The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-08

Tor, DuluJn, ana the state of Illinois
appropriated money to build an eleva-
tor at Chicago, but both of these ap-
preparations were mistakes. TIE farm
ers do not want public grain elevators
at great terminal points of trade, to in
timidate buyers and to strengthen the
arm of trusts and monopolies.'
Mr.. Allen also made a renlarl1a bic
sta tement relative to his wheat crop the
past year and the advance in land val
ues in Jefferson county in the past
three months. He said:
MY crop of wheat for 1901 made an
average of 3S bushels per acre, and my
corn crop of 140 acres stood the one
hundred days drought, 120 acres of
which made an average yield of 80
bushels per acre, and had one field of
20 acres that was fall plowed, the
a two-hOrSe corn planter, that produced
so bushels of corn per acre. The farm
ers of Jefferson county who kept their
cultivators going while the drought was
on and who plowed their corn once af-
ter the rains set in in August, have all
raised corn enough to do them and
some corn to sell: and lands in my
neighborhood have advanced so per cent
in value within the last 90 days.
The stock breeders want state fair.
A resolution was introduced yesterday
afternoon by A. l.. Sponsler, of Hutchin-
son, endorsing the state fair idea. 1t
was referred to the resolutions colMnti-
tee at the time, but later when there
was a lull in the programme the subject
was taken up IOT general ulSCuSSlOn.
Incidentally some of the members,
among them Governor Click, took oc
casion to rap the legislature because it
was SO difficult to get it to take hold of
the state fair proposition and make a
suitable appropriation for it.
AS at previous meetings the stock
breeders expressed the sentiment that
a state fair would be an excellent
thing for the live stock industry of the
state, but as Secretary Heath ex-
pressed it. lit must be the real thing
a state fair in fact as we'll as in name"
In connection with the meeting of the
live stock men it is interesting to note
some statistics of the live stock indus
try just issued by the treasury bureau
of statistics at Washington:
Arrivals of live stock at five western
markets for the first eleven months of
1901 were as follows, including only cat
tie, hogs and sheep: Chicago, 13,S01,-
Omaha, 4,155, 432 head: St Louis, 3.444,-
762 head; St. Joseph, 2,779,777 head,
making a total of 80, 800, ,55S head, COM
pared with p, ,977, ,165 head in the same
decline in the live stock movement at
Chicago appeared in the decrease in the
receipts and shipments of hogs. At Kan
SaS City the receipts have been larger
and the shipments smaller than for the
similar period of 1900. Local consump-
ton at these five markets has general
ly exceeded that of the preceding year,
and the shipping movement, both for
stocking and for feeding purposes, ex-
hibits more emphatic decrease as the
end of the calendar year is approached.
The stock men will close their regular
sessions this afternoon, but they will ban
quet tonight after the session of the State
Board of Agriculture. which most of the
stock men will attend. The programme for
the banquet is as follows:
1.-The Fruits of Kansas wv. H. Barnes
''The Farmers Calf .......John M Stahl
Promoting a State Battle Ground
From the North Pole to tn the c caefde- tpa-Slef
Evolution of the Angora Buck from
the Barnyard William Goat"
This Association a Pillar Of the Pub;
1.-The Modern Farmer er''....................
Emerson Taylor Abbott
Feeds and Feeding-Humans
co;,i:, I,;,,,;o; of ;aa A. Henry
s'Out There in Kansas John H. Churchill
''The Livestock World James E. Poole
Are Kansas Shales Adapted for Max
ing Gold Bricks?' E. Haworth
"a Story by the Chief Clerk of the
Cowboy Clan. Charles F. Martin
''How 1t Feels to Be Potato King
"Are Breeders Ever Sporty? ''...........
..some Midwinter Exposition rabies es5s ''-
eeThe Stockman's Finish II. H. Neff
F. d Coburn and H A. Heath are the
toastmasters for the occasion.