Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-30
MORE MILK COWS
IN KANSAS NOW
The Farmers Are Turning to
Dairying, Reports from the
Assessors Show
MORE THAN A MILLION IN STATE
Secretary MohIer Believes the Figures
Most Encouraging Sign of
Progressive Farming Here.


Progressive Farming Here.
That the Kansas farmers are COM
ing to a better appreciation of the
milk COW is indicated by the increased
number of dairy animals in the state,
as reported to the state board of ag-
riculture by assessors.
The enumeration this year, which
has just been compiled, shows that
Kansas has for the first time more
than one million milk COWS. The ex-
act number is 1,077,067. a gain of 49,
1856 over the count of 1915. Since
1910 the increase is 435, 4S7, or 81 per
cent. Butler leads all other counties
with 1923. followed by Barber, Dick
inson and Reno with more than $4,000
head each.
Commenting on this showing, ]. C.
MohIer, secretary of the Board, said:
This is most encouraging sign.
1t means more farmers are engaging
in this high type of husbandry. Dairy
ing is one of the marks of enlightened,
progressive and prosperous agricul-
ture. The dairy method of farming
more nearly eliminates chance as a
factor in the farmers income. The
dairyman is a soil builder, rather than
soil robber. He is conducting a farm
factory, converting the raw materials
of his farm into finished products,
without seriously depicting its re
sources.
ct is my belief that the inclination
of our farmers to take up COW culture,
as indicated by the returns, is the
Election of a tendency to place the
business of farming on a safer, sound
CT oh ir,c
permanently prosperous agriculture in
the future. 1t appears, in the evolu-
ton of Kansas, that we have arrived
at that stage when the milk COW is
to be relied upon more extensively. In
the new order of things she fits adj
mirably. And nowhere, perhaps, are
natural advantages more favorable
for successful dairying than in the
Sunflower State.'
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Ask Aid for Miners Families.
Upon receipt of a telegram from
F. w. Brinkerhoff, a newspaper man
of Pittsburg, Kan, to the effect that
the families of miners killed in the
mine disaster at Stone City recently
were in destitute circumstances, Gov
ernor Capper issued the following ap-
peal for aid:
ct appeal to the people of Kansas to
contribute to a relief fund in amounts
of 81 or more, the contributions to be
sent Immediately to w. A. Branden-
burg, president of the State Manual
Training School at Pittsburg, Kan.
The men of these families affected by
the disaster had been out of work for
months until recently, and the wreck
ed mine cannot be operated for some
time, therefore the need is extremely
urgent. AS Kansas firesides are warm
ed by the risks these men take, they
have a double claim on our generosity
and humanity, and 1 feel sure this ap-
peal will not be in vain
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Mrs. J. &. Thompson Dead.
Mrs Julia E. Thompson of Topeka,
mother of Mrs. Harold 7. Chase and
Mrs. ]. C. Gafford, died recently in
Los Angeles. Mrs. Thompson was the
daughter of George w. Hamilton, who
came to Kansas from Massachusetts,
and settled near Wakarusa.
Kansans Don't Honor Parents.
That the commandment, Honor thy
father and thy mother is being abro-
gated by young folks in Kansas was
the charge made by DR.. T. C.
Biddle, superintendent of Topeka
State HospitoI. Young folks, with
aged and infirm parents who have
-'deteriorated mentally are using the
state to care for them. The number
of persons who are not really insane,
but are sent to the state hospitals
that their children may get rid of
them" has been increasing rapidly in
the last few years, and Doctor Biddle
lays the blame directly at the doors
of the sons and daughters.
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