Thomas County cat., 1890-08-21
How to Get Seed Wheat


ToPEKA. August 19.-Secretary Mohler. of
the state board of agriculture, has been dis
cussing and suggesting plans for furnishing
farmers in the border counties with seed
wheat. His conclusions are here given:
Since the receipt of the first letter concern
ing this matter, some ten days ago, the sec.
retary of this board has been active in efforts
to determine some definite plan which might
be recommended with reasonable assurance of
success. Bankers. loan agents. railroad offi-
cials and others were consulted and the fol-
lowing conclusions were finally reached:
First-The plan adopted in Harper county,
Kansas, three years ago to secure seed wheat
for farmers at that time commends it
self as most feasible yet presented. OF this
plan L. A. DarrouSh, president of the
First National bank of Anthony, Kan, says:
Our people formed company and incorpo-
rated it-elected officers.
There were fifty members and each gave
his note for 500, payable to their treasurer
in one year, at 10 per cent. Then the treas
urer and secretary gave their notes to the
bank for the amount of money needed to
buy the wheat with. The banks furnished
the money to the company to buy the wheat
and the company let it out to the farmers
for one-ffth of the wheat raised, delivered
IN town without any cost to the company.
The company made - psr cent. ON the money
invested, and 1t saved our county. as the
people could not have lived hero without this
help.
Merchants, bankers and all classes of busi-
ness men are interested IN retaining good
farmers in their respective counties, and by
farmers can very materially aid the latter
and thus promote their own interests.
Nothing can be truer than that the pros
perity of a community in Kansas as a whole
depends upon the prosperity of farmers.
l Second-I have it from good authority that
the Kansas Trust and Banking company. of
AtchisOn, Kansas, propose to furnish farm
ers seed wheat upon whose lands they hold
mortgages and also give years extension
on the interest on all loans where the bor-
rover is unable to meet the same.
In case the first plan fails application
should be made to the loan companies of the
state for assistance in the way in which the
Atchison company proposes to help toe
farmers.
The party holding the mortgage is directly
interested, and presuming it to be true, as is
claimed, that such party does not want tho
land will find it to his interest to furnish the
seed wheat needed on years time and thus
give the owner of the land an opportunity to
pay of his mortgage and save his home.
Third-Railroad companies are unwilling
to furnish seed wheat to the farmers, but
diil dutuOElZcu W Say tildt Will tTcdt
them fairly in the matter of transportation
in case of shipment of wheat over their roads
designed to be used as seed wheat by farmers
of western Kansas.
In no case, up to this date, have farmers to
my knowledge asked seed wheat as q dona-
ton. They want to buy it on years timo
and pay for it out of the crop grown or they
want to pay it by giving a share of the crop.
and most assuredly they ought to have 1t,
and those directly interested should see that
they get it. NJ. MoHIER,
Secretary