The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-28
LARSON LOSES 1T.
Topeka Butter Expert Gets
Second Place i'm Contest.
A. G. TannebilI Also of Topeka
Wins.
FOR THE BEST CHEESE.
Eirs< plaoo Givau fo Tohn
OR THE BEST CHEESE.
First Place Given to John
Compton, of Carleton.

State Meeting to Be Held at
Parsons Next Year.
By the small margin of a quarter of
a point Lewis Larson, of Topeka, was
beaten in the home stretch" for the
possession of the SIS silver cup offered
to the Kansas butter maker who for
three years in succession exhibits the
highest scoring butter at the Kansas
State Dairy association. Larson has
won the cup in 1902 and 1903. Had he
won this year he would have been the
permanent owner. The scores were as
follows:
AsC c. TannehiII. Topeka. .96%
L. Larson, Topeka. -..-.......-.....96 .961z
]. Mayer, Topeka. ......-..............96
r. 0. Nally, Topeka. ka.................9
u. Morning, Parsons. ns.-...............94 9412
c. Mansfield, Topeka. 931A
D. S. Brandt, Dwight. .9215
Kern Hurd, Hutchinson. .9115
w. H. Hammond, Great Bend. .S912
Under the rules. a contestant must
win the cup three years in succession.
Larson is the only man so far who has
succeeded in winning it more than
once.
Mr.. TannehilI will hold the cup for a
year, when he must again defend it
against all corners. Larson gets SIS cash
as second prize. The Judge of the
butter contest was Prof. Oscar Err, of
the Agricultural college.
The following were the awards on
cheese:
G. B. Merry, Nortonville .89k
T. c. Exline, Kip. p-......-........SS
M. Z. Strahan, Melvern. ..........S6
S. L. McNay, Buckeye. S43a
Mark Compton, Potter. .S21A
+ John Compton therefore got first
prize of $40 and c. B. Merry got second
of IS.
In the station operators cream con-
test, a good many entries were dis
qualified for too large a per centage of
was D. Morning of Parsons, with a
score of 9414, and the second went to F.
Dawdy, of Topeka, whose score was
931s.
contest, Frank Uhl of Gardner got first
and ]. L. Wondbigler of Labette sec
ond. The scores were AS follows:
Frank Uhl. GardEer.- -.----...........9 80
IT, L. Wondbigler, Labette. ....... 80
John Litzke, Council Grove. .8S
N. P. Stevens. Hutchinson 80
AT PARSONS NEXT YEAR.
! 1t is probable that the next annual
convention of the association will be
held at Parsons in 1905. Parsons was
the only city to extend a formal invi-
tation to the association The invita-
ton was referred to the officers of the
association for consideration.
The following officers were elected for
the ensuing year:
President. E. H Forney of Abilene;
vice president, D. S. Brandt of Dwight;
secretary, T. A Borman of Topeka;
treasurer, I. D. Graham of Topeka. The
of Parsons.
Resolutions were adopted by the asso-
citation endorsing very highly the Mod
ern Dairying'' report of the Kansas
state board of agriculture.
ST. LOUIS RESOLUTIONS.
Strong resolutions were adopted by
the association today, calling upon the
Kansas Worlds fair commissioners to
give a bigger appropriation for the dairy
exhibit a the fair. President Iittleheld
said in speaking of the situation:
Unless we can get more than 81 900, it
seems hardly worth while for US to try
to make an exhibit. 1t will take $500 to
pay for our refrigerator space at the
exposition. That will leave only $500 to
pay the expense of handling the eX-
hibit. The buttermakers have agreed to
donate the butter. We want to place a
man there on the ground to look after
the exhibit. A man whom we have in
mind has offered to do this work for SIS
| month and expenses, and we need to
have him there. The exhibit will be
changed every 80 days, and each time
( a new lOl Ol DullGT 10 put III pace IL VIII
! be scored by the exposition judges.
I'VE also want to have arrangements
made for collecting the exhibits at some
central point here in Kansas before they
are sent to St Louis, and having them
carefully judged by competent men, SO
that only the very best specimens will
be sent to st. Louis"
The following are the resolutions
adopted this morning. which were sent
! by wire to the Kansas commissioners
/ n xxr10 in fn1a
and of which a copy was also sent to
| Governor w. J. Bailey:
Whereas, The dairy interests of
! Kansas represent an annual income to
| her citizens of more than nine million
! dollars and as these interests are grow
/ ing at a very rapid rate and should be
! recognized by those in official capacity
as they are already recognized by the
! citizens of the state; and
| Whereas, The dairy products of this
state take rank among the highest in
quality of any produced on this side
of the Atlantic, and as the appropria-
! tion of $175,000 made by the legislature
for the purpose of exhibiting the re-
sources of the state at the St. Louis
/ Worlds fair is sufficient if rightly used
to show to the world something of the
position Kansas really occupies among
her sister states and to give just rec
/ Ognition to the dairy interests thereof;
and
Whereas, The proposal of the Kan
sas Worlds fair commissioners to ap-
| propriate $500 out of a total of $175, ,O0C
for the making of dairy exhibit at
the Worlds fair is evidence that they
fail to comprehend the magnitude and
value of this great industry to our
state; therefore, be it
Resolved, BY the Kansas State
/ Dairy association in seventeenth an
nual session assembled that the Kan
sas Worlds fair commissioners be
earnestly requested to set aside not
less than $4,000 to be used in making
/ an exhibit of the dairy resources OF
1 Kansas in some measure commensurate
| with the facts as they exist.
Resolved. That the secretary of the