The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-08-11
Kansas Council of pefense

4OpOhd, mar august hfn--SeGQ
for next seasons vcget able garden
will be high in price and the suIpIy
of some of the best varieties may
not be equal 20 the demand, believes
the Kansas Council of Defense.
The sale of vegetable seed this year
has greatly exceeded that of any pre-
v1ous year, and indications are that
the large area now devoted to garden
ing will be extended next spring In
view of this situation, it is thought
that it will be to the advantage of
many gardeners to save seed from
their own crop.
Among the garden crops from
which seed may be easily and profit
ably saved are sweet corn, beans,
peas, tomatoes, cucumbers, melons,
and spinachs. In selecting seed only
that from the strongest and best de
veloped. plants, true to the variety
type, should be taken. The saving of
seed in large quantities is a special
lied business, but on a small scale in
wolves little expense
The turnip, because of its hardi-
ness, high food value, and excellent
storing qualities, is a general favor
tie among garden vegetables for late
summer planting, points out the
state council of defense.
The variety of ways in which tur-
n1ps may be prepared for the table is
| almost unlimited.
Tradition has it, sow turnips the
twenty-ffth of July, wet or dry. but
IN most of Kansas this vegetable
should give a good account of itself
IT sown week or two after that date.
Sowing on very mellow ground gives
the best results. Vacant spaces in
the garden where earlier crops have
matured can be put into condition
with small effort.
Turnips are one of the most salts
factory vegetables to store for winter
use.
The income of the Kansas farmer
for the coming year will be limited
only by the amount of wheat he can
produce. This is the statement of DR..
Henry Jackson Waters, president of
the Kansas Council of Defense.
Usually when the yield has been
nigh the price has gone down." conf
mented Doctor Waters, F'but with a
fixed minimum price that will not be
| the case The state ought to repeat
the crop of 1914-2G bushels an acre
raise the first 2OO,OOO,OOO bushel
wheat crop in history, and ought to
get $3.50 a bushel for it. French,
English and Eastern United States
money will come pouring into the
state
Doctor Waters, who recently re
turned from Washington and other
| eastern cities, states that people
there are much interested in Kansas
plan to plant 100000 acres to
wheat largest acreage in the
! country though they feel that it is
no more than the states quota.
The government is interested, says
| Doctor Waters, since there is a great
shortage of fertilizer, labor and ma
| chinery, in not disturbing normal,
successful practices. Deviafions from
the normal are likely to call for new
machinery and large amounts of fer
| tilizer for crops that can be grown
| elsewhere without fertilizer
Disturbance of the labor situation
would also be certain. Z
If the yield of wheat in the state
/ of New York, were to be doubled. as
| some have advocated" said Doctor
! Waters, "a great amount of seeding
and harvesting machinery would have
to be purchased, thus robbing the
great wheat regions of their supply
Moreover, q great quantity of ferti-
| hzers would be necessary and this
would cut down the supply to the
truck crops of New Jersey and the
cotton of the south. On the other
hand, wheat can be grown in Kansas
without fertilizer, without additional
machinery and-because of the great
open fields and level country of the
state-with less man power"
The labor shortage bound to exist
in the country will first manifest it
self acutely, Doctor Waters, believes
IN the corn harvest, which, barring
bad weather conditions, should be ex-
ceedingly heavy.