The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-13

best advantage all the feed he raises,
can make the most money by having
dairy cows, Holsteins preferable. do
not consider that Kansas conditions and
( the rough Kansas feeds are congenial
I to Jerseys, but the farmer who has
plenty of land, raises plenty of feed, can
! positively not make a mistake in keep
ing the ShOrthOrn COW or some other
COW that viii give a good quantity OF
milk as well as raise d calf that can
craze the larger pastures, eat up plenty
/ of rough feed and corn and grow into
( a beef animal that will bring the top
price in the stock yards.
L have no doubt but that the next
few years will see decided change in
rat stock. The time is past when farm
ers will keep their young stock until it
4 is three or four years old and then fat
ten it for sale. Most of the profit on the
rat animal IS received the first year or
year and half of its growth. 1 re-
! specially refer you to bulletin No. 113.
issued by the experiment station of the
Kansas State Agricultural college. This
/ bulletin is on Baby Beef and is I'M
doubleday one OF the most interesting
as well as one Of the most valuable
bulletins that has ever been issued bv
any experimental station in this coun-
I try. From the dairyman's standpoint
/ the raising of baby beef will prove the
most profitable. 1t VIII mean that the
1 present method followed by many farm
I ers, of letting the calves run with the
COWS until nearly a year old will be a
1 thing of the past. 1t will mean that the
calf will at once be taken in hand,
raised on skim milk and meal and
forced until it is IA or Is months old
when 1t viii be put on the market sold
at the top price and will bring its own
er more profit for his time and invest
ment than he otherwise would have re-
| ceived had he let it run with its mother
until u months old, merely letting it ex-
I lst for another II months, feeding it the
while to develop a larger frame then
! feeding and fattening and selling II
I Cd however. is the one for the small
farmer.
I have stated before in this paper
| that exclusive dairy breeds are not
! needed in this state for the future de-
veloDment of the dairy business. For
general purposes I consider the COW
/ that will give a fair amount of milk and
raise a good. big calf: one that con-
/ sumes the rough feeds we have on the
farm, as the most profitable. There is
1 field in Kansas for a breed of COWS that
answers these requirements Many
farmers are now in the market for
thoroughbred stock they can use with
their native stock to develop a herd
that has qualities mentioned above The
majority of farmers in Kansas want q
| ShorthOrn, a Red PolIed or any other
4 kind of breed that viii improve his ma
tive stock. Some of the best records in
the country for milk production have
1 been made by large cows from the more
distinct beef breeds. I will not say that
this milk has been produced as econo-
mlcally as some milk has been produced
by the smaller breed Of dairy COWS, but
the question here in Kansas is not SO
much economy in feeding. Our feeds
are not so very expensive. What we
want IS a fair average quantity of milk
from the COW and a COW that will raise
a good large calf that we can fatten and
sell at the top price in the stock yards
PROGRAMME OF PAPERS
The convention has been in session all
day today and commenced at 10 o'clock
! Monday morning. It will continue all day
] Wednesday, its closing festivity being the
smoker at the New Oxford hotel Wednes-
day evening. This smoker and reception
| is rendered by the Topeka Commercial
1 club TO the live stock association, the state
4 board of agriculture and the members Of
the legislature
The progI anime which has been prepared
MORNING SESSION.
English Blue Grass Culture and It's
| Special Value George Plumb. Emporia
The Sheep Industry for Kansas" gen
Injurious Foods for Stock" DR.. N. S.
Mayo. state veterinarian, Manhattan.
Committee report on the new live STOCK
AFTERNOON SESSION / O'CLOCK.
Live Stock Pedigrees, Values and
Abuses George W. Maffet, Lawrence.
Results of Feeding Swine at the Kan
| sas Experiment Station" D. H. Otis. pro
fessor animal husbandry Kansas State Ag-
ricultural college.
/ Alfalfa q Bone Producer" H. NJ.
| Cottrell, superintendent Vrooman farms,
| Trenton. No
Worlds fair at St. Louis. 1904. report of
| standing committee.
EVENING SESSION-7:s0 O'CLOCK
"By-products of Corn Roy B. Simpson,
| Glucose Sugar Refining Co., Chicago.
THE Stockman's Finish A. C Halli-
well editor Live Stock World, Chicago
Glass Advertising" Frank B. White.
Chicago.
Our 1000 Acre Experiment Farm and
/ Its Possibilities" ]. G. Haney, superinten-
dent Fl Hays experiment station.
| WEDNESDAY. JAN. 4MORNING SEES
SION-9 O'CLOCK
Report of teeS-needed legislation.
State fair, neurology, etc
Railroad Transport alton of Fine Stock
Its Evils c. w. TAYLOR, Pearl.
Economical Production of High Class
Beef L. H Kerricl1, Bloomington, H.
Election of officers
Adjournment
Note-The papers and addresses in the
/ foregoing progra nme will be subject to
pertinent discussion and members are
urged to be prepared.
Following the adjournment of the ses-
sions of the Kansas Improved Stock
Breeders association the members will
have the afternoon of Wednesday in which
| to visit the legislature, VOLTS packing
/ house and points of interest in and about
the capital city.
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