The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-03-28
KANSAS STATE AGRICULTURAL
COLLEGE


KANSAS STATE AGRICULTURAL
COLLEGE
Manhattan, Kansas, March 81
Good records are being made by the
agricultural college dairy cows
Melrose Canary Bell, a two year
old Ayrshire heifer, won the French
prize cup given by Miss G. H. French
of Boston to the best two year old
Ayrshire heifer in the United States.
This cow produced 1875 pounds of
milk and 500 pounds of butter fat
last year. She holds third place among
the best Ayrshire heifers in the
world.
The Owls Design, twelve year old
dairy cow, holds the state record for
the production of butter fat, and has
just finished a test in which she pro-
duced 602 pounds of butter fat for
the year. This is the third year in
which this cow has produced more
than 600 pounds of butter fat.
Don't swat the mosquito but swat
its breeding place, advises Leland D.
Bushnell, professor of bacterioIogv in
the Kansas State Agricultural Col
lege. Now is the time to begin.
Most persons spend too much time
killing the pests with swatters and
and building smudge fires to drive
them away, an doften much money is
spent to screen them out when the
thing to do is clean up the premises.
In the cleanup the old family rain
barrel should be discarded or tightly
covered. All tin cans and rubbish
should be hauled away, knot holes in
trees which will hold water should
be filled with cement and if there is
a swampy region near, it should be
drained or covered with kerosene.
Sometimes the inside of the house
should be cleaned as we'll as the sur
roundings. Vessels of water in which
the table legs are placed to prevent
ants from getting on the table fire.
quently have mosquitoes IN them. Ne
elected vases and pitchers of water
often are breeding places. Some mos
Quitoes are particular in the selection
Of their home and take the chruch
fount for their abode.
Agricultural War Conferences will
be conducted in Kansas at five points
April 1 to April 5, for the purpose of
giving those who attend a compre-
hensive and intimate view of the ma
tlonal and world situation N regard
to agricultural production and the
need for food.
Conferences will be held in Seneca,
April 1; ConeOrdia, April 2; Cotton
wood Falls, April 6 Larned, April 4
and Coffeyville, April B. At each
point programs will be given after
noon and evening. At Seneca the an
uual meeting of the Seneca county
farm buro--I viii be held in connec-
ton with the conference and Mt COT
fvville the meeting OF fine Southeast
Kansas Live Stock Association and its
first annual sole will be combined with
the conference.
The national program for food
production will be presented by Dr.
1 c. F. Curtiss, dean of the Iowa State
/ College. Doctor Curtiss is meeting
with other agricultural men in Wash
/ ington this week for the purpose of
obtaining the latest information in re-
gard 60 the agricultural needs of the
countries at war with Germany.
| J. G. Mohler, secretary of the Kan
sas state board of agriculture will dis
80 accomplishments of Kans9e
along lines of agricultural produc-
/ ton and its possibilities. E. G. John
son. dean of the division of extension
| of the agricultural college, will dis
cuss some of the problems of the
farmers of Kansas and will tell of the
organizations which are most helpful
in economical production. No spe-
cial appeal will be made at these
meetings for increased production
but the facts will be presented and
each one present may draw his own
conclusions.
These conferences will be held I'M
der the joint auspices of thesKansas
State Council of Defense, the United
States department of agriculture, the
Kansas State Agricultural College,
and the Kansas state board of agri-
culture. Locally the county. farm
bureaus, farmers institutes and coun-
ty councils of defense will cooperate
in arranging fer the conference.
All day school house meetings at
itnded by farmers who go to school
with their children for the day are
being tried out in Morris county un-
der the direction of A l. Clamp
county agricultural agent.
These occasional all-day meetings
make for the Capitalization of com
Tnunity social interests and enable the
county agents to push such projects
as the seed and labor survey boys anC
girls clubs, and farm management
studies.