The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-27
LAWS NOT CURE
Individual Efforts of Farmers
Needed to Rescue Agriculture.
Secretary Mohler Tells Stock
men To Get to Work.
BETTER MANAGEMENT NEEDED
Farmers Advised'tO Stock Their
Farms JudiciOusIy Now.
Dairy and Poultry Are Best
Revenue Producers.

Wichita, Kan. Jan. 27.-Individual
efforts - not legislation alone - viii
cure agricultural ills. J. C Mohler-
secretary Of the state board OF agrt-
culture. declared in an address here
today at the ninth annual convention
OF the Kansas Livestock association
while there are momentous prob :
lens before agriculture today, SAID
Secretary MohIer. we must not place
too much reliance on any remedy eA-
cept as may be developed thru our
own efforts TO cure our Ills Al pest
legislation cannot be expected 70 40
much if any more than to enable the
farmers to help themselves thru or
ganizatiOn and cooperation
Up to the Individual
AS the problems of transportation,
finance. taxes and markets are worked
out, the individual farmer. as the III
dividual in other Industries, can rest
assured that the degree Of his success.
hereafter as heretofore. will depend
upon the brains mixed with the bush
ness.
IN the avalanche of panaceas- cure
ais and remedies that has descended
upon US to confuse, mystify and dis
turb, We must not lose sight OF the
most essential thing Of all-indivlduai
resp OnsIbiIity in improving conditions
thru matters largely under individual
control 1t would be short-sighted not
to give intelligent attention to the
larger problems Of the country's agr'-
culture and then not to vigorously
support these agencies striving Io-
their solution. but we must not allow
agitation Of these questions to divert
as from a proper realization OF in
dIvidual responsibility.
Need Better Management.
Better farm mana gement is a me-
dunn thru which each individual
farmer may improve his situation. ana
close application to this problem
would be of more direct benefit to
producers than the adjustment Of
other matters affecting his business
either remote or near"
That the best returns from the
farms of Kansas in the last two years
have been from the livestock end Of
the business was the somewhat start
ling statement of Secretary Mohler.
He promptly had his audience under
stand that he was referring to the
dairy and poultry industries
Always dependable standbys Of our
agriculture. the COW and the hen have
again demonstrated their undeniable
worth as reliable sources of income
during this period OF agriculture de-
preston the secretary said They
have been returning good profits while
most other farm products we're selling
aL loss. ana IN the past SIX months
the hog has come back TO his rightful
sphere as a money-maker and debt
remover"
Stock Farms JudiciOusly.
While realizing the very severe
losses suffered by many experienced
b--e5 producers. Secretary Mohler ad
,anced the opinion that one of the
wtsest steps Kansas farmers could take
now would be judiciOusly to stock
3, all L. n
tt, extent of the number the farm
WI, carry On this point he said:
AT present the beef-makiug indus
tr,' is greatly depressed. bu- the in
eritabIe reaction always following
st-ch periods is bound to come. When
il is at low ebb is a good time to get
irtc a stable business. to profit by the
tlrsi flush of better times The man
w no produces his own cattle, who
lows them himself and grows the
feed to feed them. has business as
safe as the banking business This
system is admirably adapted to &aH-
s1s where conditions are so favOra bic
for diversified agriculture and live