The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-26

supply of moisture in the ground
should make the corn fairly shoot.
soil dry at this time it would be too
late to plant seed with any assurance
of successful results.
The farm experts, who make bust
ness of giving advice to the farmers,
are offering some excellent sugges-
lions relative to the planting of crops,
but it is interesting to know how the
farmers themselves feel about the
situation.
A Bank of Feed.
William Newlin, a big dairy farmer
of Hutchinson, has written as follows
to ]. c. Mohler, secretary of the state
board of agriculture: Il am figuring
cutting my wheat eve have our own
binder and thresher) and just as soon
as the grain is ready we will thresh,
and then am going to put all the land
i can into feterita right away so that
I may have a bank of feed to check
this fall"
secretary MohIer is of the opinion
that this is an excellent idea. Dwarf
kafir is good for planting at this time;
but the seed is somewhat scarce, and
Mohler believes that as feterita is an
early maturing crop and the seed more
plentiful, it is safe to plan the grain.
In the Mud and Wet.
J. T. Tredway of LaHarpe, treasurer
of the state board of agriculture,
wrote June 1 8 follows to Secretary
Mohler:
well, we are in the mud and wet.
No planting has been possible during
the whole month of June, and very
little was done in May. We shall plant
feterita when it dries enough. We
are building a silo between showers
and we will raise enough cane in the
mean time to fill the silo. We are not
discouraged and will come out all
right
Ninety-Day Varieties of Corn.
L. E. Call, professor of agronony
at the Kansas State Agricultural col
1ege, advises the planting of 90-day
varieties of corn such as Sherrod's
White Dent. Bloody Butcher. or
FreedS White Dent from seed grown
in western Kansas, or varieties such as
Pride of the North or Minnesota No.
] 3, which are grown in states north of
Kansas. Western Kansas seed is to
he preferred, he says.
If the weather continues wet until
the first of July. feterita, maturing in
from 80 to 80 days. may be planted.
Freeds sorghum will mature in from
20 to so days. Sudan grass can also
be planted as late as the first of July
with assurance of a crop. Cow-peas
planted the first of July as a hay crop
may be removed in time to seed a crop
of wheat in the fall Soy beans will
mature if planted the last of June, and
millet can be seeded for hay until
July l.
H. NJ. Hill. a prosperous Wilson
county farmer. planted one field to
feterita July 2-S last year and har-
vested an excellent forage crop. On
another field feterita was broad
casted July Is. 1t matured so bushels
to the acre.
Kansas Farmer on Situation.
The Kansas Farmer this week de-
voted much space to the question of
what crops to plant at what might be
termed the eleventh hour
Following is an editorial published
the front page of this paper, and
written by G. c. Wheeler:
From 80 to ITO days of the crop
growing season still remain. There is
time yet to mature crops if suitable
varieties are planted at once. On rich
bottom land even corn of early ma
turing strains can produce a crop if
moisture conditions are favorable in
late summer.
Lack of moisture is usually the
limiting factor in growing late planted
crops. The soil is now more fully sat
urated than for several years. With