The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-11
Geo. w. Marble Tells of Great
Opportunities Offered.
He Makes Enthusiastic Speech
Before Agriculture Board.
INCREASE REVENUE II MILLION
Kansas Has Great Future in
This Line. Editor Says.
There Is a Big Demand for All
Dairy Products Now.

The annual cash income of at least
half of the counties in the state could
be increased 100000 from the sale
of milk and in doing this each county
would increase the actual cash value
of it's lands from S20.000,0O0 to $780,
1000; increase its population from
10, 600 to 900 and wonderfully i'm
prove its conVeniences and social con-
ditions according to George W-Marble,
editor of the Fort Scott Tribune-Moni-
tor. in an address on dairying before
the annual meeting of the Kansas
state board of agriculture here today
Mr.. Marble has made an exhaustive
study OF dairying in Kansas for a num-
Der of years.
Mr. Marble estimated that on every
quarter section of land in these coun-
ties twenty milk cows could be kept
on the feeds that are now going TO
waste. Included in waste he figured
the difference in value of corn fed in
fodder and that fed from silo.
Crops and Markets.
The two principal essentials to
dairying are dairy crops and dairy
markets." said Mr.. Marble. I'm any
community where alfalfa and corn
grow as they grow in all the eastern
and many of the western Kansas coun-
ties dairying is the most profitable and
the most stable line of agriculture
market may consist of creameries, con-
densaries. cheese factories. or where
sufficiently convenient to a large CEN
ter of population, the retail milk trade
Such is the demand today for dairy
products that no community in KAN
sas could go into dairying without at
tracing a market 1t is peculiar fact
that communities in which dairying is
developed become increased consum-
ers of dairy products while the con-
densaries the cheese manufactures
and the creameries are reaching out
for milk and paying higher prices for
it than ever before"
Comparing the conditions in KAN
sas with those in Wisconsin, consider
ed the most advanced dairy state in
the west, Mr.. Marble said he had made
a thoro personal survey of the Wis
consin dairy centers not seeking proof
that Kansas could be a dairy state but
proof that she could not be, and had
come to the conclusion that with the
advantages of climate. giving longer
pasturage season: of a more prolific
yield of alfalfa, with her wonderful
possibilities in clovers of all kinds,
and with her cheaper lands. Kansas
has a very great economic advantage
in the production of milk
SiLos Big Help.
THE climate and soil of Illinois and
Wisconsin are more favorable to grain
crops than Kansas, yet the farmers
there are so widely engaged in dairy1ng
that one can travel thru county after
county and never find farm that is
not a dairy farm said Mr. Marble
Two silos and two barns are usual on
a farm. A single silo and single
barn are exceptions. Kansas can grow
corn as good as either Wisconsin or
Illinois to the ensilage state Then the
August drouth comes in and cuts the
yield of corn mature for the market
from thirty to sixty per cent. This an
nual loss of the states crop may be
saved by the silo and yield full crop
returns in dairy products