The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-09


right away how many are willing to
take hold.
The only way we can know upon
what to depend is to have every city
man enrolled who is willing to help,
and statement as to what he can
do. Actions and not words are what
viii count in this movement from now
on. The chamber of commerce of
every town and city has before it a
big opportunity in taking hold of
this enrolment"
The meat industry and its relation,
winning the war will be discussed by
prominent live stok growers packers,
commission men, college authorities,
the federal meat administrator and
one of Americas foremost military
men before the annual catleman's
meeting at the Kansas State Agricul-
tural College Friday, May 18th. Hun
dreds of persons are expected to at
tend.
j. P. Cotton, meat administrator
for the United Saes food adminisra-
ion, will be one of the leading speak
ers. He has charge of the buying of
all meats for the use of the army and
navy at home, for the allied armies
and the civilians of allied countries,
for the Belgian relief work and for
the Red Cross. He is the largest pur-
chaser of meats in the world
Dwight B. Heard of Phoenix, Ariz.
for several years president of the
American National Live Stock Asso-
citation, is scheduled to spaek Mr..
Heard usually grazes 1000 head of
cattle on alfalfa pasture and feeds
from 600 to 1920 head year He is
chairman of the state council of de-
tense of Arizon.
Practical experience in the packing
industry gained for Thomas E. vii
son the presidency of Wilson &
| company, packers Mr.. Wilson, anoth-
er speaker, was for several years with
Morris and company, packers.
Major Leonard Wood, commanding
| the eighty-ninth division Of the ma
tlonal army at Camp Funston, will
| talk of the food needs of the allied
armies. General Wood recently re-
| turned from a visit to France, where
he was wounded by an accidental ex-
| p1osion of shrapnel.
Other speakers on the program are
]. G. Swift of Kansas City, Mo-, mem
! Der of the firm of Swift and Henry
| Commission Company; R. J. Kinzer,
| Kansas City, Mo-, member of the
Kansas Hereford Breeders associa-
! ton and former professor of animal
:sOandry in the college; and W. H.
Pew, head of the animal husbandry
department of the Iowa college,
Ames, Iowa.
Announcement will be made at the
convention of the results obtained by
the college from feeding six lots of
| calves and developing them into year
ling beef.
The animals have been used this
winter to determine the comparative
value of different rations. Corn and
| alfalfa were used as a checI- raion
| IN comparing shelled corn and ground
| corn, inseed meal and cottonseed
meal. Results of a test to determine
the effect of the addition of linseed
meal and silage to the check ration of
| corn and alfalfa also will be an
nounced.
Rise corn for silage in the north
| eastern part of Kansas and sorghum
IN Western Kansas, suggests B. S.
Wilson, assistant in cooperative ex-
periments in the Kansas State Agri-
cultural College.
Sweet sorghum yields more heavily
| than corn and the feeding value is
practically the same. The strong plea
for corn instead of sweet sorghum
for silage is that it is much easier to
| and contains more water.
In southeastern Kansas on the thin
| ner soils it pays to grow sweet sor-
ghum rather than corn. A richer soil
is required for corn than for sorghum
corn is better adapted to northeast
en- Kansas. Sweet sorghum is a hot
weather crop-it is planted two or
three weeks later than corn. The
seed rots easily-the seed is especial
| ly immature this season so planting
mould be delayed until the ground is
warm.
Orange and sumac sorghum are
good varities for eastern Kansas. In
the western part of the states earlier
varieties, such as red amber and west
ern orange, should be grown.
For corn silage Hildreth CONNER
clal white and Roseland white are
large growing and late maturing.
They will produce the maximum
amount of silage for that crop.
Fifty tomato plants well cultivat-
ed and well Watered-if watreing be-
comes necessary-wl produce in dol
lars and cents average returns equal
those realized from a half acre of
wheat asserts George o. Greene, ex-
tension horticulturist In the Kansas
Stae Agricultural College.
With the same care and attention
given corn, omatoes will produce thir-
teen times the gross returns of corr"
Mr.. Greene pointed out. "When com
ced with the prices paid by farm
ers for tomatoes in cans the returns
will be approximately 169 times the
returns of corn.
No other vegetable, excepting the
potato, which may be considered as a
field crop instead of a garden vege-
tble, plays so importnt a part in the
farmers bill of fare. No other vege-
table Is so often found in the farm
ers garden, nor is there another so
universally purchased.
More than half the farmers In the
rain belt, where the soil Is highly
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