Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-12-19
TIE sHoR1HoRN breeders.
They Meet in Annual Cony ention nj Topek

| PRESIDENT Harris, VINO made Q snort aQ
dress.
| A communication was read from the
Missouri Shorthorn Breeders association
inviting all members of the Kansas asso
citation to meet with that body in Kan
cas- City for the purpose of forming an
interstate association.
| Col. Sawyer was called upon for an ad.
dress on How to influence prices and
quality of stock" In his remarks the
Colonel plainly pointed out the disad-
vantages to stock breeders, and said that
in many cases cattlemen were too apt to
confne their opinions to themselves,
thereby giving breeders nc opportunity
to profit by their experiences; that this
year had been noted for q rapid decrease
in the successful breeding of thorough
bred shorthorns, for the reason that
those in the business failed to Gull the
poorer grades from the best. Mr.. Saw
yer also stated that in his judgment the
fees for registering should be established
in sum which would keep the scrub
stock from being registered. His adj
dress was quite lengthy and full of good
sound reasoning.
Col. Harris said that while attending
the Breeders association at Chicago, he
had called the attention of that body to
the matter of raising the fees for regis
teripg. and he would now like to hear
the opinion of the assembly present.
Mr.. A. w. Robinson said q fee of S.
might answer, but thought anything
above that would be too high.
Ex-Governor Click, who was present
at the meeting, said on the subject that
he thought the best va; to get rid of
the poorer grades was to use the knife,
which would solve the problem; that il
would be policy to make''a steer of an un
worthy bull calf, and sell only tn Q bes
grades to breeders.
Col. White thought better plan than
to raise the fee was to make three drops
out of every ten drops eligible to regis
try; that he would ratt er trim half the
calves than have the fee at $40.
Another spoke upon the subject, ex-
pressing similar views, and saying that
too much care could not be taken in sep
arating deficient breeds from good
grades.
Mr.. F. D. Coburn, editor of the Kan
sas City Livestock Indicator, then made
a few sensible suggestions on judging
The points of thoroughbred stock at
airs.
SECOND DAYS SESSION.
The convention re-assembled on We'd
nesday and after the appointment of a
few unimportant committees Mr.. Raj
Inns was here called for his paper on
How to Feed for Beef and Milk" The
paper was full of good suggestions, and
defined to great extent the qualities of
certain food and the injurious effects
caused by others. Considerable discus
sion followed on the subject, and many
and varied experiences were given the
meeting.
DR.. Holcombe, state veterinarian, then
addressed the meeting on the subject of
abortion among COWS, and said the prin-
cipal cause of such was the feeding o
spoilt food. He offered as a remedy
the use of fluid extract of Indian hemp
(cannabis indica) which he said would
greatly correct all such errors.
The committee on resolutions report
ed as follows: and their report was
adopted.
Reso,sed, That it is theseDtiment of this
association, of Kansas Shorthorn Breed
ers, that the law providing for state
live stock sanitary commissioner and
should be continued in force
and receive genuine support from the
and
Resolred, That copy of the foregoing
resolution be furnished by the secretary
TO Gov. John A. Martin with the request
hat he communicate the same to the leg
stature,
The following officers were chosen for
the ensuing year and the convention ad-
ourned:
President, w. A. Harris, of Linwood;
vice president, J. B. McAffee, of Tope-
ka; secretary and treasurer, E. w. Shell
,on, OF Manhattan.
The executive committee consisted of |
he old members, as follows: George |
W. Click, of Atchison; e. L. Burnham,
Of Manhattan; and S. T. Bennett, of SAT-
ord.
The house did not meet on Thursday, |
December 10Th, in order to give the COM |
nittee on rules an opportunity to re- port, |
mt adiouYned until SATURDAY.