The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-23
COBURN'S NEW REPORT
He Discusses Relations Of Rail-
roads and Agriculture.

Railroads and Agriculture is the
title ascribed by Secretary Coburn 10
I the quarterly report of the State Board
of Agriculture for the first quarter of
\ 1903. 1t is pamphlet of 226 pages, and
contains the proceedings of this year s
annual meeting Of the board of agricuI-
! ture. It also contains reprint of Prof.
A D. Shamel's paper on corn culture
and breeding, which was presented at
the meeting of the board a year ago.
and which the board requested to he
again published this year because Of
! Its great value. There are in the re-
port number of other papers of inter
est to corn-growers, and the reports Of
the production of sugar beets in KAN
sas during the past two years
But the main features of the volume
are the papers read by J. W. Gleed OF
Topeka, and Dr.. Henry Wallace, of Des
Moines. Iowa before the last annual
meeting of the board, giving the two
sides of the railroad question. Dr. Wal
lace, who IS editor of Wallace's Farmer,
gave the farmers view Of the railroad
ana the relation OF the farmer to the
railroad. while Mr.. Gleed, general attor-
ney for the Frisco, gave the railroads
side OF the question. On the cover Of
the pamphlet is the following quota
ton:
THE fact that state in its wisdom
or unWisdom. as the case may be- per
mlts private corporation to build
public road or railway, does not render
the road one whit less a public road on
which every citizen. because he is a
citizen has the right of passage for
himself and his goods on equal terms
with every other citizen"
In his Introduction to the volume NJ.
/ COburn says:
Railroads and farmers and stock
men should be at peace with each other
and tremendously cooperate to ad-
vance their mutual interests. In state
4 of Kansas environment, the prosperity
/ of these interests in large degree is de
pendent each upon the other.
1t IS recognized that the railroads
nave been potent in the development of
the resources of this and other COM
/ monwealths. and with that expecta-
ton. were freely granted in advance by
individuals and the state special priv
| ilegeS to encourage their building Tn
were launched upon business careers
/ that have gradually grown to immense
proportions. made possible by the effort
Of those sturdy pioneers who preceded
the locomotive in the wilderness, sup
/ plemented by the intelligent industry of
the thousands who came after. a.
However natural it would seem for
railroad arrangements to deal honestly
and fairly with their patrons and moral
/ partners. it is claimed by many that
these so-called 'soulless' corporations
have ignored the rights of their hene-
/ factors so long and 10 such extent as
/ to be oppressive, and have imposed on
their clientele discriminating and other
practices unjust in the extreme. Hence
owing to the various related questions
| about which there are differences of
opinion, it has been thought timely and
pertinent to encourage a fair presenta-
ton from the view point of each by
able representatives of these two in
terests. in order that the public may
be the better informed and possible
better mutual understanding be attain
ed This important discussion is given
in the succeeding pages.
Another subject now also command
ing particular attention by farmers and
/ others IS the production and improve
ment of Indian corn. To further this
worthy cause considerable space in this
volume is devoted to presentation or
what has already been done in that Oh
rection by those who have prominently
participafed in its accom- lishment. and
/ which is suggestive of the vast posi-
/ ni1ities open to those who would proht
by this knowledge
The volume also contains a paper on
the work of the United states depart
rnent of agriculture in its relation to the
development of the middle west by DR..
F. T. Galloway. chief Ct the United
/ States bureau of plant industry.
Another paper is on the Grange, ana
was prepared by F. W Westgate. mas
ter of the Kansas State Grange. Stlli
another is on THE General Purpose
Hog of the Twentieth Century by
Frank Hoover of Columbus Another IS
on soil cultivation by Prof, A NJ Ten
Eyck of the Kansas State Agricultural
college, ana LneIe are OtAttS Cl A.
falfa as Bone Producer by Prof H.
NJ CottreII: THE Ideal Woman" by
Mrs. Hill P Wilson: The Live Stock
and Agricultural Future of Northwest
Kansas, by Otis L Benton OF Oberlin;
our 1000 Acre Experiment Farm and
It's Possibilities" by J. G. Haney, super
intendent of the Hays City experiment
farm; Growing Beef on High Priced
Land BY Prof E A. Burnett of the
Nebraska experiment station; Live
Stock Husbandry and Agriculture
Prosperity" by L. H Kerrick Of Bloom
ingtou Ill, and many others
Sprinl1ling hose at Forbes
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