The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-29
j. C. MOhler, Secretary State
Board of Agriculture,
Students at the
Hays Experiment Station.
OF TIME AND MONEY
Producer and Consumer Should
Be Brought Together, He Says.
Deeper Study Should Be Given
to Methods of Production.

Hays, Kan. Nov. 29.-J. G. Moh1er,
secretary of the state board of agri-
culture, today told students at the ex-
pertinent station that Kansas needed
some new system of business operation
that would bring together the pro-
Queer and the consumer. 1t is this
gap in the business world, he declared,
which is causing waste of time and
money and prom otes the nigh cost of
living.
Deeper study should be given the
raising of grains and live stock-al-
ways with one eye on the market of
of the producer might be increased
and the expense to the consumer
might be lessened. Mohler pointed out
many items of unnecessary expense in
the handling of live stock and urged
that Kansas stockmen engage more
extensively in stock breeding. The
palmy days Of the cattle ranges are
gone, he told the students.
Another reform needed on the Kan
SaS farm iS the adoption of q more
economical and efficient method of
marketing products, Mohler stated.
County exchange bureaus would lessen
the cost of handling cattle, he said.
On the other hand, the building Of
private or cooperative grain elevators
would mean several cents a bushel to
the wheat producers. in the western
counties.
Mothers Address.
1.-The gap between. the producer and
consumer needs to be abridged. There
is some slack that should be taken UP.
They need to be brought closer togeth-
er in transactions vitality important to
each. Present methods are wasteful
of time and money. To correct these
conditions appears to call for some
practical plan of cooperation.
Thoughtful men have foreSeen this
necessity. The idea is of course old
E11f 1fi to- yo1x hl
middle west. But it is making pro-
gress, and the prospect is that in time
the business of farming will be made
more profitable through the adoption
of more economical and more efficient
methods of distributing and market
ing. In the case of live stock it is not
infrequent for Feeders to be shipped,
say to Kansas from one part of a
county and brought back later by an
other resident of the same county.
Had there been some sort of county
exchange bureau; the expense of two
freight shipments and two commits
sions might have been saved. County
agents may be helpful aids in promot-
ing trade in many ways between
neighboring' or nearby farmers. Farm
ers' elevators, where intelligently con-
Quoted have materially increased the
the growers profits from his crop. 1t
is estimated that cooperative ele-
vators have saved to the wheat grow
ers patronizing these institutions an
average of three cents to the busheI.
At this rate, applied to the states
wheat crop last year, the gain would
amount to nearly five and a half mil
lion dollars, in. the aggregate.
Another need of kansas, and one
that rests largely with the farmers
themselves, to supply. is for more and
better live stock pot only in this por-
ton, but throughout Kansas. There
is little or no incentive to produce
more forage, more kafir and the like, |
if there is no stock to eat the feed |
There is much more feed raised this
year in Kansas than there are ami
mails to consume it, and for which |
there is no other profitable market in
the main except as it is converted into |
meat or milk the farms where |
grown. Raising a surplus of feed for |
which there is no market is calculat- |
ed to induce one to SOW more wheat |
for which there is always a ready sale. |
But experience has taught the wisdom |
Of depending rather less on wheat and |
more on diversity and animal hus- |
Our trend has been that way |
and IL should continue that way with |
out interruption. To get more stock |
means that the farmers-many of |
get back into the breeding |
business and raise the animals to eat |
the crops that are grown: must raise
the animals to take the place of those |
that used to come from the great |
range country at a cost below what
we could raise them for. The palmy |
days of cheap range cattle are gone