The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-06
FROM OTHER PENS
WILL EDIT BULLETINS.

| A few years ago Kansas needed a
Coburn. The whole state was mort
gagged and the, balanee of the world
was making sport of bleeding Kansas
| The state got plenty of free advertis-
| ing, but it was of an adverse charac-
ter. But Coburn came out of the
woods and began to get busy. To-
day Kansas is the best advertised state
in the. Union and she delivers the
goods. Her development in the past
fifteen years has been the marvel of
, the age, and you can not land en- any
spot in this country that you will not
hear of Coburn and Kansas. Kansas
is a leader. She has set the pace
for all other contenders. and it re-
manned for the Sunf1oWer state to get
away out in front with a proposition
to put farm information up to the
farmer in language that the farmer
tons of literature turned out from
agricultural colleges and experiment
stations that were ostensibly intended
for the benefit of the farmer. The
government has been good to the COL
lege professors and conductors of the
experiment stations and has extended
to them the privilege of loading the
mails with the learned bulletins. They
are carried postage free and the bur-
den of erudite stuff has been all
they were altogether too technical.
No one short of a college prodigy
could get head or tail out of the mass
of technical terms and figures.
More than a year ago the writer of
this article wrote an editorial upon
the uSelesSneSS of the average agricul-
tural bulletin due to the fact that the
bulletins were not gotten up in
language that the average farmer
could understand. and that they were
not put up in shape for the country
editor to make use of except to cut up
for wrappers. The same bulletins
shorn of so much technicality, and put
up in short, crisp newspaper copy
form might prove invaluable, while
they were and are absolutely worth
less in the form in which they are
sent out. 1t remained for Kansas to
take the initiative in a move in the
direction of giving the farming coun-
try the benefit of scientific. research
into the how and why of getting the
most out of the farm at the least cost
of labor and wear and tear upon the
soil. A. a recent meeting of the
board of regents of the Kansas State
College of Agriculture a movement
was set on foot to have the bulletins
of the college and the experiment sta
ton edited by a newspaper man and
put into understandable language be-
fore they were sent out.
1T Is a new departure and is caus-
ing some sleepless nights to the col
lege professors who dote on technical
terms, but it is movement that Is
destined to be extended to the agricul-
tural colleges all over the country and
to the agricultural department of the
government at Neutrality-suspicious.
and Stock.
AMBASSADOR BRYCE.
Official statements, or statements that
appear to be officially inspired, have
put an end to the rumor that Mr.. Jas
Bryce is to retire from the post of
British ant bassador at Washington. Mr.
Bryce intends to take a holiday in
England. but that he will return to
Washington may be taken for granted.
Mr.. Bryce likes Washington and
Washington likes him. In fact. his re-
lation to this country as a critic and
historian Of American institutions has
conferred upon him a popularity such
as none of his predecessors ever enjoy
ed, and which should be of itself sufh-
cient to make the Washington post
most consenial assignment Moreover.
he is the first of the British represen-