Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-06-12

train, to give instruction to the farm
ers right at their doors. Eastern
Kansas has a small alfalfa acreage
and the Kansas Agricultural College
wants it multiplied by ten. claiming
that not only is it the most profitable
farm crop, even for market, but also
the most valuable for adding fertil-
lty to the soil and also the most
valuable of all feed and dairy crops.
The college people insist that it is
now a most serious economic ques-
ton for the farmers of eastern Kan
sas to preserve the fertility of their
soils and that the raising of more al
falfa and more live stock will not
only add fertility, but add great
wealth to that part of the state.
Hence, this effort of the college right
now to reach several thousand farm
ers and instruct them in sowing
more alfalfa this summer and fall.
Prof. Ten Eyck, of the Kansas Agri-
cultural College, recommends fall
sowing in eastern Kansas, but in
slsts that too many mistakes are
made in preparation of the seed bed
and In using poor seed. Hence, the
Farmers Institute department of the
college will hold seventy-two meet
, ings in eastern Kansas, passing
through twenty counties. These
twenty counties now have a total al
J falfa acreage of 4S,1S5, while Jewell
} and Cloud counties have a total al
, falfa acreage of 59,9S3. This ''Trav-
cling Farmers Institute" will find
the farmers busy, but the initenary
5 will be widely announced, published
: in daily and weekly papers and as
r the train will run On exact schedule
: time, farmers and others, interested
can get to the railroad stations, hear
, the lectures and get. back to their
: 1t is especially hoped by the college
e people that the farmers will bring
/ their boys to the lectures; be at the
4 station at the schedule time of the
r train. The lectures will be given in
/ the cars, except for the evening
0 lectures, which will be held in pub
] lie halls, and at stations on branch
lines where speakers are dropped off
while the train goes on to the end of
e the line. At these places the lectures
: will be given on the station platform
i unless local committees arrange for
+ halls and announce same.
Centurian the Orator. = On the
: Tooth anniversary of his birth DIR.
Williamson F. Boyakin, protege OF
. General Andrew Jackson, lawyer. sol
der, editor and divine, who knew
/ personally every president from JEFF
:. ferson, in whose administration he
: was born, to Grant, on whose staff he
l served in the civil war. delivered the
: memorial address at Marysville. His
D brain is clear and his voice as strong
3 as that of man half his age, and in
: a speech far above the average IN
thought and forcefulness he urged
| the duty of patriotism on the citizens
; of the republic he has seen grow
from small beginnings to full stature
as world power. and which he help
D ed preserve. DR.. Boyakin came to
Kansas at the close of the war, and
in 1859 settled in Marshall county,
where he has since resided, and
until 1904. when he refused to again
be candidate. He is remarkably
well preserved, and is still one of the
able writer's and speakers of the
state
Boy Killed by Cars. = Harry Will
y liams. the eleven-year-old son of Mr.
j. and Mrs. Geo. Williams. of Wichita.
: was run over in the Santa Fee yards
by switch train, losing an arm and
:. one leg. He died in the Wichita Hos
pital two hours later
Old Settler Shoots Seif-John Nc
knight. an old soldier, of Clay Cen
ter, shot himself Just above the
heart with revolver. The act was
u due to dependency caused by III
e ness. He is an old soldier Of the
5. southern side and about 65 years old
a He was once marshal of Clay Center
e and known by everybody in the
II county The doctors say he can live
e only short time.
d Long Ride Postponed. - General
t Godfrey, commandant at Fort Riley,
V has been notified by the war depart
It ment that the ride that was to be
i made by Lieutenant E. R. McCabe
h and Lieutenant William Reed, both
4. of the Sixth cavalry, on Homer Dav-
n exports Arabian stallion and the
o Kentucky thoroughbred owned by
e General Castleman. of Lexington.
a KY, from Silverton. Ore. to Morris
If Plains, N. j., has been postponed III
definitely.
t. Plunged Into Mine Shaft. = An ac-
y cident occurred at Galena on Me-
n mortal Day in which four aged Ia
< dies narrowly escaped death. team
= in the parade became unmanageable