The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-09-25
GETTING THE MOST
FROM CROP money
IS here DISCUSSED
Farmers Are Urged to Invest a Part Of
Their Crop Money This Year
In Savings Stamps.

Crops are big and prices are good
and every farmer would like to know
how to get the most out of his crop
money. Juggling figures Is q fascinat-
ing game anyhow. Even Mother Goose
took a fling at 1t. You remember, III
all the seas were one sea, what great
sea that would be-" You might cap
this If you had happened to travel all
one bright June day through Kansas
wheat with, "If all the wheat fields
were one field, what great wheat
field that would bel"
Jacob Mohler, the secretary Of Agri-
culture out in Kansas, likes to figure
with the golden wheat crop Of his
state. He calculates that If Kansas
grinds her 20O,0OO0O0 million bushels
of wheat into -four and then makes
one big baking, that she might invite
all the world to breakfast and serve
each person eight hot biscuits apiece
According to the latest figures, the
secretary would have to cut that
breakfast to six biscuit but that Is a
big enough world breakfast to make
Kansas swell with pride.
That Is one way Of figuring Kansas
wheat. The farmers of the Sunfiower
State are figuring too. They always
figure In thousands, whether 1t Is bu-
shells, acres or dollars-so many thou
sands for a new tractor, so many thou
sands for more land, and sometimes so
many thousands to pay off the mort
gage,
How many thousands of this years
crop money are being set aside for the
education of the thousands of future
farmers now scampering over wheat
stubble or going down the cotton row
Let us figure awhile on turning wheat
into education. There Is no better in
vestment today of farm profits, for the
profitable farm of the future belongs
to the farm engineer. The man train
ed to make machinery do his work
will reap the profits and also secure
the leisure that good farmer de-
serves. Shorter hours and higher
pay can be secured only through edu-
cation OF the highest type.
If the $3OO,OOO,OOO Kansas receives
for her crop should be evenly divided
it would mean nearly 5000 apiece for
every man, woman and child in the
state. But apportioning this to the
Kansas babies, we can set aside one
half for expenses and still leave $15OC
for each aKnsas child under five years
fage. Investing this sum in Septem'
Der War Savings Stamps, 1t would
yield an education fund of $17S5.71 by
January, 1924. This amount reinvest'
ed at four per cent. compound inter
est would give each youngster $27O(
college fund by September, 1884.
Unfortunately however, every Kan
sas baby hasn't wheat farmer for {
father. So let us get down to the
wheat farmer and see what he can d.
for the education fund. Taking Bawne'
county, the 718 farmers of this coun
ty according 10 one statistician, aver
aged $4,000 on their wheat crop. Evel
allowing for a considerable cut, THU
Is enough money to pay all crop ok
penses, to set aside enough money TO
the. education of each child in tn
family and still leave money in tn
bank for living expenses:
There is no more powerful flgur
on the horizon today than the wheat
cotton or tobacco farmer. He can d
much to guarantee the continued pros
perity of America and the future of hi
pwR children II he will only invest
part of his crop money in the making
OF farm engineers out of the little one
now toddling across his floor or goin