Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1926-09-26 | Page 20 | Crimean Seed Aiding Kansas

CRiMEAN SEED CRIMEAN EED AIDING mm KANSAS ANSAS l Settlers Huld Hold ing Important Place In Agriculture Ily hg NEA XE KANSAS CITY CIlY Sept Men 25 25 pioneers are arc being honor honor- honored honored ed cd today lor tor io having pla played e on an Important part in developing Kansas as a successful wheat growing state This Is part palt of ot the celebration of time the golden Jubilee of t the Men Men- Menonito Men fen fen- onite settlers in th the tho west central part of or the state Fifty FItly years ago aro Kansas was as trying to make u a showing as a abig abiff big wheat Hate with lIh the soft salt wheat of Ohio and Michigan on which to depend It proved a 11 failure Farmers were wera goIng broke tr ine Ing to grow crow It Hard lIard wheat was being grown growls In spots In in- in Kansas but not enough to make a showing Then tho the Mennonites came RussIan German settlers froni Crimea And with them they brought s me 20 or or 30 bushels or of ortho tIme tho seed wheat they had been growing In southern Russia It St adapted Itself to tho the Kansas climate It grew crew abundantly and within ten years earll seed was bo be- be beIng b bIne Ine Ing Imported front from the Crimea to tobe tobe tobe be sold to time th other farmers of Kansas This hard Crimean wheat de do developed Kansas as a a wheat state Tho The Mennonites have havo had a reputation as aa farmers long Ion before they entered the th Crimea In Inthe Inthe the eighteenth century Catharine l 11 of or Russia Hussla invited the German Mennonites to the Crimea for tor the purpose of or building up that part of her domain The Th same samo qualities made them hera sought by the railroads In the tho early carly days of Kansas 00