Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-07-26
Farmers and Bankers Agree
This is Eairest in Putting
in Wheat Crop.
EXTRA ACREAGE TO Be POOLED
State Council of Defense Will Take
Its Chances in the Game
This Fall.

defense It had been planned to make
a campaign for 10,000,000 acres of
wheat this fall and the council sent
out feelers to find just how the seed
wheat proposition should be handled.
Two schemes were suggested: One
to loan money erect to the farmers
with which to buy seed and the other
to stake the farmers on a crop share
basis. Many farmers in various parts
of the state were sounded. In nearly
every instance the farmer would scorn
the plan to borrow money direct to pay
for the seed. He had money enough,
so he said, as a rule, to plant the nor
NAL acreage, but he didn't propose to
borrow TO increase his acreage. He
was willing to put up his land and
his work against another mans seed
and then take mis- chances. In most
cases the farmers were willing to give
one-fifth the crop for the seed Some
even offered to give one-fourth the
crop.
1t also developed in the survey taken
that the city men who were expected
to put up the cash for the loan fund
preferred to take a gamble on the crop
share basis rather than loan their
money direct to farmers at a reason
able rate of interest. The gambling
spirit appealed to them. If the crop
were a failure they would lose their
seed and the farmer his work; if an
average crop were harvested the city
man would get back about two bushels
for every one he furnished for seed; if
it were a bumper crop he would get
back from six to eight times as much
as he put in.
With the game of chance so popular
on both sides the council of defense is
now arranging to make up one big
Jack pot to throw in on the crop
share plan. The jack pot will be nan
died by a committee of well known
business men and bankers and every
patron of the game will be given a
square deal ard fare the same as every
other patron either in profits or losses.
Doctor an Officer.-Dr. Harrison w.
Wright of Enterprise, formerly of
Overland Park, has been commissioned
first lieutenant in the medical Off
GERS reserve crops.
Editor to Go to War.-W. H. Wood
house. editor of the Valley Center In
deX. and representative in the state
legislature from the North Sedgwick
County District, will leave his paper
or sell it and join the army.
No Wheat to Adorn Show.-Wheat
will take no part in the decorations
of the international wheat show the
coming fall in Wichita, Secretary Nc
Intyre announced recently. Usually
wheat is the prominent decoration in
the wheat shows there, but because
OF the need of the grain and its stalk
it will be abolished. Electricity will
be utilized instead.
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Killed in Fort Riley Trench.-Hu-
bert Devore. 10 years cid, of Junction
City, was killed when he fell into
trench at the Fort Riley cantonment
site. directly in the path of a ditch
digging machine.
First Settler Dead-Mrs. Jane D.
Kinder. Eldorado's first settler, is
dead at the age of Ga
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Record in Wheat.-Two hundred
acres of wheat on the Oren Smith
farm at Valley Center are averaging
fifty bushels of high grade wheat to
the acre Farmers say this is a Kan
sas record Seven measured acres
yielded sixty-eight bushels to the acre.
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Linn County Rock Rcad.--he board
of commissioners OF Linn county has
granted petition for building a rock
road twenty-eight and half miles
across the county over the route of
the jefferson Highway through Mound
City This road has been designated
by the state highway commission to
receive federal aid.
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New Land Bank Secretary.-John
b. McManus of Santa Fe. n. NJ. has
arrived in Wichita to be secretary of
the Wichita Federal Land Bank. He
succeeds T j. Guilfoyle. who has been
made chief inspector for federal land
banks with headquarters in Washing
ton
Plan Winfield City Market.-Win-
field is 10 have a city market, backed
by the Housewives Exchange. A del
egation of members of the exchange
have visited Wichita and other towns
within the past few days getting point
ers on how city markets are operated
and viii put their methods in opera
ton there at once
Falls to Death.5George L. Rider
man. so years old. an Gil rig ccntrac-
tor, was killed when he fell twenty
six feet from the rig Or, which he was