The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-27
AID TO FARMERS
Bankers and Crop RaiSerS
Work in Unison.
Promise Financial Aid to Pro-
tect Crops.
COMMITTEE IN Topeka TODAY
Demonstration Farms Planned
by Bankers.
New Idea to Be Given a Trial
in Kansas.
COMMITTEE In Topeka TODAY

Members of the agricultural COM
mittee of the Kansas state bankers
association are in conference at the
Throop hotel this afternoon in an effort
to work out a program for general
financial aid to Kansas crop growers
and for the promotion of a plan for
more intensified farming in the state.
The plan for aiding Kansas farmers
through the bankers of the state is one
new to the bankers. 1t was advanced
recently by Charles N. Sawyer, state
bank commissioner, at a meeting of the
bankers in Hutchinson. Immediately
the plan was given serious considera-
ton, was endorsed by President Henry
]. Waters of the state agricultural col
lege, Former Governor Willis j.
Baily of Atchison and many other well
known Kansans. AS a result of the
Sawyer speech, a special agricultural
committee was appointed. That COM
mittee came to Topeka today to work
out details of the new plan.
Money for Crops.
Not only does the new program call
for advancing financial aid to farmers
to aid them to hold their crops for
favorable markets, but calls for county
soil demonstrations and a general ad-
vancement of the campaign for rota-
ton of crops and intensified farming.
With this new project in hand, it has
been urged that the bankers form
county organizations to more success
fully handle local conditions. Regular
monthly meetings of the bankers in
these counties have been suggested. At
these meetings crop conditions, stock
raising and kindred subjects will be
discussd by the men who have charge
Of the lending of money.
In some of the counties plans nave
already been completed for the loca-
tiOn of county demonstration stations,
demonstration of seed selections, con-
servation of moisture, crop rotation,
soil Improvement, fertility and mar
keting problems. Not only have the
bankers themselves shown great in
terest in the plan for advancing Kan
sas as an agricultural state, but the
new theory has proven immensely pop
ular among the formers. Bank Com
missioner Sawyer and Chairman w. j.
Bailey of the agricultural committee,
both believe that the bankers should
work with the agricultural college in
the effort to improve farm conditions
in the state. The industrial depart
ments of the various railroads will
also be asked to cooperate with the
bankers and will probably take an in
terest in the work.
Tried in Other States.
Plans similar to the one advanced
by Sawyer and members of the com
mittee, are now in practical operation
in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, North Da-
kota and other states.
Among the bankers attending the
meeting today are: Charles N. Sawyer,
state bank commissioner; Willis ].
Bailey, Atchison, chairman of COM
mittee; Albert Wulfekahler Leaven-
worth; Peter Shiras, Ottawa; George
T. Guernsey, Independence; III. D.
Tucker, Eureka; F.. H. Quincy, Salina;
Otis L. Benton, Oberlin; E. r.. Moses,
Great Bend; ]. H. McNair, Halstead;
and T. B. Brown, Topeka.
The meeting of the committee will
adjourn late this afternoon. a num-
ber of the mem bers of the committee
came to Topeka this morning and
spent the morning visiting in the
bank commissioners office. All SEEM
ed enthusiastic for the new farm de-
XelOpment plan.