The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-07
KANSAS FARMERS SPEED UP
Record Averages of Corn and Sorghum
Planted in State This Year,
Says MohIer

Every spring crop grown in Kansas
has broken every record for acreages
the state has ever made. J. c. Mob
Ter, secretary of the Kansas Board OF
Agriculture, has compiled the figures
on corn and the grain sorghums and
they, too, have beaten every record
The corn acreage went TO 100000
acres, the largest ever known. Dry
and wet weather in different sections
Of the state have cut down the con-
ditiOn in some counties, hut as a whole
it looks like the biggest corn year the
state has ever known.
The average condition Of corn for
the state is 1874 per cent Until re-
Gently the weather generally has been
too cool, and the corn in the main is
small and backward. In many east
ern counties the soil was for a time
entirely too wet, while in nearly all
the western counties 1t has been too
dry. Throughout the state much re-
planting has been necessary, amount
ing in the Kaw river counties TO more
than one-half the area, while now and
then comes reports of fields that have
been planted as many as three and
even four times. In the more moist
eastern half of the state, where the
larger acreages are found, recent
warmer weather has been beneficial, 1
although conditions in the western
part continue unfavorably dry. For
corn, rains would be welcomed in all
sections. Cultivation is progressing
and as a rule the fields are reported
clean of weeds.
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Ordered to Sue on Bonds.-The
board of county commissioners of
Sedgwick county has instructed the
county attorney TO bring suit against
bondsmen in twenty-one cases where
bonds have been declared forfeited by
the courts. Most of The actions are in
liquor cases.
Earthquake Is Recorded. - The
needle on the Kansas university seis-
mograph quivered recently, indicating
a heavy earthquake, which Prof F z.
Kester estimates centered 5000 miles
away, probably in Italy.
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Drowned in Smoky Hill River
both of prominent families. were
drowned near Abilene the other night
while canoeing on the Smoky Hill
river. The bodies were recovered
Voted Paved Roads-The other
night $50 delegates from along the
/ Pixies Peak-Ocean-to-Ocean Highway
/ in Brown, Doniphan and Nemaha cOun-
| ties voted in favor OF paved roads
across the three counties
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An Abilene Capitalist Dead.-Hfland
Southworth, a wealthy capitalist at
Abilene for twenty-five years, died the
other morning after years illness.
Degrees to fs9 Kansas Aqgies.-
Degrees were granted 10 1S9 seniors
at the annual graduation exercises OF
recently. In addition, eight received
the degree OF master Of science and
five received professional degrees
W. o. Thompson. president Of Ohio
state university, delivered the com
mencement address.
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Seneca Man Heads Judoes.@Judge
". Il. Higgins OF Seneca was elected
president and Judge Ed W Thompson
of Concordia seeretary+reasurer Of
the Probate Judges Association OF
Kansas. Salina was chosen as the
1918 meeting place
Girls Unload Car OF SaIt-A 15-tor
car OF salt was unlOaded at Hymer re
Gently by Nellie Peckham and Gladys
Young, 15year-old girls, who wanted
TO make money to be turned over fol
j rstriotic uses The girls finished
their task in three hours.