Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1918-05-30
State Plans Honor
Roll For Citizens
Badges and Certificates for Brilliant
Work in All Lines of Industry
and Endeavor.

Topeka, Kan.-Now that the State
Board of Administration, which has
charge of the educational institutions
of Kansas, is working on a plan to
honor its citizens for any distinctive
service to the commonwealth, it may
not be out of order to mention a few
cases where the proposed Certificates
of Recognition" might be justly be-
slowed, were the plan already in work
ing order.
Kansas has a man who has grown
the highest recorded number of
bushels of corn to the acre in the
country. He is S. G. Trent, of Hia-
watha. In growing more than 100
bushels of corn per acre, Trent bred
a variety of field corn that is partic-
ularly adaptable to the Kansas climate
and soils.
]. M. Gilman, of Leavenworth, has
bred an entirely new variety of corn
that is almost, if not quite, the equal
of the Trent corn.
These men would be entitled to Ger
tificates of Recognition from the State
of Kansas under the certificate plan.
The late Bernard Warkentin of New
ton brought to Kansas the first bushel
of the Russian hard red winter wheat
from the Crimea. He would be en-
titled to one of the certificates if alive,
because it is this same hard red wheat
that has made Kansas famous wheat
state and the largest producer of
wheat of any similar area in the world.
j. G. Freed of Scott City, has de-
veleped an entirely new variety of
sorghum, particularly adaptable to the
arid regions of the state. The govern
ment has recognized this new plant
and calls it Freed Sorgho.
]. w. Lough of Scott City, was the
first man to demonstrate that pump ir
rigation was practicable upon the
tablelands of western Kansas, and
thus was opened to settlement many
thousands of acres of land regarded
as worthless except for grazing.
G. Fred Miller of Topeka, demon
strated the value of sweet clover as
forage. All of these men will be
Recognized"
There are large number of horses,
cattle, hog and sheep breeders in the
state who have brought tabout won
derful development in their herds, be-
coming specialists along certain lines
and authorities throughout the coun-
try.
Then Kansas has authors, such as
William Allen White and Mrs. Mar
garet Hill McCarter, and historian in
Miss Anna Arnold, who wrote the
Kansas history now used in the
schools of the state. Kansas has sew
eral physicians who have done special
work and who have received honorary
degrees from schools and colleges In
the various parts of the world.
There are several women conduct
ing farms and stock ranlhes. Miss
special variety of wheat which makes
the highest average yields for five
year periods in the state. Her entire
crop is puchased by state agricultural
colleges for experimental purposes for
years in advance.
1t is these persons who are doing
things worth while in Kansas and
along Kansas lines that the state seeks
to honor by granting the certificates
of recognition, which will show what
they have done to merit them. The
Legislature is to be asked to allow
an appropriation for an insignia to be
given with the certificates and to be
worn like a fraternal badge or the
medals granted bf governments for
unusual bravery.