The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-09


state, and according to Uncle Sans
figures no other, whatever her size,
pretensions or location had SO much
by about 35 per cent.
THE significance of the showing for
Kansas agriculture in 1911 is all the
more apparent when taken in cOnnec-
ton with the United States census re-
port and com PARSONS with the figures
of ten and twenty years ago The cen
sus credits Kansas with an increase of
two per cent in the number of her
farmers in the decade and four per
cent increase in total acreage in farms,
but the increase in the value of last
years farm products over those of ten
years ago amounts to "A per cent. In
other words. two per cent more Iar-
mers. on four per cent greater acre
age, raised crops and marketed pro-
ducts worth "A per cent more. The
gross returns from the farm in 1911
were 20 per cent more than twenty
years before.
Farms Are Too Large.
-.One of Kansas needs. which Will be
supplied. however. is more men to de-
velop her resources. Our farms in the
main are too large to permit of such
cultivation as the land should receive.
We need more farmers who will farm
better on smaller farms. with better and
more live stock and a judicious alterna-
Lon of crops With a well arranged
cropping system and improved live stock,
a reasonable success may be confidently
expected every year, regardless OF the
season Oftentimes. man with mini
mum crop. through higher prices realizes
in an unfaVOrable season more profit
than in years of heavy yields. Every poT-
ton of Kansas presents excellent open
ingS and new opportunities are constant
" being revealed. Developments in irri-
alton through utilizing the immeasurabie
underground waters of western Kansas
by pumping are among these Wherever
the waters are made available Tor mr.
eating there VIII be intensive farming
and a larger prosperity, for the soils fer
Utility is unquestioned.
Spend Money at Home.
I'VE are in urgent need OF studying the
benefits that come from building up home
enterprises and spending our money at
home. An important point upon which
We are weak is our failure to produce and
manufacture more of the articles we use
and we go on in this way until it amounts
to business suicide We buy too many
cans and glass bottles that have no fur
Their value, but for which we pay more
than the worth Of what they contain
We export money and import clothing |
when homegrown wool should be made !
to pay the bills; export money and inn |
port fruit. vegetables and canned goods I
when intelligent attention to orchard1ng, /
vegetable farming and gardening would !
enable US to produce these articles III !
ample quantities, and We taboo the idea |
of home manufactures, Wnlie the people /
in other states who produce SO large a !
part of the commodities We consume |
grow wealthy as the result of their thrift |
and our thriftlessness.'
Mr.. Coburn then outlined the work OF
the state board of agriculture He said
the board had pursued a policy of con-
rather than immigration Con-
tinuing he said.
THE board of agriculture. however. has
not for moment been unmlndful of our
needs as to immigration and has always
been doing incidentally, by letters. leaf
lets. booklets, pamphlets. pictures. sta
tiSticS and newspaper articles not re-
uuired by the law. a tremendous amount
Of work in presenting to the world the
of Kansas
Make immigration Bureau Separate.
should the state as such take up the
work of directly and actively seeking set
Tiers and capital il should be as a dis
-inct and separate undertaking, apart
from. independent OF and outside the de-
Dartment of agriculture. There IS not or
necessity any connection between two !
such different institutions. and a man
VINO who would be an ideal chief for one
might he utterly unsuited for and mis-
fit in the other Each should be para
mount in its sphere and not be handi-
capped by another so diverse in its pur-
40 set Of men ever in the same line OF
business were able to present better posi-
tons than those the Kansas real estate |
man has on his books in all seasons.
whether the seasons are of procrastinat-
ing precipitation or relentless rainfall, OF
DoreaI bitterness or singing sunshine. TO !
the extent that he is instrumental in as
sisting his fellow men to bettered condi-
tons he is a benefactor and mission
airy for good
Gov. StubbS Speaks.
Il regard the men who buy and sell
real estate in Kansas as being in a
business that brings great deal of
happiness and comfort. said Gov. w.
r. Stubs in welcoming the delegates
to the third annual convention of the
Kansas Association of Real Estate
gents at the Comm ercfal club. 4 be-
lieve Kansas farms are better in
vestment than government bonds
have put my own money in farms in
Kansas A few years ago I bought
320-acre farm at $22 an acre when
had but little money. I refused an
offer for the property of $32. 900 Last
year I invested $4,000 or $4,000 in
land
I believe as the population increases
the fertile lands in Kansas will in
crease materially in value. Farm lands
in the state are capable Of producing
diversified crops.
This association should encourage
more intense farming, so that mora
dollars may be produced every year.
a good deal of the farming in Kan
sas makes land poorer every year
Other progressive farmers by scientific
methods increase the fertility of the
soil
There is now more per capita in the
banks in Kansas than in any other
state. but / believe the great induce
III fact that we have no saloons and
hat the very atmosphere Of the state
s wholesome"
BoInlar Also Speaks.
We are engaged now in Kansas in