The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-13
THEY WON'T QUIT
Stock Breeders Still Insist on
a State Fair.
Committee Reports on Last
Years Failure.
TALK OF BENEFITS.
Urpa the Wamhara fo DfseuSs
* OF BENEFITS.
Urge the Members to Discuss
Their Importance.
Importance of Pure Hred Stock
Is Considered.

Is Considered.
At $3.50 o'clock this morning the men,
bers of the Kansas Stock Breeders as
ISOLATION met in Representative hall |
for the purpose of holding the last ses-
sion of their fourteenth annual meet
ing. The following programme was
given at this session of the meeting:
How to Promote Sheep Husbandry |
in Kansas''-General discussion.
1.-THE Gentleman Who Pays the Rent
Fred H. Rankin. Urbana, ILL.,, secre- !
tary Illinois Live Stock association.
Farm Machinery Profitable in Live
Stock usbandry''-General discussion. |
STOCK Foods''-A general discussion.
(a) What Benefit, if Any Do We Get
From the Use of Stock Foods, So
called?" Cb) How Can We Get Back
Feeding Value Into Shorts and Bean
as Now Refined by Modern Milling?"
The paper on the subject of Pure
Bred Cattle" which was read by H. G.
Haney, superintendent of the Fort
Hays experiment station, a branch of
the Kansas State Agricultural college,
was one of the most interesting of the
present meeting of the Stock Breeders
association and was the subject of
much favorable comment. Mr.. Haney
said:
1.-THE west has a good beginning and
is fast improving. Every ranch should
take up some breed and make a spe-
cialty of it, and the breeder who urges
a change of breeds is hurting his own
business. The better the stock, the
more profit in handling, and the profits
in good stock and warrant their being
sheltered and fed when necessary, and
to such an extent as will keep them
in a good condition. A breeder may
be able to pay fancy prices for breed
ing stock, but the plain cattle raiser
does not need to. But the stock bought
should be bought because it has the
points that will better the herd.
Raising breeding stock should not
/ be attempted by every one. A ranch
man who wants one, or one hundred
bulls can afford to pay an established
breeder a much better price, because
as a general thing he gets a better
animal"
Another feature of tOday's session
was the report Of the state fair COM
mittee' The report was read by NJ. S
Babcock, chairman of the committee.
! 1t follows:
Reporting failures is not a task like
ly to produce feelings of unTnitigafed
pleasure, but may possibly prove eX-
! ceedingly profitable.
Your committee appointed to draft
a state fair bill. and If possible secure
Its passage by the legislature, fully dis
them to the point of the passage of the
bill by the legislature. There. as you
well knew we fell down. as the boys
saw
1.-THE bill drafted by your COMMITTEES
was the same old bill that we have
been hanmering away at for the last
eight or ten years. with a few slight
amendments.
places the control of the state fair in
the state board of agriculture. Some
of the citizens of our commonwealth
who dwell toward the setting of the
sun, believing their interests would be
advanced by having the state fair
placed under control of a commission
/ appointed by the governor for the pur-
pose. and also that such a bill would
be more acceptable to the legislature.
| and consequently more likely to pass,
! irafted & bill with that provision incor-
Iorsted in it. and secured it's introduce
/ tInn
THE sequel proved them to be quite
| right as to the passage of the bill rs
it was taken up by the house and
promptly passed, and sent over to the
| senate, pending the action of which the
question of the constitutionality of the
| bill was raised and referred to the at
torney general, who decided adversely,
thus putting a quietus on that bill.
Then your committee renewed their
| efforts to secure the passage of our bill,
| and with the able championship of
/ senator w mite VINO introduced Tic Olli
and a few other members of the SEN
ate, did secure its passage in the SEN
ate.
From there the struggle was trans
ferred to the ways and means commit
| tee of the house.
1.-THE attitude of this committee tow
! ard the bill may be inferred by a re-
mark made by a very influential mem
Der of that committee in reply to a
| request of member of your committee
for his support of the bill, which was
that He would be - if he would
support any measure that was going
to give anything to Topeka.
This coming as it did from a man
whose word as we have already learned
was law in the house, had tendency
to cast feeling of gloom over the
spirits of your committee, however we
continued our efforts and secured a
promise of support from a majority OF
the committee but when the question
came before them in executive session
the majority voted against US thus end
ing our hopes for state fair backed
by the state for two years more.
''Now the question is, what of the
future. for we have not the shadow OF
an idea of giving up the struggle.
"First-Let every member of this
association let no opportunity go unlm-
proved to impress upon his friends the
need Of and benefits to be derived from
state fair; the remark was made tc
me a dozen times right here in this
house last winter that nobody wanted
a state fair except mere hand1ul OF
You fellows engaged in raising fine
stock
1--WE ought to be able to convince ever
the members of the next Legislature thai
a state fair properly conducted will ben
eft every man, woman and child in the
state.
'Then let every member of this asso-
citation put forth every effort in his
| power to see to 1t that men are elected
to the next legislature that have some
object in life beyond furthering theil
own political ambitions or Furnishing