The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-19
Rock Island Plans Extensive
Campaign in Kansas.
Educational Train Through the
State Next Month.
OPEN SECRET OF PROSPERITY
Road Believes 1t Has Found
Golden Egg.
General Passenger Agent Stew
art Orders Publicity.

When James A. Stewart. general
passenger agent of the Rock Island
Lines in Topeka today issued an order
for a thorough publicity campaign
through Kansas and sent for his as
sistant general passenger agent, Philip
Auer of Chicago, to do advance notice
work in the state, the electric button
was pushed opening the greatest ad-
vancement of the production of better
and more beef in the history of kan
SaS.
Beginning the first of August. the
Rock Island Lines will run from one
border of Kansas to another a train
conducted for the education of farm
erS who have not looked with en-
thusiasm upon the value of silage.
The country today is short of beef.
according to the Rock Island agricul-
tural theory and an attempt will be
made to relieve the situation to a great
extent by an increase of the cattle
raising industry in Kansas. The beef
producing business fell off in Kansas
because the stock raisers found that
they could make more selling their
crops than feeding them. 10 cattle. The
Rock Island agricultural commission
er, H. NJ. Cottrell, says that silage re-
duces by one-haf the amount of grain
required in fattening animals. shortens
the fattening period and improves the
quality of the beef
The silo train which will run from
the Colorado border through as far aS
Mcfarland and southwest to Oklahoma
will carry lecturers and silos on fatcarS
that the farmers may see and hear
of the new dostrineS of the Rock Is
land and the State Agricultural coI-
Iege.
Will Stir Up Enthusiasm.
The order of James A. Stewart to-
day signals the seriousness of the Rock
Islands intentions. Assistant General
Passenger Agent Auer will work out
of Topeka the next two weeks talking
among the merchants in the towns
along the route of the silo train culti-
waiting their interest in the Importance
of attracting the farmers and stock
raisers to the. stations for the silaga
Information 49,
The train will start from Colorado
Springs August L. 1t will pass through
eastern Colorado into Kansas and along
the northwest Kansas. line to McFar-
land where it will turn southwest
through Herington. Hutchinson and
down to Liberal The train will cover
a large part of Kansas, Oklahoma,
Colorado. New Mexico and Texas.
In speaking Of what the silo can do
for western Kansas Agricultural Com
missioner Cottreu said today.
Just as soon as western Kansas be-
comes land of stockmen and cattle
feeders that district will become pros
porous and land will increase in value
As soon as land values increase on
account of the profits made from 1t a
steady throng of homeseekers with
money wait it. Silos on every farm in
western Kansas will make every farm
er prosperous. This will make busi-
ness of every kind thrive.
The farmers in western Kansas need
to make more money. That district has
the room for thousands of farmers.
1t can offer abundant inducements
Recent tests with silage have changed
these conditions. A Demonstration just
completed by the Kansas Agricultural
college has shown that for either beef or
dairy cattle, silage from corn, Kafir and
sorghum have, pound for pound. p-acu-
cally the same feeding value. This is the
greatest boost that western Kansas has
ever had. Corn has been an uncertain
crop, but sorghum cane never fails when
properly treated. An acre Of average sor-
ghum well cultivated in western Kansas
and put into the silo will furnish ample
rouof feed for three stock cattle through
the winter. 1t vii furnish full quality or
sflage generally used in fattening eight
steers Well filled silos kept Tor summer
use, the sflage to be fed wnen grass gets
short will reduce by one-half the acreage
needed per animal for summer feeding