The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-15

one thing, because the main object OF
its teaching, broadly stated, relates to
whatever may enlarge the effectiveness
of the farm as q financial proposition
and develop its attractiVeness as 4
home It will be your province Gov
ernor Bailey to appoint new regents fol
that institution. We respectfully submit
that If the general principle Of sehooi
management which puts the West Point
academy under the control of the war
department, and the naval academy
theological schools, the world over, UNI
der the care and nurture Of the church
If that principle were applied in this
case it would give a majority, at least.
of our agricultural college control over
into the hands of those who are in touch
and sympathy with agriculture
MAKING BOTH ENDS MEAT"
The paper prepared by A. c. Halii-
well editor of the Live Stock World,
Chicago, was read by James E. Poole.
a representative of that publication.
MI Halliwen was unable to be pres
ent
Gus character and expounded the doc
trine Of dual purpose" breeding which
has been the theme of the recent stock
breeders convention.
In part the paper was as follows:
The study of breeders and feeders
is to see how nearly they can come to
making meat food animals good meat,
from their ears to the root of the tail,
y
make both ends meat is, after all,
case Of joking on facts.
THE statement that the end of all
live stock is meat may be subject to
some notifications, but it is generally
true.
"The average beef breeder doesn't
want to listen to lectures about how
cows of his own breed often give milk
enough in the Old Country to raise
five calves and is apt to meet the pro-
test against his being compelled to use
nurse cows by telling you that he is
a breeder of beef cattle and does not
propose to make a dairy maid of him
self. Even Col. Woods warning that
a feeble mixer is step toward an
uncertain breeder, does not awaken
much enthusiasm in the beef breeders
mind for anything approaching the
farmers cow type.
Should the specialists idea be car
ried to logical end, we might look
after awhile for a herd of beef cows
that produce principally rib roasts and
porterhouse steaks without the ability
to rear their young, except by the aid
of bottle or bovine wet nurse, and
another breed carrying less meat than
a SOUP bone or a spare rib with the
hghtest possible frame for supporting
and supplying exaggerated bags of IL
quid butter
I'VE should have hogs that would at
once melt down into clear lard and 9TH
ers on the kangaroo type running main
~ to sugar cured hams. with still
others that would yield only the aItern-
ate streak Of lean and streak of fat.
In horses We already have the pow
erful draft animal that by dint of main
strength and WEIGHT can almost move
mountains and might look for q breed
of race horses with aluminium STATS"
pneumatic feet and ball-bearing joints
with triple expansion lungs
In sheep there would be a breed
producing nothing but hind legs. for
no well regulated person ever goes to
a butcher shop and calls for anything
but a g-O'-mutton'
Then with a breed of sheep that
would be all wool and a yard wide, our
live stock specialties ought to be pretty
well developed
In conclusion let me suggest that we
need draft horses that are good trav-
eIers as we'll as good puIlers; harness
horses that show speed outside of racing
rigs, beef COWS that can feed their
young; mich cows that can raise calves
fit for something besides veal or the
hog pen; hogs that will make good 1aro
or good bacon, according to the method
OF feed1ngs sheep that produce good wool
while growing good mutton
BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY.
The paper of B T. Galloway, chief of
the bureau of plant industry of the
United States department of agricul-
ture, was very extensive discussion
Of the subject The Work of the
United States Department of AgricuI-
ture in It's Relation to the Development
Of the Middle West" In speaking of
what the department has done to aid
the middle west, Mr.. Galloway stated
that the work of the department is
divided into eight bureaus and divis-
ions namely, the Weather Bureau, the
Bureau of Animal Industry, the Bureau
of Plant Industry, the Bureau of For
estry. the Bureau of Soils, the Bureau
of Chemistry, the Division of Ento-
mology, and the division of Biological
Survey.
Mr. Galloway explained with consid-
cradle detail the equipment and objects
of the various bureaus and divisions,
taking each up in the order mentioned.
He discussed his own bureau the
Bureau of Plant Industry, at consider
able length. and as the purposes of this
bureau are not well understood, the
following extracts from Mr.. GaIloway's
paper viii be of interest:
1.-THE plant work Of the department
has, since it's organization. been carried
on by number of separate divisions
and other branches; but two years ago
all of these were brought together into
one bureau, and as a result it has been
found practicable to greatly increase
the efficiency of the service
t'The bureau of plant industry studies