Finding a Way out Highway? See Page 5

.,' .' ... i r'.� ,,\.of ... r.l 'See Back! wsu. Wel", - Who's'Here�the� \. Hoovers'<Are ,.....' ':./ .t .� -t, ! 5�aCopy \�. \. } , 'Vol. 70. No." ,,: April 3;9, 193',2 What's the " , Answer? • - '. ': When.--mu8t a farmer cut the hedge? See page IS. How may a tractor U8e the Finding a Way Out highway? See page 5. f' What 8hould wheat be worth I E ARE entering' a new era in and cents, but to' him his smaller "1 J loss. thi8 year 'I See page .' ' 4; l of The has been just as tragic. r.Y. �e bu�iness f�rming. storm IS over. Our '" all find a out. I . financial We must way 18 there a better 8Dage than , I now is to . to Kansas Farmer believes in the wis- -',.1 wor� repair "the'damage, com 'I See page S. new remake of the There will build fences, buildings-.. .dom many. be ways to rebuild fortunes. this .wo� that will yes, III suggested put every farmer Why there'8 reason to believe Kansas Farmer expects to do its share. in distress again on his feet, for the there will be no wheat for ex If would fie a slacker did it not. pioneer weathered worse storms than port thi8 year. See page 7. With a fuB. '�ealizlltion of the work this �nd came out ' smiling, prosperous that .with all we Is seed to ad mustbedone, Kansas Farmer now and happy. Certainly.. have alfalfa likely and to at here now to work we can take vance'l See page 7. s�a:nds ready willing help . with, every job. All of us, by working to- hold and push the load out on solid . gether, can rebuild Kansas, justas our ground. We shall not be measuring up' Does it do any good to report theft8 See 14. forefathers built it with so little to with the generations that came before promptly'l page start with -in .their homes on and who won out with if we us, . pioneer - less, _ the old homesteads, fail.' What are the fir8t 8ymptoms of measles'l See page 10. There is as much to do now in find There are many who still are fortu ing a way out as there was when father nate. They have>weathered well the and mother came here and' built their . storm. The will the . stroqg support first house of sod. Many- a .good farm weak. It is' now a job for all of us, er finds himself, today, so reduced in • however, whether we have much or Coming counties be circumstances he hardly knows 'which little. Let's 'go about it in a practical Shall merged'l Discussion by readers of Kansas to turn. Said a farmer, the way. It's the man who is out on way good right Farmer. other "Four I owned' a the Iine. we want to' hear from. day: years ago firing farm free of debt and 'considered my It is you who are :reading this now. 'property worth $50,000. Today, i aIri: Certainly you are facing the future just holding on, with iny hack to the with some well-defined plan of your. plan for doing it in the shortest possi wall; another year like the last will own, something that will help you to ble time. If you do not happen to be in I find the out-and if 'finish. me. How: got in this fix is very way it is going to a bad corner yourself, put yourself in it will simple. Two years ago I helped each help you help others. What crops one, then tell us how you would get of my two boys, just married, to buy are you depending on most to bring in out. Consider that good fanner who farms-'-good ones that' almost joined some needed cash, .what stock is it. you has almost lost his $50,000 farm in so mine-and they and I kept on as we - are depending on most to bring you sh�rt a time, consider the man on the had done for years, growing crops and out? Perhaps it is some other line with 80 and 40-acre farm who is in debt cattle. of It be feeding That system farming you. may the big thing is dairy and is looking just as eagerly as any made a decent-sized fortune for me, ing, poultry, truck farming. Tell us one to find a way out. and in two .it has taken it all what it is.. - Tell us in 500 or 600 years • 1 your plan " " away. But, above all, tell us the little cor words, or less if you choose, but in not It is the farmer who .is in tl;�uble ners you are cutting to reduce ex more than 700. Kansas Farmer will like -' thIs, that'Kansas Farmer wishes to penses balancing the' budget they pay writers' rates for the best letters, help. Likewise, we are not forgetting cal! .it 110W. In short, we are going to and something for every letter in the t . the man farmer 'of smaller means, the pull ourselves out of this mess we are series that it prints. Besides you will on -the 80 and He in-s-not some of us, but all of us be some brother farmer in ,40-acre f�l:in. may just doing_ not 'have suffered so much in dollars -and what we are getting at is your need a good turn. '/ . � .' • . ., � _. ... ... :tr.t �, ......":, _. , .. 'Farmer i9"3!._'. .. �. /dT � , Kci� 'Alniz:10,. 2 " - obtained f�ID Kentucky.'ls planted In./"�"J :" HEN Freeze Da m age Everywhere- the, top soil inside log frames about ":' J, M -March I, and the cloth simply keeps .1' �,l RAY off insects. Plants 4 and 5' inches, tall. 'I H. '( '1 . \ . RAY But the 'Grasshoppers Survived" Unhurt are set out late in Mayor during, June. The crop is cultivated like corn" Pu ,in 'the season" BY HENRY HATCH an� eJoQg, growing son , 'f are so the leaves' .will Kan, Jaybawker )o'arm, Gridley, Kansas plants topped grow better. Harvest comes ':In late ". Gress A,ygust and September. Plants· gro,w. , A. I this issue reaches the reader vator is again used, depending upon shoulder are a around high, (lut'With . ,L Man and soil conditions. but a few hours remain and the weather corn knife. a,nd .are- Bung dow.n WHEN ups�de' ' month of May ·arrives. This is A rotary. hoe would be a fine tool in the curing shed. The' warehouse at, I the customary beginning of the pas- to use after one harrowing, ,', �ut Weston, Mo." provides a market. .,;. 1/ v« have not found the ture season, altho here in South Cen- yet necessary Red clover .pr Sweet clover 2 yearS, to to tral Kansas we rather. expect" good _money spare buy one, which, tobacco 2 to' 4 years and corn make se�1DS to me still is 'rather EATING HABIT grass shortly after the middle of priced an excellent rotation, Rensland says: . , used in April. high considering the material The best corn he" ever grew' followed That week of winter in March ,the making. ,.' tobacco. This year, he will have 5 The asked for It does not de .. GOES ON· cheated us out of real early grass this price acres of the crop. tract from the -work year, altho it was apparently headed anything good can be made to tho. I" for here during those balmy and en- the rotary hoe do, days of February. Hazard in Seed • couraging Crops to plant where wheat is not Big worth the are COlD- YEAR 971 lots of seed tested The scar left by that one' miserable leaving being in the LAST . week of unseasonable weather in sidered. Farther .west 'state, at the state setlSl laboratory ger- human that for the wheat belt is and where minated 0 to 1iO And OF ALL demands, March still remains. It still shows in whe_re fro� per �ellt. j) c there Is much wheat bordering on the these were of the best grown, wholesome food is the steadiest. the pastures, but most of all in the samples out in the orchards "I don't-kliow-what-to-do-about:-it�' on the farms represented. Several"( small grain fields, and ". maJ Three meals a are standard. to now is' thousand- acres have been day where alfalfa was sown last fall. .order, what. t;OW crops plant might a Of course the seed if it had Dot, 'I sorl Those six days of below freezing:- problem. thi� Iii! .jus� planted ,with, ,th�s: ideal date for so corn- been f01illd Uil·fif., Tested seed ranks _l tha On such homely facts is built weather cost Kansas a great amount planting corn,. so-late' none it Will be. with many until that in. IJ.roved sires. ',. tba importance';,Wlth. of wealth. Here on this farm but .' Swift & ' . the of Company. some is more stability cherries .remaln of the tree fruits. We forage crop seasonable. 'sail - or is it . .!' nation-wide we are blessed , Last year its great had hopes for a partial apple cropror Today './". weI dozens of these Kdled, to see vanish cursed?-:;with forage, Many Eeergreens marketing organization handled awhile, only. everything where a few we had .. blooms on a- few crops years ago LOT .' df . but a few sickly ornamental evergreens"I. more of but the and Now there �:: and sold pounds products Maiden Blush and Genatln trees. Only kaflr sorghum. A wer� killed 'outright and others: .

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