Free press., 1907-06-08
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H THE LAND OF PEACE. PROSPERITY AND PLENTY.
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'eling Farmers institute.

train. TO give instruction TO the farm
efs right at their doors. Eastern
Kansas has 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 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
| falfa acreage of 4S,1S5, while Jewell
and Cloud counties have a total al
falfa acreage of 1888. This 'Trav-
| cling Farmers Institute" will find
the farmers busy, but the initenary
will be widely announced, published
in daily and weekly papers and as
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
work in comparatively short time
1t is especially hoped by the college
people that the farmers will bring
their boys to the lectures; be at the
station at the schedule time of the
train. The lectures will be given in
the cars, except for the evening
| 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
the line. At these places the lectures
will be given on the station platform
unless local committees arrange for
halls and announce same
centurlan the Orator. = On the
Tooth anniversary of his birth DR..
Williamson F. Boyakin, protege of
General Andrew Jackson, lawyer, sol
dier, editor and divine, who knew
personally every president from JEFF
ferson, in whose administration he
was born. to Grant, on whose staff he
| served in the civil war, delivered the
memorial address at Marysvil1e. His
brain is clear and his voice as strong
as that of man half his age, and in
a speech far above the average in
thought and forcefuIness he urged
the duty of patriotism on the citizens
of the republic he has seen grow
from small beginnings to full stature
as a world power. and which he help
ed preserve. Dr. BOyakin came to
Kansas at the close of the war. and
in 1869 settled in Marshall county
where he has since resided, and
where he held Office for thirty years.
until 1904. when he refused to again
be a candidate. He is remarkably
well preserved, and is still one of the
able writer's and speakers of the
state.
Drowned While Watering Stock. -
William Bell. ex-county commission
er of Republic county, residing north
of Concordia, went out to water the
stock, fell head first into the we'll and
was drowned.
For Stealing Chickens. Dave
Bradshaw, of Ft. Scott, young man
of good country family, was SEN
fenced to from one to three years in
the penitentiary for stealing chick
ems, and was given an equal sen
tence for stealing whisky from the
Uniontown depot. oliver Williams
was sentenced from one to three
years for being a party to the liquor
theft
Long Ride Postponed. = General
Godfrey, commandant at Fort Riley,
has been notified by the war depart
ment that the ride that was to be
made by Lieutenant E. R. McCabe
and Lieutenant William Reed, both
of the Sixth cavalry, on Homer Dav-
enport's Arabian stallion and the
Kentucky thoroughbred owned by
General Castleman, of Lexington,
KY. from Silverton, Gre. to Morris
Plains. N. J., has been postponed in
definitely.
Plunged Into Mine Shaft. = An ac-
cident occurred at Galena on Me
mortal Day in which four aged Ia
dies narrowly escaped death. A team
in the parade became unmauageable
and plunged into an abandoned mine
shaft about sixty feet deep. The car
riage overturned at the mouth of the
shaft. Mrs. D. NJ. Harris, wife of the
minister in charge of the services,
was one of the occupants No one
was injured. One horse was killed
nv fba fall and the other badly