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

that intended for the block Especial
" Is this true of swine. Farmers are
learning this and they viii come TO the
state fair and there select the animals
best suited for their wants and have
them shipped when they are wanted
for use They can select them from a
breeder in their own state and perhaps
what is needed. The breeder can study
the wants of the farmer and both Will
be benefited, and in due time Kansas
will become the greatest stock breed
ing state of the union"
LAST NIGHTS SESSION.
The session of the stock breeders con-
vention last night in the council cham
Der was devoted largely to the dairy IN
tereSts Of the state OF Kansas
The stock. breeders were urged by the
dalrymen present TO encourage the
breeding of 'dual-purpOse" stock IN
Is ansas; stock which VIII not only De
good beef animals. but which viii pro-
duce good milk for creameTies- One OIL
the speakers said that Kansas is also
in need of barns-big barns such as
they have back in New England-ln
which thirty or forty head of cattle can
md warm quarters during the cold
weather ". +. Jensen. general man
ager OF the Continental Creamery COM
pany of Topeka, said:
There IS a great need in Kansas to-
day for barns. So many farmers have
III SAACllcA 0l any klnu anu II IuEd4lS al
enormous loss whenever we have snow
storms or severe weather The farmer
who handles twenty or thirty cows can
save enough in mix production in two
years to pay for barn that will shelter
that number OF cows
The papers last night were read by T.
A. 8ornan, secretary of the Kansas
State Dairy association. w. W. Marble,
president of the Missouri State Dairy
associations W. F. Jensen manager of
the Continental Csraa merry and r, "A
Webster, professor of dairy husbandry,
Kansas State Agricultural college.
Mr.. Borman, in speaking of the breed
ing Of duaI-purDose cattle said in part.
FAVORS DUAL-PURPOSE CATTLE.
The progress of things in a dairy
way in this state is retarded, I think,
by the attitude which the farmer as
sumes with reference to dairy bred
stock Professional dairymen in dairy
papers in lectures before farmers meet
ings and in their visits to neighbors.
incessantly urge the necessity of intro
ducing into the farmers herd what they
term dairy blood by the use of Holstein
and Jersey bulls The average farmer,
in the slang of the day refuses to
stand for this The farmer feels that
the black and white or yellow. cat
manned and DOt-bellied calves would
not only bring disgrace upon his herd
but would cause the steer buyer on his
annual visit through the country to
drive by without giving the farmer with
the dairy bred calves even a formal call
1 cannot but feel that the persistency
with which the use of special purpose
dairy bred bulls is urged upon the Kan
sas farmer in very great measure re-
tards the progress of the dairy inter
ests in the state and so because Of the
quality Of the offspring as viewed from
the cattle feeders standpoint
L do not wish it understood as COM
promising my position or attitude at
other times taken with reference to the
toll r1rs4
whose circumstances either force him,
or make it to his advantages to produce
butter fat at the greatest profit, the
special purpose dairy animal is his only
choice. For the economical production
of a maximum of dairy products there
is other than the special purpose COW.
Let the professional dairyman breed and
feed her, he knows how; the average
farmer win fail with the abnormal and
delicately developed organism. The spe-
cial purpose COW occupies to the posi-
bilities of this rapidly developing de-
mand for your stOckt The farmers OF
Kansas have the money to pay for these
animals. BY needing this call YOU will
have done more than any other agency
to develop the resources of Kansas and
increase the profits of your own buSi-
ness the while. Eastern breeders have
not been slow to appreciate the popu-
larify and the demand for dual purpose
animals, as the advertising columns of
eastern papers viii testify. Let western
breeders take this as significant Of the
demand which is sure to come and
which has already begun, as it has in
eastern states where the dairy interests
are more highly developed.
-Four breeds are bidding for dual pur-
pose distinction, viz: ShOrthorns. Polled
Durhams, Red POll and Brown Swiss
The literature of the time abounds in
argument supporting the Shorthorn as a
dual purpose breed. 1t is the writer
opinion that the ShorthOrn has the best
claim to adaptability for both milk and
beef This breed upon its importation
to this country had earned the title OF
The milk breed We are advised that
in England the milking Shorthorn IS q
realitv-not an animal for future years
to develop"
". Z. JENSEN'S PAPER.
w F. Jensen took almost the same
position that Mr.. Borman did. and as
serted that the only class of farmers
who are justified in handling exclusive
dairy cattle in Kansas are the small
farmers who must make all their feed
go as far as possible. Mr.. Jensen said
in part:
I have never affirmed that a distinct
breed of dairy COWS would be the most
prohta bic one on Kansas farms. I
draw the distinction in this way: The
farmer who has a small farm, a small
pasture. and who has to utilize to the
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