The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-28
Kansas To Assume q New Re-
sponsibility in Food.
Steak Will Run q Close Second
to Bread Here.
AVENUE TO BROADWAY
Kansas Meat and Butter Known
in All Cities.
To Front Rank in World Stock
Raising Record.

Kansas is to assume a new respon-
sibility in feeding the world. The
beef steer is to take a place with the
big wheat belt in adding to the states
glory among nations. Wheat will not
obscure the states greatness as a meat
producing state. That was the dec
laration today of J. c. Mohler. secre-
tary of the state broad of agriculture,
in a special bulletin.
Last year the beefsteak from the
Kansas beef steer was worth $1OS,-
073,032. While the states beefsteak
crop was worth more than $10S, O00,-
900 the beef steers sister was keeping
more than $1,000 cream separators
humming and adding millions to cream
product values. 1t was the Kansas
wheat fields which produced bread for
the allied armies. But 1t was the beer
steer and his sister which scattered
beefsteaks from Kansas avenue to
Broadwa and the trenches in France
and gave pure. rich, golden Kansas
made butter to every section of the
world.
This Favored State. -
Secretary Mohler sees Kansas in the
front ranks of stock raising districts
Of the world. Her power is due to
increase. owing to the excellent grasses
produced here.
zone of the most important indus
tries in Kansas is that of raising and
feeding livestock and supplying the
market at home and abroad with
meats" said Mohler Continuing his
and future opportunities as a meat
producing state. Mohler said:
with her alfalfa, corn, sorghunns
and the grasses, the state Is admir-
ably fitted for meat production. and
the returns from animals slaughtered
nd oil 20 a 70. ach an.
resent approximately 20 per cent of
the annual income from farm
products.
Big Jump Last Year.
'In the year ending March 1. 1918,
the value of Kansas animals sent to
the shambles was greater by more
than so per cent than in any previ-
Gus year in the states history. the
total amounting to s10s.073,o32, ac.
cording to returns of assessors to the
state board of agriculture. The value
of livestock sold for meat in the pre-
vious year amounted to $81.596,28S
and the record previous to the year
Just passed was in 1910-1011, when
the total aggregated $50, 105.615. ~
There are three reasons for the
tremendous increase reported: wars
demands, high prices and shortage OF
feed caused by the poor crop season
of 1917. These conditions induced
many farmers to dispose of stock not
actually needed for breeding purposes.
while in some cases even breeding ami
mails were sacrificed.
THE larger aggregate incomes
from animals sold for slaughter were
in the counties of the eastern third
of the state. Butler leading with a re-
turn of $3.594,9s5, followed in order
by Nemaha s3,371.527, Wabaunsee
s3.1e1.os7, Morris $s,os4.5O4. Potta-
watomie s2.S56,477. Washington 81
1929. and Lyon s2,s72.2s5. OF the
fifty-nine counties comprising the east
ern half of the state only seventeen,
twelve of which are located in the
southeastern corner, reported a return
of less than 100000 each, while
block of ten counties in the central
part of the eastern half. each report
ing more than 100000, has con-
tributed approximately one-fourth of
the states total. These counties are
Dickinson, Wabaunsee, Morris, Nc
Pherson, Marion. Chase, Lyon, BuNer.
Greenwood and Cowley. noted for their
grazing lands. as well as for their
areas devoted to alfalfa. the sorghums
and corn-al1 of which products are
priced Matchmaking materials"