The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-10
Three FACTORS
They Make for Agricultural
Development.
Agricultural College, Organiza-
ton and Cooperation.
so SAYS D. A. WALLACE
He Is st. Paul Editor Who
Spoke Today.
A Fine Program Given ON Last
Day.


the The Farmer. He spoke before the
members of the Kansas State Board
of Agriculture in Representative hall
this morning on Factors in a States
Agricultural Development, from
Northwest Viewpoint
Perhaps the chief factor in the ag-
ricultural development Of d state"
said he, lis the agricultural college and
| the experiment station. 1 might state
that coordinate with this development
force should be the state department
of agriculture, the department carry
ing out the administrative functions
of the state with reference to agri-
culture. We in the north have long
been envious of the work of your state
department of agriculture, and the far
reaching publicity resulting from the
efforts of your esteemed Secretary
Coburn.
The second great factor in agricul-
tural development which we are find
ing helpful in the Northwest is the
development of community organiza-
ton.
Then our people in the Northwest
are finding practical cooperation a
very great assistance in solving many
farm problems. Cooperation is really
habit and its success usually de-
ponds on the spirit of the people who
are willing to band their fortunes. Peo-
pie usually take to cooperation only
when they are driven into it by COM
+ mon necessity
The speaker then told of how in
Minnesota there are now 500 coop
erative cream cries, a cooperative eIe-
vator business with side lines of fuel
and lumber, canning factories, and
numberless breeding circuits. CO.
operative laundry is something that
was established at a cost of $4,000 in
connection with a creamery.
ITO make the most of our SOIL"
he continued, eve must have farming
put on business Or factory basis fos-
tered by the factors I have mentioned.
To make farming life more worth
while we must have organization of
country life based on the community
idea"
Beef Cattle in Kansas
Beef cattle will find a ready mar
ket long as the American people
are able to buy beef" stated w. A.
Cochel, professor of animal industry
State Agricultural college, in speaking
this morning on 1.-The Place for Beef
Cattle in Kansas
'"They are now being produced in
competition with other farm crops
which will result in the average values
WORKING higher corresponding with
the value of land and crops from
which they are produced said the
speaker.
1.-THE cattle farmer of the future
must of necessity grow just as good
or better crop than the man who
produces hay and grain for the mar
ket. He must, in addition to his abiI-
ity as a farmer, have an appreciation
of the breeding, feeding and develop
ment of livestock in order that he may
gain further profit from converting
these crops into beef.
with corn, alfalfa and the best of
pasture grasses, Kansas will become /
the leading beef cattle state in the
union whenever the farmers of the
state give as much attention to breed
ing and feeding as they now do to the
selection of grain and the cultivation
of crops. They have the soil climate,
water supply and the feed from which
to make beef. The conversion of
these raw materials into finished beef
VIII result in an increase OF the yield
per acre of all grain crops, in better
cultivation of corn, kafir and other
forage crops, q market for the by
products of grain production, continu
Gus employment for the best and most
intelligent farm labor and finally in
equipment which almost invariably
follows the Improvement of livestock
Thinks 1t Great Law.
James y son of Brookings, South
Dakota, sol- of the Secretary of Ag-
riculture, James Wilson, and who was
a speaker at the Thursday morning
session considers the State Board of
Agriculture '9wonderfuF' institution.
Prior to leaving the city he addressed
the following note to Secretary F. D. |
Coburn:
viii you please send me copy of
your law providing for the State
Board of Agriculture. I consider this
a wonderful organization for the good
of the state and her interests. Our
board of agriculture in South Dakota
has no other duty than that of hold !
ing annually state fair. Next week
is the annual meeting of the Stock |
Breeders association and must leave
for Kansas City early in the morning
to make connections. If possible |
would like this law so I could bring
it to the attention OF the stockmen
next week.
Nebraska Speaker.
Samuel Avery, chancellor of the
University of Nebraska, spoke at the
Thursday evening session on ''Educa-
ton for Farm Life
Give agriculture in connection with
the high school work for the boys that
are to stay on the FARM he said. THE
are not going back to the farm. They
are teaching scientific farming and
leading in the work of making the soil
produce what must be produced to sup
port this ever increasing population of
consumers, non-producers, must have. |
And that will be the case for years to
come. 1t is to the secondary schools
that we must look for the men that are
to become farmers. Give them agricuI-
ture in connection with their high
school work and they will not be drawn
away from the farm, and will at the
same time receive a general training
that IL is not possible to secure in
the separate agricultural schools.
Rural education is a national prob
lem. Brilliant city life and degraded
country life have existed together at
times in the worlds history but never
permanently. Without the proper bal
ance of city and farm life no nation
ever became great-no nation ever will.
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