The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-21
Record Breaking Acreage VIII
Be Sowed I'm Oklahoma.
Organize Under Defense Coun-
ell To Furnish Seed Grain
BANKERS HELP FINANCE CROP
s Counties Need 100000 Blu.
More Than They Raised.
Expect Federal Emergency
Seed Fund To Help Out.


Oklahoma counties will require 300,-
600 bushels more seed wheat than
those counties have produced this sea
son, according to facts revealed in a
survey of the seed wheat situation of
the state.
All indications point to a record
breaking acreage of wheat to be sown
this fall, according to agricultural
authorities. The task OF supplying
seed wheat where needed is gigan-
tic undertaking and has been dele
gated to the state council of defense
to subcommittee, of which
President j. W. CantweH of Okla
homa Agricultural and Mechanical
college is chairman
In mobiIizing his forces. President
Cantwell has called into action the
entire extension forces of the agricul-
tural college and the United States
Department of Agriculture, The Okla
homa SeedgrOwerS ASSOCIATION. the
grain dealers, mill and elevator men,
the county bankers associations and
leading wheat growers.
Survey of Needs First.
As the first step in the campaign.
a survey is being made OF the needs
of counties having seed wheat
shortage and of counties having
surplus This survey is being made
by the district and county agents
pIete-
Distribution of the seed will be ac-
1 complished thru the mill and eleva-
| tor men of the various counties Seed
| wheat will be kept in separate bins,
| will be inspected by county agents
and will be allotted to the growers
| by the country agents.
| 1t is believed that Oklahoma will
produce enough seed wheat for her
own needs, as many counties have a
-TTr f= To in he
western counties, where the 1917 crop
was a dismal failure, that help is
needed. Harper, Texas, Cimarrou,
Ellis, Woods. Woodward, Roger Mills
and Beckham counties are the eight
wheat growing counties that viii re-
quire total of at least 100000 BUSH
| els above local supply. Tillman and
Cotton counties. aftho not in the prin-
cipai wheat belt, will make heavy de-
n1ands on seed wheat.
How TO Finance Plan
Financing the situation is consid-
cradle problem President Cantwell
has had the matter up with the coun-
ty bankers associations and, where
possible. the local bankers will finance
the new crop. The large banking cen
tiers of the state may extend aid te
local banks where needed State Off
Gals have suggested that state funds
can be transferred to drouth-stricker
sections and thus enable the loca
banks to better meet the crisis The
proposed emergency bill in congress
carrying a special agricultural appro-
4 priation of S25,00e,00o would solvs
the problem. Secretary D. F. Houston
OF the United States department Of
agriculture, is in favor of government
aid in such circumstances. II this
measure fails, the federal land banks
; offer final solution All of these
resources may not be needed, but they
are being considered so that the com
n1ittee may be ready for any emer'
gency.
President Cantweu has called into
conference Director James A. Wilson
of the extension division OF the sil
district farm demonstration agents
, Dean W. L. Carlyle, of the agricul
tura1 experiment station, Professor NJ
A Beeson, agronomist at the colIeg,
and secretary OF the Oklahoma SEED
Growers association, and officers o.
. the bankers and millers' associations
! The sixty-eight county farm demon
stration agents constitute the machin
cry upon which the success of tn,
: movement chiefly hinges. These mel
are making the survey OF both sur
plus and shortage and will pass upor
the quality of the wheat offered fol
seed
The Oklahoma Seed Growers asso.
! citation. according to Professor Bee.
son, expects to have several hundred
wheat growers listed within a few
weeks. The association has fixed
standards of purity for all seed.
! listed
101 Ranch Has 10000 Bushels.
The long mooted point of the reIa-
tive merits of hard wheat and soft
wheat for certain sections of Okla
homa- figures in the present emer-
gency. Both hard and soft wheat will
be listed. County agents and other
agricultural experts will advise with
7 - a RI ruh 10 -,
soft wheat should be sown but nd
general rules for the state, or ever
for large sections of the state, can b
| drafted
/ Among the first offers of SEED
wheat for the present emergency wal
that of 10, coo bushels from the Mile
"101" ranch at Bliss, at market price
This wheat has haar frsnattad AZ