The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-09-26
Seed Wheat for
Kansas Farmers

A big movement has been start.
ed in Topeka to secure voluntary
subscriptions from bankers, mer-
chants, farmers, clerks, mechanics
and everybody, for the purpose
of raising a fund to loan to the
farmers in nine Western Kansas
counties with which to buy seed
wheat. The farmers in these nine
counties do not ask aid nor will
they accept it. What they want
is a loan of sufficient money
whereby they can seed a part Of
the ground they have prepared.
Owing to the almost total fail
ure of the wheat crop in these nine
counties this year and the partial
failure last year, there is very lit
tie seed wheat there now. The
failure has left many farmers
without resources with which to
secure other loans and the banks
have gone the limit IN their duty
to their customers.
If seed wheat is not secured before
November great acreage of splen-
did wheat land in these counties
will not be sowed and many of the
farmers will leave their homes.
These farmers are willing to re.
ceive help if it is made in the shape
of a loan. Will you helpY
The organization to secure these
subscriptions is known as The
Kansas Farmer Seed Wheat Club.
as Kansas Farmer, published at
Topeka, assumed the responsible
ity of taking the matter in hand.
A plan was laid before Governor
Hodges whereby he and State
Bank Commissioner Sawyer and
three other men were to be made
trustees of the fund to be raised
and to be responsible for the
proper disbursement of the SUBJ
scriptions so secured. The gov
ernor approved the plan to secure
the subscriptions and agreed to
act as one of the trustees. Ex-
Governor Baily of Atchison, T. A.
Borman, editor of Kansas Farmer
of Topeka, and H. d. Lee of Sa-
lima, were named as the other
trustees. State Bank Commiss-
Toner 9. M. Sawyer will act as
treasurer and all checks and bank
able paper should be made payable
to him. He has sent out letters
to Kansas banks asking them to
accept and receipt for subscripti-
ons. The First National Bank
and the Citizens State Bank will
receive subscriptions. The rail.
roads have agreed to haul the seed
wheat free in car load lots and de-
liver it to the county commission.
ers of the various counties where
needed, who will be responsible
for its distribution and who will
take the farmers notes bearing
eight percent interest for the seed
loaned.
The counties where seed wheat
is needed at once are: Trego,
Wallace, Logan, GROVE, Sheridan,
Ness, Wichita and Lane, the south
half of Thomas and the western
part of Graham. These counties
have heretofore produced millions
of bushels of wheat, but if the
acreage that is prepared and in
splendid shape is not seeded,
many of the citizens of these coun.
ties will leave their homes.
Let every Kansan do his duty
Subscriptions to the fund should
be taken at once to the local banks
WHARF it will be promptly for.
warded to Bank Commissioner
sawyer. If any farmers have seed
wheat to give, the quickest way tc
help is to sell the wheat send in
the money, and wheat will bt
bought in carload lots and shipped
at once from the points it can bt
securnd nearest the point to bG
distributed. Seeding is successful
in these counties as late as Nov