Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 93, Number 31, 5 February 1923 — Page 12

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND., MONDAY, FEB. 5, 1923.

The Farm and the Farmer By William R. Sanborn

THE FARMERS' TAXES "With reference to the Illinois vote on the bonus and the proposed new state constiiution, which was defeated, C. T. Snow, of Cambridge, 111., says: "Both these measures pertained principally to taxation and the vote shows that land owning farmers favored the income tax in the basic law but not the bonus, while the wage earners in the large citys voted overwhelmingly in favor of the bonus and against the income tax." Mr. Snow is a farmer and he goes on to present the ca:-e for the farmers in his state :rA much of what he says applies to our own farmers, as well His comment follows: "Now, since the farm population of

the state numbers only about 1,000,000 or one-sixth of the entire inhabitants, :t is manifestly impossible for them to secure any relief from the crushing load of taxation through the ballot box. The farmer now faces complete confiscation of his land through the enormous increase in both direct and indirect taxes of the last few years, because, unlike other groups, he is unable to add the Increase to the thing he sells, but must pay it out of his profits or, as at the present time, out of the principal itself. Probably the one greatest cause of the ruinous ratio between form products and all manufactured goods is that those who make and sell the goods he buys figure the direct tax levies they pay as overhead, and then add them in the price, while those who buy his products reduce the price for the same reason. When it comes to direct taxes it is not out of the ordinary for an 80 acre farm worked by one man to be tased from $125 to $200, and neveT has the income of such average farm netted the owner, whose year's labor is included in the returns before paying these taxes, as much as the year's wages of a good mechanic who has steady work. It looks to the farmer, that a majority of tho voters who own no land can carry every bond issue, and by tho same means refuse to bear any of the increased burden at all.' Our Conditions Differ "While Mr. Snow's conclusions are entitled to much weight the Indiana farmer and small town ruralist has a more even chance to carry Ms state thn has the Illinois man who lives in the country. Our cities do not rank in size with Chicago, nor have we so many non-property owners who are wage earners, and who can vote to increase state taxation without doing anv direct taxpaying on realty. r,ut regardless of this, neither the Indiana or Illinois farmer can set a price on his product. He doesn't make his own market: he takes what the other fellow offers. He asks: "What will vou pay?" when selling. ' and What do vou charge?" when buying.

This, however, is no new thing. It is ,

as old as agriculture, it explains xne pooling and co-operative movements, marketing associations, etc., now so rapidly expanding. The report of the Darke county. Ohio live stock co-operators for the

year

Weese, manager, is briefly summarizedas follows: Number of shippers in 1922, 3,913; number of hogs shipped, 29.360; number of cattle, 70S; number of calves, 2,921; number of sheep, 1.193. Mr. De Weese gives the number of "decks" shipped as 461 and the total weight of the animals as being 6,716,500 pounds. The total cash received was 0616,409.43. The average expense is figured at 74 cents per hundred pounds. The insurance collected on dead or crippled stock footed up $2,558.33. This payment covered 92 dead and 217 crippled animals. The secretary of the Darke county farm bureau is inviting all farmers who may be interested in securing certified seed potatoes from Michigan for spring planting to write him. He tells them that If enough farmers want such seed to make the shipment worth while, "the seed will be ordered." Exhibitors at the late Madison Square Garden poultry show complain of "shell-shocked" chickens and a loss of eggs. Blasting on Madison avenue

greatly disturbed the hens on that side of the building and they almost quit

The bird3 on exhibition at the Avenue entrance refused to

lay at all. Poultry at Cat Show Indianapolis is to stage its fiftieth annual poultry show at Tomlinson hair, February 7 to 11, and Theo Hewes, manager, says it will be tho greatest show in its history. 'Cats are also to be in the running and five states will be represented in the cat show,, while

laying,

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era from all parts of the country. In the past 50 years there have been more breders of national reputation in Indiana than in any other single state, and for the last. 25 years at the rollcall of the annual meeting of the American Poultry association, Indiana has always had the largest delegation, according to Manager Hewes. Designers of poultry houses have

now come to the conclusion that the average house lacks light. Most of them are lighted on the south only and have plenty of dark corners and dark space under the dropping boards on the north wall. The placing of an additional window in the north wall will supply both light and air, two essentials to the comfort of the chickens. The hen naturally faces the light when scratching in the litter to see the grain, and the window under the roosts helps her to find it. A number of Wayne poultrymen have remodeled their old-fashioned houses to get better lighting effects, also

freer ventilation in hot weather. Watch Steering Gear Farmers are careful drivers as a rule, though there are exceptions, especially among the younger men. Now, the careful driver is very watchful of his steering gear, and well he may be. One of the things to guard against is lost motion at the steering wheel. When that is observed, you can't act too promptly. Your safety depends on it. "If the lost motion in the steering wheel is increasing rapidly," says an auto mechanic, "one of the ball and socket joints of the drag link is coming loose and will soon let go. Stop the ' car immediately and investigate. It is easily tightened with a large screw driver. Set

it up as tight as possible and secure it with a long cotter pin or piece of wire." . This is well enough, as far as it goes, and as a temporary measure. When you run into s, condition wnere you have to take up tne piay, as above, your car needs expert attention and most likely one or more new parts in the gearing. Get them. Don't risk a smash or a fall over an embankment. It has been definitely proved that moldy corn will produce blind staggers in' horses and, if feeding moldy corn does not result in bringing on this disease, it will tend to injure the physical condition of the animal. During the cold months when the horses are idle, there is danger that their digestive organs will become sluggish. Good health can, be encouraged by giving them a w?rm mash once a week, preferably at night. Take a bucket of boiling water, stir

j in the bran, cover it, and let it steam

for two or three hours. It is relished and is a splendid laxative. Abe Martin says, "It's goin' to be

interestin' t'watch an see how the gover'ment gits th farmer out of debt by loanin' him more money." This is a one sided presentation of the idea of government aid to farmers. It does not go deep enough, and Abe, of course, knows it. But the farmers are to have access to more money and on easier terms. That much is assured by the unanimous passage of the Lenroot rural credits bill by the senate last Friday. The bill as passed had but few changes from the form in which it was reported from the banking and currency committee. It creates a new farm credits department in each of the 12 federal land banks with an ini

tial capital of $5,000,000 subscribed by the government for each bank. This capital of $60,000,000 may be increased to $120,000,000. Agricultural paper based loans for periods of from six months to three years may be discounted by the banks, the potential credit involved being 10 times the capita or $1,200,000,000. All of the important amendments on which there was a controversy met defeat, most of them being rejected by such overwhelming votes that roll calls were not demanded.

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