Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-08-16
Secretary Mohler is Besieged
With Inquiries About Dis
p0saI of Their Herds.
CORN is TOO HIGH FOR FEED
Agricultural Board Trying to Work
Out a Plan to Help Farmers
of the State.

That is question that is confront
ing hundreds of farmers in the Kan
saS corn belt where this years crops,
unless rains come Immediately, will
be little more than fodder At best,
only nubbins may be expected on
hundreds of farms.
A score or more farmers have writ
ten to Secretary ]. c. Mohler asking
him the question, What will we do
with out pigs? 1t seems a great
waste in these times of food conserva-
ton and necessities for farmers to
be compelled to ship their pigs and
small hogs to the Kansas City market
and accept sacrifice price
Many of the farmers writing to
Secretary Mohler say that is what
they will have to do unless some
plan can be worked out that will tide
them over And even that possibility
is remote with corn selling at $2-25
bushel. At that price it cannot be
purchased and shipped in and fed to
pigs and young hogs at profit.
Secretary Moh1er is trying to work
cut plan by which many thousand
pigs may be fed and thus aid in in
creasing the general food supply.
Instead of selling pigs to the Kansas
City commission men, he thinks, Mis-
souri, and Iowa farmers, where good
corn crop is promised, may be in
duced to buy this stock of brood sows
and pigs and thus prevent their
slaughter The packing houses do
not want this kind of stock and ma
turally the Kansas City commission
men will not pay the farmers its full
value.
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meet Missouri farmers, who will raise
a good corn crop, with the Kansas
farmers who must dispose of their
pigs, to the end that this young stock
may be developed and fattened for
the market next year. One man. Mr..
Mohler said, had written that he had
twelve brood, sows and sixty pigs
which he would have to dispose of
because of the failure of the corn
crop.
Saves Fathers Life.-Risking his
life to save his father, whose attempt
to rescue an uncle was unsuccessful,
Arthur Boyles of Bunker Hill hung at
the end of a rope for thirty-two min
utes the other day in a gas-filled well.
The uncle, Herman Urban, was as
phyxiated. Boyles and his father were
pulled to the surface and saved. Ur-
ban, with the elder Boy1es and his
son, was cleaning a well near their
home when Urban, who was in the
well. was overcome with gas. The ell
der Boyles descended Immediately to
save him. He was also overcome.
Arthur Boyles then lowered himself
with rope and supported his fathers
head above the gas line until work
men at the house heard his cries and
rescued the two. The body of Urban
was not recovered for two hours Ar
thur Boyles is a member of the Kan
sas national guard.
Editor Joins the Army. w. H.
Woodhouse, editor of the Valley City
Independent. chairman of the county
exemption board and a member of the
last Kansas legislature, has sold his
paper to L. B. Greenbank, SON of a
Little River, Kan, editor, and will go
| into the officers reserve corps.
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Mute Killed by Train.-Orto Ash
| well was run Town and killed by a
Missouri Pacific freight train at the
| Council Grove rock crusher. Ashwe1l,
who is mute, was coming from work
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w. r. C. Worker Dead.-MrS. Mary
| Sparkling, 70 years old, is dead at her
home in Arkansas City. She was
prominent worker in the woman's re-
| lief corps.
w. A. White to France.-William
Allen White has left Emporia for an
| Atlantic port, where he will take pas
| sage for France in the service of the
| American Red Cross.
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| Nitro" Blowup Kills Mana nitro
glycerine motto rear driver, whose name
| is thought to have been Corder, was
| blown to pieces near Chanute recently
when his cargo exploded
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| Farm Fire Near OIathe.-A loss of
| So, 900 was sustained in a fire which
| destroyed a barn, a silo and one thous-
| and bales of hay on the farm, of w. E.
| Wright, six miles southeast of Olathe
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Killed by Mower.-G- c. Shackel
ford, so years old, was killed near
Pratt when he fell beneath the wheels
| of a moving machine. A neighbor
noticed the team running away with
the mower Shackelford was found
| dead in the field.
Cattle Under Quarantine.-Four
| hundred head of cattle IN fIa Chew