The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-05-19
FROM A FORMER RESIDENT.

w ull0 agree IH6
above writer, 1 do not think he
went far enough in advocating what
should be taught in the public schools.
In order that you may understand
just what I mean 1 will explain a lit
tie. l grew up on these prairies and
received what education the country
schools could give me and finished in
the town schools.
After that l attended the State Ag-
ricultural College and believe me ]
learned a lot and I found out just
how little l knew, but failed to learn
that which l was always longing for.
I have been miserable most of my life
because l hadn't been able to acquire
knowledge along this particular line.
But the day came when l accidently
found the desired information I had
been seeking
In the Ladies World there is de-
partment called the Ready Made
Girl" and the editor of that depart
ment issues a "Color Scheme Chart
for Every Type also a chart called
"What to Wear, When and Where"
These charts l sent for and found
them to be just what l needed and
just what many other people need.
have shown them to friends and
they invariably ask where I got
them for they wanted them too.
If I had only had them years ago
when l went to college l wouldn't
have appeared so queer and neither
would l have felt so queer for I felt
the difference at once between my
self and the students who had been
more fortunate than l in learning
how to dress.
l must say l think the schools
should take this subject of dress up,
for while some have a natural taste
for dressing properly others do not,
but what they need is a chance to
learn.
How can parents teach their chill
dren what they themselves do not
know. A little girl nine years old,
spent part of the summer with us and
I taught her how to set a table as /
had learned to set it while taking Do
nestle Science. She went home and
taught her mother, for her mother
had never had chance to learn the
art of setting a table properly.
You know that while most people
would be offended if they were told
they were not dressed with good
taste they would willingly be taught
how, through the medium of the
newspapers, magazines, schools and
colleges.
When good manners and how to
dress properly for each occasion is
taught in the schools, there will be
less grief and lot more happiness for
q great many people.
A Free Press Reader.
Manhattan, Kansas, May THE
best crops for Western Kansas in this
war year, formed the scheme of a
meeting of farmers at the Fort Hays
Experiment Station. 1t was grain
sorghum day.
1t was generally agreed that well
adapted varieties of corn and the
grain sorghums would be of the great
est service for planting this spring.
That this is no time to experiment
NTH new crops was the message
brought by Prof. L. E. Call from the
Kansas State Agricultural college
Beans, he emphasized are not a crop
suitable for growing on a field scale
in the state. Every farmer should
grow enough string and shell beans
for home use, he pointed out, but to
plant beans on a much larger scale
would probably prove disastrous
Professor Call expressed himself
strongly in favor of corn and grain
sorghuns, suggesting that if a con-
it might be wise to divide it equally
between the two crops. y farmer
wishing to put in a rowed crop with
rows the ordinary distance apart will
find corn preferable, as it will leave
the ground in better condition for
seeding wheat in the fall. Corn is al
most somewhat easier to plant and
harvest than are the sorghums.
On the other hand, the grain sorgh-
ums are more dependable. If the
ground is to be used for wheat in the
fall, however, the rows planted should
be twice as far apart as usual Pro
fessor Call pointed out that there is a
strong demamnd for grain sorghums
I-kair, milo and feterita-on the
market The forage sorghum, such as
| Sudan grass, Freed's sorghum, and
| the amber sorghums should be
grown only if one owns live stock OF
has sure and ready market.
Chas- R. Weeks, superintendent of
the Hays Station, laid stress on the
| Importance of getting seed from the
north and west rather than the south
and east in order to insure maturity
| IN the growing season. Superinten-
/ dent Weeks has arranged to have the
/ Experiment Station at Hays act as
an emergency clearing house for seed
/ R. ". Getty of the Hays Station
gave the results of tests on silage
| production at the station. The gener-
al results indicated that the forage
sorghums produced the largest
amount of siIage to the acre, the
grain sorghums standing next, and
corn third.
Food Control for the United States
Next to organizing the army the
most important item in the universal
service program has to do with food
Preliminary to any action by congress
m dealing with this factor of the prob
lem, farmers and others have been
wisely admonished as to the impera-
tive necessity not only of increased
production but OF greater care IN the
preservation and use Of foodstufs, tc