Kansas City journal., 1898-01-15
KANSAS BOARD OF AGRICULTURE
OFFICERS ALL REELECTED.
WAS DONE BY ACCLAMATION.
PERMANENT AGRICULTURAL ExHIB-
IT AT TOPEKA INDORsED.
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture
Brigham Delivered an Able Adj
dress at the Closing Session
of the ANIMAL Meeting
Last Night.

will be conducted next year by the same
officers and directors that have done ii dur
ing the past year. This afternoon the del
egates paid high tribute to all OF the
executive officers by raiiroading their re-
election through by reclamation on one
motion. The officers are: President, George
". Click, Atchison; vice president. a. {.
Shinu. Ottawa; treasurer, Edwin Taylor,
Edwardsville; secretary, i. d. Coburn.
Kansas City.
The election Of five directors was next
in order and just as fast as the conven-
ton could get 10 it they reelected the
old directors. These are: Thomas NJ. Pot
ter, Peabody. Marion county; A w. Smith,
Groveland. Mcpherson county; l. L. Dies
en-, Garden City, Finney county; ]. ii.
Churchill, Dodge City, Ford county, George
W. Crane. Macgraw.
In accepting the office for the second
term. Governor Click said: Il am more
than flattered by the evidence OF the
friendship of the members of this body.
] will promise TO do everything in my
power to elevate the work and make the
board more beneficial to the people of the
state. This board has always been the
forerunner of all Improvement made by
the farmers in Kansas. 1t has been the
radiating point for all progressive farm
tng. IL Will continue 10 De-
The delegates then wanted to hear from
Secretary Coburn. He said:
Gentlemen of the Board:-To be the ex-
ecutive officer of a real board of agri
culture. in 4 real agricultural state. is
no small honor. To be the executive
of the Kansas board of agriculture is
a great honor and TO be made the re-
cipient of that honor for a fourth time Is
a distinction l am truly appreciative of,
and for which 1 tender to you, good
friends. my most profound thanks, from
a full heart.
Your board, unless useful TO the people.
ana especially the agricultural people, has
no excuse for existence. Its secretary,
whoever he may be- unless familiar with
these people through long association. and
In that hearty sympathy born only of like
experiences through like yicissitudes; If he
has not walked with them in the shadows
and in the shining; If he has not shared
their joys and sorrows. their hopes and
fears their struggles and triumphs, all of
which they have as the seasons come ano
&C. must be unsuited TO his position. Cn-
less he studies and knows their needs he
cannot be helpful to them: unless his work
is made practically helpful to them in their
everyday affairs he and it are failures.
'It is helpful that your present secretary
Il rejoice with you that We are Ameri-
cans and that We live I'm Kansas. Surely
the rafters of heaven bend over no fairer
land: the morning sun and evening dew
nowhere kiss into bud and flower and fruit
fulness a more responsive soil: nowhere
else do better men and truer women build
more wholesome homes and guide rising
generation in paths of rectitude and tem-
perance true manhood and -womanhood.
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such a generation. and wheE the sun of our
days shall 60 down in eternity's shoreless
sea, may our dust be mingled with the
earth Of this splendid commonwealth whose
dc stiny, whose woe or veal We made our
own
The morning session was devoted entirely
TO the reading of a paper on the Present
Situation in Beef Cattle by r. NJ. Allen.
CT Ames, Neb. Mr.. Allen is the manager of
the Standard Cattle Company of that place.
This is the largest cattle grain feeding COM
pany in the world. and his paper was.
therefore, listened to with great interest
by the cattlemen in the meeting. 1t elicit
ell considerable discussion.
II. NJ Cottrell, professor of agriculture at
the state agricultural college. talked for AN
hour this afternoon on What We Must DO
TO Make Dairying in Kansas Pay" He
said that the farmers should adopt dairy
Kansas is adapted to it, and because 1t is
a paying business.
Bradford Miller. OF Shawnee county. read
a paper on Glover Growing in Eastern
Kansas"
c. NJ. Beeson of Dodge City. who guided
the grand duke. Alexis. of Russia: Phil
Sheridan. General Custer and other dis
tingushed men in hunting expedition over
Western Kansas in 1870. and has lived in
that section of the state since those early
days, discussed the wonderful possibilities
of Western Kansas.
Passing briefly over the history of the
intervening years, Mr.. Beeson called at
tention 10 the fields of wheat. alfalfa. kaf-
fir corn and sorghum. and herds of cattle
which are now a prominent feature of the
resources of that section of the state:
lie said: Time was In Western Kansas
when the sole raiment of man was pair
of aid pants and a becoming smile. for
both of which the missionaries were re-
eponsible. Now they can draw their checks
for 500. and they are honored everywhere "
MIR. Becson predicts that in five years
Western Kansas will be fenced up as d
cattle country.
Then" he said. everybody will he we'll.
to-do. Then people Will realize that West
ern Kansas is no longer synonymous witt
busted booms. blasted hopes. poverty ant
desolatioI. l am not now advertising oul
country, but, like the boy IN the straw
berry patch. we know when we have :
good thing and we are willing 10 enjoy Il
without outside aid.
Just before the close OF the Afternoon
eession the board adopted the following
Whereas. Kansas is prominently Al
agricultural state, and large measure O.
come by a judicious fostering and promo
tion Of her agricultural and kindred i'll
custries. and proper presentation by ex
ample OF her possibilities in these vario;il
.:nes 10 all interested or rkeiy to becom,
iEtoio sted in them. and,
Whereas. Cost and permanency cousid
cred. nothing would be more attractive an,
convincing for such a purpose than
iudiciously selected and carefully arrange,
and protected display of samples of wha
the state produces from her fields. or
chards, gardens and mines, in n ccntra
location, against and adjoining the wall
on the main floor of the state capitol
where 1t would be observed and noted b,
all visitors from near or far. and.
Whereas. The present state house ar
CEitect. and nlso his predecessor. have III
termed officers of the board of agricultur
that finishing the main dirsp floor o
the capitol rotunda with suitable and az
rropriste ornamental iron and glass case
and furniture for such a permanent eX
hi5it as is suggested in the foregoing ca
be done with no greater expense than wa
originally intended for marble and othe
finish. and could he made equally artist
and ornamental be il
Resolved, BY the state board of asri
culture. In annual meeting assembled tha
the honorable the executive council l.
and is hereby requested to take sue
measures and give such instructions
the state house architect as will cause til
Iians TO he prepared and the work eguiI
ment and finish of said main floor rotuni
50 completed as shall make them aCcep
abie 10 the state board of agriculture an
best adapted for the protection and ;,sl
manent display Of exhibits by said boar,
v'orthily representing the agriculture
Horticultural. mineral and other resource
of Kansas"
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture J. !
Brigham. of Washington. d. c.. delivere
the annual meeting this evening. He toe
as his text. Agriculture in Its Relation