The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-29
The Knife Weeder for listed corn,
sold by H D. Clayton, Hill City, KS.
FORT HAYS EXPERIMENT STA
TION NOTES

Forty-five hundreds of an inch of
rain fell Monday.
Visitors will be welcomed at the
Fort Hays Experiment Station during
Fair week. All are requested to call
at the Station Office and get outline
of trip and guide for parties.
The new office addition includes
ladies' rest room.
The average date for the first Kill
ling frost for fourteen years accord
ing to Experiment Station records is
October 9Th. The earliest killing
frost was September IA, 1908; the
latest killing from October 21, 1910.
Sorghum Educational Day at the
Fort Hays Experiment Station at
tracted twenty-seven teachers, pT1n-
ciples and school superintendent.
The afternoon was spent studying
the different sorghums. Each teach
er was we'll loaded with samples of
different varieties for use in teach
ing classes. The Station will fur
nish Samples of different varieties Of
grain and sorghums for teachers to
use in their school work in Western
Kansas
Prof. w. H Sanders from the en-
gineering department of the Kan
sas State Agricultural College is
making a series of experiments with
different kinds of engines on differ
Station fields. These experiments
ent kinds of work on the Experiment
will be interesting to Fair visitors.
The rainfall for September to date
has been 1.84 inches. The normal
rainfall for September, for this COM
munity is 2:39 inches. Therefore
we are still due .55 of an inch rain
for this month.
In spite of this fact the conditions
for a profitable wheat crop are en-
couraging since the Experiment Sta
ton records show the average yield
of wheat is very near in proportion
to the moisture in the ground at seed
ing time. With sufficient moisture in
the ground to terminate the wheat
and some good rains this fall, the
prospects for a good crop will be
much above the average.
The Experiment Station threshed
3,0O5 bushels of wheat this year.
Some of the bundles of this wheat is
on exhibition at the Fair.
This wheat was threshed by the
Stations own threshing machine to
which is attached Sharps Grain Saw
ing Device. This Grain Saving De-
vice saved the Station considerable
wheat this year, and it will be well
for threshing men who visit the Gold
en- Belt Fair to inspect this attach
ment.
The Stations exhibit at the Golden
Belt Fair contains samples with
names attached of most of the wild
grasses of this community. All the
varieties of cane, kafir and other sor-
ghums are on exhibition properly Ia
beled so that anyone can study them
who wishes. The Forest Nursery De-
partment has placed an exhibition OF
Arbor Vitaes for hedge planting
Some one will be at the exhibit to
answer questions at all times.
Dogs have been killing sheep on
the Experiment Station. This is one
of the reasons why there are moi
more sheep in Western Kansas. The
Station averaged $685. worth of WOO
from each sheep this year. Sheep are
now selling on the Kansas City mar
ket as high as $3.50 per cwt.
Visit the sheep exhibition at the
Golden Belt Fair and work for more
sheep on the farms of Western Kan
SaS-
All men are better than the worlC
gives them credit for. Nine times on
ten the trouble with the world, o
the people in it, can be traced to you
yourself
You meet men with cold. elamm,
hand, and icy stare with indifference
stamped on your countenance. NatuT
ally, men greet you the same way.
Most of our thoughts are home
made, hand made. In an interview
turn the thought toward things wort
while, and see how soon you will in
stinctively feel the presence Of
good man.-New Fra.