Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-09-18
Kansas Young Men Advised to
Take Up Study.
DEMONSTRATORS WELL PAID
State Bank Commissioner Sawyer Be-
Iieves There Is Fine Future In
the Work for a Boy Who At
tends to Business.

IN constantly increasing demand, anu
where the pay will be good?
That was the question Charles Saw
yer, state bank commissioner, pro-
pounded the other day. He also gave
the answer. Be a farm demonstra-
tor"
Mr.. Sawyer's opinion is that Kan
sas needs and wants farm demon
strators-experts-a that they are
not only in demand right now, but
that the demand will increase and at
salaries from $1,000 to $4,000 a year
before very long.
The dry summer which Kansas has
just experienced will, according to
Mr.. Sawyer, or already has, opened the
eyes of many farmers to the need OF
scientific farming; to the raising of
crops which will survive drouth con-
ditions; to the planting of new pro-
ducts to meet serious contingencies
such as this summer presents in the
way of conserving and storing of for
age.
There are many young farmer
boys" said Mr.. Sawyer, "as well as
city lads, who are going in for bust
ness educations, professions and
clerkships. The pay of only small
per cent ever reaches an appreciate
figure. Why don't more of them go
in for farm demonstrating? Farm
experts are in demand now, not only
in Kansas, but in other states, and
the demand will increase and also the
pay.
County farm demonstrators are to
be an important part of our agricul-
tural future. There are plenty of good
schools in which this training can be
had. A boy who has lived on farm
all his life and worked there, who
goes to a good agricultural college
and gets this training won't have any
trouble in finding work if he is pro-
ficient and gets down to business. I
look for the pay for farm demonstra-
tors to advance to $4,000 a year be-
fore very long, because good experts
in this business will be in demand.
ut is fine work and a business that
'is growing and in which there are
many chances for development. A
drouth such as we, have just expert
enced has brought home to farmers
the need of advanced ideas in farm
ing, and they will welcome the serv-
ices of men who have specialized along
these lines and who know what to
do and who can offer suggestions and
ideas worth while.
II believe there is fine future for
a young man in farm demonstration
work, in fact, l think real opportu-
nifty"
Complaint has been filed with the
public utilities commission by the
Wichita Business association against
the Santa Fe, Rock Island, Orient,
Midland Valley, Missouri Pacific and
Frisco railroads alleging that the new
rates on cider and windfall apples is
unjust, excessive and unreasonable
and also discriminatory.
The board of administration has
Joined forces with the state board oil
health in a campaign for pure drink
ing water at the state schools.
Sam S. Graybill, STATE sanitary and
live stock commissioner, declared, af.
ter a trip through Western Kansas
that there is little likelihood of the
horse plague appearing in Kansas this
year, because of the dry weather, the
fact that the grass is very short
and because frost will come soon.
Last summer about fifty thousand
horses died in Kansas from the
plague, which is generally diagnosed
as a fungus poisoning. A couple OF
weeks ago some of the stock owners
in Western Kansas, where the plague
was the worst last year, were wor-
ried for fear the disease would appear
again.
That the Industrial and commercial
activity will not be hindered to any
great extent by the continued dry
weather is the belief of leading job
bers, merchants and other business
men in Topeka. A feeling of optim
ism pervades the business atmos
phere, and the prospects are bright
for a large fall trade.
Clark is the Twelfth. county reported
so far as being anxious to take adj
vantage Of the railroads offer to haul
seed wheat free.
A boycott on all merchants who ad-
vertise on billboards in the residence
districts Of the city; and also on all
goods advertised on the billboards, is
to be the next "Big Stick" the women
Of Topeka will use in their fight on
the billboard nuisance.
o
Temporary headquarters for the
state board of administration will be
established at the Kansas State Agri
cultural college at Manhattan until
the quarters for the board are ready
in the new Memorial building In To
peka.