The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-20
u. P. SIL0 TRAIN
Meeting With Large Crowds in
All Western Kansas Towns.
Number Of Good Speakers Tell
Good Results of SilOs.

Sharon Springs, Kan, Sept. 20.-This
/ is the last stop the Union Pacific For
| age Crops special will make in Kansas
| The train pulled in here on schedule
! time at O'Clock this morning.
The train has now traverSed $50 miles
j through the region where the drouth
! has been most severe, and if there are
any discouraged people in the state the
forage crop experts would certainly
| have found them, for they have made
| side trips in automobiles fifteen or
twenty miles in every direction from
| the railroad. But no really discour-
aged people have been found. Some
few have moved away, it is true, but
| the same can be said of any other COM
munity.
Friday stops We're made at Morland,
Hoxie, Menlo, Colby and Oakley.
Through this region the winds drift the
soil a good deal, but by means of list
ing and contour blowing the effect of
the winds is largely overcome. The
railroads and county officials joined
hands last spring and planted Kafir
and cane in FIVE rows fifty feet apart,
and this materially helped to stop the
drift and protect the crops
At Menlo the experts found a farmer
who built pit silo twelve feet in diam
eter and sixteen feet deep for sc. so, not
counting his labor He was unable to
BUY or borrow a silage. cutter so he
a corn knife, and filled his silo in eight
days. He brought a sample of his sill
age in fruit jar to the meeting and
the experts now have the jar on the
baggage car with other exhibits picked
up along the road. The silage in this
jar Is just as good as any one would
care to feed. This incident is mem
toned merely to show the courage of
the people out here They are forging
ahead, and will make progress faster
as soon as they grow more of the
drouth resistant forage crops and less
Wheat and corn.
A F. Wick Roy, general superintend-
ent OF the Colorado division of the
Union Pacific, has proved to be one of
the most eloquent speakers on the spe-
cal, r1Vallfng Prof. Holden and his ex-
perts IN oratorical flights and humor-
Gus anecdotes. Grant HARRINGTON Gov
ernor Hodges affable secretary, is also
difficult to surpass when he gets wound
up on the kansas spirit" J. G. Han
ey, who had charge of the Kansas F,x-
pertinent station for number of wears
IS also very popular. Ralph Waldo
Lamson, directOr-generalo of the forage
crops campaign in western Kansas is
the busiest man on the train C. w.
F'arr. who has charge of the eastern
Colorado end of the campaign. has
gone to Cheyenne Wells to meet Gov
ernor Ammons and his staff of state
dlgnitaries who will join the special
there.
w. r. Baughman, J. E. Waggoner.
r. E. Getty and J. H Fletcher are also
members of Prof. Holden's sneakers,
star, and they are doing effective work
Geo. H. Woodhouse of Sharon Springs
says there is a large area contiguous TO
Inns point that could be made much
more productive by means of shallow
Well irrigation. and the government is
doing some experimental work along
this line in this vicinity.
Hox1e. Kan, Sept 20-The Special
orage Train reached here at noon
today. Speakers of prominence al
dressed the large audience of farmers
and their wives who had gathered at
the City hall. A speaker was sent nm
TO the county high school and one sent
10 tre graded school building. The peo
pie took great interest in this nove-
ment.