Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-08-31
Ground Prepared Later for the
Wheat Does Not Produce
as Good Yields.
MORE POWER IF NECESSARY
Prof. Salmon Warns Kansas Farmers
Against Delay in Preparing the
Seed Bed.


in the Kansas State Agricultural col
lege, to wheat growers in Kansas who
have not yet done their blowing.
Because OF the condition of the
ground farmers of the state have done
comparatively little blowing" points
out Professor Salmon. Even some
farmers who have tractors have re.
Trained from blowing because of the
belief that working dry ground will
1njure it. While this may be the case
in certain soils, it probably does not
hold true in general.
Ground prepared later than the
present time does not produce as good
yields as that worked early When
rains come the plowed fields will read
fly absorb the water. The heavy
growth of weeds on many Kansas
farms is sapping what little moisture
the soil contains"
Next to the preparation of good
seed bed, the kind of seed to plant is
the most important consideration"
says L. e. Call, professor of agronomy.
1.-THE results of variety tests in prac.
tically every section of Kansas have
shown conclusively that the hard red
winter wheats, to which class turkey
red and kharkof belong, are best
adapted to the greater portion of the
state. Only in southeastern Kansas
and parts of Northeastern Kansas are
the soft red winter wheats to be pre-
ferred. AS far as possible the same
type Of wheat should be grown in
community, thus avoiding the danger
Of mixture in threshing and market
ing. This will insure a better market
and a more uniformly higher price,"
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Gives Park to Great Bend.-Charles
Address, retired circus man and
theatrical magnate, who owns thou
sand acres of valuable Kansas wheat
land near Great Bend, has made ar
rangements with the city of Great
Bend whereby he purchases fifty
acres Of land adjoining the corpora
ton limits, that he will make into
city park and amusement grounds. In
GLIDING quarters for the Barton Coun-
ty Fair Association, the park, with the
concessions and other buildings that
Address will erect, will represent a
gift to the city of from 100000 to $40,-
900.
Tried to Save Woman, Drowns.-
George A. Morris, so years old, a
broker Of Wichita, drowned at Oxford
while trying to save woman In the
Minnesota river. The woman was res
cued by others and the body of Morris
recovered.
Catholic Sister Dead.-Sister Mary
Blanche, member Of the faculty at
Mount St. Mary's Academy, Wichita,
died recently of acute appendicitis.
She was rs years old and came to
Wichita from wellington with her
mother fifteen years ago.
Judge Fined Himself. - Walter
Sleigh, police judge, and Roy Teeter
had fist fight at Oxford. In court
Judge Sleigh fined Teeter then SEN
fenced himself to deposit with the
city treasury an equal amount
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Nav IA DaraIueie cyaoroId
son of Joe Harper of Scott City was
taken i'll recently and the county
health officer, Doctor Wycoff, dag
nosed the case as probable infantile
paralysis. He is not positive, but
says the SYMPTOMS indicate the NAL
ady.
Stole $1,000 In Jewels.-While d. e.
Gillette, an oil operator of Francis,
Ok, and his small daughter were
swimming in a pool at Columbus a
grip containing $1,000 worth of Jew
elry and some clothing was stolen
from their motor car, which had been
left in street nearby.
Fall From Sllo Kills Boy. - Rollie
Aumack, 20 years old, fell forty feet
from silo on a farm near Chapman
the other morning and was killed.
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Hurled From Min Tower.-William
Bond, IS, bachelor farmer of Andale,
was hurled to death the other night
when he climbed wind mill tower to
throw the machine out of gear. His
body was found under the mill the
next morning.
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johnson Heads Labor Body.-A. ].
johnson, of the Typographical union
of Wichita, was recently elected presi.
dent of the State Federation of Labor,
Charles Hamlin. Leavenworth, secre-
tary-treasurer, and James A. WHISKY,
8. B. Weaver, Topeka; G. j. Madison,
Emporia. vice presidents. ~
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Three kansans Injured.-Mrs. Jas.
Harris and two children of Miller,
Kas.. and their guest, Miss Alma Wise,
of Larned. were badly injured when
their motor car skidded and upset
vest Of Usage city.
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