The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-28
HAS AN OPPORTUNITY.
Reputation of Kansas Flour viii
Be World Wide.
Excellence of the Product De-
mands Highest Place.


on the chorus.
Kansas is just now the subject of
more editorials than any thing else on
earth. Most of the editorials are COM
plimentary. and most of them are the
truth. There are a few, based on ex-
aggerated press reports. which give
rather lurid light on the situation, But
on the whole, the thousands of printed
dailies, weeklies and monthlies of the
country are rejoicing with Kansas in
her 100 900, 900 bushel wheat crop.
One of the most f1attering comment
aries on Kansas wheat and Kansas
flour is found in this weeks Modern
Miller, published at st. Louis, Mo. This
publication holds a front rank in its
class, and it says under the caption,
kansas has Opportunity"
kansas is going to be a strong fac
tor in the -four trade the coming year.
1t has a magnificent crop, estimated
from SO, 0G0, 600 to 100. 0O0, 900 bushels, and
the quality is more uniformly good than
ever before. One reason for this we be-
lieve lies in the efforts made to improve
the seed and to encourage the use of
wheat specially adapted for Kansas soil.
The Kansas state board of agriculture
selected about six varieties from a large
ed that these several kinds gave the
best results. Farmers in order to insure
a good yield seemed enthusiastic in their
efforts after convinced of the results
through the work Of the state board
and the propaganda of the millers. How
wheat was imported by Kansas milIers
and patiently distributed is well known,
and we rather think these efforts have
borne good fruit in the crop of 1908.
Sow good seed was a motto which
went through the compact wheat belt
of Kansas and the results the past few
years the trade knows.
"a prominent Kansas miller estimates
that at least one-half of the Kansas
crop is Turkey red wheat. which gave
such reputation for merit to Kansas
flour. The Kansas millers are engaged
in a propaganda this year to place Kan
sas flour in its true light before the
trade and overcome prejudice that all
ways exists toward flour in markets
where it is not fully established. Kan
sas flour will be sold as Kansas flour.
and must pass on it's own merit. 1t
Will not be sold as a cheaper article
branded to sell as one which is supposed
to command higher price. The merit
of an article sold as substitute is en-
tirely overlooked and lost sight of.
Kansas flour needs no apologies and
this year will firmly establish its merit
in the markets of the world
THE millers of the state are doing
wise thing in refusing to brand the
flour they sell except what it is. False
branding does damage to any article of
merit, and it is an injustice to the flour
it Dretends to be.
Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma and
Texas will be heard of more this year
than ever before and the flour of this
section will reach the markets of the
world"
COMMENT FROM NEW YORK.
From the New York Farmer publish
ed at Port Jervis, N. Y, is taken the
following editorial on the Kansas situa-
ton:
THE western winter-wheat growers
are experiencing a labor-famine" dur
ing their harvest. Even with the farm
ers paying factory wages and with
the railroads Offering free transportation
from the western towns to the wheat
regions, it has been almost impossible
to secure enough men to harvest the
great wheat crop. Kansas is to the
front with crop of about 100000 900
bushels of winter wheat. and neighbor-
ing states have proportionate wheat
crops. 1t is a strong commentary on
the general prosperity of the country
that at the close of fiscal year during
which about 100000 immigrants came
into the United States. there is such
demand for labor that the farmers find
it impossible to hire men to do the work
needed on the farms"
BOSTON, MASS, INTERESTED.
At Boston the American Cultivator
discusses the harvest hand situation as
follows:
"Out in Kansas a man needs very
good excuse for loafing, when the farm
ers stop the trains and canvass the
male passengers for harvest hands As
for tramps. it is said to be harder than
ever for tired. Tins and fatigued Willies
to sneak past a farm without being
offered good pay to swing a pitchfork
or to ride harvester. Some of the
eastern farmers are wondering how far
/ these strenuous methods would result
in providing them help to clear off the
tangle of haying and hoeing with which
they are struggling this month"
The Massachusetts Ploughman, pub
lIished at Boston, offers a few sugges-
tions of value to college students, sug
gested by the fashion among students
/ of working, or trying to work, in the
Kansas wheat harvest:
college students might do a great
deal worse than hire out on the farms
| during the summer vacation. That
round dozen of muscular Harvard men
who have enlisted for the Kansas wheat
harvest are setting a good example. 1t
will be real mans work, far more so
than Juggling soup, hash and dirty linen
at summer hotel, or serving as mental
dry nurse for the season to a batch of
small boys.
But why go to Kansas for chance
at farm work2 Any city employment
lagency for farm help could find good
places without delay for all the strong,
willing young fellows that might apply.
Incidentally he will have learned
that it is quite possible to live through
the hot season without a total surren-
der to hammocks, shady hooks and
4 paIm-leaf fans. He finds the hoe or
rake much better than the tennis racket
as a shoulder exerciser while the scythe
/ is vastly ahead of the croQuet mallet as
waist developer. He learns to play
strong game of farmers golf with the
pitchfork, at a pace set by his wiry,
strong backed employer, and gathers
numerous points on hot weather attn
letics of the agricultural kind"
FROM MAINE TO TEXAS.
Augusta, Maine, has a paper called
the Maine Farmer, which says OF the
| harvest hand situation:
| kansas needs 5000 men to help har-
vest the great wheat harvest and the