The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-19
U. P. SILO SPECIAL
GOOD Crowds Meet Train at
Every Station.
Forage Talk Received With
Interest at All Stops.
GRANT HARRINGTON THERE
Governors Private Secretary
Talked Kansas Language.
Flea for Diversified Farming
by an Expert.

Hill City, Kan, Sept. 19.-The Union
Pacific special forage train visited this
town the time of the big free barbecue.
The train consists of a baggage, chair
and diner and two Pullman cars. The
train Is accompanied by J. r. Lynch,
travelling freight agent, W. K. Cundiff,
assistant general passenger agent, and
). q. Mathews, assistant Superintend-
emit, besides Prof. P. G. Holden, Grant
w. Harrington, private secretary to
Governor Hodges, J. G. Haney, J. T.
Waggoner, r. w. Lamson, Andrew
Stark, Isaiah Wheeler, colonization
agent Union Pacific. W. R. Baughman,
J. E. Buck, r. E. Getty, c. w. Farr,
J. H. Fletcher and A. F. Vickroy, SUI
perintendent Union Pacific, with head
quarters in Denver.
Good meetings have been held in all
the towns visited. More than 25O at
tended the meetings at Bunker Hill, IN
Russell county, $40 in Russell, $50 in
Hays City 325 in WaKeeney and over
800 in Collyer At Winona the people
We're so enthusiastic that the home
band met the train.
Deep interest has been taken by the
farmers at all towns where the spec
ial forage train has stopped, and they
have attentiveIy listened to the talks
of these noted students of the uniVer-
sites on their side of the farming ques-
ftion The speakers are well pleased
with their audiences, and seem to be
forage train special will result in
big awakening among the farmers.
At the Plainville meeting a farmer
who listened to the addresses, told the
speakers that he was leaving Rocks
county and going to locate in Idaho.
He wasn't disappointed in his Rocks
county home, but he had a fine oppor-
tunity to buy some cheap lands there.
This man wasn't big wheat raiser,
but he has been raising forage crops
with success for years, and is be-
lever in this system of farming AS
dry as this year has been he has sold
over ST. worth.
At Grainfield, Cove county, the for
age train people looked on a town of
trees, grown in the last few years, and
has been termed by eastern visitors
the tree town. of the high prairie. |
Thousands of trees, growing thrifty, |
greet the visitors in WaKeeney. Since |
the forage train left this town over |
an inch of rain fell there.
Before an audience of 1900 of era |
ham county's cream of farmers, after |
a forenoon we'll spent in various amuse-
ments, two addresses were delivered |
after the noon hour, which will long be |
remembered by the listeners. The OPP |
ening address was by Mr.. Grant w. |
Harrington, of the governors staff, at
the state house. His remarks were
timely, strictly applicable and were in
deed well received. He talked Ameri- |
can c1t1ZenShlp, ana especially ram
sas citizenship. He admired the man
who is ever ready to assert his con-
victions, and for the Kansas citizen
ship he loved him better than all 9TH
ers, because that individual was selfish
in his admiration for his adopted state. |
The principal address was given by
Prof. P. c. Holden, an agricultural ex- |
pert from Iowa EXcerps from his long |
and well received address were: |
Diversified farming should be adopt |
ed.
Wheat and Indian corn growing |
should be more limited, with forage |
farming adopted for surer results. OF |
these cereals, he placed milo-com- |
monty known as kaffir first, with the |
new cereal-feterita a close second, then |
sorghum, the latter more for natural |
dry winter fodder.
More intensified farming, a better
cultivation for conservation of mois
ture.
Less marketing of grain and more
feeding of live stock.
"A better and more systematic meth
cd of marketing the farm products,
and in a more direct way between the
producer and consumer with the mid
die men eliminated.
mot a too general use of the silos,
but favor them in a limited way. The
danger is that the silos would rob the