The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-21
MOHLER BY RADIO
Secretary Board of Agriculture
at American Royal.
SAYS Diversified Farming Is
Says Diversified Farming Is
Need of the Midwest.
LIVESTOCK is CORNERSTONE
industry Offers Market for
Grain and Feed Products.
American Royal Is Praised as a
Kansas Institution.

Kansas City, Mo, Nov. 81 - The
great need of more general adoption
OF diversified farming in the midwest
was told to this entire section OF the
country today by J. c. Mohler. secre-
tary of the Kansas state board of agri-
culture, in radio address at the
American Royal Livestock Show here
which opened Saturday.
Mr.. Mohler talked into the radio
broadcasting apparatus as one farmer
to another and doubtless hundreds of
agriculturists as well city folks
listened in" on his address.
A greater agriculture in the mid
west depends upon more diversified
. farming he told his hearers. "A
corner stone in this is livestock. We
cannot take full advantage of our won
derful opportunities for diversified
farming unless we have animals to eat
our corn, alfalfa, prairie hay. pastures
are very limited markets except via
the livestock route Without live
stock there is little incentive to prac-
tice diversified farming, but with live
who grows mis- own livestock and who
feeds it on the products of his farm
is engaged in a business as safe as the
banking business"
An Aid TO Industry.
Thru the radio Mr.. Mohler invited
the Kansas farmers who were not pres
ent at the American Royal to come
on over" This show is an educa-
sional institution of the greatest sig
nificance to the development and pros
perity of American agriculture, he
told them. 1T is a long step from the
half-wild Ionghorn steer, which re-
Quired years to mature, to the Won
derful baby beef and his sister of the
present day which is ready for market
in a few months. This transformation
has been made in a short time and is
due in a very large degree to the edu-
cational influence of such eXposit1ons
as this. No industry can succeed
without good working tools and the
ouick-growing, early-maturing baby
beef is one of the farmers best tools
Mr. MohIer paid tribute to Robert
H Hazlett, president of the American
ROYAL Show, declaring kansas is |
highly honored because that grand old |
man who has achieved enduring
fame in the bovine world is a KAN |
san" Mr.. Hazlett's home is at FL /,
Dorado.
Largely a Kansas Institution.
kansas takes great pride in the /
American Royal Mr.. Mohler told his
audience. because in a large sense 1t
is a Kansas institution, supported by
Kansans and displaying products or
Kansas feed lots and breeding pens
It is located at the second largest live
stock market in the world, to which
Kansas contributes fully half the ami
mails entering the yards.
The American Royal is paving the l.
way to communication of what is
needed perhaps more than anything
else under the farmers control-a Ju-
dicious stocking OF our farms with /
weII-bred animals. IT is bringing to-
gether the best specimens of the
breeds where the degree of perfection
to which improvement can be and mas
been made may be observed. This
cannot fail to stimulate in a broad and
lasting way higher endeavor and bet
ter results in the livestock and farm
ing industry of America"