The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-10
Interest Manifested in Rock Is
land Milo Special.
Kansas Farmers Are Waiting
for This Train.
MILLIONS TO STATE.
Raising of New Product Will
Bring Riches.
Other Items of General Inter.
est in Traffic World.

What does milo mean to western and
southwestern Kansas?
Millions" says Professor H. NJ. Cot
| trell, commissioner of agriculture for
| the Rock Island lines, cit means mil
Ions
In the campaign of education, which
is being carried on emphasis is being
laid on the production of milo maize,
the corn for the semiarid region, be-
cause. experts say, this grain is tho
basis of prosperity for these districts.
To milo maize they look as the founda-
ton for converting the plains Of west
| ern Kansas into prosperous stock and
dairy farms.
To show the possibilities of milo
maize they state the case this way:
Suppose that only 100000 acres of this
vast domain were planted to milo
maize; and suppose it yielded, in a
good year an average of 40 bushels to
the acre; the money value of that crop
would be something like $14, 900.
And this is given as a very conserva-
tive estimate of what can be accom-
pHshed within the next few years.
What the general cultivation of milo
maize would mean to the state is given
in Professor CottrelIs words, as fol-
lows:
Milo maize is the surest yielding
grain crop that can be grown in the
semiarid region of America. Mile
maize is of Asiatic origin. 1t is the
grain that sustained the Japs during
the siege of Port Arthur. It's value to
the seniarid regions is best summed
up in the statement that it has 80 per
cent of the feeding value of corn and
| answers all the purposes of corn
"Of even greater Importance to the
western Kansas farmer is dairying. If
| -
kept on milo, for milo knows no fail
ure Fed in conjunction with sweet
clover, stock beets, stock melons or
sorghum hay, milo will answer every
purpose of corn i'll milk production.
81 look forward to the time when
every dry land farmer will be shipping
| cream.
Poultry raising, with milo as the
chief feed, means eggs and chickens
| for millions. You never hear of this
| industry being Improbable. Stock the
| dry farm with 200 chickens and ten
dairy COWS. That ought to bring, un-
der careful management, 81 per hen per
year, or $500 for the chickens, and $50
! per COW per year. or $500 from the
! dairy herd, at the lowest figure. Add
| to that the family garden, and the dry
| land farmer has an assured living.
Hogs and other live stock, and wheat
will bring the profits
| Inc special Train on IIo ROCK 1SldIlu
which will start out of Topeka soon
will include lecture cars, arranged in
the manner of an auditorium, sleeper:
| and diner for the accommodation o1
| the demonstrators and newspaper men
and regular exhibition cars. Features
| have been provided for men, women
and children. Stops of about one hour
will be made at all important stations
| along the route.
There will be dry farming experts or
board and lectures will be delivered or
methods of soil culture and dry land
| crops. Special stress will be laid upoT
the Importance of putting in milo, the
corn of the semiarid belt. The farmers
of western Kansas are greatly inter
ested in the forthcoming meeting, fol
it will give them an opportunity OF
coming in touch with the worlds
greatest experts in Cry land farming
There will be speakers on the trair
whose business it will be to make plalr
the object and benefits of the con-
gress, and literature will be distributed
on that subject, as we'll as on the SUBJ
ject of dry land agriculture.