Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-20
THE FARMERS IN SESSION.
THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE ASSOOIA-
TON ON THE SECOND DAY.

Prof. e. A. Ropnoe of Manhattan, Paper
on notwithstanding Paper by
Mr.. A. j. Cook-CoL 3. n. Camp
bell Paper on Horse Raising
for Prof1t."---Visit to
Packing Houses.
When the Farmers association convened
yesterday morning Chairman Forney
spoke on the corn question. He said il
was very important to plant an early
variety of corn. 1t made a sure crop and
while not so much as later varieties on a
good year, but to plant it every year a
farmer would have the best results. He
had been planting some early Michigan
corn and it was necessary to get early seed
from the north about every three years.
He also give his experience in raising
grasses and said he was certain tame
grasses can be raised in Kansas as we'll as
in Iowa, where few gears ago it was re-
garded as impossible.
Mr.. T. Jewett said he was a crank on
the alfalfa question. Thought tame grasses
one of the most important questions con-
corning the state. The red clover tap root
is short, while the alfalfa tap root reaches
ten or eighteen feet deep. One ton of alfalfa
is worth two tons of any other grass.
1t was grass adapted to this country
and could be raised where corr would be
a failure. Must get ''stand" on the start,
taking about twenty-five pounds Of seed
per acre. The first year would find the
tap roots four to six feet long. 1t was
good for hogs, and in Colorado farmers
were raising fine hogs on alfalfa. The hay
Gx,1 ha hart hnf pl
Some seed abo t the 1st of May, but it
would grow all right to sow it any time OF
the summer. Thought it a preventive of
hog cholera. Thought that disease could
be crushed out the same as all Others.
Thought that there should be some law on
the question to prevent tn, spread of chol-
era. 1t was often spread from the stock
yards.
The chairman said that the cholera was
an important question; the disease was
being spread in neighborhoods by impor
tation of hogs, Suggested that farmers
should organize to prevent the spread OF
the disease.
Judge E. B. Jewett, on the alfalfa ques-
ton, said that the tame grasses were very
important for Kansas. He read an article
on alfalfa.
Prof E. A. Popenoe, of the state agricul-
tural college, at Manhattan, read paper
on insects" as follows:
The time is here when to succeed in ag-
riculture essays demand most intelligent
and persistent war upon insects. That our
foes increase more rapidly than our means
for their destruction or our information Of
their susceptible points, is in great meas
ure due to certti lack of appreciation Of
the necessities of the warfare a1d to an
extent, to carelessness in the matter, re-
sulting from a wrong estimate or the
bearings of single undisturbed annual
visitation of an Injurious species We are
too apt to look only at the immediate re-
suit OF the presence of the destructive host,
ignoring the more important sequel. we
know enough, we think. of the coOiin
moth and It's larvae, the apple worm, when
we note only as gathering the fruit, that
though two-thirds of the crop is unstable
or at most worth only half price, we have
yet a percentage of sound fruit remaining.
Let the Hessian fly be abundant in our
fields this fail, we allow the poor stand of
wheat 60 remain for the paltry return of
few bushels to the acre. Meanwhile actu-
ally, by this penny wise pound foolish pro-
assuring by the best means IN our
power the increase of the pest. AS the APP
pies are already worthless when, after at
ground, we pocket our loss with no care
for the whereabouts or future OF the insect
that did the work AS we are already
short on wheat when we find the fly in
our fields we grin and bear it, congratu-
lating ourselves that at least we may get
Onr seed back. 1t is every one for himself
What do l care if my neglected
come annually the parents OF
hordes that devastate neighborhood If L
only reap sufficient to carry me over
present needs? Though l should advise
my neignbor in Il similar case to take per-
naps Il different course, yet this time can
not afford to complete the sacrifice for a
doubtful advantage in future. In SIM
liar manner am likely to neglect the use
of preventive means, having first estimat-
ed, though doubtless without full data,
the present cost or present profit or loss of
the proceeding, but emitting entirely the
OF the result next year.
Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof.
Now | am not alone i'll this. L suppose
that every one OF my auditors knows my
among his neIghbors. This
principle is "A sort of American idea, that
crops out in all callings 1t is character
stic not only IN personal hut in state and
national administrations; wherever we
draw on nature we are tempted not only
TO draw interest but principal as we'll. We
are depudiHg our great rain makers, the
forest lands everywhere and especially our
at pace and with waste
hat ast ounds the economical German and
Swiss VINO knows the history of forest cul-
5ure at home. We are annually taking
from our farms material that We shall not
5hink OF returning until the forty bushels
If wheat becomes ten, though warned by
he experiment of Older lands of the i'm
providence of our methods. At any rate
he present is ours, and hang posterity;
what has posterity ever done for us?
Now in this way upon insects certain |
leeds are uppermost:
Tristan appreciation Of the import |
.nce of these tiny foes.
Second-An understanding of the habits |
to direct to profitable warfare |
against them.
Third-An intelligent and persistent use |
# Means preventative and remedial
Fourth-Co-operation
AS illustrating the Importance of the !
ubject of economic entomology | cannot |
orbear quoting an interesting paragraph /
rom Dr. Lintner. at has been truthfuilv
aid that insects have established a kind of
Universal empire over the earth and its in
labitautS. Minute as many of them are,
nd insignificant in size to other than uat-
lraiists yet, in combination, they have
esolated countries and brought famine
nd pestileuce in their train. If unre-
trained power were given them, all coun-
er-checks removed, and they were left
rec to attack US in our persons. food,
lothing houses. domestic animals, the
onsequent disease, poverty, exposure and
want, would in the end remove the human
ace from the face of the earth. Air, earth
nd water TEEN with them; there may be
laimed for them almost an omnipresence;
hey swarm in the tropics and find suita-
lie home in the arctic regions. They
bound in our homes, our gardens,
richards, fields, vineyards and forests.