The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-08
PLAN FARM MEET
State Agricultural Convention
in Topeka Jan. IA and Is.
Speakers of National Promi-
nence Are on the Program.
TAYLOR, JARDINE and HARRIS
Attention to Better Distribution
and Market Systems.
Farmers All Feel MiddIemen's
Profit Too Big-Mohler.
'AYLOR, JARDINE and HARRIS

Economic problems of the farmer
viii be given special attention at the
forty-ninth annual agricultural con-
vention to be held in Topeka January
IA and 5 under the auspices of the
state board of agriculture.
An elaborate program is being pre-
pared which will include speakers of
national as well as of local promi-
nence. Kansas farmers have been so
busy trying to increase production, ac-
cording to ]. c. Mohler, secretary of
the board, that comparatively little
thought has been given to such oues-
tions as better systems of distribution
and increased market facilities
Production is. of course, primarily
important" said Mohler. ''but the
farmers are pretty well adapted to
the methods and practices insuring
success and they have reached a point
where they want to know more about
matters relating to their business but
largely out of their hands. They feel
that the spread is entirely too great
between what they receive and what
the consumer pays. in many in
Stances
National and Local Speakers.
Speakers of national prominence, as
well as local authorities, will be on
the program. DR.. H. c. Taylor, head
of the office of farm management of
the United States department of agri-
culture, will address the convention
on 1.-The Farmers Economic Prob
lens Doctor Taylor was formerly
professor of rural economics in the
UniveIs Isity of Wisconsin, and is re-
garded as one of the country'S fore
most thinkers. President w. NJ. Jar
dine, of the State Agricultural college,
will appear on the same sessions pro-
To-
THE Importance of Keeping Record
of the Production of Farm Crops" B..
F. Harris, of Champaign, Ill, is an
other widely known champion of agri-
culture. He is a farmer-banker, pio-
neered the banker-farmer movement,
launched the Banker-Farmer maga-
zine, and actively manages his own
farms and operates them without ten
ants. Mr.. Harris is brilliant orator.
and a message from him under the
caption of Agriculture and American
ism" will be worth a trip to Topeka
to hear, Mohler asserted. The i'm
portant matter of Standardization of
Farm Machinery" will be thoroly dis
cussed, and the Western Implement
Dealers association has delegated
Senator A. A. Doerr, of Larned, as
its representative, to inform the con-
vention of what progress has been
made by the dealers and manufacture
bered that the movement for stand
ardization was initiated by the state
board of agriculture at its meeting
year ago, and its committee to confer
with the dealers and manufacturers
met a cordial reception, with promises
of cooperation.
Doerr to Make Report.
During the year serious considera-
ton has been given the matter by the
makers and handlers of farm machin-
cry, and Senator Doerr will report the
headway made.
"Other speakers on the program
will be announced later" Mohler said.
Matters relating to industrial read
justments as affecting agriculture will
doubtless occupy much of the time of
the convention, and the farmers of
Kansas ought to take advantage of
this opportunity to express their views.
Whosoever will may come, and every
body is invited to take part" The
secretary said the outlook Is for the
biggest and best convention ever held.