The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-13

AACEAAAtA a E9ElCLLSEs
1--WE have lad the most successful
meeting I have known the board to
hold. was the comment of Secretary
Coburn at the. conclusion of last nights
session. 1.-THE papers presented have
averaged higher than those at other
meetings and that is saying a good deal.
Each one Of them has been a classic.
They have been full of information and
helpfulness. And best of all there has
not been break in the carrying out of
the programme as it was arranged
Colonel J. W. Robson, president of
the board, cOrrobOrated the statement
of Mr.. Coburn. This meeting has
been a great success said President
Robson Attendance at the sessions
has been larger than at previous
meetings and I am satisfied that the
papers which have been presented will
be of incalculable benefit to the agri-
cultural interests of the state. All of
the credit for the success of the meet
ing should be given to Mr.. Coburn who
arranged its preliminary Details"
Mr.. Wizards Paper.
Mr. Willard spent seven weeks last
summer in touring Germany, paying
particular attention to the agricul-
turaI developments of the country and
among other things he learned that
the German farmer averages 26-5
bushels of wheat to the acre as COM
pared with an average yield of 49,
bushels per acre in Kansas and the
United States. Among others things
Mr.. Willard said;
fields is very different from that of
those of Kansas. This is due to a
variety of causes of which the most
fundamental is the disparity in size.
But while the small size must give the
appearance of experimental plats to
their regular paintings, this impression
is further enhanced by the variety of
crops grown in close proximity, and
the lack of our king Of crops. indian
corn. In all my trip / saw corn but
a few times and then it was grown as
a fodder crop sOwn thickly as we sow
sorghum and Kafir corn Near Carts
ruhe a small patch apparently OF
sweet corn was observed and it may
be of interest to mention that this UNI
surpassed garden deicacy was seen
on sale in Berlin at over cents per
1.-THE areas devoted to individual
paintings of crops, one can scarcely
call them fields, are usually very small.
The amount under the control of one
man is but little apparently, and the
systems of rotation imposed make only
small areas for each crop possible.
/ Straight lines are exceptional outside
experiment stations. One viii see
alongside a curved strip of wheat. "A
parallel one OF roots of some kind be
side it potatoes, perhaps. then oats ana
barley-all kinds under one glance of
the eye. Small patches of alfalfa are
seen occasionally.
"A surprisingly large amount of land
is in grass indeed there are extensive
areas upon which it seems little else
I can be grown and the difficulty Of hay
making is beyond anything we know
/ The cutting of the light crop is done
/ BY hand. the scythe leaving the grass
( collected in a light windrow which
when partially dried is turned by hand
T bv means of a wide fork When sufh-
/ GENTLY dry this is punched and hauled
4 in or it may be punched more elabor-
4 ateiv around contrivances quite I'M
4 known to us for insuring circulation
i of air through the hay
/ LAS a resident of the state that had
4 produced the greatest crop of wheat
ever yielded in a single year by any
i state or province, I was much inter
/ ested and, it may as well be confessed
/ surprised by the wheat Of Germany
/ Tt is but seldom that fields of sucf
/ high quality are seen here as are tbs
rule there. I had not studied sta
tistics then and did not know tina
while the average wheat yield of this
state. and also of the United States is
\ about 13.5 bushels per acre, that o.
4 Germany is 26.5 bushels. Have We