The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-14
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nineteentn biennial report. then the
March quarterly and now the June and
December quarterlies are in the hands
of w, +. Smith, state printer The
decennial census compilation, which
comes once in ten years, has been
completed and this work has required
the service of twenty extra clerks.
The alfalfa book is compiled and Is
in the hands of the printer In pre-
pairing copy for this book alfalfa grow
ing in every county in the state has
been investigated personally by MIR.
Mohler or his assistants, something
never done before. The 1915 leSisla-
ture placed the enforcement of the
commission merchants law on the
shoulders OF Mr.. MOhler and didn't APP
propriate a single penny for the extra
work involved This consumed a
month of office time and then the en-
forcement of the bill was enJoined by
the courts. In all, the past year has
been one of the most strenuous in the
life of any secretary of the Kansas
state board of agriculture.
Urges Late Sowing.
I.ate sowing. the destruction of all
Volunteer wheat, through preparation
Of the seed bed and cooperation
a5nong the farmers were urged by
George 4. Dean, entomologist of the
Kansas state Agricultural college and
experiment station, in the opening ad-
forty-fifth annual meeting of the state
board of agriculture. Mr.. Dean set
forth the proper methods to be en-
ployed this winter in preventing the
Hessian fly increase.
In Old Stubblc.
over the greater part of the entire
eastern half of Kansas. and including
several counties in the western half
OF the state. almost all of the Volun-
teer wheat growing in old stubble
fields is badly infested with the Hes
sian fly" he said. And If this vol
unteer wheat is not plowed under be
fore the first of next April. it Will
prove a source of great danger ia
many fields of wheat which are now
practically free from the fly"
Dean Jardinc's Speech.
More intensive farming and plant
ing an improved strain of wheat was
urged this morning by Dean W. NJ.
Iardine OF the Agricultural college at
Manhattan in his address on How
Can We Increase the Yield of Wheat -
With an increase of at least 100 per
cent in land values in the last fifteen
wears demanding more returns per
acre than ever before improved meth
oas of farming and selection of wheat
is absolutely necessary to protect the
vOung Kansas farmer who must now
nay from $50 to $3.50 an acre for a
farm that in years gone by sold for
Dean Jardine points out that while
Kansas soils are still rich in fertility
that fertility is less readily available
to the plants than it was in the early
DAYS. Better blowing. preparation of
a better seed bed than was once neces-
sary planting of better varieties of
wheat that will make good in the most
severe seasons and growing wheat in
rotation with other crops. are other
remedies suggested by Dean Jardine
for the decrease in fertility of Kansas
soil
Extensive Farmers.
at present" said Dean Jardine.
1--WE are extensive rather than in
tensive farmers. Our low acre average
brings out this point very clearly.
While our fathers and grandfathers
have made money farming extensively
the virgin soils which they have Sc
cured at very little cost. this cannot be
done with land at its present value"
fO-Minute Talks.
Ten Minute Corn Ialks by Practi-
cal Corn Growers from four sections
OF Kansas closed the morning pro-
gram. Different methods must be
used in planting corn in the various
sections represented by the speakers