The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-18
AID "SPUD" CROP
U. p. to Stage Potato Better
ment Campaign Next Week.
Send Demonstration Car and
Speakers TO Kaw Valley.

The Union Pacific. cooperating
with the Kansas State Agricultural
college, will conduct its kaw valley
potato betterment campaign next
week by operating a ''spud" special
over its line between Manhattan and
Kansas City or demonstration pur-
poses. The dates of the campaign are
March 20 to %, inclusive.
Ihe special. which will consist or
car attached to regular trains. Will
make stops at all of the important
potato growing towns and meetings
will be held wherever the necessary
arrangements are made by the local
authorities.
The train viii be in Topeka prac-
tically all day Wednesday, March p,
and the meeting here will be held at
the directors room of the Shawnee
State bank. in North Topeka. COM
mencing at 10 O'Clock in the fore
noon. Frank Blecha. county farm
agent. is making an effort to have as
many potato growers In TINS vlclnity
attend the meeting as possible All
demonstrations and LECTURES will be
absolutely free.
Car VIII Carry Exhibits.
The car which the Union Pacific
will run will be filled with all kinds
of exhibits from the agricultural col
lege of special interest 10 the tuber
raisers of the Kaw valley and will
show how the diseases of the potato
plant can be taken care of as well as
all the most improved and most mod
ern methods for handling gathering
and shipping of ne crop.@ Everyone is
invited to inspect the car and its ex-
hibits and attendants will be on hand
to explain the show in detail.
For the meetings that will be held
as a part of the campaign, a special
corps OF experts from the agricul-
tural college has been secured. They
will include f. D. Farrell, dean of
the school of agriculture; H. L. UNI
L. Z. Call, chief of the agronomy de-
partment; Albert Dickens, of the hor-
ticulture department; z. A. Stokdyke,
of the plant pathology department; E.
E. Wells, soil specialist, and several
others Seed selection. seed treatment
plant diseases. soil management and
insect control will be covered by the
speakers in fact. every phase of po-
tato culture will be discussed.
kaw Valley Must Improve.
THE Kaw valley potato growers
must watch their step or they will find
them to the market" said George ].
Mohler, travelling supervisor of agri-
culture for the Union Pacific, in max
ing preparation for the betterment
campaign. Il particularly refer to
Carney, Nebraska at this time. Last
year with $500 acres planted to po-
tatoes this territory topped the early
market This year the growers up
there are planning on a 5000 acreage.
The growers there have informed
themselves of all the latest methods
of planting, growing, gathering and
marketing.
1T is up to the Kaw valley growers
to get busy. They must improve their
products SO that a wider marketing
area is possible if they would hold
their present advantage in this section
of the country. That is the reason the
Union Pacific is now hoping as many
as possible will take advantage of
what we have to show them at this
time"
The Schedule
The "spud' special will leave Man
haitian Monday morning March 20.
1t will reach Wamego at Sis a. m
for the first stop and the remainder
of the schedule follows: Leave Wa
mego 1888 p. M; arrive St. Marys
SO p. m; leave St. Marys S:35 a.
M, March q: arrive at Rossville 8:4S
a. m; leave Rossville 4:09 d. M: ar
rive Silver Lake 4:1S p M; leave Sill
yer Lake a. m. March %: arrive
North Topeka 1888 a. M; leave To-
peka 4:47 p. m; arrive Granville
&: 81 p. m; leave Granville GAS a. M
March 25; arrive Perry 9:59 a. m;
leave Perry 5:13 p. m; arrive Law
renee 5:40 p. m; leave Lawrence
1927 a. m. March "a; arrive Lin
wood 1O:46 a. m; leave Linwood $3.50
p m; arrive Edwardsville $50 D. m;
leave Edwardsville gil a. m March
%: arrive Bonner Springs 9:19 a. m
leave Bonner Springs $3.50 p. m.