The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-16
Every Department of Farm
Work Will Be Covered.
OUT ON A SPRING CAMPAIGN
State Council of Defense Will
Use MOhIer Information.
Wheat, Corn, Investments and
the Labor Situation.

Kansas viii receive her first official
announcement of crop conditions from
the state board of agriculture in re-
port to be issued late this week by J.
c. Mohler, secretary of the state board
of agriculture. The report will give
the first estimate of the year from
Mothers 1000 correspondents as to
That report will be of concern to the
state. the nation and the allies.
Crop reporters will cover conditions
as they existed in various crop grow
ing localities last Saturday. More
than 1900 statements of conditions
are expected from the 1000 local crop
reporters. The April report will cover
wide range of farm investigation.
Not only will information be gathered
concerning the condition of the winter
wheat crop, but reports are asked con-
corning probable acreages of corn and
potatoes and conditions of oats and
barley as compared with last year.
One of the vitality important questions
asked by Secretary Mohler concerns
the farm labor situation. He asks for
information both as to the labor sup
ply ano the general progress of spring
work on the farm.
New Spring Campaign.
Much valuable information will be
contained in the report which will be
made public in a few days. AS a re-
suit of the crop and labor inquiry by
Secretary Mohler, the state council of
national defense will direct its spring
campaign in various farming COM
munities. AS many as dozen or
twenty reports will be compiled from a
number of the more important farm
districts.
Coming out of a more or less I'M
favorable winter. Kansas farmers are
now studying soil conditions and have
gathered rather accurate information
as to crop prospects. All of this jim
formation will be contained in the
Mohler report. Since the reports
we're compiled in local districts, gen.
erai rains have fallen turnout the
state and great benefit has come to
the wheat growers in western coun-
ties
Crop QUESTIONABLE.
Here is the QUESTIONABLE sent to
| the loca. crop observers:
Wheat: What per cent Gf any, of
the total acreage sown to winter
wheat il your county is worthless or
SO unpromising that it will probably
| be abandoned or devoted to other
CROPS?
| Deducting all likely to be plowed
up OF worthless, and calling a good
| average stand and condition 100 per
cent, at what per cent do you estimate
| the present condition of that which
| Are soil conditions now favorable
| for vigorous growth?
/ Will there be much seeding of oats
/ in thin stands of wheat for a COM
bination wheat and oats crop?
Oats: How will the oats acreag &c
compare with that of last year?
| What is the condition of oats? E.
| Barley: How will the barley acre
| age compare with that of last year
| Potatoes: How will the acreage OF
! potatoes this year compare with that
| of last?
! Corn: How will the probable acre
age of corn this year compare with
| that OF last?
Crops in Farmers Hands: What
| per cent of last years crops are in the
hands of farmers?
| Labor: Is there any serious short
age of farm help in your county to-
war d enlisting men and boys of the
cities for farm work, especially dur
ing the harvest season, to meet any
labor shortage that may Develop
| Spring Work: Is spring work pro-
crossing rapidlyo