The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-28
Ludwig MOsle, Extensive Ger
man Farmer, Is Here.
Conducted a Three Thousand
Acre Farm In Germany.
TRY Ills OWN METHODS
will Visit j. A. Robinson's Place
at EldOradO.
Thinks His People Excel Kan
sans in Cattle Raising.

Kansas has the reputation in Ger
many of being the foremost agricul-
tural state in the United States. so my
mind was made up to come here first
when 1 left home to look over the
farming possibilities in this country
with a view of buying a farm here
sadd Ludwig Mosle of HoIstein, Ger
many, who was a caller today on F. D.
Coburn, secretary of the state board Of
agriculture
And when I landed in New Jersey
and made inquiries as to which was
the greatest agricultural state in the
country" added Mr.. Mosle. everyone
told me that Kansas was that state. so
I came right here without stopping
Mr. Mosle is one of the prominent
and successful agriculturists in Ger
many and for the past ten years he
has been operating a farm near Hol-
stein of three thousand acres which he
leased from the government. He has
raised all kinds of produce on this
farm as well as live stock having on
his farm a all times between three and
TOUR hundred cattle, as many pigs and
q large flock of sheep. He has met
with considerable success on this farm
but has become tired of paying out
good round sum Of his earnings each
year in rent to the government and
decided 10 come to this country and
see what he could do in the way of
getting farm of his own here, and he
came direct to Kansas.
Mr.. MoSIe is of middle age of rug
ged build. and one would have to
stretch his imagination a bit to pick
him out of crowd of substantial men
as an agriculturist. He looks more
like q. prosperous banker than farm
er, but insists that he has been a farm
CT all his life and is wrapped up in
the pursuit of a livelihood through the
tilling of the soil and the raising Of
live stock He speaks English with
considerable fiuency.
Mr.. Coburn told Mr. Mosle of the
wonderful agricultural records of the
farmers in Kansas and the great pos
sibnides for successful farming and
stock raising in this state and Mr..
Mosle remarked that he had not made
any mistake in coming to Kansas first.
1t is his intention to make a series of
trips out through the farming sections
of the state and look over the field for
himself, and a Mr.. Coburn's sugges-
ton he will probably visit J. w. Robi-
sons big farm in the vicinity of Ell
Dorado, from which he will be able TO
get the best possible idea of the pos
sibilities Of farming in Kansas in all
of its phases.
Mr. Mosle expressed some doubt as
to whether or not he was a trihe old
in life and in customs to make a sue
cess of farming in Kansas. He
thought that perhaps the German
methods of agriculture would not be
successful in this country. Mr.. Co
burn told him that many of the most
successful farmers in the state were
native Germans who had pursued
their own methods in raising crops and
adopted such of the American ones as
appealed to them, and Mr.. Mosle then
said he was satisfied that probably he
could farm with success here
He expressed the opinion that in one
particular the Germans at home were
ahead of the agriculturists in this
country and that was IN the way of