we con

sider the millions of cans of commercially packed tomatoes, the great number packed in farm houses and

from country gardens, and the number of tomatoes consumed fresh, from the gardens in summer months, we are bound to concede that tomatoes are a vastly important crop. Some New Wheat. In the annual report of the bureaa of plant industry are listed among the significant accomplishments of the past fiscal year, two new wheats named Forward and Honor that have been developed in the breeding experiments in co-operation with the agricultural experiment station of Cornell universitv. These are now being grown commercially, and seed is for sale by seedsmen and farmers in New York

Kota. a bearded, hard red spring va

riety, discovered in 1918 to be espe

cially resistant to stem rust, was grown in 1921 at GO experiment stations to determine its value in comparison with adapted commercial varieties of both common and durum

wheats. During the past three years its resistance to stem rust has proved

nearly equal to that of the most re

sistant durum varieties. The commer

cial stocks of Kota seed were increased

to about 6,000 buhels in 1921, and near

ly all of this was sown in 1922. A number of other varieties developed by the department have continued to give good satisfaction with the result that their commercial production has been increased considerably. Still Fighting Barberries. The fifth year ot" the campaign for the eradication of the common barberry in order to control black stem rust of wheat has drawn to a close with an additional area equivalent to 197 counties completely surveyed by the department of agriculture. Of these, 15 counties in Minnesota and one county in Iowa were surveyed with funds furnished by these states. In this survey 209.397 bushes were locat

ed on 5,918 properties, of which 133,365 bushes were escapes from cultivation on 830 farms. A total of 729,721

bushes were removed from 6,408 prop

erties.

The eradication area comprises 13 of the. north central wheat-growing states and all of these states now have enacted legislation requiring the removal

of common barberry bushes. The orig

inal survey has been practically completed in three of the states, namely, Montana, Colorado and Wyoming. In the other 10 states the original survey has covered an area of approximately 422 counties. An area of 394 counties remains to be surveyed. Investigations of the time, rate, and

manner of spread of rust from bar

CELEBRATED PIANIST DEMONSTRATES FINE INTERPRETATIVE WORK

The supurb artistry of Maurice Dumesnil, celebrated French pianist, was demonstrated Thuhsday night in the recital M. Dumesnil gave in St. Mary's Community House under the auspices of Samuel B. Garton. Dumesnii is looked upon, and justly,

as one of the greatest living inter

hprria pive nditinnal evirlpnre nf the nrelers of Chonin. the Peer in sheer

enormous losses directly traceable to

individual bushes and hedges and further emphasize the necessity of removing the last bush, if the greatest measure of success is to be accomplished in the control of this wheat disease. Sweet Clover For Cows. A farmer wrote a farm editor in relation to the value of sweet clover for pasture, aS follows: ''Is swet clover pasture a good milk producer, and is sweet clover hay good for milk?" To this the editor answered by saying: "Sweet clover is an excellent milk producer. It will grow oS soils that have been so much depleted that trover and alfalfa will no longer grow on them. On account of its bitter flavor cattle usually do not take well to it

until they have learned to eat it. It

should be sown thick to prevent it from growing too cparse. When cut for hay it should be cut when the first

blossoms appear and should be cut

about six inches from the ground as the new shoots do not grow from a crown as they do in alfalfa but from the stem." Over 505,000 farm boys and girls, from practically every agricultural county in the country, were enrolled in agricultural extension clubs last year. They produced over $7,000,000 worth of foodstuffs, according to reports. Some 2,500 county extension agents directed the work of these boys and girls and over 10,000 local mn and women volunteered to help ia the work. Illinois Holsteins. R. h. Thompson, 'secretary-treasurer of the Illinois Holstein-Friesan association, is a mine of information in regard to that dairy breed. When speaking of the status of these milkers now, as compared with five years ago, he referred to the first state sale, as follows: "When pure bred prices were unusually high three years ago Holstein man sold 112 head at their state sale, averaging $666 a head. Cows sold from

creative trpnins of all modern com

posers, according to the dictum of musical authorities, and yet one of the most difficult to interpret. Hence mere music lovers, who have no acquaintance with the technical phases of the musical art, have not always been impressed by the presentation of this great composer's product. Dumesnil, however, is absolutely satisfying in his playing of Chopin. Manv neiformers are effective in

Chopin's great crashing climaxes, but

seem not to divine the exquisite po$1,000 to $2,800. This was the first sale. Th,e state auction will be held again this year early in April at the

live stock pavilion of the Central States fair ground at Aurora. "Most of our co-operative development in breeding, testing, and selling pure breds in Illinois has been done within the last three years," says Mr.

Thompson. "The development ot tne

selling angle is still in its infancy, nut with the increasing number of good breeders it will no doubt grow vapidly from now on. Our lryi;est membership is in McHenry, Lake, Du Page, and

Cook counties, and ?ome of these coun

ties are included f the belt that was

once handicapped b' tne destructive practices of dealers common in that

section. "Pure breds are here to stay. In

counties where testing associations are

formed it has been proved that they

outrank grades in production." Mr. Thompson states that at the time of the organization of the state association there were not more than 600 Holstein breeders in Illinois, while today there are approximately 2.000 such breeders, owning at least 30,000 head. This shows a gain of 20,000 head in the past five years, according to Mr. Thompson. The Holstein herds have so great ly increased that Illinois now ranks sixth and is fast becoming a cow selling state and is shipping Holsteins over a wide territory.

etry and the profound and alluring melancholy that permeates all bis work. "Melancholy underlies all things," says the great artist-philosopher, Amiel, who has, perhaps, said the last word on all art. And this is primarily and significantly true of the compositions that have emanated from Chopin's incomparable genius. That Dumesnil can so splendidly present this is indicative of hia superlative powers as an interpretative musician and leads to the conclusion that he, too, is touched by the "divine fire." No doubt his great climatic number was Chopin's sonata, in which the famous "Funeral March" constitutes the third movement, and which is rarely heard in its entirety on a recital program of this character. Wonderful as was Dumesnil's presentation of the third movement, for the "Funeral Maich" was played as it is infrequently heard, his occult art was shown even more in the playing of the second movement or "Scherzo," whose delicate and haunting nuances of tone and feeling were superbly given. Dumesnill, too, in this number in the fourth movement, "The Wind Over

the Graves," displayed his ability to

create the illusion of a picture, the sorrowful sighing and shuddering

shrieking of the wind blowing in the most lonely environ known to man being presented with incomparable realism. Receives Ovation His previous presentation of Chop

in's "Andante Spianato and Polonaise Brilliante" in two brilliantly contrasting effects Drought out an ovation, to which he responded with a well-known Chopin waltz, played as tenderly and as delicately as spring moonlight on a rippling stream. In his third group, Dumesnil delighted his audience with ultra modern music from Spanish and South American composers, which, on account of its similar Latin origin, possessed much the same effect and ap

peal, embodying all that atmosphere

of "Spanish Serenades, gallants

strumming guitars under fair ladies' windows and' irresponsible and hectic phases of life peculiar to those of a kindred race. Number Has Appeal A little different and yet possessing a lovely minor appeal was Gomez-Car-illo's "Vivala," an "Inca Melody," as programmed, the inclusion of a native folk melody, soft, sweet and haunting. The tinkling "Dancing Marionettes," by Harold Henry was given with great spirit by Dumesnil who is fond of playing this composition, "light as thistledown," by a personal friend. Liszt's "Eleventh Hungarian Rhapsody" was the final number and presented with a truly magnificent display of technical perfection and individual style which was followed by repeated recalls to which the pianist responded.

Mexico has a tree that has branches resembling blood red hands.

Dr. Paul Samnel Reinsch Counsellor to China, Dies . . . After Protracted Illness . (By Associated Press) SHANGHAI, Jan. 26. Dr. Paul Samuel Reinsch. formerly American minister to China, and later counsellor to the Chinese government, died here today after a protracted illness. In December, Dr. Reinsch, then at Mankow, suffered collapse, and was brought to Shanghai, where his illness was diagnosed as encephalitis. Recently broncho-pneumonit set in. and that complication resulted fatally at 11 o'clock this morning. femimtminHiimHtimminuiHiaitimttiimuuiifmMtiuHimmiiNNiMnnmt i Saturday and Sunday Special j 1 Peanut Brittle 23c Per Lb. I

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Our "One-Day" Cold Tablets at 24 c M e n t h o 1 Cherry Bark Cough Syrup. .24c & 49c DeWitt's White Pine and Menthol Cough Syrup now at 23 and 43c

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Brown Calf and Flack Kid, medium and broad toe. Special at

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Feltman's Shoe Store. The World's Largest Shoe Dealers 41 Stores 724 Main Street

Typhoon Electric Washing Machines sold only by

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A Clean Shave Gives you new pep. 5 skilled barbers Harter's Shop In the Murray Bldg.

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Every garment a real value and every garment priced

extremely low.

One Lot Winter Coats

For St. Valentine's day is ri good sized box of our Chocolates or Ron-Bons. She'll think more of you if you get her a box of our candy specially packed in a heart-shaped box.

Order Price's Ice Cream for your Sunday dinner The most delicious desert.

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Plain or fur trimmed; best of materials, linings and workmanship; sizes 16 to 38. High -Grade Winter Coats

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Beautifully Fur Trimmed full Silk lined Coats of the "better kind" former values to $49.50. One Lot Winter Suits

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Many Suits in this lot good for early spring wear, former values to $69.50.

LEE B. NUSBAUM COMPANY

Jenkins Saturday Silver Sale

Rogers Knives and Forks,

Special Set

$5.00

JENKINS &4CO. 726 Main St.

NEW PRICES In Effect Now on Farwig's Home-Baked BREAD, ROLLS, BUNS l-lb. loaf White Bread. . - IOC l ib. loaf Graham Bread C l ib. loaf French Bread C l ib. loaf Rye Bread Parker House Rolls, doz...J5c Fresh Buns, doz 15? Special Saturday Only RAISIN BREAD 1 pound loaf - f for only JLUC HENRY FARWIG & SON 1031 Main Street

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A most fortunate purchase of new Spring Hats, at a price little short of sensational, makes possible this sale at the vcrv beginning of the season ! To the many women who are familiar Avith our value-giving policy, we wish to emphasize the importance of this occasion.

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We have assembled for your inspection on our sales floor 25 of the finest Used and Rebuilt Automobiles in this city. These cars are all in excellent condition and the prices are marked down in order to move these cars quickly. Never before has our stock of good Used Cars been more complete. We have good cars from Fords to Cadillacs. Won't you just take a few moments and drop in at our Used Car display and see what a wonderful opportunity you have to get an exceptional value in a good, standard, slightly used car? Your present car can at all times be taken in as part payment and the advantge of a deferred time payment plan extended you, if desired.

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