The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-16
WHEAT IN KANSAS
New j. C. MOhIer 33O-Page
Book OF Presses Today.
Extensive Grain Record by Sec
rotary of Agriculture.

Wheat in Kansas is the name of
a new $50 page book issued by J. c.
Mohler. secretary of the state board
of agriculture. The book, which
promises to attract wide attention to
the Kansas wheat growing industry
and among farmers and grain men,
came from the state printing presses
today and is one of the most attractive
publications ever issued by a state de-
partment.
The cover page is the reproduction
of a field of big wheat heads and is a
most fitting cover design for the pub
LEGATION. The book goes into every
phase of the wheat growing industry
in this state with extensive records
and statements from producers as to
successes in raising various wheat on
Kansas soil. 1t is probable that the
new wheat book will have one of the
widest circulations of any of the dis
cussions by the state department. of
agricultural problems in Kansas.
Secretary Mohler gives Kansas a
great boost as to her prominence in
wheat production in his preface. The
preface tells the story of the publica-
ton of the new book which is certain
to attract attention of wheat growers.
a Boost to Kansas.
The preface is in part as follows:
This volume is essentially a Kansas
book, primarily for Kansas farmers, and
it will prove Of peculiar value to wheat
growers in all portions of the state. 1t
has been our endeavor to have it rank as
high in wheat literature as does Kansas
in wheat production-first We have tried
to make 1t cyclopedic, not. only as to
methods and practices, but with respect
to Kansas standing as a wheat producer
and the rating of her breadstuffs in the
estimation of the world.
Long ago Kansas established her right
to first place in aggregate production of
Whe9t, according to the impartial records
OF the United States department of agri-
culture, our highest authority. From her
broad acres there flows into the. channels
OF commerce more wheat than from any
other state in the Union. This is a his
torical fact none may dispute, but il re
CURED years to establish Kansas wheat
as the standard of excellence in the mind
Of the public, position it enjoys today
Ihere was no recognized court of last
resort for. determining this question. It
local pride influenced but Iatterly the
competitors of Kansas in wheat were
forced to acknowledge her leadership. and
IN the worlds grain and milling trade
the highest quality, as for years she has
been for greatest quantity.
Inc advantages of Kansas for wheat
growing are manifold. Main factors in
influencing quality of wheat are soil, eli
mate and seed Kansas, as no other like
territory has the soil required, the par
hcularly favorable climate and the matter
of seed is given attention. combination
of kindly circumstances Kansas wheat
WI
and either as n bread or pastry flour This
Is acknowledged by the domestic as we'll
as the export trade, and flour from Kan
sas wheat is constantly gaining in favor
not only in our own country but in Eng
land and on the continent. A prominent
flour merchant of Hamburg and London
recently went on record as saying: "Ameri- |
can wheats stand high in the estimation
of the people. but Kansas leads the world
There's nothing like the Kansas wheat
no other with much gluten so much
muscle and nerve-building material in it
1t has become 80 pOpulaT on the CONT
nent as well as in Great Britain that our ,
dealers have to carry it regardless of price
or profit leading miller in discussing
this wheat lately, says: 1T can be as
serted without fear of contradiction that |
the world does not produce a winter
wheat which surpasses Kansas hard wheat |
in gluten, the chief virtue in wheat"
To zealously uphold the standard of
Kansas wheat is vitality important. if the
state is to enjoy the full fruits of a repu-
tation so justly earned. and one of the |
aims of this volume is to point the way to !
even greater excellence, which implies not
only more intelligent but more prof = BILE |
wheat farming. If "Wheat in Kansas" is |
an aid to this end; if it helps to a better |
appreciation OF our natural advantages for |
wheat raising with respect to future posi- !
bllitles and assists to 4 correct under |
standing our pre-eminent leadership in
wheat production. We shall be amply re-
paid for its ma king"