The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-03-24

The Western Kansas chalk beds
form one of the richest fossil fields in
the world, according to Professor
Martin. 1t has produced thousands
of samples of fish types, and is visited
yearly by many fossil seekers from
all parts of the United States. 1t has
been one of the most visited fossil
deposits of the country for the last
fifty years.
KANSAS FARM BUREAU NOTES
Topeka, Kans., March 22.-Repre-
sentatives of all of the farm organ
izations in Kansas met here last week
and elected eight delegates to a meet
ing which will be held in Chicago,
April 6, to ratify, amend, or reject
the cooperative marketing plan pro-
posed by the Committee of IT,"
Each organization was allowed to
elect its own delegate. The eighth
was elected at large.
The delegates elected are:
R. c. Obrecht, Topeka, Farmers
Union
B. Needham, Lane, Kansas State
Grange
A. c. Bailey, Kinsley,i National Wheat
Growers Association
F. o. Peterson, Burdick, Kansas State
Farm Bureau
T. NJ. Jones, Garden City, National
Farmers EQUITY Union
J. B. Brown, Larned, Farmers Co
operative Grain Dealers Assn
H. W. Avery, Wakefield, Kansas State
Board of Agriculture
W. B. Loomis, Williamsburg, dele
gate-at-large
Manhattan, Kansas, March %
Kansas State Farm Bureau has asked
President W. NJ. Jardine of Kansas
State Agricultural College, to estab-
fish courses in cooperative marketing
to be offered to students in the col
lege next year.
Heretofore, no such courses have
been offered with the result that it
has been found difficult to obtain sue
cessful cooperative managers for the
different cooperative organizations
which have been formed recently.
Difficulties have been encountered in
other states in putting a cooperative
marketing program into effect be-
cause of the lack of trained leaders.
The agricultural college has been
asked to put in short courses as we'll
as courses in the regular curriculum.
The short courses will permit man
ayers of cooperative elevators and
managers of cooperative shipping
associations to spend a few weeks at
the college in preparing to handle
their work better.
Recent freight advances have been
such that the farmers cannot con-
tinue to produce at maximum un-
less readjustments are made. This
was the concensus of opinion of dele
gates from twenty states, attending
the national conference of shippers,
called by the American Farm Bureau
Federation, which met in Chicago,
March IA.
Delegates attending the conference
pointed out that freight rates are now
so high that when the shippers of
farm products had paid the freight to
| the terminal markets they had little
left for the product The delegate
stated that he could get only 40 cents
bushel for his corn on the farm in
Iowa. It cost p cents to ship the
corn to Chicago.
1t was pointed out that not only
the farmers, but also the railways,
lose money from the high rates.
Transportation costs at the present
time are so high as to be prohibitive,
it was stated.
Resolutions were passed: ~ ask
ing that the rate making rule of the
Transportation Act be repealed; ~
favoring the restoration of the
powers of the state with respect to
interstate rates; (3) fayoring amend
ment of the Transportation Act SO
that the railway labor board may
grant reasonable wages and not com
| pei the roads to pay more than
reasonable rates will provide; "a
urging the Interstate Commerce Com
mission to proceed at once to make
freight rate adjustments so as to
move the traffic of the country; 90
asking the carriers to distribute car;
equitably and not discriminate il
favor of any one commodity; and
| (6) requesting the Interstate Com
merce Commission to require carrier:
to file their car service rules as reg
ularly published tariffs.
The railway owners and railway
labor as well as shippers, were repre-
scented at the conference.
First Published in the Hays Free
Press, March "a, 1920.
Executrix Notice
State of Kansas, Ellis County, IS.
In the Probate Court in and for saiC