Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-10-18

IS "a great plant ana WOTIDy SGdbe
like Kansas He says the wisdom of
its construction can only be proved
by the future, much after the man.
ner of proving the wisdom of con-
structing the Panama canal.
Nearly $50, 900, to be more accurate
about So, 900, has been spent through
the Office of Bank Commissioner Chas.
NJ Sawyer during the last few weeks
for seed wheat for the farmers in the
western part of the state. Enough
wheat to seed from 10000 to $4,000
acres has been furnished to the farm
ers of fourteen counties where the
wheat crop was failure this spring.
And still the demand has not been
supplied, an amount as large as that
already provided being necessary to
fill the demand.
However the situation is much i'm
proved, and the work done by the
seed wheat club together with similar
work done by individuals and corpora
lions in the same direction will mean
the planting of many thousands of
acres that would have had TO lie idle
otherwise. Notes payable next year
are taken for the wheat, the matter
being handled through the county
officers where the deliveries were
made.
A considerable amount of money,
collected from Kansas for insurance
in four Delaware concerns who have
ceivers, none of which concerns ever
were authorized to transact business
in Kansas, has been returned to policy
holders by the agents making the
collections. This information is COM
ing in to the Office of Insurance Sup
erintendent Ike S. Lewis, who is de-
manding the return of the money.
No mercy for the agents who have
handled the business will be shown
by Lewis who declares they should
have known better, and should have
refused to write any business for un-
authorized companies.
Despite the dry weather approx
mately 100000 bushels of kafir corn
and 400, 900 bushels of milo have
been raised in Kansas this year.
these figures have been gathered by
the state board of agriculture, which
has just finished canvass of growers.
Since the inquiries were maze ample
rains have fallen, which With the
lateness of the season insuras even a
greater crop. Milo maize was raised
| for the most part in the southwest
ern counties, according to the boards
report. Kaffir, however, was raised
in every county in the state, and has
proved itself good dry weather crop.
The figures are based upon the crop
that will be suitable for seed The
report remarks that flattering reports
of an unfailing yield of the new crop,
feterita, have come in, and that it
showed a remarkable growth and
matured in fine shape alongside of
fields of other sorghums that failed
to mature any grain.
There are 1900 more people in
Kansas than were found by the coun-
ty assessors, if the estimate made by
the chef of the census bureau at
Washington, Nj. J. Harris, is correct.
This estimate, based upon scientific
principals of increase that have been
tested for many years, shows that the
population of Kansas on July /, this
year, should have been /, 1852, 573 in
stead of 1,6S5, 621, the latter figures
having been compiled from the re-
ports of the assessors. The estimate
was sent to Kansas in answer to an
inquiry by w. j. V. Deacon, state
registrar of vital statistics. Deacon
says he believes the figures to be &C
cepted for all official purposes. The
returns of the county assessor showed
a smaller population than the federal
enumeration of 1910 upon which the
estimate of the government for this
year is based. The government gave
Kansas a population of 1850, 600 in
1910.
The federal estimate for 1918 max s
important changes in various To-
calities in the state. Over the state
figures. Wichita gains 1000. So does
Kansas City. Topeka looses more than
3, 800 The difference is pretty good
evidence that the states method OF
gathering statistics is faulty. This
year the assessors reports showed a.
bout 1900 automobiles in Kansas
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