Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1902-01-16
FARMERS OF KANSAS.
Annual Meeting Of the State Board
Of Agriculture.
The REPORT OF SECRETARY COBURy.
The Biennial Report Of the Board an I'm
portant Contribution to the Literature
Of Animal Husbandry-Crop Bull
letins Sent Out.

Topeka, Kan, Jan. S.-The thirty
first annual meeting of the Kansas
state board Of agriculture opened in
Representative hall yesterday after
noon. The attendance this year is
even larger than usual, the farmers
showing increasing interest in the
meetings Of their special branch of
the state government. The meeting
was devoted to business. The COM
mittee on credentials read its report
and the minutes of the preceding
meeting were read and approved.
At night the members were wei.
coined by Gov. Stanley on behalf OF
the state and by Mayor Hughes on
behalf of the city. The response was
delivered Ny Edwin Taylor, president
of the state board of agriculture
Secretary Coburn's report was then
submitted. 1t follows:
"The year 1901 has been suspicious
for the Kansas board Of agriculture
and its standing at home and abroad
With our legislators, our untitled
citizens, and strangers as well, it has
steadily improved. Evidence of this
was given by the legislature, when
unsolicited, it ordered second edi'
ton of $500 copies Of the boards
twelfth biennial report printed. and
appropriated the funds therefor;
when it specified that hereafter the
regular editions of the biennial
should be 10000 copies; when it pro
vided that the board should have an
assistant secretary, and in that re-
spect be on an equal footing with
other state departments; when it in
creased the secretary's salary rs pei
cent, putting him in this important
matter alongside the penitentiary
warden and numerous other indis
pensable officials.
"The second edition of the biennia
has beeen published and placed II
the hands of persons who seemed
eager to secure it, as was the Marcel
quarterly, an illustrated work OF sl'
pages, devoted to information upor
the characteristics and merits o.
Shorthorn cattle. In recognition o
this quarterly, the American Short
horn Breeders association. in its re
cent annual meeting at Chicago
unanimously adopted a resolution
presented by member from Indiana
and seconded by those from various
other states, saying among othel
things: That we recognize this as
most important contribution TO th'
literature OF animal husbandry,' fo'
which we tender to the Kansas boarC
of agriculture a unanimous vote o
thanks for an appreciation of thei
invaluable efforts in behalf of ad
vanced agriculture, better live stock
and a wider knowledge of the merit
of Shorihorn cattle
During the growing season crol
bulletins were sent out to the press
as the occasion justified, but no es
pecial effort was made to explicit an,
Of the states present, possible o
even probable misfortunes, wheihe
from insect, frost or too frequen
freshet.
1.-THE December quarterly. a VOLUME
or T5s pages ana 30 Inusua,ro"-, "
Just now coming from the press am
comprises an exposition Of the merit
and history Of Hereford cattle as bee
makers. II contains also, In detail
the population, crop and live stool
' statistics nf the war 1901.