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Ml-IIL & BREEZE • Ml-IIL & BREEZE • • • • -J Volume 76 March 25, 1939 Number 6 can young folks get started farming for them­ selves? The answer to this question is what so many o{ our young farm people are searching for How Some today. of them have become discouraged. Too often we hear, "A young man can't get started farm­ ing today as he could years ago." Perhaps the question can't be answered to the satisfac­ tion of all of us. But we can locate the principal drawbacks to beginner farmers today and point out the necessities to ' their successful set-up. What is. even more valuable, we can find farmers who have started in- recent years, have stuck with it, and will tell you the important reasons why they succeeded. What did a young man or a young couple need in the way of farming equipment when they started 30 or more years ago? According to information gleaned from our elders, the young man worked by the month, or worked for his father, until he had accumulated the worth or owner­ ship of a team of horses, harness and a wagon. Then if he could borrow or buy enough horse-drawn machinery he could rent a small farm and [Continued on Page 19] E. E. Witt bought a few stock cows when he started farming. He uses a Milking Shorthorn bull and milks several of the cows. He raises roughage and groin and feeds hoy at this open bunk, with the stocks as a windbreak, This Newfoundland dog, top, reduces the rabbit population and helps with handling livestock. Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Witt, a young form couple of Kingman county, brought him to their form shortly after their marriage. The heifer calves get the best of core, for they will soon be on important port of the program of raising the family living .first. Mr. Witt has 3 calves housed her. in' a temporary shed and exercise pen. " To help young folks figure out a way Let S V··ISIt a to start, Kansas Farmer has gone into Minute that question in the article on the front page of this Issue, We wish to print Handy Books to Hundreds other helpful experience articles on H. We have sent hundreds of By RAYMOND GILKESON this question. So read the article on the Our handy, pocket-slze farm covel' with the idea in mind of drop­ Hnl! livestock record books to ping me a line regarding how you !<Hn. much - corn will be Looks as sas farmers. Here' hybrid if hybrid corn will be started farming, or 'how you think is a typical planted in Kansas this in folks can "I would How spring? planted virtually every county east young get started today. request: like to I'e. Let me tell the about of you gossip Hutchinson, Ellsworth and Beloit, Letters from young folks who have ceive a copy of the ' it. H. L. hal1dy fHrlll Collins, Bureau of Agricul­ and it may be planted in some counties started in recent will and farming years livestock record book. We tural Economics in says 3.9 west of that line. Of the be Topeka, course, great­ especially helpful. Also letters-from like Kansas Farmer. It cent or acres of the est con. pel' 95,550 2,456,- amount of hybrid corn will be folks who aren't 80 young, but who 000 tains much valuable, acres of corn planted il1 Kansas in planted east of the Flint Hills again, have started up-to.u.; farming recently. 'minute information. 1938 was planted to hybrid corn. This and more in the northern part than the Thanks in was planted from the Flint Hills east southern part. • • N. Holmberg, to the adva�ce."-A. Missouri line, with most of it in But how about going south of the 1 don't blame Dodge City and West­ Oberlin, Northeastern Kansas. Kaw river with it? 1 know where 350 ern Kansas for being tickled over hav­ This book contains space for Without doubt there is to bushels of corn was any going hybrid plan-t-ed ing the movie, "Dedge City," shown expense records, crop be a records, big increase this year. One hybrid south of the river last And with­ there for the first time in the year. U. S. breeding records, milk records says he has sold an of out expert average exception these same farmers See the story-page 3. It is a and 2 gnand egg records, besides 500 use. bushels of hybrid seed corn to this At the excuse for every bought hybrid again year. the 2-day celebration which ful tenth farmer in the farm facts. FO.r your free eastern one-third tum of the year, 1 could show where' is bringing' a train load of movie stars a of Kansas. Some folkS have were copy, just drop card to Edilor gone much 3,000 bushels goirlg south of the fmm· Hollywood to Dodge City. I'll ' than the 2 bushels. For ex­ river Kansas strpnger for 1939. A friend brought per­ bet those movie folks learn a lot about Farmer, Topeka. ample. matured corn into Raymond Adams, Maple Hill, fectly the Kansas Western Kansas they hadn't 'even purchased 30 bushels of seed Farmer office on hybrid July 24, 1938, from dreamed before. Their advance public­ to plant this season. south .of the river: corn that could ity man, Frank E. Heacock, told me From a corn-minded Kansas author­ have been cribbed, and was iast his beyond Friday night eyes certainly I've just out of bed from har] ity comes the estimate that gotten 100,000 danger by July 1-that is, beyond dan­ have been opened by the flu." of progressive­ the bushels hybrid seed corn will be ger from hot winds. ness of Dodge City and of Kansas. And "I'm to tell on I said, in Kansas this So if going you," planted year. you said "Kansas is one • he, hospitality not "Go .ahead,", Doc said. "But lell 0 that 7 or or • multiply by 8 9, whatever . bit over-rated." This big celebration readers 1 took my own mediCine a the number of acres you can seed from How can 1 started get farming?­ will spread a lot of the kind of went to bed and there a Tight 'stayed until bushel, you find we are I heal' that from folks ' going up question young gossip over .the U. S. about Kansas. got over it." pretty close to the million acre mark in every section of Kansas. It is an So it looks as if doctors are for hybrid corn in 1939. And the It shows • • j operi­ encouraging question. young folks like the rest of' us. the the corn By way, pollinated acreage, folks have folks aren't afraid of farming. All Doc in office the they Lerrigo dropped �y you think you are nervous, r Jived with all these will take a want is a just years, chance to get started for other a bit white around day looking what Doctor Lerrtgo has to say in I jump. themselves. the and gi1ls said, "Weit, Raymond, issue on page 10. It will make y' draw a great big deep breath of sat' '. faction to know your nerves are perfect condition and that your 0 is job to make them behave. And y can make them behave! .' . Few folks get something for no ing. However, we have every right fight for what we want and need a deserve. 1 think Poultry raisers in K BaS can do somethihg to better th market and prices for poultry and e by insisting on more graded marke Read the article on pag.e 14, "Poult Raisers Should Demand 'Graded M ketaand Bet.t;� Prices,'; and then I me what you think aboutIt. Are high .. prices worth fighting .for ? .' . ". If YOIl want a catch-crop that II .put oneover on Iowpriees and kill out wheat, just short piece page" 11, "Wh ax Will Growl . er;;j",;re You are not too Ia.te to try it this se son. It isn't botheretf by over-prod tion. There is a .good market for il ' Kansas. It will pay you. • •• How many minutes can you spa forfixing uptheplace li:ke J. S. BraZ ton suggests on page 5. His orcha makes his llv..;:and he knows a I about trees. But'1le telis all of us h O",S' W/NS" ·to make -our places ·look betler mighty easy to follow his direction FIRST IN ITS • • t:l.;l/Sr.IN . Thil smell of grass' smoke this li, · NEW ()u)s "SIXTY" WiTcH MONEY" .6Jl.M9RE of year brings' up the old quesh ECONOMY RUN about burning pastures. Shoilici J' ,SAVIN6 E&ONO�MAsTER ENj;INE Owners of burn or' shouldn't you burn? There . the · 0Ids Now can the in * Delivered .. t report Sixty an' discussion about I you have ,all advantages . price' e"cli'· f interesting' powe'r, Lansing, .Ional .gas I to oil. and, bread-and-butter on and a Mich., subject chanAe 'without mil... .tIJl subject page of big, Olds­ ' �ep ; . �� dependability qua)ity'�built nolice. .. I '. What think 'f Price indudeiJ net)' glass, dFiv,'n'�·"ftO ",ow day-to_day do you mobile at a COil)es price down in the . offl_ right low-price bumpers, bumper gUl,."d", ,.pare cia, COnfirDla lion of Olds • • field. 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