Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-03-15

There is being sent this week to
everp county superintendent in the
Golden Belt Educational Association
one peck each of the following varie-
ties of seed, bred at the HAYS Expert
ment Station and considered the best
varieties for this region, namely
Dwarf Black-Hulled Kafir, White
Hulled White Kafir, Dwarf milo. Red
Amber cane, Western Orange cane,
and Albright corn.
The county superintendent will
distribute this seed to pupils of the
public schools on condition of their
growing it and showing a sample of
the crop in local. agricultural ex-
hibition and contest next fall or win
ter, when the best samples will be
selected and later entered at the agri-
cultural contest of the Golden Belt
Educational Association in the
competition for cash prizes. Other
standard varieties of these crops will
be admitted on equal terms to these
contests, it not being necessary for
contestants to use this particular
seed.
This distribution of seed is of an
entirely different character from the
congressional distribution, in that a
condition for securing it is the assur-
ance of an ability and intention to
grow it by the applicant, who may be
any pupil of the public schools regu-
larry enrolled at the time of the con-
test. The amount supplied each con-
testant will necessarily be small but
confess concerns quality andnot acre
yield there may be enough to supply
all qualified applicants. A ''followup''
system by the county superintendent
win enable that office to keep in touch
with recipients who undertake to
grow the seed.
The G. B. E. A. expects to make
the agricultural features prominent
part of the annual program hereafter,
and the seed produced from these
first crops should be sufficient for a
wide distribution within the county
next year, if grown in separate plots
to prevent Decentralization
If there were more sorghums and
agriculture would here be less pre-
carious livlihood. This warrants the
attention being given to these crops
by our best experts. The Albright
corn offered, while not equal to other
varieties in yield and appearance un-
der favorable conditions, is looked
upon as the best to grow in the up
lands or more arid regions such as
constitute the western counties of
supplied for this distribution is the
best yielding strain of hard Turkey
wheat that the Agricultural College
has produced. and the five pecks
which are to go to each of the eight
counties of the G. B. E. A. will be
distributed between threshing and
seeding time. In addition to the
terms made by the association, the
College will prescribe conditions
which are to govern its distribution
and use.
Do county farmers Institutes see
in this enterprise an opportunity to
further their own good purposes?
Those which do may greatly promote
it in various ways. They may supply
seed sufficient to enable the county
superintendent to meet the demand
which its announcement should
create or to make it an acre yield
contest thus qualifying the grower to
enter the state contests managed by
the Agricultural College while con-
tinuing to satisfy our requirments of
a strictly quality contest And they
could aid the county superintendent
by making his local contest feature
of their annual meeting. One such
county farmers institute paid all the
expenses of its exhibitors to the re-
cent meeting of the G. B. E. A. at
Hays. 1t is not surprising to note