The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-07
WILL HELP TOPEKA.
Fair Live Stock Exhibition Is Sure to
Be Large.

Col. H. A. Heath, secretary of the
Kansas Live Stock Breeders associa-
ton and superintendent of the live
stock department of the Kansas State
fair, at Topeka, says that the mann
moth live stock displays to be made at
the st. Louis exposition will result in
greater display of stock at the To-
peka fair than before for years.
Many might think that the big
Louisiana exposition might detraet
from the state fairs, but the effect will
be just the opposite as the breeders
all over the country are now, and have
been for many months, preparing their
stock for exhibition and as each class
of live stock will have but ten days
at the st. Louis exposition, the own
ers will exhibit them the rest of the
time at state fairs.
The program of live stock exhibits
at the st. Louis exposition will be as
follows:
Horses, asses and mules, August %
to September 8.
Cattle, September II to "a.
Sheep, October 8 to Is.
Poultry and pet stock, October "a
to Nov. 5.
Southern breeding cattle. Nov. 7
to -.
Carload lots of cattle, Nov. to r..
Hogs, October to Is.
The only class of stock to be ex-
hibited at the exposition during the
week of the Topeka fair will be cat
tie and therefore all the exhibition
horses, swine, sheep, mules and poul-
try and as all the cattle will not go
to st. Louis there will be plenty to
come to Topeka.
1.-THE ST. Louis exposition will be a
great help to state fairs said Col.
Heath. 'fThe breeders and importers
of all lines of stock who are prepar-
ing their stock for exhibition at ST.
Louis will have to do just as much
Il 70 l. - =. l.
a dozen and therefore before going to
st. Louis and after leaving there they
will take their stock to state fairs
for exhibition. Every year exhibits
generally make swing around the
circle of state fairs and this year they
will simply substitute the exposition
for one fair and make the swing as
usual.
''This will mean that there will be
larger exhibits of horses, hogs, mules.
sheep and poultry at Topeka this year
than before for many years as the
breeders will then be on the move.
The horses, mules and asses will have
been exhibited at st. Louis. They can
then go to st. Joseph, then come to
Topeka and then go on to Illinois.
THE western state fair circuit will
begin with Missouri and move on to
Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and then Illi-
nois OF course not all the beef nor
dairy cattle will go to st. Louis for
exhibition and I have no doubt but
that in those lines the exhibits at
the Topeka fair this year will be quite
as large as on previous years.
Where we will come in strong will
be in horses, sheep, hogs, poultry and
mules and 1 have already heard from
some of the most extensive horse i'm
porters in Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska and
Kansas that they are coming with
large entries of horses"
The circuit of western state fairs
will be as follows:
Missouri State fair, Sedalia. Aug
ust 5 to 10.
Iowa State fair, Des Moines. August
% to %.
Nebraska State fair. Lincoln, August
20 to Sep. 2.
st. Joseph fair, September to g.
Kansas State fair, Topeka, Septem-
Der 1 2 to II.
Illinois state fair, Sept 90 to Oct. T.